Viral video linked story of Athlone man and ex-Nirvana drummer who turned his life around after Kurt Cobain’s death Irish hitchhiker might have been reason behind creation of Foo Fighters A cousin of an Irish hitch-hiker who might have been the reason for the existence of US rock band the Foo Fighters said he hopes the band’s singer Dave Grohl can get in touch in the wake of a video that went viral. In an interview from 2021, Grohl, who was the drummer of grunge superstars Nirvana in the 1990s, spoke of a mysterious hitch-hiker whom he met while travelling in Ireland shortly after the death of Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's lead singer, who died by suicide at the age of 27 in April 1994. In a video posted by his cousin Eoin Tighe on X a few days ago, Lorcan Dunne from Athlone said he now realised that Grohl might have been talking about him.
“After Kurt died and the band was over, I did a bunch of soul-searching and I decided that I'm going to disappear. I'm going to go to the most remote place on Earth,” said Grohl during an interview with the New Yorker . “I went to the Ring of Kerry in Ireland, where I’ve been before, it’s so beautiful there.
“I was driving around in my rental car on a country road and I saw this hitch-hiker kid. I thought: ‘Well, maybe I'll pick him up’. And, as I got closer to him, I saw that he had a Kurt Cobain t-shirt on.
“It was Kurt's face looking back at me, in the middle of nowhere. I realised like: “Oh, I can't outrun this. So I n.