Foo Fighters delivered their first live performances of songs from their newly released album Your Favorite Toy on the April 25 episode of Saturday Night Live.
During their first set of the night, the band powered through “Caught in the Echo,” the album’s opening track and lead single, bringing it to life on the UK edition of Saturday Night Live.
They later returned for a second appearance, this time performing “Child Actor,” a more reflective cut from the latter half of the record. On the song, Grohl looks back on growing up in the spotlight, even though he was already in his early twenties when Nirvana broke into the mainstream in the early 1990s. Using the idea of childhood fame as a lens, he sings, “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,” before repeating the line, “Turn the cameras off, turn the cameras off.”
The April 25 broadcast of SNL UK was led by Coughlan, whose opening monologue included a surprise appearance from Grohl as part of a backstage sketch alongside Fallon.
In the moment, Fallon encouraged the excited host to walk up to the Foo Fighters frontman and ask him to become her best friend. “We’re live. He has to say yes,” Fallon joked.
Your Favorite Toy arrives as the follow-up to the band’s 2023 release But Here We Are, which debuted inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200 at No. 8. The group is set to launch their next tour on April 28 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
You can watch performances of “Caught in the Echo” and “Child Actor,” as shared by SNL UK, below.