Watch Ed Sheeran sing ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ with Limp Bizkit at Pinkpop

24 June, 2024

Fred Durst and Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran has joined Limp Bizkit on stage at Pinkpop Festival to perform a version of The Who’s ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ – check out the footage below.

The surprise appearance took place on Sunday night (June 23) during the nu-metal band’s headline set at the festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands.

Sheeran took lead vocals on the track, which Bizkit memorably covered on their 2003 album ‘Results May Vary’.

See fan-captured footage of the performance here:

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst dubbed the one-off team-up ‘Fred Sheeran’ as he shared a photo of the performance on Instagram, as well as a selfie between the two, while Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland also shared a pic of himself with Sheeran, writing: “Some guy was bothering me for a photo the whole show! Sheesh.”

It is just the latest of Sheeran’s ventures into the rock world. Last month, he made an appearance during The Offspring’s set at BottleRock Napa Valley, singing and playing guitar on ‘Million Miles Away’.

When introducing Sheeran, The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland told the audience: “Ed told us that one of our records was his first CD that he ever bought when he was a kid.

“That really meant a lot to us, so we thought, ‘Wow, we’d love to have you come out to join us on stage’. We’re gonna play one of the songs you wanted to play.”

Sheeran also released a reworked studio version of his song ‘Bad Habits’ with Bring Me The Horizon in 2022, after the two artists played the song together at that year’s BRIT Awards.

At the time, the band’s frontman Oli Sykes said: “From receiving the email asking whether we’d like to open the Brits with Ed Sheeran to us chatting and bouncing ideas to rehearsing and then performing and now releasing, this has needless to say been pretty mental.

“But we are all about pushing the boundaries of our own and other genres, so this felt like the perfect challenge.”

In other news, Sheeran recently confirmed that he was working on new music but said it’d likely be a while before it was released. He put out two studio albums last year in the form of ‘-‘ and ‘Autumn Variations’, the latter of which got a two-star review from NME, who described it as a “limp ending to this unique and curious creative cycle”.

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