Hold on to your baseball caps music fans – nu metal pioneers Limp BIzkit have made their live comeback, playing their first show in eight years.
Limp Bizkit are a name potent enough to send shivers up the spines of music fans of a certain age, almost a decade after their commercial peak. With perpetual adolescent Fred Durst as their mouthy frontman, the group strode across the globe as the Millenium dawned turning teenage angst into filthy lucre.
However after gaining the success they craved the band almost immediately began to implode. Guitar hero Wes Borland exited the band after the release of the hugely successful (and preposterously titled) album ‘Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavoured Water’.
Since then the fortunes of Limp Bizkit have taken a turn for the worse. Sure, they never have to work a day in their lives again but selling a few records now and again isn’t beyond expectation surely?
Borland rejoined the band in 2004, before again leaving following the release of ‘The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)’. The group went on hiatus for four years, returning earlier this year.
Fred Durst and Wes Borland issued a joint statement earlier this year confirming the re-union. “We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other. Regardless of where our separate paths have taken us, we recognize there is a powerful and unique energy with this particular group of people we have not found anywhere else. This is why Limp Bizkit is back.”
The band made their live return in Latvia last night (May 20th) playing a series of old hits. The soothingly titled ‘Unicorns And Rainbows’ tour opened in the Eastern European country, the group’s first show there despite turntablist DJ Lethal being born there.
Amongst the bad memories unearthed by the show are Limp Bizkit’s cover of ‘Faith’ and form room favourite ‘Rollin’. The group also played ‘Nookie’, the song which was infamously alleged to have provoked the riots at the Woodstock festival in 1999.
In a statement Fred Durst said “Grateful is an understatement, we are blessed to be united again, and in no way is this a reunion, this is a comeback. Cheers to you all!”
Footage from the show can be viewed at the band’s official website.
Be warned, though – the Limp Bizkit reunion tour is ongoing…
