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Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners

Foo Fighters- Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners [HD]

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Published on 21 Sep 2014

Track 09

Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace

By: Foo Fighters

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

14:05:32

Category : Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters to put Christchurch on the world map

Christchurch’s AMI Stadium will be transformed from a sporting turf into a giant stage venue for the Foo Fighters’ first Australasian concert on their 20th anniversary Sonic Highways World Tour next year.

Vbase General Manager Darren Burden says the stadium will be ready to welcome over 30,000 Foo fans from around the South Island and the world on Wednesday 18 February.

Source : http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1410/S00569/foo-fighters-to-put-christchurch-on-the-world-map.htm

Beaconsfield Gold Mine

The Beaconsfield Mine collapse occurred on 25 April 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, one was killed and the remaining two were found alive using a remote-controlled device. These two miners were rescued on 9 May 2006, two weeks after being trapped nearly a kilometre below the surface.

On Anzac Day, 17 men were working underground at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine, having started their shift just a few hours earlier. Two of this crew – Todd Russell and Brant Webb – were in a tunnel 925 metres below ground. This tunnel was referred to as the ‘925 metre level’ (925mL). These two were working out of a basket. The third man, Larry Knight, operated a forklift cherry picker machine called a telehandler. It was this machine that held them there.

For more go to : http://tasmanianlife.com.au/beaconsfield/

Foo Fighters Sonic Highways

World Tour Downunder

The Foo Fighters’ world tour has added a string of stadium dates across Australia and New Zealand.

Dave Grohl’s rock outfit will play eight concerts in the region early next year, starting Feb. 18 in Christchurch, before visiting Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and wrapping up March 7 in Perth.

The show at Derwent Entertainment Centre in Hobart (the only indoor gig on the slate) will be the band’s first in the Tasmanian capital since 1998, while their opener in Christchurch is their first ever in NZ’s most populous South Island city. The band has a strong connection with both towns. Grohl wrote the instrumental “Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners” (on 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace) for trapped Tasmanian miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell (2006) and the band has performed a charity concert in support of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake appeal.

Source : http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6297040/foo-fighters-announce-stadium-shows-down-under

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