SNL UK broadcast Foo Fighters‘ first live performance of material from their just-released Your Favorite Toy album on Saturday night (April 25).
The band played the high-energy “Caught in the Echo,” which is the opening number and first single from their twelfth studio album, on the new English offshoot of Saturday Night Live.
Foo Fighters returned for their second performance slot of the night with the earnest “Child Actor,” a track on the second half of their new record that has Grohl ruminating on growing up in a very public way. (Though he was in his early 20s when Nirvana broke through in the beginning of the ’90s, he applies the metaphor of childhood fame here: “I was a child actor, a face on a wall/ Holding my breath as I wait for the curtain to fall/ Was it good enough?/ Was it ever good enough?/ Anything, be the person that you want,” he sings, later pleading on repeat, “Turn the cameras off, turn the cameras off.”)
The April 25 episode of SNL UK was hosted by actress Nicola Coughlan, whose monologue featured a cameo from Grohl in a bit that had her gallivanting backstage with special guest Jimmy Fallon.
Fallon nudged the starstruck host to approach the Foo Fighters frontman and ask him to be her best friend. “We’re live. He has to say yes,” Fallon pointed out.
Your Favorite Toy is the followup to Foo Fighters’ 2023 album, But Here We Are, which cracked the top 10 of the Billboard 200 upon release (landing at No. 8). The rockers hit the road on tour beginning April 28 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Watch Foo Fighters perform “Caught in the Echo” and “Child Actor” live in the videos uploaded by SNL UK below.
