A new music venue — well, technically, an old one — is coming to 9th Street NW. During a sold-out, surprise Foo Fighter’s show Thursday night — one of the first in-person concerts at the 9:30 Club in 18 months — singer/guitarist Dave Grohl told the crowd that an exact replica of the original 9:30 Club will be built behind the existing venue.

“Who remembers the old 9:30 Club?… That was our church,” Grohl told the crowd, per a video provided by I.M.P., which runs the club. “That’s where we got to see every fucking band… That’s where we all played first. That’s where REM played first. That’s where the Chili Peppers played first. That’s where Nirvana played first … magic happened in that room. But guess what? They’re gonna open up a place that’s an exact replica of the old 9:30 Club right fucking next door.”

Grohl, who grew up in Northern Virginia and cut his teeth in D.C.-area punk bands before his Nirvana and Foo Fighters fame, said the intimate venue will be coming to 2047 9th St. NW, the former location of Satellite Room.

“For all you people who never got to see the old 9:30 Club, you’ll get to see that shit next door someday,” he continued. “And let me tell you, if it’s the same vibe as the old 9:30 Club, you’ll see some real magic.”

The old 9:30 Club opened in 1980 at 930 F Street NW, where it hosted legendary bands like Fugazi, Nirvana, R.E.M., and even Tony Bennett. The club moved to its current V Street location in 1996 — the old spot is now a J. Crew.

The 199-person capacity club on F Street had a notoriously wretched smell. According to an old Washington City Paper story, readers thought the smell came from “fermented Band-Aids” or “Jimmy Hoffa,” while an odor expert attributed the stench to the club’s use of Lysol.

In that vein, some things about the replica won’t be the same.

In a statement, Audrey Fix Schaefer, a spokesperson for I.M.P., said, “While the new club promises to look just like the original, it will not have the notorious stench nor the huge and plentiful rats that old-school patrons so fondly recall.”

The venue’s name, capacity, and opening schedule will be announced at a later date, Schaefer said.

This post has been updated to reflect that Dave Grohl is Foo Fighters’ singer/guitarist and that this show was part of opening week at 9:30 Club.