AC/DC needed a new opening act for its September 8 stop in downtown St. Louis, and it found one in a fellow stadium-filling giant: the Foo Fighters. The two bands will join forces for a one-night-only show at The Dome at America's Center, with Dave Grohl and company stepping away from their own world tour to fill a suddenly empty support slot.
The Pretty Reckless, which had served as AC/DC's main support act across both the 2025 and 2026 legs of the Power Up tour, will no longer perform as the opening act in St. Louis, according to St. Louis Public Radio. Neither AC/DC nor the band, led by Taylor Momsen, have said why the group could no longer make the date, and the station's report does not specify a cause. The Pretty Reckless has continued running its own headlining Dear God world tour behind an album of the same name released in June, as Ultimate Classic Rock notes.
Dave Grohl did not hold back about the opportunity. “All I have ever wanted was to someday live up to the awe inspiring fury of AC/DC, live on stage (an impossible task, by the way),” Grohl said, calling the booking a dream come true, per the station's report.
A Scheduling Scramble Across Two Continents
Making the St. Louis date happen required the Foo Fighters to rearrange their own touring calendar. The band will take a break from its North American stadium tour to squeeze in the AC/DC show, threading it between a September 4 appearance at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil and a September 12 date at the Fargodome in North Dakota, according to JamBase. The band had originally planned to use that stretch as time off between the South American and North American legs of its Take Cover tour, per the same outlet.
That tour also marks the first full run with new drummer Ilan Rubin, who joined after previous touring drummer Josh Freese departed the band, per Wikipedia's entry on the Take Cover Tour. Rubin previously played with Nine Inch Nails before stepping behind the kit for the Foo Fighters.
Grohl and Johnson Have Shared a Stage Before
The St. Louis pairing is not the first time Grohl and AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson have crossed paths on stage. The two performed a rendition of Back in Black together at the May 2021 Vax Live benefit concert in California, and Johnson later joined the Foo Fighters for a dual performance of Back in Black and Let There Be Rock at the 2022 Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium in London, following the death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.
Grohl's connection to AC/DC's live show runs deeper still. He has said that seeing AC/DC's 1980 concert film Let There Be Rock at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. at age 11 was the moment that shaped his understanding of live rock performance, establishing what Grohl described as his lifelong benchmark for stage energy and intensity, per Rock Sound.
What St. Louis Fans Can Expect at The Dome
AC/DC's current lineup features co-founder Angus Young on lead guitar and Brian Johnson on vocals, alongside rhythm guitarist Stevie Young, drummer Matt Laug and bassist Chris Chaney, according to Consequence. Longtime members Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd are not part of this tour run. The band launched its 17-date North American stadium trek on July 11 after topping Pollstar's midyear 2026 worldwide touring chart, earning more than $120.3 million from the European leg of the Power Up tour and outearning legacy peers like the Eagles and Bruce Springsteen, per the Everett Post.
AC/DC has promoted the tour on social media with the tag powering up for the last time, prompting industry reports that the run, which wraps September 29 in Philadelphia, could be the 53-year-old band's final major world tour, according to Ultimate Classic Rock's coverage of the tour launch. The band formed in Sydney in 1973. That backdrop adds extra weight to a St. Louis date that fans might otherwise never see repeated.
The Foo Fighters and AC/DC will share the stage on September 8 at The Dome at America's Center in downtown St. Louis, a multi-purpose indoor venue capable of seating approximately 67,000 for major concerts, according to the St. Louis Regional Sports Authority. The Dome opened in 1995 to house the NFL's St. Louis Rams. Concert tickets start at $51.60 and remain available, per St. Louis Public Radio's report.
A Venue Getting a Facelift for Its Biggest Bookings
The show also lands at a moment of significant civic investment in the venue itself. The St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority has said The Dome at America's Center needs an estimated $155 million in long-term maintenance over the next decade, and the city has already put $70 million from its 2023 NFL Rams legal settlement toward immediate LED, elevator and roof repairs, according to KSDK. Venue officials have pointed to that preventative maintenance as essential to attracting major tour stops like this one.
The St. Louis stop follows a string of AC/DC stadium shows that have drawn massive crowds and fan gatherings around the country this summer, including stops in San Antonio and in Denver. For St. Louis, though, the story is less about pop-up merchandise stands and more about a rare pairing of two of rock's biggest touring draws sharing a single bill for one night only.
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