Linkin Park Add Show in New Zealand for March 2026

[RogueSoul]

Kiwis, your cries have been heard - Linkin Park will be making their triumphant return to New Zealand on March 18, 2026 in Auckland at the Spark Arena! This adds another stop to the Australian Leg (which is now the Australia & New Zealand Leg) which stops in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney throughout the rest of the month.

 

 

LPU Legacy Presale: Monday, December 8 @ 12pm NZST

LPU Passport Presale: Monday, December 8 @ 1pm NZST

General Sale: Friday, December 12 @ 1pm NZST

 

This will be Linkin Park's fourth show ever in the country and city, and the first since 2013's LPU Summit in Auckland - 13 years since their last show! With the From Zero World Tour getting longer yet again, 2026 is looking like a big year yet again - who's going to try and get tickets?

[cjv1991]

Hmm do I sell my tickets to both Sydney dates in exchange for the one date closer to home? Wonder what the chances of a second Auckland date are…

[troub1eboy]

19 minutes ago, cjv1991 said:

Hmm do I sell my tickets to both Sydney dates in exchange for the one date closer to home? Wonder what the chances of a second Auckland date are…

Not sure I’m in a similar position myself. I said to myself a few months ago if an nz show is announced I’ll go buy the ticket but that would be my last show 

[linkindan]

No one ever mentions what happened to the Old Zealand…

[troub1eboy]

3 hours ago, linkindan said:

No one ever mentions what happened to the Old Zealand…

According to google it’s somewhere in the southwestern Netherlands 😇

[bloodbath]

Might become their longest tour?

Edited December 3 by bloodbath

[LPLStaff]

100 shows? Surely Hybrid Theory, Meteora and MTM had more? Or no?

 

Wasn't Hybrid Theory like 200?

 

Anyway, nice to see a NZ show. They should always play Auckland whenever they go down to Australia. Noticed that these shows are in arenas like the U.S. unlike Europe, Asia, and South America. Hopefully the band's popularity keeps growing in Australia and NZ and they can move to larger venues and also do more cities in the future.

[linkindan]

10 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

Hopefully the band's popularity keeps growing in Australia and NZ and they can move to larger venues and also do more cities in the future.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Even Taylor Swift didn’t play Perth or Adelaide on the Eras Tour, unfortunately no chance for LP fans on the west coast/ central regions. And there’s no way they play our 45k seat stadiums, without being the AFL Grand Final artist (which I’m surprised they haven’t been TBH - we had Snoop Dogg this year 😒)

[LPLStaff]

Are you saying this genre isn't that popular in the region?

In NZ, Foo played Christchurch and Wellington. In Australia, they played Perth, Adelaide, and Geelong.

Both bands play similar sized venues globally, but Foo is a bit larger in the U.S. than LP is - LP may be slightly larger in some European markets than Foo is (Germany, France).

 

Not sure who else to compare to as Coldplay and Sheeran are a different genre/appeal than LP.

[linkindan]

16 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

Are you saying this genre isn't that popular in the region?

In NZ, Foo played Christchurch and Wellington. In Australia, they played Perth, Adelaide, and Geelong.

Both bands play similar sized venues globally, but Foo is a bit larger in the U.S. than LP is - LP may be slightly larger in some European markets than Foo is (Germany, France).

 

Not sure who else to compare to as Coldplay and Sheeran are a different genre/appeal than LP.

It’s not the genre, it’s the band. After MTM their popularity dropped massively out here.

 

Playing Geelong is like playing Orange County - you’re in LA, but not LA.

[BartBart91]

20 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

Are you saying this genre isn't that popular in the region?

In NZ, Foo played Christchurch and Wellington. In Australia, they played Perth, Adelaide, and Geelong.

Both bands play similar sized venues globally, but Foo is a bit larger in the U.S. than LP is - LP may be slightly larger in some European markets than Foo is (Germany, France).

 

Not sure who else to compare to as Coldplay and Sheeran are a different genre/appeal than LP.

 

There are many Coldplay fans who are also Linkin Park fans, and vice versa. Linkin Park and Coldplay both belong to the alternative rock genre, among others.

[bloodbath]

6 hours ago, linkindan said:

It’s not the genre, it’s the band. After MTM their popularity dropped massively out here.

 

Playing Geelong is like playing Orange County - you’re in LA, but not LA.

Why? Sure the touring numbers back up your theory, but I want to understand the reason behind it

[LSAustralia]

20 hours ago, linkindan said:

It’s not the genre, it’s the band. After MTM their popularity dropped massively out here.

 

Playing Geelong is like playing Orange County - you’re in LA, but not LA.

To be fair, Foos' played Geelong because the city paid them to do it there instead of doing Melb. 

As for why LP aren't as popular in Aus anymore, my read is that there's a cleanness to post-MTM LP that doesn't means it doesn't really vibe with Aussie's rock culture which is a bit rougher/scrappier/grungier (think The Chats, Amyl and the Sniffers, Violent Soho) while Foo Fighters still tap into that a bit and really ride off the populatiry of Wasting Light & everything that came before it. While LP miss that market, they also aren't clean enough to tap into our pop-rock market, and aren't consistently heavy enough to tap into our modern metalcore market - though with the amount of metalcore supports they're doing on this whole tour (not just Polaris in aus but a lot of their global supports) it seems as though that's the market they're trying to lean into.

I'm glad that I'll get to see them at home, but honestly shocked they're bothering to do Adelaide without doing a price drop. Ticket prices are so high that there wouldn't be many people who can afford the tickets but can't afford the trip across to Melbourne or Sydney, and because of all the above I don't know if there's a huge casual audience for LP (especially casual audience willing to pay the high ticket price)