Linkin Park paid tribute to their fallen frontman Chester Bennington this weekend with an incredibly moving live concert, streamed all over the world, where the band, their fans and some friends got together to sing Linkin Park tunes and raise money for mental health awareness.
One of the big stories coming out of the event is the accusation that Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes lip synced when he was brought out to help Linkin Park perform "Crawling." By the looks of the live stream, it's easy to see how one might assume this was actually the case:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/hzBRkMnB_LQ[/youtube]
After a barrage of tweets from fans, Oli took to Twitter to defend himself:
Só tonight was amazing but….
— Oliver Sykes (@olobersyko) October 28, 2017
Some1 fucked up hard n used my rehearsal take from the night before on the live stream… no lip sync, here’s the real deal
— Oliver Sykes (@olobersyko) October 28, 2017
Anyway technical difficulties aside, what an amazing life affirming thing to be part of, thankyou @linkinpark
— Oliver Sykes (@olobersyko) October 28, 2017
Even Linkin Park took to defending the Bring Me The Horizon frontman, to settle the issue once and for all:
Oli sang great, I had his vocal in my monitors. He was certainly not lip synching FYI. Keep it all ❤️, friends https://t.co/tNliqv4DQV
— Mike Shinoda (@mikeshinoda) October 28, 2017
New video seems to prove this is correct:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/It2ovk1e300[/youtube]
Case closed?
[via The PRP]
