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Not Nirvana: A Member of the Foo Fighters Camp Gets COVID, Cancelling LA Forum Show This Weekend

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COVID is on the rise along with the Delta variant.

The result is not good for live performances. Foo Fighters have just canceled their show set for July 17th at the Los Angeles Forum.  The group says they’re canceling because someone in their organization tested positive for COVID. Who exactly isn’t specified, but now everyone has to be careful.

The sad irony here is that the Foos re-opened Madison Square Garden last month with the first new show in over 14 months. It was a big celebration of the end of COVID. And now they’d been hit with it.

In New York, the Governor’s Ball — set for a three day weekend in September — is having trouble with slow sales. They’re hitting social media like crazy to sell individual day tickets for the Friday and Sunday, on which Billie Eilish and Post Malone are the main stars at CitiField. Only Saturday is sold out.  Fans are not convinced about being in large crowds. CitiField capacity is 45,000.

Please, everyone, get vaccinated!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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