Wee will rock you: Dave Grohl’s eight-year-old daughter makes debut at festival

TAYLOR Hawkins better watch out. The Foo Fighters’ drummer was upstaged at a festival in Iceland when his boss’s daughter stepped on stage.

Dave Grohl of the rock band Foo Fighters got his eight-year-old daughter on stage to play the drums in Iceland. Picture: Jason Merritt

THEY start them young in the Grohl household.

Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl was a very proud daddy on the weekend when his eight-year-old daughter Harper picked up the sticks at a festival in Iceland.

Drummer Taylor Hawkins showed no fears for his day job when he invited the band’s very special guest to join them on stage at the Secret Solstice festival.

Before the pint-sized percussionist stepped up to Hawkins’ kit, Grohl explained how his middle daughter — his eldest is Violet and youngest is Ophelia — asked to learn to play from one of the best in the business.

Dave Grohl: the drumming DNA is strong in the family. Picture: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP.

“About two weeks ago my daughter said ‘Daddy, I want to play the drums’,” Grohl told the crowd.

“And I said ‘OK, you want me to teach you?’ And she said yes. ‘Do you want to get up in front of 20,000 people in Iceland and play?’ And she said yes.

“So ladies and gentlemen, welcome the next generation; there’s another Grohl on the drum set now. And this is the first song she learned.”

Harper precisely punched out the instantly recognisable beats from Queen’s We Will Rock You with plenty of singing support from the audience.

The Foos are famously huge Queen fans, with the band’s drummer Roger Taylor occasionally a special guest at their concerts.

Grohl of course rose to fame as the drummer for Nirvana before starting the Foo Fighters after Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994.

He has regularly stepped behind the kit to play on records by Queens Of the Stone Age and his other side project Them Crooked Vultures with Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.

The band also performed three new songs from their ninth studio album which is due out within the next six months, their first since 2014’s Sonic Highways.

As well as the official single Run, which is closing in on more than five million streams, they also showcased new tracks The Sky Is a Neighbourhood and Lah Di Da.

Grohl is rumoured to be booking a surprise visit to Australia to launch the album but the Foo Fighters won’t tour here until the summer of 2018/2019.

Originally published as Wee will rock you: Dave Grohl’s eight-year-old daughter makes debut at festival