Oh, we’re doing this? I guess we’re doing this. Welcome back to the tour posts! We didn’t do these during the Post Traumatic tour of 2018 and 2019, and boy am I glad for that. Keeping up with the set changes Mike pulled off every night would have driven me absolutely crazy. But, now that Linkin Park is back, so are these posts. The latest show Linkin Park played was less than a week ago, during an event taking place on September 5th. During the event, the band announced the return from their hiatus and played a one hour set with a new song, The Emptiness Machine. As well as playing the new song, a whole heap of fan favourites from their previous albums were also performed. Let's take a look at that new song and then recap the show. As can be seen in the video above, and as you probably know by now, there has been some changes in the Linkin Park lineup from what we’re used to. Emily Armstrong is the new lead singer, on drums we have Colin Brittain and filling the role of playing lead guitar live from Brad Delson, is Alex Feder. Brad is still in the band, doing everything he would normally do, but has announced that he’s stepping away from playing live shows. In case you haven't seen his statement, you can read it below. Source: Brad Delson Instagram So now that we're caught up, let’s go a bit deeper into that show on September 5th. The band started the show off with the lead single for their new album From Zero, The Emptiness Machine. Then the old classics started coming, launching directly into Somewhere I Belong, Crawling, Lying From You and The Catalyst. Lying From You was last played back in 2015 when the band performed a shortened version of Lying From You / Dirt Off Your Shoulders from Collision Course on the second to last show of the unfortunately shortened North American leg of the The Hunting Party tour. Somewhere I Belong, Crawling and The Catalyst were all played at the Hollywood Bowl show celebrating Chester Bennington on October 27, 2017. Next, the band played their mega hit and classic Numb, adding on a extended intro with Numb/Encore to the song. After that came Waiting for the End, again with an extended intro. However, it wasn’t the extended intro to the song that we’re used to, with the third verse of Until It Breaks added on, instead it was a completely new one. Both Numb and Waiting for the End was last seen on the Post Traumatic tour, Numb sometimes appearing in a piano medley and Waiting for the End being mashed up with Where’d You Go. Following this, the band launched into their first single and original hit, One Step Closer. Both an extended intro and outro were added to the song. But next, they surprised everyone. Mike and Emily played a short piano and vocals version of the bands Meteora b-side and 2023 enormous hit, Lost. This is of course the first time the song has been played in any form whatsoever, and it was a beautiful performance. What I’ve Done, In the End and Faint came next in the show, continuing the hit streak. What I’ve Done was again last seen at the Hollywood Bowl performance, where it was performed alongside with Blink-182. In the End was a staple in the Post Traumatic shows, where Mike would it play solo on piano, and letting fans sing Chesters parts, often not leaving one dry eye in the venue. Faint was last played with Linkin Park at the Hollywood Bowl show… BUT… Mike did perform it twice with Sum-41 in 2018, playing a shorter version of the song missing the second chorus and bridge. Mike also did a short acapella version of the song at a show in China on the Post Traumatic tour. We’re almost done, I promise. For the last two songs, the band decided to go all out, playing Papercut and Bleed It Out. Both songs were last seen on the Post Traumatic tour, with Papercut being in a medley with About You/Over Again, becoming a favourite in the set, while Bleed It Out was mashed up with Good Goodbye. And now, here we are. The band is going on stage later today, starting off their From Zero world tour. Playing five performances in September, the band then takes October off from touring, and then plays the last show in November, just days before their new album comes out on November 15. We will keep you updated on the tour as it goes on. Are you going to any of the shows? What new/obscure songs do you hope they play? Will you be sitting up trying to desperately find videos while the show goes on? Come and discuss in our forum. Shows left: September 16 - Brooklyn, NY September 17 - The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon September 22 - Hamburg, Germany September 24 - London, UK September 28 - Seoul, South Korea November 11 - Bogota, Colombia Post show edit: Here's the setlist courtesy of @РΛТ 1) Somewhere I Belong 2) Crawling 3) Lying From You 4) Points of Authority 5) New Divide 6) The Emptiness Machine 7) The Catalyst 8) Burn It Down 9) Waiting For The End 10) Castle of Glass 11) Joe Solo 12) When They Come For Me / Remember The Name 13) Lost in the Echo 14) Given Up 15) One Step Closer 16) Lost 17) Breaking The Habit 18) What I've Done 19) Leave Out All The Rest 20) My December 21) Friendly Fire 22) Numb 23) In The End 24) Faint 25) Papercut 26) Keys To The Kingdom 27) Bleed It Out (There They Go // Bridge)
Maybe some extreme deep cuts like Carousel or Part of Me, like they did back in the day with Reading My Eyes. That would be incredible!
I know it’s not the norm for people to stream entire shows but as an avid Taylor Swift fan where every show gets live streamed by someone I hope that someone will live stream the LP show. I really want to watch it!
https://t.co/wP7O7ZJUoX Spoiler alert for if you want to see the stage. From one of grandson’s band members on Instagram
Please Note: Band images are for reference only. Final live band line-up may vary from the reference image shown.