The Foo Fighters will be streaming a concert live tomorrow night on Facebook, direct from the band’s Studio 606 headquarters in Los Angeles. You can RSVP to the event here, and stream it live here beginning at 7 PM PST tomorrow. As with Facebook’s other recent video streaming events, users will be invited to update their status messages with their thoughts about the concert, which will draw in even more fans as they see the updates in their news feeds. The live video will be powered by Livestream.
Live concert streams seem to be a growing trend for the web’s most popular content and social sites. Last week MySpace streamed their Secret Show Weezer concert in San Francisco. And earlier this week YouTube streamed a U2 concert from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. The event was a huge success, drawing a reported 10 million streams. YouTube also streamed San Francisco’s Outside Lands music festival in August. Hulu has also gotten in on the action, with a Dave Matthews Band stream in May.
The appeal for bands is obvious — they get a chance to give back to fans, promote their albums, and boost their presence on social networks. And sites like Facebook benefit by attracting more artists to their platforms, as well as the obvious revenue opportunities from advertising and sponsorship deals.
Update: It isn’t clear if Facebook is actually sponsoring the stream, or if the Foo Fighters chose the platform on their own. We’ve reached out to Facebook to clarify.
Update 2:: Band Manager Lee Martin writes below:
“We chose Facebook & Livestream on our own. Both parties have been very enthusiastic and helpful. Thanks for the coverage!”
But can I watch it on my iPhone?
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Good question – check http://iphone.livestream.com using your Iphone tomorrow during the concert.
this has NOTHING to do with Facebook officially…YouTube also streamed a concert this past week
Ustream also streamed a concert this past week
The live streaming part is cool, but too bad the musical artist in this case is the horrendously awful Foo Fighters — a grossly overrated, tired band (and a lead singer) who still portend to be doing something “alternative” and somehow rebellious.
Why, Facebook…why?!
Bill – have you hit your head recently, because you are not thinking clearly at all. The Foo Fighters and Especially Dave. Grohl are the absolute Band to ever hit Rock. If you have ever seen them you would know what I am talking about. Listen to their lyrics and then the music. No one comes close to their talent.
bill.
yer a goon. he’s in the rock & roll hall of fame TWICE.
a TRUE sooopergroup
I love the trend. With a good home entertainment set up and connected, it seems like a big win win for everyone involved (except maybe my broadband provider).
The live streaming part is cool, but too bad the musical artist in this case is the horrendously awful Foo Fighters — a grossly overrated, tired band (and a lead singer) who still portend to be doing something “alternative” and somehow rebellious.
Why, Facebook…why?!
I think the streaming technology is so cool and actually, the Foo Fighters are a great band. Just because YOU don’t like them doesn’t mean they are bad. The Foo Fighters still have a large following and pack their shows.
U2 was streamed on YouTube and there are many people that don’t care for them either but they are an awesome band also. Weezer is far from amazing but they still streamed their show too. Just because a band isn’t loved by EVERYONE doesn’t mean that their concert shouldn’t be streamed. There are so many musical genres and styles of music that you’re never going to please everyone. If you don’t want to see the show then simply don’t watch it. It’s as easy as that. There are tons of other videos and content online to see. Just my opinion Bill, not meant to bitch directly at you… everyone is entitled to their own opinion, likes & dislikes. :)
Yeah I think they stopped being original after a couple of albums, but I can see the appeal and you can’t deny they aren’t a huge band.
It’s cool to see them taking advantage of new tech.
Jason – why did you choose to phrase this?
“Hulu has also gotten in on the action, with a Dave Matthews Band stream in May”
when you sway a company got in on the action it means they jumped on the bandwagon. But since Hulu did this in MAY don’t you think you should give them more credit for actually starting this trend?
I think your reading to much into the comment Robb Lewis.
no he isn’t…. he’s pointing out a mistake that a 2nd grader wouldn’t have made.
present tense != past tense
I’m a huge, HUGE Foo Fighters fan. I’m even in one of their music videos. Crazy that I’m reading Foo Fighters news on TechCrunch, and yes, to me, this is Foo Fighters news. :-)
I’m sorry to hear that you’re a Foo Fighter’s fan. Maybe one day you will appreciate good music.
WIth that being said, Facebook should have gone with Akamai… with over 10 million viewers and little latency, I would confident make a claim that they are the best in the business at the moment. Also, Facebook probably should have advertised this a bit more.
Your opinion has been officially declared null and void.
You, sir, are an asshat.
+1
I don’t see why people who obviously hate a band (for whatever nonsensical reason) go through all the hassle of reading an article about them (assuming this dork and “Bill” above even bothered to read the article) just so that they can post a useless, pointless, “This band sucks, blah, blah, blah” or “Too bad you don’t like blah, blah, blah”.
I don’t go reading articles about Poison and Jackyll to piss on your parade in the comments, so why do you feel the need to do it to us?
Jackyll rules!
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Cool news for Foo Fighters fans!
Yeah obviously live concert streams are the growing trend in Web 2.0.
Thanks for sharing!
I have seen various live streaming but unfortunately i enjoy slower broadband. These streaming are often tailored for high speed connection. I wonder if these streams can run properly on 128 KBps of 256 KBps slow connections.
Would that streaming play on my iPhone? sometimes while roaming i get very slow speed. i am wondering whether this streaming will work on slow connection iPhone
live streaming part is nice,
Yeah obviously live concert streams are the growing trend in Web 2.0.
Thanks for sharing!
It would be great if TechCruch used GMT time zone in the postings. For people outside the world PST and EDT etc say nothing and using timezone converters each time is a mess :)
I think this new trend is great! You get to see awesome concerts on your favourite social network. I wonder how long will these be free. Who is the first band / network to dare charge for this?
-Kris
http://twitter.com/KrisOlin
i love Kurt
This appears to just be the standard Facebook live streaming status update widget on a web page. It can be but doesn’t have to be ‘on Facebook’, it can be used anywhere on the web.
Watch on your TV. PCTVCables dot com.
We chose Facebook & Livestream on our own. Both parties have been very enthusiastic and helpful. Thanks for the coverage!
Hmm, your Comments counter seems to be off. I haven’t checked other articles, but this one says there are 36 Comments when only 25 (including this one) are shown. I’ve seen mention of problems with the counter in comments on other articles, so some code checking might be in order.
yeah comments have been like that all day.
just got an error when i was searching for foo fighters.
anyways watching this right now. quality’s a little meh especially after the u2 youtube i saw. i watched this go from 7 thousand viewers to almost 13 thou. anyone think it’s gonna hit 10 million?
i love foos.
scratch that. i mean the streaming was better with u2 youtube (already…and they just started the foos concert too), but this is better in that they have a lap top open and can see all the people commenting in real time and people can make requests. man. one of the only times i wish i still had a fb page so i could request in your honour and say that i still want to have taylor’s children.
I love the foo, there best song is heroes