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Bizkit Bails on Tour, Cites Terrorism
For once, those self-styled bad boys in Limp Bizkit are actually heeding the advice of the authorities.
The rap-rockers have decided to nix the Southeast Asian leg of their current world tour, scheduled to kick off this week, citing a U.S. State Department warning about an increasing possibility of terrorism.
The last-minute cancellation kept Bizkit from a scheduled Wednesday night concert in Singapore. Additional shows, in support of the underperforming band's new album, Results May Vary, were nixed in Bangkok, Manila and the Indonesian resort of Bali, the site of a deadly bombing that killed more than 200 people in 2002. An August bombing on the nearby island of Jakarta left 12 dead.
"The band wishes to extend their deepest apologies to their fans in Southeast Asia and promise to return once security for their fans can be assured," concert promoter Michael Hosking told Singapore's Straits Times newspaper.
The security fears prompted Limp Bizkit to make a spontaneous decision Tuesday morning to scrap the Singapore show, according to Hosking, the managing director for Midas Promotions.
The Straits Times reported that ticket sales for the Bizkit show were sluggish at best, though it quoted promoters as saying they expected fans to turn out in droves on the day of. Meanwhile, the Bali date on Friday, Bangkok on Sunday and Manila on Monday were all sell outs.
Limp Bizkit is expected to continue the tour in South Korea for five dates next week followed by a spin through Japan beginning on December 11.
A rep for the band declined to comment on the cancellations.
Even when not faced by terrorist threats, Bizkit has had a rough go on stage. Frontman Fred Durst took an unidentified flying object to the face during a November 12 gig at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
Durst toughed out the set, but needed seven stitches to close a gash on his chin afterward. He later laughed off the incident in a rant on the band's Website.
"Oh my gosh! Stop the press! Headlines are coming! Fred Durst has a weeeee cut on his chin! Must have been some fan/band violence, eh? Come on now," quipped Durst. "I went into the pit in NY and climbed onto a railing and was in the line of fire when an unknown object hit me in the chin. As I kept singing I felt a hot gush of something running down my neck and onto my hand. I looked down and sure enough I was bleeding like mad."
Back in September, a security guard sued Durst for allegedly kicking the man in the head during a 1999 Minneapolis concert. And in October, the rocker was slapped with another lawsuit by irate Bizkitheads in Chicago upset that he cut the group's set short after being taunted by some concertgoers and a local radio personality.
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