Linkin Park will be headlining the upcoming Livid

(8/4/03, 6 p.m. ET) -- Linkin Park will be headlining the upcoming Livid Festival in Australia. The band will be joining the bill that already includes the White Stripes, Jurassic 5, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the Roots and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Living End.

The Livid Festival will make three stops--October 11 in Sydney, October 12 in Melbourne and October 18 in Brisbane. Linkin Park is currently on Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour, which stops in Seattle, Washington on Thursday (August 7). They're touring in support of their album Meteora, which includes the track "Faint" which peaked at Number One on Billboard's Modern Rock tracks.


Meanwhile, singer Chester Bennington is recovering from that mystery ailment which caused him to be in so much pain about eight weeks ago he was hospitalized in Los Angeles. MTV.com reports that Bennington will need surgery for what turned out to be a hiatal hernia, a painful condition that causes nausea and back pain.

(source www.launch.com)