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Live review: Linkin Park, London The O2
Linkin Park reintroduce themselves with new singer Emily Armstrong to an emotional, deafening audience in London, signifying a defiant, captivating future…
The From Zero World Tour is go! Here’s what Linkin Park performed last night (September 11) at their sold-out Kia Forum comeback…
Following last week’s Los Angeles livestream performance, Linkin Park have now officially kicked off their short (but massive) From Zero World Tour.
The band hit the city’s epic Kia Forum yesterday – Wednesday, September 11 – to bring their new line-up to 17,500 fans, made up of mostly their LPU members.
And despite lead guitarist Brad Delson stepping back from performing with the band now, according to @LPLive he has still helped “to write the setlists, show concept, and oversee the show”, and they all absolutely delivered with a mega 27-song setlist.
Both Hybrid Theory and Meteora each got five songs played last night, while Minutes To Midnight got four, Living Things got three and A Thousand Suns got two.
Elsewhere, Linkin Park threw out plenty of surprises: from the live debuts of Friendly Fire and Keys To The Kingdom, to newbie The Emptiness Machine, to My December live for the first time since 2008, and a piano duet of Lost between Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong (which is taken from last year’s 20th anniversary edition of Meteora).
Via setlist.fm, check it all out below:
Inception (with elements of Castle Of Glass, The Requiem, Somewhere I Belong and Numb)
1. Somewhere I Belong
2. Crawling
3. Lying From You
4. Points Of Authority
5. New Divide
6. The Emptiness Machine
7. Creation
8. The Catalyst
9. Burn It Down
10. Waiting For The End
11. Castle Of Glass
12. When They Come For Me / Remember The Name (Mike solo)
13. Lost In The Echo
14. Given Up
15. One Step Closer
16. Lost (shortened; Mike and Emily duet piano version)
17. Breaking the Habit
18. What I’ve Done
19. Leave Out All The Rest
20. My December
21. Friendly Fire (live debut)
22. Numb (with Numb/Encore intro)
23. In The End
24. Faint (extended outro)
Encore:
Resolution (with elements of The Requiem, Castle Of Glass and Papercut)
25. Papercut
26. Keys To The Kingdom
27. Bleed It Out (Fort Minor’s There They Go snippet in the bridge)
Catch Linkin Park at the following upcoming dates, with support from grandson:
September
16 Barclays Center – New York, NY
22 Barclays Arena – Hamburg, Germany
24 The O2 – London, UK
28 INSPIRE Arena – Seoul, South Korea
November
11 Coliseo Medplus – Bogota, Colombia
Get your tickets here from Friday, September 13 at 10am local time.
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