It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that when a performer asks the entire crowd out for drinks or to come back to his place after the show, it’s just a cute piece of stage banter and nobody actually means it. We cheer, some of us laugh, and then the gig ends, we go home, and the performers retreat to their drug dens.

But in keeping with his usual good-guy MO, when Dave Grohl invites fans at a gig to his birthday celebrations, he really means it. Case in point, during a secret gig at the famous Roxy in LA last month, the Foo Fighters frontman asked everyone at the show to join him for his 46th birthday party on 10th January.

Well, Foo Fighters have just announced a special “in the round” show at The Forum in LA on Saturday, 10th January to mark Grohl’s birthday. Going down just a few days before Grohl’s actual birthday on 14th January, tickets to the special show will run you only $50, with $10 going to various charities that the Foo Fighters support.

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If you’re not planning on being in the City of Angels later this month, you can always wish Grohl a happy birthday when he’s in the country next month to kick off the Foos’ highly anticipated Australian run with buddies Rise Against on Tuesday, 24th February, before hitting up venues around the country.

The birthday bash will be the band’s first live performance of 2015 and comes ahead of a much-anticipated tour of the US, which saw them making headlines late last year for their ‘Beat the Bots’ anti-scalping scheme. Pre-sale tickets for the tour were only available via in-person pop-up box offices located in cities included on the tour.

Meanwhile, the always outspoken Grohl once again had rock fans cheering last month when he proclaimed that computers have killed our ability to rock out and be happy. “People have forgotten what it’s like to really rock out because they spend all day in front of a freakin’ computer, which they hail as the new God,” he said.

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