Foo Fighters: Manchester City Stadium

FOURTEEN YEARS and six albums since the demise of Nirvana, Dave Grohl continues to smooth down the spiky edges of his former band's indie-metal sound. It's a lucrative formula, broad in populist appeal if not artistic ambition. The Foo Fighters frontman certainly seemed at home in front of a three-quarters-full City Stadium in Manchester on Monday, just 24 hours after sharing a stage with Paul McCartney in Anfield.