With a profession that features quite a few hits and controversial moments, Limp Bizkit has misplaced fairly a little bit of efficiency in 2024. Thirty years after their profitable years, the band round Fred Durst stands on stage like a run-down jukebox. Even competition father Jan Smeets got here to check out the North Stage on Sunday, however did he see that it was good?
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It may be referred to as an achievement: doing every part you may in an hour to remodel right into a caricature of your self. And the truth that you primarily depend on others singing alongside to make sure that nobody decides to face in line for an additional cookie, truly says all of it.
The variety of cash that DJ Deadly retains placing in his personal warble cabinet appears infinite. Throughout an hour of enjoying time, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Metallica, Backstreet Boys, Nirvana, Wham!, The White Stripes and The Outfield will seem. That is nearly extra covers on document than The Analogues carried out dwell on the principle stage yesterday.
Add to that the as soon as profitable renditions of Religion by George Michael and Behind Blue Eyes by The Who and you do not have to be a professor to calculate that there’s little left of the do-it-yourself repertoire. With that final track, at the moment’s little huge headliner all of the sudden steps out of the wings to sing alongside to the refrain. We have been questioning why Durst has hysterically shouted his title a few dozen occasions for the reason that begin of the present – not even twenty minutes in the past.
‘Women and gents, Ed Sheeran, who’s dad modified his diapers whereas listening to us.’ Sadly, Limp Bizkit additionally depends on different individuals’s success right here. We’d be embarrassed that matches the standard cap from the nineties; Durst hides it behind his lengthy, grey beard and a faint dose of underpants enjoyable. It solely turns into enjoyable when he asks a safety man if he smells the scent of marijuana that wafts over the grounds. Have to be due to all these open doorways.
No, that is by far the laziest efficiency we have seen this weekend. Begin with Break Stuff. Finish with Break Stuff. It would not precisely present creativity. And what a pity it’s that the handful of classics – all of which your reviewer additionally retains in a field in his basement – should not performed convincingly anyplace?
Sizzling Canine solely often leaves you wanting extra, My Technology sings alongside dully. Solely Rollin’ and Take A Look Round are good. Within the lackluster sound combine it is just Wes Borland who stands out a bit right here and there, no pun meant. Nevertheless it would not sound tight anyplace. And it is onerous to imagine that Fred continues to be doing it for the Nookie, since he is already having a tough time getting transferring on stage tonight.
Maybe it’s time for a brand new idea wherein these songs additionally merely sound from the turntable of dwelling legend Deadly. Saves plenty of expectations. We are able to examine the response from uncle Fred already guessed: ‘Now I do know why you wanna hate me, ‘trigger hate is all of the world has even seen these days.’ Fantastic Fred. That is at the least as straightforward as this below-average karaoke present.
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