Tonight, the From Zero World Tour is coming to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Linkin Park will be playing a show at BOK Center, an arena, with support from grandson. Some would say Linkin Park has had quite a history when it comes to Oklahoma, actually beginning with two performances in Tulsa in late 2000. Firstly, on October 12, 2000 (so before the Hybrid Theory release), the band performed at a venue called Cain's Ballroom as a support act for Kottonmouth Kings on their Ridin' High tour, with session bassist Scott Koziol still part of their touring line-up. Then, later that year on November 20, they returned to the same venue again, this time playing a support slot for P.O.D.'s Kings of the Game tour - founding member Phoenix returned to the Linkin Park line-up just prior to this tour leg, making it his first tour with the band for the Hybrid Theory cycle. Linkin Park has not returned to Tulsa since, but they have stopped in Oklahoma a few times. On December 12, 2000, the band performed at a place called Travel & Transportation Building (AKA the T&T Building) in Oklahoma City, supporting Papa Roach on their Master Bay Tour 2000. On February 18, 2002, there was headline show at Jim Norick Arena in Okahoma City on the very first U.S. Projekt Revolution tour. This was essentially the band's only tour leg in 2002, as they spent most of the year working on their sophomore album Meteora. Two years later, on the Meteora World Tour, the band played a show at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, OK on February 22, 2004. Years later, Linkin Park returned to Oklahoma City and played at Ford Center on February 29, 2008, part of a North American leg of the Minutes to Midnight touring cycle. This headline show was notable for a number of setlist changes, mostly to accommodate Chester Bennington being ill but not wanting to cancel the show. Various songs were swapped out, or moved elsewhere in the set, or shortened, while a few songs were altogether skipped and not replaced. On May 23, 2015, Linkin Park was ready to perform as headliners at the Rocklahoma festival in Pyror, OK, but an extreme weather event prompted the event organisers to cancel that set. After that, Linkin Park was scheduled to perform a headline show at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City in August of 2017; unfortunately, Chester Bennington's sudden passing in late July 2017 led to Linkin Park going on an immediate hiatus, cancelling all tour dates on the schedule for that year and bringing the One More Light album cycle to a halt. All of this means that tonight's show at BOK Center in 2025 marks Linkin Park's first show in Oklahoma since 2008 - not just that, but also the band's first time performing in Tulsa since 2000 - it's been a long time coming, and fans attending can look forward to LP's triumphant return with the new line-up they unveiled last year. This is the second show in this 2025 North American stint in support of 2024 album From Zero, and it has a lot to live up to after the tour's opening night in Austin. Linkin Park didn't deliver a wildly-different setlist to their usual as of late, but this new setlist, A5, did have some curveballs here and there. "Lying From You" appeared very early in the setlist for the first time this year, having been in the first act occasionally for the 2024 shows, which relegated "Crawling" to the third song. This show also saw the live debut of the band's recent single "Up From the Bottom", taking the spot in the set where "Over Each Other" has been for every other 2025 show to date; "Over Each Other" was instead played between "Lost" and "What I've Done" with "Good Things Go" consequently omitted. Perhaps the biggest surprise of all was "Waiting for the End" being prefaced with a transposed and shortened arrangement of the Fort Minor signature song "Where'd You Go" with Emily Armstrong and Mike Shinoda delivering vocals and Colin Brittain playing drums. This was the first time the song has ever been incorporated into a Linkin Park show, but some LP fans will no doubt recall Shinoda's "Waiting for the End / Where'd You Go" mash-up, a staple of his Post Traumatic live sets throughout 2018 and 2019. Much later on in the set, in the middle of the "When They Come for Me / Remember the Name" medley, Shinoda also surprised the Austin crowd with a verse from the LIVING THINGS deep cut "UNTIL IT BREAKS", marking the song's first appearance in a Linkin Park live set since 2017 (though it did appear occasionally in Shinoda's 2018-2019 Post Traumatic shows). Lastly, he delivered a verse from the Fort Minor B-side "There They Go" during the bridge of "Bleed It Out", the first time this has happened in a 2025 set. While much of the set wasn't significantly different from what we've come to expect off previous 2025 shows, these surprise throwbacks were nonetheless very exciting and welcome. Linkin Park fans going to tonight's Tulsa show will no doubt be waiting to see if these new additions to the set remain, or if there are other surprises coming. The band's most recent single, "Unshatter", has yet to be performed, for instance, and there are still some songs on From Zero that haven't made their live debuts either ... Whether you're attending this show or just desperately hoping someone livestreams it for you to watch from home, come and discuss it on our message board!
Mike was not joking when he said they haven't been to some of those places forever. Knowing they're traveling by bus and being a bit of a road trip freak, kind of fun to quickly check this tour journey on map, and an interesting way to update my US geography at that
Very interested to see what this set looks like and what songs will be in rotation here. With songs like "Good Things Go" missing from the set in Austin I have to imagine they've shaken up the rotations. No way they dropped that song already. Maybe they've added more slots for that. I'd love for them to rotate more songs since their catalog has gotten so big and they have so many songs that crush live. "Where'd You Go" was a neat surprise. Maybe we could get some more Fort Minor mashups as a little mini-celebration for 20 years of The Rising Tied? Total spitball of course, but I wouldn't be opposed to the return of some of the Fort Minor mashups like "Petrified" with "Points of Authority"...
Setlist: 01. Inception Intro B 02. Somewhere I Belong 03. Cut the Bridge - Live Debut 04. Crawling 05. New Divide - Short Moscow Intro 06. The Emptiness Machine 07. Creation Intro B 08. The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown) 09. BURN IT DOWN 10. Up From the Bottom 11. Where'd You Go 12. Waiting for the End 13. CASTLE OF GLASS 14. Two Faced 15. Joe Solo - with Colin 16. Mike Solo Medley - 'When They Come for Me',& 'Remember the Name' Mashup; With Colin 17. Given Up 18. One Step Closer - 2024 Intro & Outro 19. Collapse Transition 20. Lost - Hybrid Version 21. Good Things Go 22. What I've Done 23. Kintsugi Transition 24. Overflow 25. Numb - Numb/Encore Intro 26. In the End 27. Faint - Extended Outro 28. Resolution Intro B 29. Papercut - Extended Intro 30. From the Inside 31. Heavy Is the Crown 32. Bleed It Out - Extended bridge w/ A Place For My Head v1; Extended outro Notes: (A lack of livestreams makes these limited, please add more as videos comes out) Cut the Bridge was played live for the first, taking the spot that Lying From You was played in the previous show. New rotating spot? Mike rapped both verses from 'When They Come for Me' in his solo section. Emily did the full length scream on Heavy Is the Crown
Cut the Bridge, yes!! Didn't see that one coming due to the BIO bridge, but that's a win. Two songs left to go. Can From Zero be the first entirely played album since Minutes to Midnight?
Woah, I’ve seen some cuts from the show and: Em did the full scream in HITC, they did again From the Inside, Cut the bridge is awesome live!!
I just realized that there are no songs from THP or OML... oh, well. Cut The Bridge sounds amazing live, I hope that they keep it.
THP may have Keys if it's still in rotation, we'll know on the next show probably. OML hasn't had a song yet (beside Friendly Fire as a b-side). Not sure if they'll tackle that one in the near future, but they may surprise us.