RogueSoul Posted August 2 Posted August 2 Ladies and gentlemen, my moment has come. Linkin Park is returning to my home state of New Jersey for the first time in eleven years, performing at the venue I've seen the single most concerts at for the first time: the Prudential Center in Newark on August 3, 2025! I'm not going easy on you today. We're about to dive deep into some history today; you're about to learn some shit. The last time Linkin Park visited the Garden State was in 2014, with two stops here on the tour with my favorite lineup ever, the Carnivores Tour with Thirty Seconds To Mars and AFI! The last show overall was at Holmdel's PNC Bank Arts Center - basically in my backyard as it's a light 15 minute drive away from me! The band rocked the amphitheater with Set A - unleashing the likes of 'Guilty All The Same' and 'Rebellion' upon Central Jersey (yes it exists). The encore "medley" saw the band bust through songs like 'Lost In The Echo' and 'Until Its Gone,' even throwing a verse of 'With You' into the mix! Camden was just before this two shows before (I refuse to let you claim it, Philly. No matter how much of a shitshow it may be), at the then-name Susquehanna Bank Center (now the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion) and much to my dismay - they also played Set A at this show. Despite me getting the same setlist twice, each show packed a punch and was a blast to be at! The band was due to play Atlantic City for the first time in 2015, but unfortunately do to Chester breaking his ankle, the show was cancelled and never rescheduled. The band once again hit Camden on their summer tour east coast special on the Honda Civic Tour with Incubus, gracing us with the massive Set B featuring the 'A Place For My Head' show opener and an epic encore featuring 'Papercut' and 'Lying From You' following 'Tinfoil' and 'Faint.' The band hosted an LPU Summit at the venue before the show, running a Q&A as well as delivering 'In My Remains' and 'The Messenger' acoustic for fans in attendance. This was my second Linkin Park show ever! Sadly for me, this is where my consciousness tuned out and I was too young to. attend any of the previous shows - but there was a lot of action in this state going on while I was still in diapers. The full livestream recording of Linkin Park's show in Camden, New Jersey's Susquehanna Bank Center on August 15, 2014. This was the band's latest show in the state! While the band didn't visit the state during the A Thousand Suns World Tour, they were getting busy here during the Minutes To Midnight World Tour with five shows! Projekt Revolution 2008 hit us with the Holmdel and Camden special once again, with both shows getting Set Z, but two different versions of it! Camden was first up with the first appearance of the set all tour, delivering songs like 'In Pieces' and 'Wake 2.0,' and even a rare 'We Made It' performance in the encore (which Mike almost entirely forgot his verse during)! A studio version of 'Pushing Me Away' also hit the crowd after a false start, not long before a freak thunderstorm also hit the venue. Luckily, there were no interruptions with the setlist as a result of it. Holmdel saw mostly the same set with some changes: the dual encore was dropped for an unknown reason along with 'Cure For The Itch,' instead opening with 'What I've Done.' This was the final performance of 'We Made It' as Busta Rhymes didn't even play his set that day and disappeared from the tour completely after this show. The band also switched around the positions of 'Faint' and 'One Step Closer,' with 'One Step Closer' now closing the main set. The 'Points Of Authority' intro actually saw basically a complete performance of 'Petrified' between the two shows, with Verse 1 being performed in Camden and Verse 2 in Holmdel. Chris Cornell also joined the band for 'Crawling' after the 'KRWLNG' intro with a verse of 'Hands Held High' at both shows! 2007 also got the summer tour special on Projekt Revolution 2007, except that the stops at the two cities came at the end of the tour, for a change! Camden started things off with a 'No More Sorrow' opener, launching straight into 'Lying From You,' 'Somewhere I Belong,' 'Wake,' and 'Given Up.' What a start! This set featured more treats like 'Hands Held High' in its entirety and 'Don't Stay,' as well as new songs from Minutes To Midnight like 'The Little Things Give You Away' and 'Shadow Of The Day.' 'QWERTY' was unfortunately dropped, but 'Don't Stay' was added in perhaps a replacement. 'Breaking The Habit' opened the encore, being performed for the very first time with its studio intro and no extended intro. Holmdel start off in similar fashion a few days later, with the same beginning run of songs but the main body of the set switched up. New Jersey was denied 'QWERTY' a second time (shame), but we got an interesting encore opening with 'The Little Things Give You Away' before 'Cure For The Itch' led into a 'One Step Closer' and 'Faint' show closing sequence. Nasty business is always occurring in Jersey! That's not all for 2007, because Linkin Park headlined the now defunct Bamboozle Festival earlier that year, marking their first performance in the United States since 2005. This show featured everything you'd expect from an early Minutes To Midnight set, opening with 'One Step Closer' with its Gunshot Intro. this show also featured the only performance of 'Runaway' on the entire cycle, and the only performance of the song until it returned in 2012! A full audience recording of Linkin Park's headlining set at Bamboozle 2007 in East Rutherford, New Jersey on May 6, 2007. This was the last performance of 'Runaway' until 2012, and the only one from 2006 onwards! Linkin Park's run in New Jersey on Projekt Revolution 2004 was nothing short of... revolutionary. First up was Holmdel, a standard show up until the end of the main set where things started getting... freaky. Jay-Z came out for the encore, ripping 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You' and 'Big Pimpin'/Papercut' during the encore! The full versions of 'Lying From You' and 'Papercut' were omitted from the set so they could play these with Jay. This was the only time he joined the band for one of their headlining shows until 2008! The second show of the run was none other than the legendary Camden 2004 show, which boasts perhaps the amongst the best known Linkin Park proshots known to the fanbase. With beautiful recordings of all the legendary moments like their cover of Nine Inch Nails' 'Wish,' the Blood, Anger, Suffering Outro Transition between 'Figure.09' and 'From The Inside,' Jonathan Davis joining the band for the Reanimated Bridge of 'One Step Closer,' and even the boy Sal sending up a guy who didn't know how to play 'Faint' on guitar! If you haven't seen this whole show, you're missing out on a piece of history! Things were a little different in 2003, with Linkin Park making an appearance in East Rutherford (the same spot as the Bamboozle Festival) at Giants Stadium (now Metlife Stadium), opening for Metallica on the famous Summer Sanitarium Tour. The setlist matched the Live In Texas DVD, and featured all the goods like 'P5hng Me A*wy,' 'Numb' fresh off its live debut, and 'One Step Closer' closing the show. The band played in the same area as their last show in the state of the Hybrid Theory World Tour, playing at the Continental Airlines Arena (later known as the IZOD Center before being shutdown completely) on the Family Values Tour, featuring setlist highlights like a rare 'Step Up' and Aaron Lewis from Staind guesting on 'One Step Closer.' The band's very first Camden & Holmdel summer special hit on the Ozzfest in 2001 (RIP Ozzy), though the shows were separated considerably. The tour ended with a two night stand at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, both opening with the 'With You' and 'Runaway' combo. Chester was apparently ordered by doctors to not play these last two shows of the festival due to a spider bite he sustained in Massachusetts a few shows prior causing him to become delusional and confused, but he played the show anyway. Maybe he thought he was about to embark on a Spiderman arc, but sadly that did not happen - though the band did end up delivering some strong shows! Camden also got two shows that tour in the middle of it, though they were inexplicably separated by about two and a half weeks. The first took place in early July 2001, a fun moment from the show being that Chester started his iconic "C'mon!" scream for 'With You' before the song even began, leading to him holding it longer than usual! Footage from this show was used in the live music video for 'Points Of Authority,' too! Their second show there took place later that July, and while we don't know the full setlist, we know the regular 'Welcome To The Jungle' by Guns 'N' Roses show intro led right into 'With You.' Finally, the band's very first show in the state took place in the town of Old Bridge (another town I live quite close to) at the defunct Birch Hill Nite Club - their last show on a quick run of headlining bar shows in the Northeast. There's been a lot of action in the state of New Jersey, and I'm now here to ascertain that keeps happening! You know what time it is. This is a full proshot recording of Linkin Park's show at the Tweeter Center at the Waterfront (present-day Freedom Mortgage Pavilion) on August 3, 2004. If you haven't seen this show before... are you really an LPLive member? The band made sure to make their first headlining 2 night stand in the States something to remember! Night 1 featured a slightly more traditional set, though the band still tossed in a couple of treats. 'Bleed It Out' (along with a verse from 'There They Go') closed the show for the first time on this leg, with fan favorites 'Cut The Bridge', 'Good Things Go', and 'A Place For My Head' rounding out some of the rotation slots. The latter returned to the encore after Brooklyn's "encore rotation" (filled by 'From The Inside') moved up to Act 4. The "Control Colin" game on 'Numb' also saw a slight evolution, with the gospel theme extending into a jam outro for the song! Night 2 is where things got a bit freakier. 'Points Of Authority' (which has become somewhat rare this year) returned to Act 1, and fellow rarities 'IGYEIH' and 'Stained' filled out the latter rotations. A special shoutout to 'Let You Fade' (which took up the encore/Act 4 rotation) feels due since a group of fans coordinated shirts to spell out the title line! Maybe it wasn't what got them to throw it in the set, but it certainly got Emily's attention! The real surprise of the night came in what is usually the 'Castle Of Glass' spot. As a treat for night 2, the band brought out 'LIES GREED MISERY' for the first time since January 2014! The band had posted a couple teasers of them at soundcheck, and some eagle eyed fans spotted the lyrics to the song on the teleprompter. It's very refreshing to see them adding in deep cuts this far into the tour! Who knows what else is on the docket?! And to top it off, Lynn Gunn from opener PVRIS joined the band on stage for the second half of 'Burn It Down'! Boston truly was given a stellar experience across both nights. 'Lies Greed Misery' live from Boston, night 2. If you couldn't tell, Nico was quite excited for this! Speaking of PVRIS, they've been absolutely killing it, and it seems like Linkin Park's attitude towards changing the set is contagious! Every night has been different so far! Boston night 1 saw 'TAKE MY NIRVANA' (produced by a somewhat familiar name in Mike Shinoda) replacing 'BURN THE WITCH', and night 2 saw the addition of Use Me's 'Hallucinations' (as well as the return of 'BURN THE WITCH'). Of course, staples like 'GOOD ENEMY' and 'My House' continue to explode on stage. If you're going to these shows, you'd be doing a disservice by missing out on PVRIS. Now what does all this mean for Newark? Who knows?! Boston covered a good chunk of the band's rotation options, so anything could be on the table. Of all the songs performed this year, 'Keys To The Kingdom' is the only one not to have been played on this leg of the tour. That could very well be on the docket for Sunday! Rotations from Brooklyn like 'Casualty' and 'Over Each Other' are also very much in the realm of possibility. Reaching a bit further, 'Unshatter' remains the only song from the From Zero era that hasn't been played live yet, and I doubt anyone would complain about more new songs joining the fray! Weatherman Rogue Soul has some good news for his fellow New Jesreyans! It's should be a nice, sunny day for the show. The heat wave is mostly behind us, so we're looking at some cooler 70s-low 80s temperature-wise, which is a welcome change from Brooklyn's sweltering heat. Speaking of Brooklyn, if you're in the area, Linkin Park is doing a pop-up at Paulie Gee's pizza shop Saturday, August 2nd (today at the time of writing) from 11:30am to 6:00pm. Make sure to grab a slice and some merch if that's of any interest to you! After Newark, the band heads to our neighbors up north for another two night stand in Montreal and a one-nighter in Toronto before coming back to the states in our resident Living Things enjoyer Nico's (aka Glass Castles) hometown of Chicago! 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)! Quote
LPLStaff Posted August 3 Posted August 3 Keys here would be a great full circle moment on all the rotation songs, let's see what happens! Quote
JerseyShore Posted August 3 Posted August 3 Can't wait for it. See all my fellow NJ people tomorrow night! Quote
JerseyShore Posted August 4 Posted August 4 What an amazing show. I'm still buzzing. FTI was electric. Overflow live is just a totally different song, really enjoyed that one. APFMH bridge over BIO which is my favorite version (bc of the pink ATS deluxe version). Santa Claus. Papercut to ITE to Faint to close it out, I mean does it get any better than that? Quote
sotrix Posted August 4 Posted August 4 It was a privilege to meet a few of the awesome members of our community today. Linkin Park really does have the best fans. Thank you to everyone who posts here, posts on social media, and contributes to our projects. Thank you to the whole team volunteering behind the scenes. Here's to many more shows in the years to come. -Dmitry Quote
letdownagain Posted August 4 Posted August 4 (edited) Excellent show. Really should be going to bed but still buzzing. A lot like Brooklyn on Tuesday setlist wise but the energy felt dialed way up to me. Happy to see LGM replace CoG. From the Inside twice in one week after like 20+ years (for me) is unreal. ETS intro over Overflow was awesome (huge Depeche fan). Light up beach balls during BIO were sick. Also finally got to say a brief hello to Mark in person. Great way to follow up the Brooklyn pop-up yesterday (met Colin, got my FZ record signed) and end a very LP heavy week. Can’t wait to be with you all again soon. Will maybe try to share more tomorrow when my brain is less melted. Can’t wait for the LPTV that hopefully covers this stretch. Shoutout to Santa. Edited August 4 by letdownagain Quote
KeysToTheLinkinPark Posted August 4 Posted August 4 (edited) 2 hours ago, letdownagain said: Shoutout to Santa. Do we know why he got kicked out of the show? Edit: Edited August 4 by KeysToTheLinkinPark Quote
SomeRandomPerson818 Posted August 4 Posted August 4 (edited) I was there yesterday, I met Roguesoul, GlassCastles, and Mark. I had a really great time there, especially in the mosh pit. Edited August 4 by SomeRandomPerson818 Missing Punctuation Quote
letdownagain Posted August 4 Posted August 4 6 hours ago, KeysToTheLinkinPark said: Do we know why he got kicked out of the show? Dude seemed pretty wasted; I didn't realize he got kicked out but that'd be my guess. It was a funny setup for Emily's banter going into Numb, but probably not all night. Maybe got a little too rowdy with attention from the band? Quote
xxHybridXeroxx Posted August 4 Posted August 4 Another video, this is def not a smartphone video https://youtu.be/JkdKE69_394?si=y1sdM5a1HPb6YH9R Quote
JerseyShore Posted August 4 Posted August 4 Thanks for posting the videos. My son is very excited to see some of the show from last night. Hopefully next year they come back in this area and we can go when he's 6. Also, Mike giving his hat to the little kid with headphones on last night was so awesome. Quote
letdownagain Posted August 4 Posted August 4 (edited) A couple of videos from last night. I plan on posting a couple of other odds and ends on TikTok later. Edited August 4 by letdownagain Quote
LPLStaff Posted August 4 Posted August 4 The energy at this one was out of this world. Boston too. Really the whole northeast run. Papercut, In The End, and Faint is an insane encore. The band was rocking - From The Inside is a monster song live. Loved seeing everyone, especially @sotrix Can't wait to do it again. That was FUN. Quote
bloodbath Posted August 5 Posted August 5 Anyone else has thought how would BIO would work as a show opener? Quote
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