GlassCastles Posted July 5 Posted July 5 We've arrived at the final festival show for the From Zero European Tour, and the band has not let these shorter shows dull their energy! Tonight (technically tomorrow, but we'll get there), Linkin Park hits up the Open'er Festival in Gdynia, Poland for what is sure to be a fun night! This marks Linkin Park's first time playing this festival and their first time in Gdynia in general! They do have a history in Poland, though, going back to the Minutes To Midnight era in 2007. That show was also a shorter one due to the band opening for Pearl Jam, resulting in "Don't Stay" and "Given Up" getting cut, but the band still found time to play some fan-favorite deep cuts from Minutes To Midnight like "The Little Things Give You Away" and "No More Sorrow", both of which would be very welcome additions to the set! The show was rounded out by Linkin Park classics like "One Step Closer" opening the show with the first incarnation of the Gunshot Intro (which has been retooled a couple times now, with the latest being played on this very tour!) and "Faint" as the closer. Though the band skipped Poland for the A Thousand Suns era, they sure came back swinging during Living Things! With an opening run of "A Place For My Head", "Given Up", "Faint", the long awaited returns of "With You" and "Runaway", AND "From The Inside", it's like they asked one of our staff to come up with this set! The show being before Living Things even came out does mean the only cuts from that album were the pre-release songs ("Lies Greed Misery" and "Burn It Down"), but that didn't stop Mike from teasing what was to come with the incredible Apaches Intro for "Waiting For The End" featuring the third verse of "Until It Breaks". Not to mention the still-new-at-the-time Ballad Medley and the very inventive "Sabotage" bridge for "Bleed It Out". It's clear Linkin Park wanted to make up for lost time. Check out the band's first performance in Poland on June 13, 2007! Poland didn't have to wait too much longer for Linkin Park's return, though, with the band playing two shows in Poland during the The Hunting Party era. The first featured the somewhat infamous around these parts act-based set which paved the way for From Zero's sets (at least if you ask me). That set was even the birth of the "main" Mike and Joe solos (though both look totally different to what they'd end up being in 2024/2025)! It also featured the far too short-lived "Until It's Gone" mashup intro featuring parts of "The Catalyst" and "No More Sorrow", the seldom played "A Light That Never Comes", and of course The Hunting Party singles "Guilty All The Same" and "Wastelands". They returned the following year with their new setlist, opening with "Papercut", a "Waiting For The End" encore opener (an idea worth exploring again), and adding in fan favorites from The Hunting Party like "Rebellion", "Final Masquerade", and "A Line In The Sand", none of which have been seen since that tour. It's unlikely they dust any of those off for a festival show, but never say never! Speaking of The Hunting Party, the one semi-consistent inclusion this era ("Keys To The Kingdom") hasn't been played since the Grand Rapids show back in May! Could we finally see that make its comeback? Maybe even the one-and-done "All For Nothing"? Seems like it's still loaded up on their teleprompter! Most recently, Linkin Park played in Poland on their One More Light European Tour, headlining the Impact Festival. If the 2014 shows opened the door to an act-based structure for the set, this tour set the stage for the rotating songs. Poland got the privilege of seeing "A Place For My Head' added into the late-set rotation spot for the first time (a slot previously occupied by "Points Of Authority" or "Somewhere I Belong") after it won a Twitter poll, yet another thing Mike has been doing for some shows as of late. It also featured the first time Mike rapped "A Light That Never Comes" over the new "Castle Of Glass" Experience ending (the best sounding verse of the bunch in this writer's opinion). I would of course be remiss not to mention the plethora of One More Light tracks all over the set. From the widely celebrated "Talking To Myself" (complete with the stunning "Roads Untraveled" intro), the beautiful renditions of "One More Light" and "Nobody Can Save Me", and the lively new version of "Good Goodbye", it was a very nice change of pace to see the band actually playing most of their new album (yet ANOTHER trend that continued into this era)! "Nobody Can Save Me" from this show was even used for the One More Light Live release (albeit mixed with the Brixton performance)! "Nobody Can Save Me" live from Krakow, Poland. This clip features the audio from the One More Light Live release mixed with fancam video! Bringing it back to the present, what can Poland expect this time around? Well, we shouldn't have to look much further than the previous show in Belgium for an idea! We haven’t seen confirmation one way or another, but we’re expecting a shorter set like the other festivals on the tour. The band's festival set has shuffled around a few times, so it's hard to say what exactly we'll be getting, but that just makes the speculation all the more fun! "Cut The Bridge" recently made its festival debut, and it's quickly become a crowd favorite the same way "Bleed It Out" did back in the day, so we could very well see it again here. Rock Werchter also got "From The Inside" and "Lying From You" to round out its rotation slots, with the latter breaking up the "Let You Fade" and "A Place For My Head" trade-off in the encore we've seen for most of this tour. Even staples like "New Divide" have been swapped out at recent shows (something 2015 me thought I'd NEVER type), meaning all bets are off. "Crawling" could be in the encore tonight for all I know! Either way, we can be certain modern classics like "The Emptiness Machine", "Two Faced", and "Up From The Bottom" will take the stage by storm alongside older fan favorites like "In The End" and "What I've Done". It's sure to be a blast for everyone there! "Up From The Bottom" live from Rock Werchter. This song has quickly become a quintessential Linkin Park song! Oh, and a fun bit of trivia. Remember earlier when I said "technically tomorrow"? Well, that's because the band doesn't actually take the stage until after midnight, meaning the show really happens on the 6th! Yes, I'm that kid at the sleepover. For all intents and purposes, we count the show as being on July 5, but feel free to be as pedantic with that information as you please! Even with that technicality, the band still gets some time off before ending this leg of the tour with back-to-back nights in Frankfurt, Germany and a massive stadium show in Saint-Denis, France. Don't worry, though, cause the fun starts back up again a couple weeks later with the second North American leg of the tour! You can catch this girlie at the first five US shows (unfortunately have to skip Canada, sorry to disappoint). Now for some house keeping stuff: We started a newsletter! If you want regular updates on what's going on in the Linkin Park world without having to be constantly tuned in to social media 24/7 (and trust me, you'd have to be to catch everything), feel free to sign up for The Messenger! We're gonna be sending it out every couple weeks or so (no spam risks!), so feel free to sign up if you're interested! You can even check out the first edition here if you wanna see what you're getting into. We also did a massive upgrade to the show infoboxes by adding show count functionality! Want to know how many times the band has played in Poland? How many shows have been played on the From Zero World Tour so far? It's easier than ever to find out right from the show page! It's been a godsend for writing these posts... As always, we'll keep you posted on any and all things Linkin Park related, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)! Quote
matthewcannon Posted July 5 Posted July 5 (edited) It's been long time since I last posted anything on lpl forum (even then barely nothing), but conaider me as an all-time lurker. There isn't any other LP-related site/forums that I'm still attached to date. From the beginning of the FZ era, I'm pretty excited and pumped up. Linkin Park is big part of my life, this was first step into making my own music taste back in '04 and hearing Numb/Encore. And so, I am glad that they're so fkn back and playing shows. And happy that they've not skipped Poland for this tour. This will be my third show, after 2012 Warsaw and 2017 Cracow, both in front rows. For todays, I would say, the band 'll play set similar to i-Days as headliners at Opener got something around 100mins while starting at 0.30 (And LP goes on stage even 15 earlier) with fingers crossed for full set tonight. I would love to hear GTG and Let You Fade back in the set. Also From The Inside, it fits Ems vox well. Hope to see You around somewhere, guys! Edited July 5 by matthewcannon Text added Quote
blackout Posted July 5 Posted July 5 I'm attending! My second Linkin Park show. The previous one was 13 years ago, in Warsaw, 2012. Different Linkin Park but the same excitement as 13 years ago. I can't wait to hear all these beautiful songs live! The only problem is that Linkin Park set starts at midnight. I expected something like 10PM, but of course will wait for them no matter the hour. I'm having my own concert tomorrow - I will come back home around 3AM, I guess... so that's not the best scenario I could imagine, but whatever... what can I do? Quote
linkindan Posted July 5 Posted July 5 30 minutes ago, blackout said: but whatever... what can I do? Drugs? Quote
blackout Posted July 5 Posted July 5 19 minutes ago, linkindan said: Drugs? Never! I don't even smoke cigarettes. Quote
linkindan Posted July 5 Posted July 5 2 minutes ago, blackout said: Never! I don't even smoke cigarettes. I mean, same. The only thing I smoke is meat, salt and chocolate aha Quote
LPLStaff Posted July 5 Posted July 5 It's kind of weird there is no official set time publicly posted for them at this right? 12:15am to...? lol LP has had some huge shows in Poland over time, especially in 2014. Hope it's a great one. Quote
Igussek Posted July 5 Posted July 5 I hope for little longer set tonight (tomorrow 😆) This is last show for enterem festival and also last festival for LP. Give us extended set, please 😁 Quote
matthewcannon Posted July 5 Posted July 5 As far as i know, festival ends at 3.30. So its all about agreement between Opener and LP. Lot of time to perform full set tonight Quote
Luki98 Posted July 6 Posted July 6 What a show it was! 🔥 Something fantastic. Emily was simply amazing, especially on Faint. Mike is simply the king. The crowd, a sea of people. The audience went wild, there was pogo, mosh. You can see that the band enjoyed it. Mr. Shinoda promised that they will come back to Poland. The best day of my life. Quote
LPLStaff Posted July 7 Posted July 7 Tremendous show and the mix is badass. They are firing on all cylinders. Quote
martinez Posted July 7 Posted July 7 Thanks for the link. I'm definitely going to watch that soon. Quote
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