GC600: Rock band Foreigner to play Gold Coast show with all the hits

FOREIGNER are one of rock’s great acts and they will be bringing their iconic catalogue of hits to the Gold Coast next week. Here’s what you can expect from the minds behind I Want to Know what Love Is.

THEY want to know what love is and they want the Gold Coast to show them.

Supercars fans are hot blooded enough for the iconic rock band Foreigner to want to rock the Gold Coast.

The band behind some of the biggest hits of the 1970s and 1980s will play to a packed audience at GC600.

Foreigner will play the GC600 next week.

Foreigner bass player Jeff Pilson told the Bulletin yesterday crowds could expect an energetic performance at the band’s Gold Coast debut.

“There is a feeling of connection (with the audience), it is a bit like a high,” said Pilson, who has been with the band since 2004.

Foreigner are still rocking after 42 years.

“You can just feel that everyone is feeling the same thing and that is the objective of the music.

“To create that feeling is overwhelming. You cannot achieve it anywhere else.”

Founded in 1976, Foreigner has produced 16 top 40 hits in the US, including I Want to Know What Love Is, Waiting for a Girl Like You, Juke Box Hero, Urgent, Cold as Ice, and Hot Blooded.

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Foreigner in 1981.

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The Gold Coast show comes 40 years after Foreigner first toured Australia.

Pilson said he was enjoying his time down under.

“It is great, I love Australia and I find a great tranquillity that I do not see anywhere else.

“This is one part of the world I could imagine living.”