Update – October 29th, 2017 – 11:45am:
Linkin Park vocalist, etc. Mike Shinoda has also commented on the matter:
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
Original Story:
If you were watching last night’s (October 27th) livestream of Linkin Park‘s Chester Bennington tribute show at The Hollywood Bowl, you might have noticed that something was a bit off with Bring Me The Horizon vocalist Oli Sykes‘ performance of “Crawling“.
As it turns out audio of the vocals from a live rehearsal recorded a day prior went out over the livestream. Fan-filmed footage of the performance with the actual live vocals that were performed can be found below. Sykes addressed the matter via Twitter:
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
Hey dude, I take this stuff to heart. Chester was my idol, I want to make him proud and also all of u
— Oliver Sykes (@olobersyko) October 28, 2017
