Slipknot have pulled out of this weekend's (August 22-24) Reading And Leeds Festivals after drummer Joey Jordison broke his ankle.

 

The band issued a statement today (August 20) stating that they have withdrawn from the English festivals, as well as previously scheduled appearances at Austria's 2 Days A Week festival (28) and Germany's Area 4 festival (29).

 

In the statement the band said that Jordison had been advised to rest for four to six weeks following his injury.

 

Slipknot announced details of a UK tour, set to begin on December 1, earlier today. They are still scheduled to play the dates.

 

:unsure: I'm not really a fan, but I know probably there are some of you out there (including Chris) who will be gutted by this news...

I would be if one of my favourite bands pulled out of a festival I was going to! :(

Couldn't they just use a replacement and don't two other guys in Slipknot also play drums?

i may or may not of had tears in my eyes when i found out.

 

also all my family are pissed off at me becuase i have sanpped at them in anger.

 

 

in other news im going to Reading fest tomorrow :w00t:

i may or may not of had tears in my eyes when i found out.

 

also all my family are pissed off at me becuase i have sanpped at them in anger.

in other news im going to Reading fest tomorrow :w00t:

I'll just ignore that last comment :angry:

 

And :lol: at you snapping at your family!

your never going to believe this they replaced Slipknot with.....

 

 

 

 

Bring Me The Horizon

 

:angry: :angry: :angry:

 

 

they couldnt of found a more $h!tter band.

 

 

 

 

at the very least i get to see Pendulum now as they clashed with Slipknot, but i wont enjoy them i will be too depressed.

 

the only thing that could of been worse was that if Rage Against The Machine dropped out.

your never going to believe this they replaced Slipknot with.....

Bring Me The Horizon

 

:angry: :angry: :angry:

they couldnt of found a more $h!tter band.

at the very least i get to see Pendulum now as they clashed with Slipknot, but i wont enjoy them i will be too depressed.

 

the only thing that could of been worse was that if Rage Against The Machine dropped out.

 

:o a few people ar egonna be a bit upset with this post...

 

Before they get to you i will tell you in the politest (??) way... it's Could Have :heehee:

:o a few people ar egonna be a bit upset with this post...

 

Before they get to you i will tell you in the politest (??) way... it's Could Have :heehee:

 

 

thanks for putting all confidence in my English GCSE result tomorrow.

 

 

 

and also im not good with grammer when im angry.

Couldn't they just use a replacement and don't two other guys in Slipknot also play drums?

 

The Clown doesn't "play" anything as such, he just hits things.... :lol: Him or the other guy breaking an ankle wouldn't be such a big problem...

 

Joey's actually a pretty integral member of the band, him missing would certainly adversely effect things, this would've been the first time Slipknot had played UK for ages, and they probably dont want to do any half-arsed shows with some stand-in doing session drumming. Nah, I can understand 'Knot pulling out because of this, getting a replacement at such short notice would be pretty disastrous....

 

i was disapointed by this.... i was looking forward to seeing Slipknot at Leeds.