LPLStaff Posted February 9 Posted February 9 Linkin Park's second television performance of the From Zero era takes place on February 10 in Tokyo, Japan for DayDay. This performance was announced by Emily, Mike, and Colin backstage at one of the Mexico shows recently, saying they were excited to appear in studio and perform together. According to Oricon Music, DayDay is at 9:00 a.m. local time and "the special performance will be available on this day only." We'll see if it gets uploaded to YouTube after-the-fact or how this performance makes its way into the hands of fans. Mike says this is the band's first morning show in Japan. As far as what to expect from this performance, obviously it will be stripped-down in some form because of just three band members appearing. It's also important to note that the band plays two days in a row after this performance so it won't be anything too hard on Emily vocally. We'd expect something from From Zero, maybe just one song but there is truly no telling as the band has not performed stripped-down with this lineup yet. This performance of three band members takes us back to how the One More Light era got started, with the full band (and then Mike and Chester) performing together across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and even Japan for Nippon TV. When it was all said and done, there were twelve promo performances for the album, featuring both new and old songs. This was a unique way to start an album era for the band as they had never kicked it off in this style before, but it made complete sense with the toned-down One More Light album sound. The last one of these twelve performances came in Tokyo as we mentioned, and was Chester's last performance in Japan. The song they performed that day was the lead single for the album, 'Heavy'. The band was slated to headline three shows in Tokyo that fall, which ended up being canceled, but we'll get into more of that with the Saitama show threads. This 2017 performance was the first time the band visited Japan since the iconic Summer Sonic 2013 shows at the end of the LIVING THINGS cycle as the cycle for The Hunting Party didn't take them to Japan, unfortunately. So, this is just the SECOND time Linkin Park (in any form) has performed in Japan in nearly 12 years. Wow! As far as the From Zero era goes, the full band performed on Jimmy Fallon the day after the Barclays Center show in Brooklyn in September. They performed 'The Emptiness Machine' with a really unique stage design, before heading off to Europe and South Korea for the rest of the "first leg" shows for the promo cycle. This was just their fourth public performance together after the Warner launch show, the Kia Forum, and Barclays. After Fallon, Linkin Park performed for the Worlds 24 Opening Ceremony in London and had several performances aired for awards shows - 'The Emptiness Machine' from the Korea headline show for the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes in November, and 'The Emptiness Machine' again from Brazil for the Billboard Music Awards. But as far as stripped-down performances in this era, this is the first one! And we have no idea what they will play - maybe a version of 'The Emptiness Machine', or maybe another song on the album. Colin has been playing guitar on 'My December' live (not in the current setlists from Mexico, at least) so he can definitely perform guitar if Mike hops on piano... but we truly don't have a great guess for this one. Let's see what happens! As always, we'll keep you covered on social media and here in the thread about where this DayDay performance will end up being uploaded online. The NRJ performance from South Korea was blocked on YouTube, but lp-bits is the best friend for anyone who downloads torrents in the LP community. Linkin Park returns to the stage full-band for the two Saitama, Japan shows on the 11th and 12th! They then head to Jakarta, Indonesia before just over two months off before a heavy touring slate kicks in. Check out all of the 2025 dates on the Tour Page. Quote
GreyFox-AFCA Posted February 10 Posted February 10 17 minutes ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said: Need the performance guysssss Part of it is on Youtube already, but it's not the full song it seems. Quote
ramanlfc Posted February 10 Posted February 10 Emptiness Machine (Acoustic) Emily participating on a Japanese game show and getting freaked out by a crab Quote
JZLP-Benningstrong Posted February 10 Posted February 10 18 minutes ago, ramanlfc said: Emptiness Machine (Acoustic) Emily participating on a Japanese game show and getting freaked out by a crab Japan always werid shit 😂 Quote
ramanlfc Posted February 10 Posted February 10 (edited) 10 minutes ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said: Japan always werid shit 😂 Emily possibly being a vegan makes it more weird, don't think the show runners would've known that though. Edited February 10 by ramanlfc Quote
GreyFox-AFCA Posted February 10 Posted February 10 2 hours ago, lpplus said: Hope there's a better recording available soon. This is unlistnable. Quote
juancpin Posted February 10 Posted February 10 1 hour ago, GreyFox-AFCA said: Hope there's a better recording available soon. This is unlistnable. Full episode here! Quote
Vinescence Posted February 10 Posted February 10 This was pure chaos hahaha The hosts speaking in japanese while at the same time the translator speaking in english with the band. Colin looked so uncomfortable the whole time. Quote
LPLStaff Posted February 10 Author Posted February 10 For lack of a better term... the hosts felt aggressive. lol Quote
juancpin Posted February 10 Posted February 10 But also, there were like 5 or 6 hosts... this is madness. Quote
linkin_boss Posted February 10 Posted February 10 Now I can only hope they do Good Things Go or Over Each Other acoustic, those are tailor-made for the format Quote
solidss Posted February 10 Posted February 10 I felt so much anxiety watching this with the language barrier but that is amazing how quickly the translator was able to communicate everything with them so instantly for them to reply Quote
BartBart91 Posted February 10 Posted February 10 2 hours ago, linkin_boss said: Now I can only hope they do Good Things Go or Over Each Other acoustic, those are tailor-made for the format What are you writing here, it's already over, The Emptiness Machine was played. Quote
hybridcloudyfz Posted February 10 Posted February 10 oh my gosh that was a mess before the song... so many people talking at once, the translator did really well though. have to admit it was a bit hard to watch at first 😂 the guys vibing in the back during TEM made me laugh Quote
NimaLP Posted February 11 Posted February 11 That was a fucking mess lol. Poor translator had to go through all the chaos! At some points as I was watching it I wanted to to scream at my screen "everyone just stfu for a minute!". Quote
linkin_boss Posted Monday at 08:02 AM Posted Monday at 08:02 AM On 2/10/2025 at 11:35 AM, BartBart91 said: What are you writing here, it's already over, The Emptiness Machine was played. I meant as in "at some point in the future" Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.