Music from the popular rock group was one of Brant Webb’s requests when he was trapped underground in the Beaconsfield Mine collapse of 2006.

An iPod filled with the Foos helped the Beauty Point man through the traumatic weeks-long rescue – and the promise of a few beers from frontman Dave Grohl did not hurt either.

Grohl later composed an instrumental dedicated to Mr Webb and fellow survivor Todd Russell titled The Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners.

The connection has endured. Mr Webb, his wife Rachel and their twins Zoey and Zachary will attend Monday’s concert courtesy of the band.

He said he was not yet sure if he would be meeting up with Grohl afterwards but said he had chanced upon band members in random situations more than once since their first meeting.

‘‘It seems you bump into them everywhere after you met them,’’ Mr Webb said.

Mrs Webb said she hoped to hear plenty of songs from the band’s latest album Sonic Highways when they take to the stage of the Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart.

‘‘We think it’s brilliant, I just love it,’’ Mrs Webb said.

‘‘[Dave Grohl] is 100 per cent as nice is he seems – what you see is what you get.’’