April Foos Day prank goes wrong

New Zealand-based radio station, The Rock FM, have been forced to apologise after an April Fools' Day prank went wrong.

The station, based in Auckland, alleged that the Foo Fighters would be playing a secret acoustic show at the city's Powerstation venue yesterday morning.

Expecting 50 or so listeners to turn up, The Rock FM planned on playing the new Foo's album, Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace, on repeat for the assembled throng as part of their April Fool's day prank. However, several thousand people nationwide booked the day off work, some even booking flights, to attend 'the show'.

"It caused absolute carnage," admitted the station's programme director Brad King. "I arrived back in the country today after a week long holiday and heard of the announcement. This is an April Fools' gag, dreamed up by our over enthusiastic promotions department and was completely untrue.

"On behalf of The Rock I sincerely apologise for this misinformation. Contracts have been terminated, and heads have rolled. This is what happens when fools plan April Fools' jokes."

Tags: Foo Fighters

Posted by Dan at 11:27AM | April 2, 2008

lol
what knobs
all i can ay is that they go owned!!
1st :)

Posted by Jack | April 2, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply to this

If..

If they are stupid enough not to check the website or official sites to see if it is even on then hahahhahahaha

Posted by A Goth | April 5, 2008 1:03 PM | Reply to this

hahahaha,
i have to say that it's kind of funny.
but i'd be pretty pissed.

Posted by Sydney | April 2, 2008 12:03 PM | Reply to this

ha!

brilliant!

Posted by christophski | April 2, 2008 1:02 PM | Reply to this

lmfao

Awsh, all the poor people who are now let down.
Imagine all the money people just spent trying to go to a non-existent gig O_O

Posted by Kiwi | April 2, 2008 1:20 PM | Reply to this

lmfao

is that by any chance the kiwi i no cos if is hi 0_o

Posted by molly | April 5, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply to this

haha

how do the fans in NZ feel??? that is just stupidly funny

Posted by BoBBo | April 2, 2008 1:29 PM | Reply to this

haha

how do the fans in NZ feel??? that is just stupidly funny

Posted by BoBBo | April 2, 2008 1:29 PM | Reply to this

lol

thats very fuuny to think people actually booked flights and got off work to get there. What a waste of time and money. It will teach people to think twice about if there's a gig meant to be on April Fool's day!

Posted by Anthony Hookway | April 2, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply to this

Haha

Lol they actually booked flights there!
Didnt they know it was April Fools day

Posted by Jack | April 2, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply to this

They well got owned!

Gutted! Sorta funny though...

Posted by shell | April 2, 2008 3:46 PM | Reply to this

gullible?

all i can say is some people are extremely gullible. But I gotta admit if I was a dedicate Foo's fan and I paid money to get to a pretend gig I'd seriously hacked off.

Posted by andrea | April 2, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply to this

BUY ROCK SOUND

Posted by x | April 2, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply to this

foo fighters suck

Posted by anti foo | April 3, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply to this

Wouldn't you be totally gutted IF it was true and you lived nearby and didn't make any effort to go?

People forget it's 1st April, that's why jokes run 'til 12pm. Supposed to fool someone before they realise what the date is.

Posted by ItGirlRagDoll | April 3, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply to this

hahahaha, surely they would have checked it out somewhere else, what idiots!

Posted by Luke | April 3, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply to this

hahahaha, surely they would have checked it out somewhere else, what idiots!

Posted by Luke | April 3, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply to this

Fucking idiots. Thats not funny...

Posted by Holly | April 3, 2008 5:23 PM | Reply to this

come on!

Apil fools day only happens once a year.

Posted by chris! | April 4, 2008 9:05 AM | Reply to this

About time K used a newer photo whenever they want to do a Foos story. They used this pic when talking about Shifflets shoes.

Posted by swooz | April 4, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply to this

Fuckin A

Thats awesome, especially for the people who travelled from furthest away, bunch of fucktards haha brilliant

Posted by MikeyLeeds | April 4, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply to this

Lolage. What morons. Did they not realise that people all over listen to the show, and would attend to see?

Posted by Riki | April 4, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply to this

what the fuck were they thinking yeh it was april fools day but fucking hell !! didn't they know something like this would happen if you ask me the person who planned it is a complete idiot!

Posted by ellie hines | April 6, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply to this