Slipknot’s Clown wants to play the 2028 Olympics
nme.comSlipknot‘s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan has revealed that he wants the band to perform at the 2028 Olympic Games – see what the percussionist had to say below.In a new chat with Metal Hammer, Clown spoke of Gojira‘s history-making performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, where they became the first-ever metal act to play for the long-running international sporting tournament.Clown said of Gojira’s performance: “I got goosebumps.
I know this is going to sound stupid, but I’m just so proud of them. I know the word ‘proud’ probably sounds weird coming from me but that band is so incredible, and they’re friends of ours, and Mario [Duplantier] is one of my favourite drummers in hard rock.”He continued: “When I saw the performance, I was just proud to have them do that.
What a huge, huge honour, what a huge performance. And what an enormous metaphor: you have all these wonderful athletes, the best of the best of the best together, and someone involved thought, ‘We should get Gojira to open this up…’ Like, Gojira are the gold medal.”When asked if Slipknot would be open to performing at the Olympics, Crahan said: “Of course!
We’d love to do it. You’re gonna start to see Slipknot do some weird shit. We’ve reached the point where, you know, we want to play the Grammys, we want to play the Olympics.
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