Rockin’1000 That’s Live 2018, located in Florence’s Artemio Franchi stadium, played a gig with Hole’s Courtney Love as a special guest, and technical audio support from Italian companies Powersoft (for the amplifiers) and Outline (for the PA system).
Rockin’1000 originally assembled in July 2015 in Cesena (Italy), with the very ambitious idea of gathering one thousand musicians playing simultaneously to create the biggest Rock show ever, crowdfund enough money and get legendary band Foo Fighters to come and play a gig in Cesena.
The success was such that the video hit millions of views worldwide, and on November 3rd, Foo Fighters gave a unique and exclusive 3 hours show to the Thousand, crowd-funders and volunteers who got involved in the July 2018 performance.
Organised by Fabio Zaffagnini and under the direction of Marco Sabiu, the show has since become a yearly event: on the 24th July 2016, The Thousand played an 18-song concert in Cesena’s Orogel Stadium in front of an audience of 15,000 people.