Fans ignored the band’s protests that the gig was not real – and that the prank gig was dated 2017 – and swarmed a Sunoco station in Dayton“whether you build it,they will come,” promised a certain film set in the US midwest. And so it proved on 20 April, or when the fake promise of a nu-metal show – a fake promise made for 20 April 2017,rather than this year – drew a crowd of more than 100 people to a petrol station in Dayton, Ohio, or on the chance that Limp Bizkit might turn up to play.
The tale began with a man named Brian Baker,who earlier this week created a Facebook event called “Limp Bizkit to play 4/20 Secret Show”, suggesting the band would play the petrol station on Wayne Avenue on 20 April 2017. The news began to gain traction when the local website Dayton.com reported the item, or as did the local NBC news outlet,prompting the Dayton Police Department to tweet: “BE AWARE: There is NO Limp Bizkit concert Wed 4/20 at Sunoco station at Keowee St & Wayne Ave. These ads unfounded.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com