2025.07.31 - Boston, Massachusetts (Night One)

[RogueSoul]

The longest tour leg of an already intense year on the road for Linkin Park has commenced with a bang, and they're continuing the opening run with a grand two-night stay at the esteemed TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, with Night One kicking off on July 31, 2025!

 

 

This will be Linkin Park's fifth show in the city of Boston and sixteenth show in the state of Massachusetts overall - seeing as they're playing two shows in the city, we'll split the history lessons in half for these posts! This will be the band's first show in the state in eleven years, with their last show there taking place in Mansfield's Xfinity Center on the Carnivores Tour with Thirty Seconds To Mars in August 2014 (a stop at the same venue was set to kick off the One More Light North American Tour in 2017 that ultimately never took place). The band whipped out Set B, which at the time featured 'With You,' an abridged version of 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You,' and 'Somewhere I Belong' as rotation songs, while also bringing some heaviness from The Hunting Party to life with 'Guilty All The Same,' 'Rebellion,' and 'Final Masquerade.' The band performed at the same venue (then called the Comcast Center) at the start of the Honda Civic Tour with Incubus in August 2012, debuting the tour's Set C, featuring 'Tinfoil' and 'Faint' opening the show, leading right into 'Papercut,' 'Given Up,' 'With You,' and 'Somewhere I Belong.' The band had worked up 'Lost In The Echo' and 'Victimized' (mashed up with 'QWERTY') for the tour, while also bringing out 'Burn It Down' and 'Lies Greed Misery' from Living Things. 'Until It Breaks' verse three featured over the famous Wall Of Noise Intro for 'Waiting For The End' for an extra touch, while a cover of the Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' blew up the bridge of 'Bleed It Out.' 

 

The band's only other show at TD Garden took place on the A Thousand Suns North American Tour in February 2011. Boasting a number of huge tracks from the record like 'When They Come For Me' and 'Burning In The Skies,' the band brought some magic to their first arena show Boston with an epic setlist. The Minutes To Midnight World Tour saw the band hit Massachusetts twice, the latter of which was the kickoff of Projekt Revolution 2008 in Mansfield. Opening with a huge run of 'One Step Closer' with its Gunshot Intro, 'Lying From You' with its 2008 Intro, and 'Somewhere I Belong,' the band burst right into the newly modified Set X, which also featured the live debut of 'We Made It' with Busta Rhymes, Spliff Star, and Adam Monroe as the first encore. This would be one of only a few performances of the song, as Busta Rhymes would drop off of the tour only a few shows into the tour! Other treats in the set included 'The Little Things Give You Away,' 'Wake 2.0,' and 'Crawling' featuring Chris Cornell as well as the 'KRWLNG' intro with a verse of 'Hands Held High.' Their stop in Mansfield came near the end of Projekt Revolution 2007, but the band was just as energized as ever with a huge setlist featuring rare tracks from Minutes To Midnight like 'In Pieces.' Brad played a different guitar solo to 'Shadow Of The Day' at this show, and Mike brought out a verse of 'Nobody's Listening' for the intro of 'Points Of Authority.' Chester spoke about New Orleans, and mentioned other states that were then being affected by a number of tropical storms before 'The Little Things Give You Away,' dedicating the song to "those people who are needing someone right now."

 

 

Linkin Park's full show at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on February 1, 2011! The A Thousand Suns Tour stage setup was really unique and really set the mood for the epic show.

 

The tour kickoff show in Brooklyn, New York started things off with flying colors, and definitely set the tone for the upcoming shows! Opening with a familiar Inception Intro A (with the 'Castle Of Glass' theme) into 'Somewhere I Belong,' the band launched into Act I with the likes of 'Crawling,' 'Lying From You,' and 'New Divide' before 'The Emptiness Machine' wrapped things up. Act II remained largely unchanged, with 'Up From The Bottom' returning to its regular spot after being moved up in the set at the end of the European leg in Saint Denis, France. Mike went into the crowd for his solo medley, and gave his signed hat to our friend Janhvi (LP India) at the front of the barricade before whipping out 'Until It Breaks' verse 3 for the nightly random verse. 'Casualty' made it into the heavy rotation spot before 'One Step Closer' closed out the first half of the show. As the band is returning to their 360 stage setup with this tour, the crew flipped the instruments onstage around to face the other side of the crowd during the Break/Collapse Transition, before the half piano-half full band 'Lost' started off the next half of the show. Mike performed the Godfather Theme during the intro of 'Overflow,' and actually finally gave the number game before 'Numb' a name - the "Control Colin" 'Numb/Encore' intro, and featured a new genre with Colin playing gospel drums. The encore rotation spot seems to have been moved back into the end of the main set again, and it can now include 'From The Inside' as the song was performed in place of 'A Place For My Head' and 'Let You Fade.' The whole end of Act IV was flipped around as 'Heavy Is The Crown' and 'Bleed It Out' were moved up to close out the main set instead of the encore, and Mike surprised us all in the crowd by rapping a verse of The Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Notorious Thugs' over the extended bridge for the first time ever! With 'Bleed It Out' closing the main set, 'Faint' returned as the show closer, closing a show in the United States for the first time since Relief Live! 2015! As far as full shows go, this was the first U.S. show to close with 'Faint' since Kansas City, Missouri in January 2011 on the A Thousand Suns World Tour! While the rotations weren't necessarily the most surprising in Brooklyn, lots of special moments and an energetic performance from the band made it the perfect show to kickoff the new leg of the tour!

 

Things will definitely start to get very interesting with these upcoming Boston shows, as the band's two-night stays are where things usually get quite interesting. Despite being the first show, this show was actually the second date added after the first night sold out. With the first set of rotations out of the way, there are still a large handful of songs that could make an appearance over the next few nights. 'Points Of Authority' could come into play in Act I, while the heavy position in Act III could go to any of 'Given Up,' 'Keys To The Kingdom,' or 'IGYEIH!' 'Good Things Go' and 'Stained' are also lined up for some action as far as the rotating ballads go, and we're still eagerly waiting to see 'A Place For My Head' and 'Let You Fade' have their first moments of this new leg of the North American tour. With their last two-show stay in Frankfurt earlier this month, the band also started making some more structural changes like moving songs around in the Acts and even adding an extra rotation spot for 'Over Each Other' and 'Stained' into Act II. Today (July 30) is the 23rd anniversary of Reanimation as well, so maybe we'll see Mike whip out a special verse from the album for his solo medley! He's celebrated other anniversaries this year this way, bringing out verses of 'Lies Greed Misery' and 'Until It Breaks' for the Living Things celebration and 'Lift Off' and 'I.O.U.' for the Post Traumatic anniversary. The band will definitely make some interesting setlist choices for these two shows in Boston, and we'll be in the crowd ready to take it all in! And there's always room for a huge surprise in terms of whipping out a song we haven't heard yet - lots of online requests for 'Blackout' and 'With You' this year, and we're still waiting on a live debut of 'Unshatter' to round out the full live From Zero discography! What do you think the band will whip out for Boston Night One?

 

 

Linkin Park performing 'Overflow' live at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 2025! 'Overflow' and a number of other tracks like 'From The Inside' and 'Over Each Other' were performed with 360 production for the first time at this show!

 

PVRIS is opening the first series of dates on the tour, and their first set of the tour really set the tone for the night! Opening with new tracks 'GOOD ENEMY' and 'ANIMAL,' the vigorous energy of Lynn Gunn immediately took centerstage as they got off to a rocking start. The band then blasted into some older hits like 'Dead Weight' and 'My House,' also throwing in some more new music like 'Burn The Witch' and 'GODDESS' to close their set. PVRIS may just be one of the best (or perhaps most fitting) openers yet on this tour, and their set is nothing short of grand even if it's just an opening set. You won't want to miss their performance in Boston as well, as these will be hometown shows for the band! We're still hoping that Lynn makes a guest appearance during Linkin Park's set, or perhaps they can add 'TAKE MY NIRVANA' to the set and get Mike to guest with them instead! That's be a huge surprise, for sure. Don't miss their show if you can make it!

 

 

PVRIS performing their song 'GOOD ENEMY' to open their set opening for Linkin Park at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 2025.

 

Who's going to the show? The LPLive staff team of myself, Hahninator (Mark), and GlassCastles (Nico) will be making our way up from my house to the great state of Massachusetts - we'll actually be in the seats for this one (along with one of my best friends who's never seen the band), so if you see us or are near the LPU Reserved section, say hi! Weatherman Rogue Soul is live on the scene on the East Coast once again, reporting that while today will be just as disgustingly hot and humid as the last few days, a bit of relief is on the way! It'll be a mostly rainy day in Boston, but the temperatures will drop a bit down to the lower 70s during the day and get cooler from there on. Night Two at TD Garden takes place the night after on August 1 before the band heads back down to my home state of New Jersey with their first show ever at the Prudential Center in Newark on August 3. From there, the band will head up to Canada for two nights in Montréal and one show in Toronto. We've got a long tour ahead of us, and we're sure a lot of surprises are in store for us! We'll see you there!

 

With all the recent Linkinpedia updates we've been doing as far as the show pages show, we'd like your help in expanding them further! We are looking for pictures or scans of a number of items from the band's 2025 tour, including wristbands, tickets, setlists, exclusive pop-up store content, and more. If you have anything to contribute, check out our thread on the matter and submit your pictures directly to us - if they meet the mark we will get them uploaded to the show pages and credit you (and also blur your information out where applicable)! Be sure to check out the site to see our recent changes to the show pages (including marked rotation songs, album breakdowns, and more statistics) if you haven't already, and enjoy the upgrades to our LPLive and Linkinpedia servers with faster loading times on both sites! We've also recently launched an LPLive Newsletter for those looking for more of a TL;DR version of what's going on with the tour than my pre-show posts - we'll be sending it out every couple of weeks so as to not flood your inbox, but we'll be bringing you an overview of both tour and general news updates in these, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already!

 

We'll have you covered on everything the band does at this show and everything they whip out for the rest of the year, so be sure to sign up on the forums and follow us on social media (Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook)!

[SharpedgesLP]

See you there tomorrow night 

[sublimeric]

I’ve dreaded this show for months, and this moment for years, since Chester passed. I was at the February 2011 show at the same venue, and had no idea that when Chester said “Goodnight Boston”, it would be the last time I’d ever see him perform. 
 

I have pit tickets for both nights in Boston, and am taking my 17 year old, who fell in love with LP thanks to “One More Light” when it was released, quickly changing my opinion on the album. We were supposed to go to the OML Tour in Mansfield, MA, but Chester passed one week before the show. 
 

Grateful to have seen Chester 4 times with LP. Grateful to have been part of LPlive since the beginning. Grateful I got to meet fellow fans in Boston to Celebrate Chester in 2017. And grateful I can hopefully not cry the entire night, singing loud enough for Chester to hear us. 
 

Fingers crossed for “Given Up”, as that’s my Son’s favorite song. I want to hear all the “From Zero” tracks, as those don’t have the emotional weight of the Chester songs. 

[LPLStaff]

Looking forward to it. 

 

Song predictions:

 

N1: Given Up, Good Things Go, Let You Fade, and Bleed It Out closer

N2: maybe Keys?, Stained, A Place For My Head, and Faint closer

[bloodbath]

Since we have so many Pvris fans in the house, where should I start with them?

[BartBart91]

On 7/30/2025 at 9:36 PM, sublimeric said:

I’ve dreaded this show for months, and this moment for years, since Chester passed. I was at the February 2011 show at the same venue, and had no idea that when Chester said “Goodnight Boston”, it would be the last time I’d ever see him perform. 
 

I have pit tickets for both nights in Boston, and am taking my 17 year old, who fell in love with LP thanks to “One More Light” when it was released, quickly changing my opinion on the album. We were supposed to go to the OML Tour in Mansfield, MA, but Chester passed one week before the show. 
 

Grateful to have seen Chester 4 times with LP. Grateful to have been part of LPlive since the beginning. Grateful I got to meet fellow fans in Boston to Celebrate Chester in 2017. And grateful I can hopefully not cry the entire night, singing loud enough for Chester to hear us. 
 

Fingers crossed for “Given Up”, as that’s my Son’s favorite song. I want to hear all the “From Zero” tracks, as those don’t have the emotional weight of the Chester songs. 

Great, it worked, Given Up was played on the first night in Boston.

[LPLStaff]

Did the LPU seats for this and wow they are the best seat in the venue. Amazing production and sound. The band sounded incredible. What a show!

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

Wished we would get arena shows in Europe as well. Everything is closer to the stage etc.