
Linkin Park's Emily Armstrong halts festival performance to shave fans' hair
Linkin Park's new lead singer, Emily Armstrong, fulfilled a fan's wish by shaving their hair live on stage during a performance at Rock for People in Czechia
Linkin Park's new lead singer, Emily Armstrong, delighted one concert-goer by shaving their hair live on stage during one of the band's performances. The New Divide stars were in Czechia for their headline set at Rock for People this week when one fan begged them to shave their hair.
In the crowd, the fan held up a sign which read: "Emily, cut my hair!" and halfway through the show, Emily brought him up on stage and produced clippers out of nowhere to fulfil the fan's wish. Emily, ever the barber, gave him an incredible half-mullet, half-buzzcut and told him: "We gotta leave some at the back for the party, baby!"
The fan, who originally had long locks, seemed delighted by the results as he turned around to thank the singer. After cutting his hair, Emily held up the sign that the fan brought with him.
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Last year, when Linkin Park announced Emily as the new singer, the band received a lot of backlash from fans who claimed they were erasing Chester Bennington's memory.
The Papercut rockers announced their return last summer following a seven-year hiatus after Chester took his own life in 2017, but the musician insisted that the band would not be "rewritten" following heavy criticism of the move to put Emily front and centre.
Mike Shinoda said to BBC Radio 1's New Music Show: "This is intended to be a new chapter of Linkin Park. The old chapter was a great chapter, and we loved that chapter.
"It ran its course and now we were faced with a challenge of: 'Well, OK, if you start from scratch with another voice, what do you do?'"
Mike explained that he had been writing music with Dead Sara singer Emily since 2019 and that they never planned to "start the band up again".
At the end of this month, Linkin Park will be performing at Wembley Stadium. The group will be supported by two incredible acts, first of which is Spiritbox.
The Courtney LaPlante-fronted metalcore outfit will be hitting Wembley Stadium for the first time in their career for this night of entertainment.
Secondly, JPEGMAFIA will be supporting Linkin Park. The American rapper is a New York local who will no doubt fit right into Linkin Park's repertoire.
After London, the band are heading to Germany, Belgium, Poland and France before heading back to the US for dates in New York, Illinois, Tennessee and more.
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