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www.independentfreepress.com Editorial..................... 6 Sports ...............7, 11 Calendar .............8, 9 Classifieds ... 10, 11 Directory .............BL4 50 Cents (+ GST) Circulation: 22,800 BUSINESS LINK Look inside for the Chamber's monthly newsletter 12-PAGE SECTION HAPPY EASTER Check out today's special section for a complete list of Easter services 8-PAGE SECTION 40 Pages Halton Hills' award-winning newspaper THE INDEPENDENT & FREE PRESS TUESDAY, April 19, 2011 Foo Fighters play Georgetown... ...garage! By EAMONN MAHER Staff Writer One of the world's most popular rock bands paid a visit to Halton Hills last Thursday for an exclusive concert that only about 100 people were able to witness. Hornby resident Nick Perry, a 29-year-old musician and aspiring firefighter, won a contest sponsored by BlackBerry that scored him a 90-minute concert in the garage of his parents' farm by the chart-topping American group Foo Fighters. Perry was invited on stage to play a few songs with the band in front of 50 family members and friends as part of the Foo Fighters' Garage Tour. "I'm still on cloud nine. Actually it feels like cloud 50 and I haven't started to come down yet," said Perry, a member of the Milton-based punk rock band Dead Celebrity. "All around, it was the best day of my life and I don't know if anything will be able to top it. It was like winning the lottery, except it was my favourite band that was the prize. If I did win the lottery, I'd pay the Foo Fighters $50 million to play here in my garage. But they did it for nothing." Proclaiming himself the Foo Fighters' biggest fan, Perry has all of the band's releases and never misses attending their concerts or public appearances when they visit Toronto, and several times he's gone on road trips to places such as London, Ont. and Ottawa to see them play live. To win the contest, Perry "went completely overboard" and sent in pictures in a collage of the 2,000-square-foot garage and had to submit a 25-word essay about why he deserved to host frontman Dave Grohl and his crew for an afternoon of music and socializing. Perry also had to call on a few friends to do some spring Foo Fighters front man David Grohl gives a playful hug to Nick Perry while drummer Taylor Hawkins looks on. The cleaning of the garage in order to get it ready for the producmulti-million record selling U.S. group visited Perry's parents' Hornby home last Thursday night after the local man tion. won a contest to have the group play a gig in his garage. For more photos visit www.edge.ca/ConcertsAndEvents/ See FOO, pg. 2 FooFighters/Index.aspx. Photo by Pina the Inside Edge chick/102.1 The Edge Vi s i t o u r s h o w r o o m $&+,//(6 0$='$ 2I 0LOWRQ 6WHHOHV $YH 0LOWRQ 21 /7 ; ZZZDFKLOOHVPD]GDFD · your window & door professionals · LQIR#DFKLOOHVPD]GDFD 3KRQH 3KRQH 7 R O O I U H H )D[ Quality & Service You Can Count On! 332 Guelph Street, Georgetown (Across from Canadian Tire) 341 Guelph St., Unit 3 Georgetown 905.873.0236 www.buy-wise.ca info@buy-wise.ca · awarded readers choice 16 times · 905-702-0885 www.bathstudio .ca