By Ali Ikram
The Foo Fighters have been around fighting foo for 16 years now, and with the release of their seventh album, Wasting Light, they've become perhaps the highest paid garage band in the world - recording it in Dave Grohl's car port.
"It was funny when we first started recording in our house," Grohl says. "My daughter called everyone workers. 'Are the workers coming today?' She called Butch Vig a worker."
Wasting Light is the band's first studio album in five years and fans are lapping it up. It's expected to top the UK charts at the weekend and become their first US number one next week.
The album is accompanied by a new documentary on the making of the Wasting Light and the history of the band.
"If I could change anything it would be the band's name," Grohl says. "It's the worst fucking name in the history of rock and roll."
Grohl is listing the band's 2008 concert at Wembley in front of 86,000 as the highlight so far.
"There are lots of little victories, actually that wasn't a little victory, it was pretty f**king huge," he says.
But the band is taking the show on the road to smaller venues, playing in fans' garages as they warm up for the northern hemisphere festival circuit.
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