Foo Fighters 'Rickroll' Westboro Baptist Church protesters

For a very small group, the Westboro Baptist Church attracts a lot of attention.

The extreme Christian organisation is known in the US for its "hate speech" protests, where some of its roughly 40 members turn up at funerals or other events with placards.

But when they arrived at a Foo Fighters gig in Kanasas with homophobic banners, they met their match in the band.

Dave Grohl turned up on the back of a van and "Rickrolled" the group.

Sprint Centre, the venue where the gig was held, shared a video of the band "taking the party to the street", with plenty of fans singing along and filming the group on their phones.

Dancing to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, Foo Fighters held up their own placards reading, "keep it clean" and "you got Rickroll'd again".

One Instagram user shared a photo of the band's protest, writing "The Foo Fighters came out to counter protest Westboro Baptist Church by Rick rolling them. IT WAS RAD."

Since then the Westboro Baptist Church has tweeted that the Foo Fighters' slogans are "totes lame and unhelpful".

They've also shared a Vine, in which they say they Rickroll the world. So far it's got three retweets and one favourite.

Foo Fighters have had run-ins before with the Westboro Baptist Church. Back in 2011 they sang one of their tracks, Keep It Clean, which features lyrics about same-sex relationships.

Foo Fighters are set to play Milton Keynes Bowl on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September and announced on Friday that more tickets had been released.

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