A summer night outside Paris catches one of rock’s biggest acts at full power. In August 2005, at the peak of the In Your Honor tour behind their self-titled double album, Foo Fighters played Rock en Seine at the Domaine de Saint-Cloud, the annual alternative-rock festival drawing 30,000 fans. Captured in high quality, their hour-long main stage set on August 26 marked the climax of the European tour, with Pat Smear’s guitar riffs merging with Taylor Hawkins’ drum power and Dave Grohl’s vocal intensity to spark euphoria under summer skies. Running through tracks like “In Your Honor,” “Best of You,” “Times Like These,” and “Everlong,” the show underscored the band’s veteran status in post-grunge and turned the festival grounds into a realm of collective unity.


