Slipknot’s Corey Taylor has teased a canopy of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘TV Off’ on stage in Florida – watch the video beneath.
The frontman performed an acoustic set on the Spookala horror and popular culture conference in Tampa, Florida earlier this month (April 5) and opted to open the set with a sly tease at one of the memed songs of latest months.
“I put one thing collectively very particular,” he mentioned. “I attempted to vary this up as a result of I don’t actually do that loads anymore so I needed to do one thing particular and get one thing that was sort of like a singalong. I’d wish to know, would you guys like to assist me sing a tune? Alright, this primary one is just not by me but when you already know it, assist me sing alongside.”
With that, he launched into the opening strains of ‘TV Off’: “All I ever needed was a black Grand Nationwide / Fuck being rational”, earlier than rapidly segueing right into a model of Violent Femmes’ 1983 traditional ‘Add It Up’. “No, wait, no. That’s not it,” he quipped as he transitioned between the songs. “However that’s a dope fucking monitor.”
Watch the clip beneath, in addition to Taylor’s full efficiency:
Lamar and the Femmes weren’t the one covers to make Taylor’s set – he additionally carried out a bit of Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Membership’, in addition to 9 Inch Nails’ ‘One thing I Can By no means Have’, Incubus’ ‘I Miss You’ and Foo Fighters’ ‘Everlong’. See additional clips of the covers right here.
As for Slipknot, the steel band will likely be heading to Europe for a continent-wide tour in June, which kicks off on the Sweden Rock Competition in Sölvesborg, Sweden on June 4. They’ll then make stops in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and Denmark. The band’s two last exhibits of the run will likely be comprised of their slots at Barcelona’s Rock Fest and Viveiro Ressurectionfest. Discover any remaining tickets right here.
They performed a raucous present in London in December as a part of their big twenty fifth anniversary tour. Taylor informed the gang: “The very first thing I need to say to you is how grateful, how a lot we recognize and the way a lot we love each fucking one among you right here on this constructing. 25 years in the past, we launched our very first Slipknot album and lots of people around the globe actually gravitated in direction of us, however nobody took us in like this fucking metropolis and this fucking nation. That’s why London, England will at all times be Slipknot’s dwelling away from dwelling.”
Kendrick, in the meantime, just lately kicked off his joint Grand Nationwide tour with SZA, with the 2 artists enjoying a whopping 52 songs from throughout each of their careers.
