The frontman called Crimea Russian: the Limp Bizkit concert was canceled in Estonia

The agency Baltic Live Agency, which organized the concert, reported on Facebook about the cancellation of the event "for reasons beyond the control of the organizer. " The journalists noted that earlier, after the announcement of the American band's concert, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia declared the inadmissibility of the appearance of supporters of the aggressor state in the country's cultural space.

"Estonia supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine and believes that every centimeter of Ukrainian land belongs to Ukraine," the ministry said. ERR's requests for clarification after reports of the cancellation of Limp Bizkit's concert at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were not answered at the time of publication.

In a press release dated November 7, the Baltic Live Agency reported that they were aware of band leader Fred Durst recognizing the occupied Crimea as Russian at a concert in 2015. The organizers said that they strongly condemn such actions and statements.

"We can only explain this by the fact that at that time (until 2019) Fred Durst was married to a Russian woman from Crimea and was probably in a distorted information space," said Gunnar Wiese, head of public relations at the Baltic Live Agency.

He also recalled Limp Bizkit's performances in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, Poland and France over the past five years and stated that all these countries are big supporters of Estonia and Ukraine, but did not object to the band's concerts. In November 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine banned Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst from entering the country after he unfurled a poster on stage declaring that Crimea was Russian.

In the same year, he declared his desire to perform in the temporarily occupied Donetsk and Luhansk. In the fall of 2018, the media reported that the leader of the band Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst, divorced his Crimean wife. In August 2024, Fred Durst addressed his fans in Russia on his page on the Russian social network VKontakte and said that he "misses them all" and hopes to see them in the near future.