![]() ![]() We have more than 60 music festivals coming this summer.They have the same number of band members and will perform in the same venue, yet Limp Bizkit tickets cost $30 more than Queens of the Stone Age tickets – in my mind a far more relevant band who released one of the year’s best albums.Thus, in six years, his popularity has gone up 800%, despite The Idol. In 2017, he filled Spark Arena, but he had help from Nav and French Montana. The Weeknd is so popular he gets to play two Eden Park shows this December.Those are among New Zealand’s most expensive concert tickets – more than Pink and The Weeknd – yet 50 Cent is far from his prime. Rapper 50 Cent is charging up to $424.90 to see his “final” performance at Spark Arena on December 14.I offer the following examples as further proof: The extraordinarily messy post-Covid concert landscape has created a marketplace where anything is possible and only an idiot (like me) would make an assumption that Limp Bizkit cannot sell out Auckland’s biggest indoor stadium with $190 tickets. Everything’s been turned upside down and inside out. I can only put it down to this: we’re in concert cuckoo land. It’s a “free-flow” show, which means the venue won’t be at its full 12,000-seat capacity. Yet, despite all of that, Durst and co clearly have many fans in New Zealand, enough of them to fill Spark Arena. Footage of the band performing ‘Break Stuff’ as surging crowd members do exactly that is among the doc’s most compelling moments. As a result, the group came across very badly. The single ‘Dad Vibes’ didn’t cause a stir either.ĭurst refused to participate in Trainwreck, Netflix’s Woodstock ‘99 doco (I wrote about that here and it remains Boiler Room’s most popular read). They released a new album called Still Sucks in 2021 that caused barely a ripple. Since then, it’s hard to work out what Limp Bizkit have done to push themselves into the rarefied air of a band that can sell out Spark Arena. “Durst attempted to turn the show into a karaoke/request evening … the sound and lighting were disorientatingly bad … the turntableist completely everyone out … with just 9 ½ songs in 90 minutes, it was a long meandering set that lacked purpose or punch.” “Downright sloppy,” said The 13th Floor’s Kate Powell. ![]() Limp Bizkit were… how do I put this… awful. I wasn’t there, but you can go find the reviews. The last time Limp Bizkit performed here, they were in the much smaller venue Trusts Arena and they had a full line-up of other artists on the bill. Tickets for that festival are already sold out in Brisbane, and look likely to do the same in Melbourne and Sydney.Ī promoter has taken a gamble by booking Limp Bizkit for an extensive down under series of shows and it has paid off big time.īut there still remains a level of WTF-ness to this tour that I am struggling to explain. Limp Bizkit will head to Australia after their New Zealand show to headline the Good Things festival alongside Fall Out Boy and Devo. There, two tickets were going for even more than what Ticketmaster was charging before the show sold out. Every single ticket has already been snapped up.Īt that point, I did what everyone else who is desperately searching for sold out concert tickets does and turned to Trade Me. So, after my brain snapped at Home Brew’s excellent show, I jumped online and did something I’ve never done before: I typed ‘Limp Bizkit’ into a ticket search engine. Not when Fred Durst would be there.īut critics must criticise, I guess. Not when there’s a cost of living crisis. At $190, Limp Bizkit’s ticket prices were up there, much more than the $144 it cost to see them headline Storm the Gates, a 2018 West Auckland music festival that also included Sublime with Rome, Suicidal Tendancies and Hed (PE).Īt that price, in 2023, I didn’t think many people would buy one. It sent me on a wild journey looking for New Zealand’s most expensive shows. I had been thinking about the American nu-metal group’s Auckland performance – at Spark Arena on November 26 – ever since I received an email containing a pre-sale link to buy tickets. ![]() My train of thought went like this: “ We have no music critics … no one else is going to do it … wouldn’t it be funny if I covered the Limp Bizkit show?” It wasn’t a good one, but once it came to me I couldn’t shake it off. On Friday night, while happily enjoying Home Brew’s exuberant and alcohol-soaked Powerstation show, I had a random thought. This story was originally published on Chris Schulz’s Boiler Room Substack. ![]() And does anybody have a spare ticket for one of New Zealand’s last remaining music reviewers? ![]()
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