This summer Royal Blood support Dave Grohl's band on a tour of stadia, arenas and amphitheatres, both here and in the US.
Work on three stadia in Brazil is likely to go on until the middle of April, just a few weeks before the start of the tournament on June 12, but Blatter admitted early in December that there is "no plan B".
Does he have his eye on filling stadia with his next offering, in the hope of emulating his new tour-mates' success?
Compare that to the $1.57bn £1bnn) the country has spent on the stadia in the four host cities for the championship.
Simon Inglis, a writer on football stadia, commented in 2005 that the Main Stand is Leitch's "greatest work" and is "still resplendent today in its red brick glory under a modern mantle of glass and steel".
This paper presents an investigation of the impact of roof geometry on rain shelter for stadia that consist of two separate roof-covered stands facing each other.
"I head up a team that leads on the structural engineering work on projects varying from high-rise towers to stadia to small refurbishments work.
The vogue for a long time (especially in the United States) was to build stadia on huge empty lots out of town, buttressing them on all sides with car parks.
Jamie Peacock's autobiography, No White Flag, is published by Stadia on April 10.
Foulkes fully accepts that "there are lots of ways in which football and politics will mix" but learned from experience that party campaigning should take place well away from stadia on matchdays.
