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Limp Bizkit's Big Day Fallout
Jessica Michalik, 15, suffered a heart attack after getting crushed in a stampede of fans in the mosh pit during Bizkit's January 26 set at the Big Day Out Festival in Sydney. She died five days later in a local hospital.
Six other people were also injured in the melee that broke out among the 55,000 people gathered for the traveling fest on a blazingly hot day.
The best-selling rap-metal act--whose last two albums, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog-flavored Water and Significant Other, topped the charts and went multiplatinum--was so shaken by the incident that it immediately pulled out of the festival and returned to the United States.
The interview is part of an ongoing investigation by New South Wales state coroner John Abernethy, who requested that Aussie police fly to the U.S. and talk with the band and its management about the factors that might have contributed to the girl's death.
"Two detectives attached to Strike Force Streatley today flew from Sydney to Los Angeles to interview management and members of Limp Bizkit," an unnamed police spokesman told the Associated Press.
Limp Bizkit's management had no comment on the questioning other than saying it's considered a routine part of the coroner's probe.
"Streatley was set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Jessica Michalik at the Sydney Big Day Out on January 26 this year," a band rep said.
Prosecutors are waiting on the final report from the coroner's office to decide whether to file charges against the band and its management or Big Day Festival organizers and security officials.
Promoters said excessive heat led the crowd to become unruly, but placed the blame squarely with Limp Bizkit, accusing the group of inciting "unprecedented and ferocious crowd activity in front of the stage."
For its part, Fred Durst and the other Bizkit band members have fingered inadequate security measures as the major culprit in the tragedy and the reason the band dropped out out of the festival's remaining dates in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
Promoters denied the allegations, citing a hitherto spotless safety record. However, in the wake of Jessica's death, festival organizers have asked Australian and New Zealand fans to fill out a survey on the Big Day Out Website (www.bigdayout.com) to help gauge what measures should be taken to keep the festival going and ensure a similar tragedy won't happen again.
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