Limp Bizkit

Wembley Arena, 16th March 2025.

A great show, with a baffling support and introduction.

I got to the venue in time to see the final support band “Bones”, which was possibly the worst paired support to a main act that I can remember seeing. Now while I recognise the rap/hip hop influence and crossover that Limp Bizkit have, this seemed a wildly different genre to me, and very much not my kind of music.

After an interlude with Jon Carnage—seemingly designed to rile the audience up—the curtains opened to Limp Bizkit’s stage with another rapper doing a slightly more palatable number. At the end of which Limp Bizkit finally entered the stage.

By this point it was 9:45 and as most London gigs finish around 10:30 I was expecting to be disappointed by a short set. Luckily this wasn’t the case as they played all the way through to 11:00 with no breaks or ”surprise” encores.

Opening with Break Stuff I found myself between two circle pits, and the whole floor went off as the beat kicked in. This energy remained for the whole gig, right up until their last track: Break Stuff once again.

All but two tracks were at least a quarter of a century old, covering the majority of 2000’s Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water, with the hits from Significant Other. They played Dad Vibes from their most recent album, and Fred Durst started his cover of Behind Blue Eyes saying

“I’mma need your help on this one. Should’a never done a cover of a Who song!”

Overall it was excellent. I felt like I was 14 all over again, especially singing along to their songs with the other, now middle aged, millennials in the crowd.

The star of the show as always was Wes Borland, sporting a fabulous outfit and looping his idiosyncratic guitar lines over the verses.