Silly Goose frontman Jackson Foster arrested for pop-up concert at Chicago gas station after Lollapalooza gig
Silly Goose frontman Jackson Foster, 23, was seen being handcuffed at a BP gas station in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday and taken into a police cruiser.
'What am I being arrested for?' Foster asked the officers in the video.
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Foster walked through a crowd of cheering fans and yelled, 'They're only getting me, not the rest of the guys!'
4 Silly Goose frontman Jackson Foster was arrested during a pop-up concert at a gas station.
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The arrest happened two days after Silly Goose performed at Lollapalooza's opening on Thursday, where an estimated 115,000 people attended each day.
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'Was I the only artist who played Lollapalooza and then went to jail?' Foster later wrote in an Instagram post.
Foster was the only member of the band to be arrested for the impromptu performance.
He claimed that the Atlanta-based band, which has 95,000 monthly Spotify listeners, received permission from the gas station manager to perform at the location for an hour in exchange for $100 nightly.
'We did the same thing last year and we had an arrangement with the dude who runs the gas station,' Foster told Chicago Q101. 'And he was cool with us playing there and we would just give him a couple of hundred bucks each night.
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4 Foster insisted that the band 'received permission from the manager' to perform.
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'We went to go do the same thing this year. He said we were all good and that we could play at the gas station.'
Foster said the gig went well across the first two nights of the Lollapalooza weekend, but the band clashed with police on their third night playing at the gas station.
'We were playing and the cops showed up. I don't know if (the manager) changed his mind or what happened, but all of a sudden we stop playing, I get off the van and I'm put in handcuffs and brought to the police station,' he said.
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'At first, in the beginning of the set, the guy who worked there was standing in front like in the crowd smiling. When the cops got there, I saw the cars pull up and we kept playing. When they walked over to the van, we stopped playing. I never saw (the police) walk behind and talk to the guy at first. I'm sure they talked to him because I think he signed something for us to go to jail. I'm not really sure.
4 Video posted on social media showed Foster being handcuffed and taken into custody.
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Police claimed the incident was much more serious than how Foster described it.
The 'unruly' crowd's 'partying and mosh-pitting' allegedly blocked off the parking lot and sidewalk, according to police reports obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
'Several people were surrounding a van with a band on top playing music at an extremely high volume,' the police report added.
The general manager of the gas station alleged that there was no agreement between the business and the band, according to the Sun-Times
4 The crowd at the gas station was acting 'unruly' and 'mosh-pitting,' according to police records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Foster insisted that the band was trying to 'raise awareness' for their upcoming album set to be released Oct. 17.
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Foster was charged with criminal trespass to property.
The band has a series of shows booked in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom between September and November 2025, according to its website.
Silly Goose launched a fundraiser to hire an attorney for Foster and has raised $5,658 of its $8,000 goal as of Thursday night.
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'I am worried that can affect getting to Europe this winter and in the future,' he told the radio station.
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