GlassCastles Posted July 9 Posted July 9 If you've got any energy left, Germany, now's the time to use it! Linkin Park wraps up their time in Germany (for this year) with the penultimate show of the From Zero European Tour in Frankfurt am Main (again)! Since we've talked about Germany a fair few times already on this tour, I thought we should take this time to reflect on this leg of the tour and really take in just how much ground the band has covered over these shows. It should come as no surprise that From Zero makes up a good chunk of the set. That is what the tour is named after! Staples like "The Emptiness Machine" and "Two Faced" have probably cemented their spots in every Linkin Park set going forward, and they've made a strong case for it! Fans have latched onto these songs very quickly and they've become cornerstone songs for the band. "Overflow" is another rising star, and one that has only been made stronger by the band's incredible live production. The lighting work on this song is one of the highlights of the show! "Overflow" live from Hannover, Germany Now, it may be called the From Zero World Tour, but that doesn't mean the band isn't paying homage to their past. All time classic Linkin Park songs like "Papercut" and "Faint" continue to fill out the set every night, and they continue to impress all the same! They're even keeping long-time set staples like "Numb" fresh with their new intro and outro "game". The slightly different styles Colin is bringing to the dynamic breathes some much appreciated new life into these songs! Keeping things even fresher is the Act 1 song selection. "Cut The Bridge" keeps toeing the line of being a staple, only to get swapped out once I'm sure the switch has been made. "New Divide" and "Crawling", which were firm staples earlier in the tour, have also started getting rotated from time-to-time. "Cut The Bridge" even stole the "New Divide" intro at one point! Could all this juggling mean they're toying with letting the middle run of Act 1 be decided from night to night? We certainly wouldn't be complaining! "Cut The Bridge" (with the Moscow Intro) live from Wembley Stadium Either way, older fan favorites like "From The Inside" and "Lying From You" will certainly be around to fill in the gaps. "From The Inside" in particular remains one of the band's strongest live songs. Consistently one of Emily's best. Both are also in contention for that encore spot, though, with "From The Inside" starting there before migrating to Act 1 and "Lying From You" just recently claiming the spot at Rock Werchter. They're competing with "A Place For My Head" and "Let You Fade", though, so it's no wonder they usually wind up earlier on. From Zero plays the rotation game too, with the Act 3 "ballad" rotation spot being reserved exclusively for some of the slower cuts off the new album: "Over Each Other", "Good Things Go", and "Stained". With "Stained" getting the spot last night, we're expecting one of the other two to tag in. On the heavier side of things, "Casualty" and "IGYEIH" are also always in contention, the former more than the latter. "IGYEIH" has still only been played at one show so far on this leg of the tour: Arnhem, Netherlands. I'm sure Germany would certainly have a blast with that one! "Points Of Authority" shared that same status until it was brought out last night, and even "Keys To The Kingdom" ended its two month hiatus last night, so "IGYEIH" is very possibly waiting in the wings! "Points Of Authority" live from Frankfurt night 1! Let's keep the rabbit hole going and go back even further; "Lost In The Echo" has been M.I.A. all year, and it's been sorely missed! It was last played at the band's album release show in São Paulo (which is scheduled for a theatrical release sometime this year) nearly 8 months ago! It would fit right in next to "Cut The Bridge" in Act 1 in this writer's opinion. Along those same lines, "Leave Out All The Rest" has also been absent this year after being a staple for 2024. It wouldn't feel out of place in that Act 3 ballad rotation. While we're at it, every full song from the From Zero era has been played live... except for one: "Unshatter". There hasn't been any indication that this is on its way to the stage, but stranger things have happened! Back to reality, one of my personal highlights of the show comes in the form of Mike's new solo medley: the mashup of "When They Come For Me" and "Remember The Name". Even before we get to the verse rotation, this new arrangement is one of Mike's best. Adding the chorus vocals to the intro and having Colin double them on guitar gives a massive boost of energy to what was already one of the most hype Linkin Park songs! Mike stepped things up a bit starting on the last leg by extending the transition between the two songs, leaving room for some crowd work and a new verse rotation spot. He's even been really good about keeping it fresh every night, with most of the repeats so far in Europe being verses he did on another continent! Seems like everything is on the table, from Fort Minor hits like "Petrified", Linkin Park deep cuts like "Step Up" and "Until It Breaks", to his own solo work in "I.O.U." and "Lift Off"! He even pulled out the first verse of "Lies Greed Misery" to celebrate Living Things' birthday, and we somehow managed to eek a shoutout out of the whole deal! "When They Come For Me / Remember The Name" live in Arnhem, featuring an LPLive shoutout and the first verse of "Lies Greed Misery"! Mike's new solo obviously brings to mind the last solo medley he did during The Hunting Party cycle, which was a mashup of "Skin To Bone", "Wretches And Kings", and "Remember The Name". There, he would do a rotating verse over the "Remember The Name" instrumental; the 2014 equivalent of the "When They Come For Me" bridge transition. After a while, he usually just settled into doing his hybrid "Remember The Name" verse, but he did try out a couple different verses throughout the cycle that would certainly work in this new solo. "Hands Held High" verse 1, famously done at the band's Rock Am Ring 2014 show, is a fan favorite that hasn't shown up in this new era yet... You also can't bring up rotating verses without talking about the different intros and outros "Points Of Authority" had during the Minutes To Midnight tour. Mike was pulling out all kinds of verses! "Nobody's Listening", "Dedicated", "Second To None", "High Voltage". Really, you'd be better off checking out the Linkinpedia page cause there are just too many to list here. Mike's solo medley live from Rock am Ring 2014, featuring the first verse of "Hands Held High"! Last night was a heater! Like I already mentioned, audiences were graced with the ever-illusive "Keys To The Kingdom" and "Points Of Authority", and that was just the start of the surprises! I'll get this out of the way first since it's mostly exciting to me specifically, but Mike played the intro to "Nothing Makes Sense Anymore" over the intro to "Overflow", the first time any part of that song has ever seen the stage! You love to see it! More relevant to you guys, though, is it looks like the encore rotation spot has been moved to the end of the main set! "Let You Fade" was played outside its usual encore position for the first time ever as the band slotted it in between "Numb" and "In The End". Can you imagine a run of "A Place For My Head", "In The End", and "Faint" to close out the main set? I don't know that I'd have any energy left for the encore! Sam Carter from Architects, one of the openers for this final string of shows, also came out on "One Step Closer"! Don't be surprised if you see him again tonight! On that note, what should we be looking for tonight? Obviously, I think it's fair to expect most of the rotations to be different (no "Let You Fade", "Stained", "Keys To The Kingdom" etc). The band already has a history of switching things up for a second night in the same city. Back in February, Linkin Park did back-to-back shows in Saitama, Japan, and they decided to swap out "Crawling" for "Points Of Authority" as a little treat for the night 2 folks. With the set changing even more than it was earlier this year, who knows what tricks they have up their sleeve? This is it! After tonight, Europe's only got one more show at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France! Europe will be well taken care of next year, though, with a hefty tour being planned for summer 2026. In the more immediate future, Linkin Park will be taking a well deserved couple weeks off from the stage before kicking off the second leg of the North American tour with a run of shows in Brooklyn, Boston, Boston again, and Newark! Maybe you'll see a few live aficionados if you happen to be going to those. Who knows? In other news, we started a newsletter to help keep everyone up to date on Linkin Park news: The Messenger! The second volume will be getting sent out soon, so sign up if that sounds interesting! You can also catch up here if you wanna see what you're getting into. Elsewhere, we're working hard on making the show pages better for you guys! Look no further than last night's show for proof! Between categories to see every performance of a song, show counts with all sorts of parameters, and more detailed than ever show notes, the team is working around the clock to keep you as informed as possible! As always, we'll keep you posted on everything in the Linkin Park world, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)! Quote
Cesar656 Posted July 9 Posted July 9 Good write up as usual. Not a fan of the ND intro for Cut the Bridge, they dont go together well at all. The intro is dope tho, they could use it for something else. Hope they bring lost in the echo back, absolute banger. And with the extended intro they made it would be even better Quote
LPLStaff Posted July 9 Posted July 9 Wow, thought Moscow Intro was cool on Cut the Bridge in London as a plot twist. Both the intro and the CTB intro are clap-worthy moments for the crowd so it worked to me. Quote
Yucker Posted July 9 Posted July 9 10 minutes ago, LPLStaff said: Wow, thought Moscow Intro was cool on Cut the Bridge in London as a plot twist. Both the intro and the CTB intro are clap-worthy moments for the crowd so it worked to me. At least in Frankfurt there was a moment of silence between the end of the intro and the beggining of CTB that somehow killed the vibe. It's a cool intro but I think is not for this song in particular. Quote
Makaay01 Posted July 9 Posted July 9 (edited) Awesome night!!! Great Performance A Place for my head was fucking great!!! Edited July 9 by Makaay01 Quote
bloodbath Posted July 10 Posted July 10 Finishing with In the End and Faint, that's so 2007... Love it!! Quote
BartBart91 Posted July 10 Posted July 10 I don't think the setlist for the second day in Frankfurt was as good as the setlist for the first day. It was great that they played "Over Each Other," but unfortunately they dropped "Castle of Glass," which is a shame because that song is even better. The last time they played "Faint" as the last song was on July 4, 2017. Quote
Stewe Posted July 10 Posted July 10 (edited) https://youtu.be/aBucDiRsbxo?si=1OsHZrhe1hIeeoom Full show Edited July 10 by Stewe Quote
lpplus Posted July 10 Posted July 10 (edited) so far this is the best performance of IGYEIH until the bridge😄 Edited July 10 by lpplus Quote
Yucker Posted July 10 Posted July 10 49 minutes ago, lpplus said: so far this is the best performance of IGYEIH until the bridge😄 Omg what happened there? Did she sing the bridge too early? Ajajjajajaja Quote
xxHybridXeroxx Posted July 10 Posted July 10 1 hour ago, Stewe said: https://youtu.be/aBucDiRsbxo?si=1OsHZrhe1hIeeoom Full show Wow, quality is honestly really good. Not at the level of @sckofelng’s recordings but I wanna know what model of phone they used because the zoom is actually quite good. Quote
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