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They played Heavy is the Crown night 2 though, Sydney still got it.

The vocals and drums are there... wouldn't take much to actually play Step Up in the show if they wanted to in Europe.

Linkin Park is back on stage in Sydney for night 2 and we are excited because it's a very special day - Joe Hahn's birthday! According to our new Happy Birthday page that chronicles live shows on band member birthdays and other important birthdays on stage, Linkin Park performed on Joe's birthday in 2001, 2003, and 2004. The only known celebration for Joe was at that 2004 show, in Inglewood - die hard fans know that was a rescheduled show on the Meteora World Tour because Chester was sick and they were cutting songs in Long Beach before it. Wait, does that sound similar to modern day? If you go to the start of the encore in this show, you'll see the band singing to Joe and Chester. You might as well watch the entire show while you're there because that arena tour setlist in 2004 was absolutely insane, in the best way possible. An encore of "My December", "P5hng Me A*wy", "A Place for My Head" and "One Step Closer"? Sign us up yesterday. This will be Joe's first birthday on stage with Linkin Park since 2004! And we're hoping the band celebrates it in a big way, because all credit from other band members goes to Joe for kickstarting the conversations that got Linkin Park to eventually decide to return as a band. Thank you, Joe! So, if you're following the tour right now, you've likely seen the chatter online about Emily being sick, you know the band sadly canceled the Adelaide show, and they performed a shortened set at Melbourne night 2. The same thing happened again for Sydney night 1, which was a smart move by the band considering 1) Emily is not 100% yet, and 2) there was no off day in Sydney between nights 1 and 2. With two shows back-to-back, and more travel coming up to New Zealand, it was a good move to take things easy and cater the set around Emily's voice. What surprised us was the amount of jams still in the set. Any Linkin Park fan on the planet would love a show with all of these songs - "Points of Authority", "Lying From You", "Castle of Glass", "From the Inside", and "A Place for My Head". That's not even including "Lost" and all the other bangers like "Papercut", "Faint", etc. Very nicely done. So it seems for Emily, some of these heavier songs are easier for her to sing but the higher From Zero songs are more difficult. LP had just 3 songs off of the new album in the set for night 1, and we are expecting about the same for night 2. Like when Chester had difficulty with "Given Up" when sick (who wouldn't have trouble with it, anyway? Ha), we're seeing that to be true with Emily with "Heavy Is the Crown". Both of the past two shows they have played have had 2 total songs cut and we've been down to 25 songs, but these are still PRETTY full shows and they are giving us a lot of curveballs in the show - in the best way possible. For example, the last time both the studio versions of "Castle of Glass" and "Lies Greed Misery" were in the same show was in 2013. Linkin Park has history of doing this before. Remember the 2008 North American Tour in arenas? Chester got sick halfway through and we had this series of events happen: a shortened show, two canceled shows in a row after that, four more shortened shows, and then a full set again on the last date of the tour. Including the canceled shows, seven shows were affected from this. We got some really interesting things in the sets, though, because harder songs for his voice had to be dropped. We saw "Wake" into "Lying From You" open shows, "Papercut" had the "Points of Authority" outro on it, and more. Check out this Oklahoma City set. Or this shortened one from Las Vegas: Needless to say, even with changes, there are still a lot of major highlights both in that time and this time, which are pretty similar situations. We aren't expecting anything too crazy for night 2 in Sydney and we are just glad the band is able to get shows in. It has resulted in some unique sets once again, similar to 2008, and we're enjoying the fun in it all. The show reviews from both Melbourne N2 and Sydney N1 are quite strong and fans are having a great time. After all, still playing around 2 hours and only cutting 2 songs is quite impressive - and she looked really under the weather in Sydney on the first night. Get well soon, Emily! And Happy Birthday to Joe! Here's the night 1 set - for night 2 we'll assume Set C with some more song changes, but nothing too crazy. The tour ends with one more show, after two off days, in Auckland, New Zealand. The last time in Auckland, Linkin Park hosted an amazing LPU Summit and brought along Stone Sour for the show. We're quite jealous of that. That will be the last show before the final leg of the From Zero World Tour in Europe. After that, it's studio time! We'll catch you back here for Auckland and on socials for Sydney night 2.

Thank you so much! This is great footage! Hope you have really been enjoying thse shows, they have been amazing sets.

They did that, they did the Reading My Eyes verse and more heavy rotations. Honestly an awesome set - not as much From Zero but you get POA, LFY, FTI, APFMH all in there. Everyone would take that. Funny you finally get BID, LGM, and COG all in the same set lol. Living Things era vibes. From the Inside is all over the place, love that it is in the beginning, middle, Act 3, and and encore. Hell, Act 4 too. It's been everywhere. They must not have rehearsed other Mike-driven songs they could swap in. They'd need like, what, Promises or something? You can't whip that up on the fly, they'd need to do that before the tour + program production for it too.

Yeah people seem to prefer the shortened N2 Melbourne to the N1 full set, all because of the energy. If they need to tailor the set accordingly and not load it with songs harder for her voice then by all means do it since there are no breaks between these two shows. Night 2 immediately follows night 1 with no day off between. Probably good to avoid Given Up, APFMH, etc.

NOW we're ready for the 5th show of the Australia and New Zealand run! Unfortunately, Linkin Park had to cancel the last show in Adelaide, Australia because of an illness in the band, likely Emily being sick as we saw in Melbourne. If you recall on night 2, the band had to cut both "Stained" and "Heavy Is the Crown" (after 77 straight shows) from the setlist with Emily letting the crowd sing a good portion of some of the songs. Emily made up for it with her increased energy on-stage, and fans that went to both shows seem to have preferred the night 2 show even more than night 1! So with an unfortunate cancelations in Adelaide, and the band arriving in Sydney already, it looks like the band will forge ahead with these shows. What remains to be determined is if they will have to cut or change any part of the show to accommodate, so we'll see. LP unfortunately won't be able to make it back to Adelaide, as the venue is booked after New Zealand and it costs a fortune to bring a small army + tour production +the band, etc 19 hours from LA... and they won't hit the region more than once per album. So we hope they can make it back to Adelaide next album and make it up for those fans. Lucky, the Bern 2025 canceled show was able to be rescheduled to a stadium show in Zurich for 2026, so that one is being made up. In a nice move for fans, LP opened the outside merch in Adelaide and sold souvenirs for fans for very discounted prices. Sydney will be Linkin Park's 9th and 10th shows in the city. The very first tour, the US-to-Europe Tour in 2001, that they played Sydney on featured a show at the Enmore Theatre where the fans quite literally broke the floor of the venue. Here's Mike's comments on it: "okay, so the australian shows have been banannas. i think it's safe to say a show has gone well when the kids leave behind them a BROKEN CLUB FLOOR. when everyone cleared out of the enmore theatre in sydney, there was a 20-foot circle where the floor had been smashed down about 18 lower than where it was supposed to be. the crowd was so out of hand that they broke the floor. and tonight in melbourne, we had the biggest turnout that we've had on a headlining show. we can't wait to see what happens in brisbane. --Mike" This Sydney show may have been the first-ever Linkin Park show with an encore break, too, but we are not completely sure on the setlist for it. But starting your career in a city with breaking the venue floor is really something! The next show in Sydney came during Meteora and was on the Livid Festival at Moore Park. There's sadly no setlist from that show, but a guy that filmed the show and got caught, handing his tape over, somehow managed to grab the last two songs of that show. Chester is a monster in this performance, check it out! The entire fall 2003 run in Australia and Asia for Linkin Park was quite great... as we know from the Tokyo Budokan shows that are pretty legendary in the community and of course the Seoul show on Meteora|20's box set. LP's first show at the arena came in 2007, where they actually elevated right away to being able to perform two shows. The Sydney Entertainment Centre (later Acer Arena, and now Qudos Bank Arena) hosted Linkin Park twice in 2007 Night 1 in 2007, Mike said, "There's this controversy going on between Auckland and Sydney as it applies to Linkin Park, because they claimed the venue the band played where you fans broke the floor was in Auckland. It was in Sydney!" Chester said, "Sydney is home to the crazy motherfuckers that broke the venue!" These two 2007 shows were very, very solid shows and came right after Chester broke his wrist in Melbourne on the tour. In 2010, Linkin Park returned for their largest tour of Australia ever and played two more shows in Sydney. What's interesting is they sandwiched the Melbourne shows on the tour, with night 2 coming 4 days after night 1. Night 2 featured the second-ever LPU Summit, where fans were treated to an incredibly rare performance of "The Little Things Give You Away" acoustic by Mike and Chester. The band performed a whopping nine shows in just Australia that tour which is quite impressive. Judging by the size of the crowds this tour, it seems they could even get back to that on the next album or so because of ticket sales. On the LIVING THINGS Tour in 2013, Linkin Park played Soundwave across the country and of course added another headlining show at the arena as well... with Stone Sour. Lucky! The Soundwave show is the one where Chester saw a fan down in the crowd and had the band stop "Points of Authority" so security could handle it and help the person out. Soundwave in 2013 featured absolutely wild crowds for the bands in general, and especially Linkin Park. That's what happens when Metallica plays after you - we love to see it. We sure do wish 2013 had the DSPs (Digital Souvenir Packages) going because the Australia and New Zealand setlists rocked! This will be Linkin Park's first visit to Sydney since 2013, quite a long time, and they're here for two shows. We are guaranteed to get some unique setlists and we'll see if "Given Up", one of the only rotation songs not played yet, pops up. We're sending our thoughts and wishes out to the band and hoping they can end the tour on a high note. Speaking of note... we are definitely remembering we need to head down to Australia next time Linkin Park tours there as the shows are always exceptional. This tour started with four amazing shows and with three left and a handful of the rarest From Zero World Tour rotation songs popping out, we definitely want to go down sometime. Sydney for 2 shows and Auckland to close it - we're looking forward to it! If you're going to the shows, have an amazing time and if you're able to check out the From Zero Nights or the pop-ups, then you're in great shape and making the rest of us jealous. Here's the last setlist in Melbourne, for night 2, so we'll be taking the next step from that one when the band gets on stage in Sydney. We're looking for you, "Unshatter" and "Let You Fade"! Bring on Sydney!

It's not practicable to do something like that. Emily is the band's singer. They never played without Chester. Some members are not replaceable to the show and you must cancel. We know they can replace guitar, DJ, and bass. Mike and Emily are not a part of that equation and I bet Yoshi can't play the full show on drums either. Mike is not able to sing lead an entire set of what LP is trying to play, which is a lot of the new album and past heavier songs.

UPDATE: This show has been canceled. Please see the band’s statement: Original show thread: Four shows down in Australia! Linkin Park takes the fifth show of the tour over to Adelaide, Australia in the central part of the country next. Adelaide was a late addition to the tour, being the last Australian date added to the run. With Linkin Park skipping Perth this tour (likely due to its geographic distance in relation to the other concerts), Adelaide is as far west in the country as Linkin Park will go. And it's still pretty...east in the country. Located on the St. Vincent Gulf, Adelaide is a city Linkin Park has played three times previously - in 2007, 2010, and 2013. The 2007 show came the day after Chester broke his wrist in Melbourne, and the band ended up canceling zero shows for it. While dropping "Shadow of the Day" from that second night in Melbourne (since Chester couldn't play guitar, obviously), they kept it in the setlist in Adelaide with Mike's guitar tech Kurt playing guitar on the song. The very next show after that, armed with a brand new (second) cast, Chester resumed playing guitar. Wow! Setlist-wise in 2007, Linkin Park played their standard Set A with "Wake" and "Given Up" opening and the electric encore that featured "One Step Closer", "In The End", and "Bleed It Out". That show was released a a Digital Souvenir Package download, which you can listen to anytime. Linkin Park returned in 2010 on the A Thousand Suns World Tour to Adelaide, and debuted a brand new setlist at that show. "Wretches And Kings", "Lying From You", and "Given Up" got things going in that show, which featured "Leave Out All The Rest" in the middle of the show too in a unique move on the touring cycle. That show was also released. 2013 was the third show in Adelaide, a part of the Soundwave Festival in the country and part of the last tour Linkin Park had in Australia before this tour. Perhaps the most unique part of that show is not the setlist itself, but the fact that Mike walked on stage before "Faint" to play guitar on "Tinfoil", something he almost always did off-stage before the show. So with the brief history of the band performing in Adelaide (and that's no knock on the city - they have gotten three great, consistent shows from LP), let's take a look at what transpired at the last show in Melbourne. Where do we even begin about Melbourne? It's safe to say Linkin Park fucking loves performing in Melbourne, because seemingly every visit they have to the city, and especially Rod Laver Arena, they have some special moment occur. It just happens that way sometimes! Rod Laver is also one of their most-performed venues in the world now. Well, we have all seen Linkin Park bust out the rarities this tour. "Unshatter", "Let You Fade", and "Keys To The Kingdom" all came back to life after nearly half of a year off. Perhaps the most surprising part of that is that the last performance for all three of those (quite rare, at this point) songs is that they were ALL played in Portland in 2025. Aaaaand not since then, until Australia. Boy, if you happened to catch that Portland show, your show experience aged like fine wine. And you know what else returned in Melbourne for night 2? "A Place For My Head"! Mike celebrated by going down to the crowd to rock out. But they happened to keep "In The End" in the setlist this time too... if you know, you know! Shout out to 2013 here. As you likely have seen on social media, Emily was a bit sick in Melbourne, so Linkin Park had to cut several songs from the show. That is quite rare, but it has happened before - remember Chester had both "My December" and "P5hng Me A*wy" dropped in 2004 after being sick. And there have been a few other drops over time too. What's impressive is Emily's energy at the show in Melbourne. Where she felt under the weather vocally, she made it up with the energy on the stage... and in the crowd. In the crowd you say? Yep, remember how she jumped into the pit in Raleigh on "IGYEIH"? Well, she crowd surfed on "Two Faced" in Melbourne on the bridge. If you watch that show, check out her energy throughout - she seems to have made a conscious effort to give a bit extra to make up for it. Hey, everyone gets sick at some point or another and we're just glad she played the show! Both "Stained" and "Heavy Is The Crown" were cut, but both songs will be at other Australian shows for fans lucky enough to see them there, and who knows, maybe they pop back up at future Melbourne shows... which actually does seem likely. This is quite a nice setlist - who wouldn't want both "From The Inside" and "Keys To The Kingdom" in the same setlist? Nice, right? #JusticeForTheHuntingParty, as the kids say. What's left for Adelaide, song-wise, you ask? Well, "Given Up" is a rotation song that hasn't popped up in Australia yet so we could see that one. If the band is feeling good about "Unshatter" and "Let You Fade", we could also see those pop up. And "Stained" may get a "make-up" play after getting cut at the last show. This show is just a one night show, their first and only in Australia on this tour, but Auckland, New Zealand also gets one night after Sydney. Only three shows left after Adelaide, sadly! Maybe in the future, they can perform even more shows in Australia as it's safe to say that this tour is a smash hit with fans, the casual music fans in Australia, and the rock press there. These shows have been getting fantastic reviews so far, and some attendees in Melbourne are even saying they preferred the second night over the first, even with Emily being a bit under the weather. Well, with setlists like those, it's hard to complain about anything in Brisbane and Melbourne honestly! After this show, Linkin Park heads over to Sydney for two nights which we know will be quite exciting shows. Here's to hoping Emily feels better soon and the band brings it in Adelaide as they have all tour so far! Rock on and we'll see you over on social media! Have a great time if you are going to the show!

She was legit sick at this show, watch Lost, From the Inside, Keys, etc. She seems to make up for it by being so energetic. She is really blowing up at this show lol Awesome performance - once again Melbourne gets some amazing LP nights, rare songs, etc. They kick ass in Melbourne.

Wow this is really good!

Boy, has Linkin Park hit the ground running in Australia or what? After remarkably great shows in Brisbane by all accords, especially fan reviews, press reviews, and social media comments, the band hit Melbourne for night 1 in stride and delivered one of their best setlists in quite some time on the world tour. Why is that? Well, they included "Lying From You", "Castle of Glass", "IGYEIH", "Good Things Go", and... the big return of "Let You Fade"! This was the first performance of "Let You Fade" since the Portland 2025 show, about 16 shows ago for Linkin Park. At a period of 170 days, that's very close to half of an entire calendar year between performances of the song. It follows its other Deluxe Edition rarity, "Unshatter", coming back after an extended break. "Unshatter" was performed at Brisbane night 2, and both songs could very well be back in the setlist now. Another fun note about the show is that it's the first time since Hannover, Germany 2025 where Emily played guitar on 3 songs in the show - "Up From The Bottom", "Over Each Other", and "Let You Fade". That sure doesn't happen much, and fans seem to be pretty pleased about it. Do you think fans missed the song much? And check out this great shot: With that in mind, we know they are going to bring it on night 2. At this point, there are a handful of songs they haven't gotten to yet in Australia but no one is complaining even 0.1% on this tour because the song variety has been fantastic. We could see "Given Up" and "A Place for My Head" pop into the show at some point this run, but also we think "Keys to the Kingdom" isn't outside of the realm of being possible, because of the return of both "Unshatter" and "Let You Fade". Will we see a bit of #JusticeForTheHuntingParty? Fan reviews from night 1 in Melbourne mention quite a rowdy and loud crowd, which echoes a lot of the comments about Brisbane. This will go down as one of the best legs of the From Zero World Tour when it is all said and done, we think. We are unsure what to expect for night 2 but we're looking forward to another great one by the band in this storied (in the LP world) city. Last thread, we touched on Chester's broken wrist, the debut of "Blackout" and "Burning in the Skies" in 2010, and the band playing a show at Rod Laver Arena in 2013 that is one of the only times in their career where they didn't perform "In the End". But since we didn't post it - don't miss the debut of "Burning in the Skies" in 2010. Like many fans, we think more A Thousand Suns songs live over time will sound great with this version of the band's lineup. And here's another angle of that really unique show without "In the End" - which clearly won the fan poll but the band said, "screw it, it's time for "A Place for My Head"! Anyway, back to 2026. We're gearing up for the second Melbourne show and know LP will bring it. After Melbourne, they head over to play one show in Adelaide, followed by two in Sydney and one in Auckland. The reception on this tour has been so good for the band's return that we can't help but think they could play even more shows in Australia and New Zealand (especially Perth, Australia and a second show in Auckland, New Zealand) next time they visit. And we know it won't be 13 years between visits. If you need the fantastic night 1 setlist, here you go: If you're going to the show, have a great time! Check out the From Zero pop-up event in Melbourne, check out the Melbourne LP logo street art, and if you go to the band's From Zero night, we hope it's a blast! See you over on socials for the show!

Mike wouldn't have said this on the album's release if, at bare minimum, there wasn't at least some thought about Chester at some point in writing it: "Songs mean different things to different people. I want to give everyone room for their interpretation of the lyrics to "Let You Fade," at least for now. We don't need to decide on the "right" meaning behind this song. Just let the song's meaning come from the listener. All of your interpretations are welcome. Feel free to share them below; there are no wrong answers. Your version of the meaning doesn't have to be everyone's version. It can be about different things to different people." The lyrics are obviously about a relationship of some sort, with these lines: I know I'm the one that you wanna forget, but I'll remember you No matter where our ways may take us to And even when the memories slip away My take is it's not explicitly about Chester but you can think of anyone and anything when writing a song, and those lyrics may have brought feelings of him out for the songwriters (Mike specifically). Who truly knows but him. He hasn't spoken about it but knows there is a big connection between fans and Chester with the song, even if it wasn't written explicitly about him (which it wasn't).

Wow that is an amazing one. Lying From You, IGYEIH, Good Things Go, the return of Let You Fade. The 2 night stands are the best. They treat them quite well.

After two great shows in Brisbane to kick off their first tour of Australia and New Zealand in 13 years, Linkin Park is well-rested with two full off days before heading into Melbourne for another two night run! Starting the tour off at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, a venue all-too-familiar with them (both kicking off and ending tours there previously), the band already has started pulling out some fun songs throughout the shows. But we'll get to that in a bit. The first thing to mention is the very strong social media reaction and rock press coverage of the Brisbane shows. Rock outlets and music fans in general in Australia are walking away impressed from the band's first shows there in over 4,000 days. There is quite an outpouring of reviews and opinions on the Brisbane shows, with big high fives and celebrations all around. scenestr said, "Armstrong sprays fans with foam streamers, tossing the can to a fan who clutchs their keepsake for dear life. 'In The End'. I read the faces of the front barrier die-hard fans and I see all I need to know to confirm they are losing their sh.t! Over-singing. Arms slung over shoulders or fist pumping to the beat. One girl crying through the first verse and not wiping it away. A bloke next to her yelling every word like he's trying to warn her about the demon he's trying to outrun. Around 13,000 voices carrying lines that once belonged to one. Loud. Cracked. Human. No sterile arena perfection. Maybe my eyes are stinging too." Music Feeds says, "If Brisbane’s launch show is any indication, it’s equal parts tribute, celebration and fresh start – with a setlist that manages to honour the past while making space for the future. And yep, you will almost certainly lose your voice by the time In The End rolls around." And perhaps biggest of all, Rolling Stone Australia/New Zealand titles their article "Linkin Park Ignite a New Spark at Opening Australian Shows in Brisbane" and adds, "Armstrong is a genuinely extraordinary vocalist" and "The closing stretch — “Numb”, “In the End”, a lung-shredding “Faint” — arrived with the weight of songs that have meant something to too many people for too long to ever feel routine." Bluntmag follows with more celebratory comments about Emily. Comments on Facebook from these same outlets are getting hundreds of comments of people saying things like "best show of my life", etc, which is typical, but the outpouring of support in Australia across the board is pretty strong just from these two shows compared to what we usually see. So what even happened in Brisbane? The band played two shows, one with Set A that included "Points of Authority", "Crawling", "Over Each Other", "Castle of Glass" (first performance of 2026", "Casualty" (also first performance of 2026), "Stained", and "From the Inside" - songs not in every show. Night 2 two days later, sandwiched by an off day with the From Zero Night in Brisbane, brought in a different order and "New Divide", "Cut the Bridge", "Lies Greed Misery"...aaaaand... Linkin Park surprised us all with a performance of the rarity "Unshatter" on night 2. Just when we thought the song could possibly be gone from the show, the band busted it back out. It was not played for 15 shows, which doesn't sound like much until you realize that span goes back 167 days, nearly half of a calendar year. The only three performances of it came on the North American leg 2 run in Los Angeles, San Jose, and Portland. Linkin Park used soundchecks on that tour to get the song worked up as a surprise for the Los Angeles show, and they kept it in rotation for a few more shows before the end of that leg of the tour. However, it was not seen at all in South America, Mexico, the Middle East, or India. Now, with the band back in arenas and out of their big stadium/festival/outdoor production for a bit, we are wondering if the other missing songs could possibly show back up this leg too. And by that, we're talking about the newer fan-favorite "Let You Fade" and of course the big representative of The Hunting Party - "Keys to the Kingdom". We will see what the rest of the tour has to offer, but with several two-night runs coming up in Melbourne and Sydney, we wouldn't rule either of these songs out and we think it's entirely possible they both pop up. Fingers crossed! We say that about hopefully seeing these songs in the show, not just because we like following every show, but because after the From Zero era, you have to think Linkin Park won't carry ALL thirteen From Zero songs into the next era with the sets. Of course, the big songs will carry over and a few favorites (we could see "Overflow" making it into 2027+) will too, but songs like "Let You Fade", "Unshatter", "Good Things Go", "IGYEIH"... the rarest of those could have to spend some time on the shelf in favor of brand new music they are making. And speaking of brand new music, we've seen several shots of Linkin Park in the studio lately too.... But back to Australia, we also wanted to point out, like the comments we mentioned above, that Emily's voice right now sounds quite good. Listen to how clean the chorus is here from her on "Cut the Bridge". We're not sure if it's from being more comfortable than ever with each LP show she plays, or the downtime truly is great for her between shows/tour legs, but we are impressed! One other thing from Brisbane before we move on - as he sometimes does, Colin showed up to surprise fans at the From Zero Night (exclusively for LPU members) in Brisbane and take photos and sign items. Alright, that's what took place in Brisbane. What about Melbourne? Oh, Linkin Park fans know Melbourne well. Really well. VERY well, in fact. The city on the southern coast of Australia is no stranger to Linkin Park and this will be LP's 9th show in the city. And 10th show, because we have a night 2 here as well. Similar to Brisbane, Linkin Park first played the city at the Festival Hall in Melbourne on their crazy US-to-Europe Tour in May 2001. We actually have a pretty rare Hybrid Theory-era setlist from that show. Notably, and while this probably took place at the Sydney show a few days prior in 2001 as well, this is the first confirmed show Linkin Park ever had an encore break at. In 2003, the iconic Livid Festival actually performed at the Rod Laver Arena, where Linkin Park is performing again this time. We don't have a setlist from that show but it's very likely they performed the standard fall 2003 set at that time (you know, what you see on Live in Texas, pretty much). In Brisbane, Mike asked fans if Fort Minor played in the city because he couldn't remember, and Emily commented that he was too drunk to remember... Mike said "actually, yes" - ha. We're happy to say that yes, Brisbane and Melbourne both got Fort Minor shows in 2006. Check out that setlist by FM in 2006 - phew. All the deep cuts. In Melbourne, it was actually DJ Cheapshot's (Styles of Beyond) birthday so you know there was some partying going on. The band's first-ever two night run in Melbourne came in 2007 for Minutes to Midnight and it's a routine they have stuck to since then. And this is really where the fun history in Melbourne for the band begins. Night 1 in 2007 featured perhaps one of the rarest sets of 2007, the Set B (if you were following back then) with "No More Sorrow" opening, but with "Shadow of the Day" into "What I've Done" like the album has and "Hands Held High" in the middle.... with a super unique encore of "The Little Things Give You Away", "Cure for the Itch", "One Step Closer", and "Faint". Who wouldn't want to see THAT? And with Chris Cornell opening? Night 2 in Melbourne that tour is one of the most memorable live moments in Linkin Park history. Why? That's the very show where Chester broke his wrist. And then continued on and played the rest of the show. Yes, THAT show. We'll let the LPTV episode do the talking. Crazy, right? And the story doesn't stop there. Chester was playing guitar on "Shadow of the Day" on this tour. The next show after this, Mike's tech Kurt played guitar for Chester on it. And the show after that? Chester got a new cast (after his original one) and was right back playing guitar himself on the song. And after that? He started going back into the crowd on the tour with the cast on. What a badass. We miss Chester greatly and that's just one of a million incredible stories about the guy. You should really listen to that entire show - because he didn't even stop the band to look at his wrist until 6 songs later. The craziness in Melbourne doesn't stop there, either. In 2010, Linkin Park hit the ground running on A Thousand Suns big time with most of the songs on the album. Of the ones not in the show at the time, fan requests were heavy for "Blackout" and "Burning in the Skies" to be played. And that's exactly what debuted at Melbourne night 2, 2010. Thanks to the amazing @mikeatron85, we have an amazing video of "Blackout" from that show. And it doesn't even stop THERE! The band returned in 2013 for Soundwave across the country and added headline arena shows in both Sydney and Melbourne. At that arena show in Melbourne, a famous poll happened in the crowd. At the LPU Meet and Greet, some of the fans told Mike they were attending multiple shows on the tour, as is common for the Australian tours by Linkin Park. So during the encore that night, after "Burn It Down", Mike and Chester took a poll. Did fans want to hear "In the End", or did they want to hear "A Place for My Head"? You can probably guess which one the crowd was louder for. And it's obvious in the crowd reaction on video. But Chester said it's time to fucking play "A Place for My Head" and that's exactly what they did. Adding to it, after the show, a fan tweeted him and said they were quite disappointed the band didn't play "In the End", to which Chester said, "Come to the second Melbourne show!" Ha! You'll want to see the full video of the commentary between the songs here: So now here we are 13 years later, back in Melbourne! What could happen? Well, as we've seen the last... 6 shows in Melbourne - anything can happen. Any song is up for grabs and we are likely to see a surprise or something fun take place. Linkin Park has treated this city very well for the past 20 years and we expect the same to happen again. We're pretty excited, and you should be too. If you're going to the shows, have an amazing time and we'll catch you on social media and of course for night 2. LP takes a day off between the two shows, and is back on March 10th for night 2 before heading back out across Australia. Cheers to the 7th and 8th shows at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne for Linkin Park - we're excited for these!

Unshatter return: Wanted to point out Emily's vocals on Cut the Bridge are super clean. She is singing it about 5-10% higher than before, and it sounds phenomenal. She is really doing well.

Unshatter returns!

They do day of show production hold drops but that is risky to wait that long. But it is possible. Usually these are good seats and not the pit. Otherwise you are best to ask around for fans that have plans change and they need to sell tickets.

Same artist from the Auckland poster did the Brisbane FZ Night poster.

No one beat us to posting it lol. We took some time off before the Australia/NZ Tour.

@RogueSoul makes an appearance in the newest LPTV from the band! "Linkin Park's 2026 From Zero World Tour kicks off with stops in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and their first ever shows in India. The band explores local landscapes and sights and Colin crashes a cricket game."

We're back in Brisbane for Linkin Park's second night of two, and the conclusion of their first-ever two night stand in Brisbane! Since we went over the band's history in Brisbane on the Night 1 thread, let's review what took place at the first show of the tour in Australia. First, the band "brought back" both "Castle of Glass" and "Casualty" in the show. We use quotations there and use the phrase lightly because they were not performed on the Middle East + India leg of the tour in January, but four shows total is not really enough to say if a song has been dropped from the rotation yet or not. But, luckily both are still in and were performed at the tour kickoff! "Castle of Glass" in Brisbane, its first performance of 2026. Next, Mike rapped familiar verses in the show - "Until It Breaks" verse 3 over his solo medley and "A Place for My Head" verse 1 over "Bleed It Out". We do think while "A Place for My Head" itself was not performed in January 2026, it will make an appearance this tour in Australia and New Zealand in full (not just as a verse). Other than that, the show was pretty standard but solid. We noticed they sold the show in the "endstage 360" setup similar to Tokyo, Austin, and Arnhem... aka, the band plays endstage as usual but seats are sold behind the stage and on the side of the stage for fans to be able to see the band. And when that happens, we see some fun moments where Emily, Alex, Joe, etc run around to play to and hype up those fans. Mike mentioned before "Faint", "I don't know if you know this or not but when the album From Zero came out, one of the biggest fan responses in the world that we got was here in Australia. The Linkin Park fans here have always been incredible, but that was just above and beyond. So thank you guys so much for supporting the band in this new chapter and new cycle." With Linkin Park selling out multiple nights (or coming very close) in three cities now, it seems like they are on the verge of upgrading venues in Australia one day - perhaps the next album or so - like they have done in Europe and South America. This show in Brisbane was their 30th Australian show overall, with 6 more lined up this month over the next few weeks. Brisbane night 1 setlist with 7 song rotations. And there was a funny moment on Mike's solo medley when he went down, saw a fan from Brazil with a sign wanting a tattoo, drew a penis and then laughed and drew a real tattoo for the kid. Aaaand that photo has now made it to social media. So what can we expect for night 2? Well, there were 7 song rotations in the show night 1 - "Points of Authority", "Crawling", "Over Each Other", "Castle of Glass", "Casualty", "Stained", and "From the Inside". There are a lot left on the table, and we're going to assume some of these pop into the night 2 show - "Lying From You", "New Divide", "Cut the Bridge", "IGYEIH", "Lies Greed Misery", "A Place for My Head", and "Good Things Go". What exactly the band will play is totally up in the air as the rotations right now are pretty random and are just whatever they are feeling at the moment. "Papercut" live in Brisbane, with Emily shooting silly string into the audience at the start... similar to a move Mike pulled on "A Place for My Head" at Nashville 2008. We're still looking for the elusive "Unshatter", "Let You Fade", and "Keys to the Kingdom" that have seemingly disappeared from the shows, but we're holding out hope they show up at some point, even sporadically, this year. Or another older track like "With You". One thing we are happy to see in the setlists is that "From the Inside" is in a LOT of the recent concerts. After debuting in Mexico for the first time with Emily, Colin, and Alex, fans immediately fell in love with the vocal take from Emily on it and it has gone on to be a big fan-favorite on the world tour. What's next for Linkin Park on this tour? They have two days off before heading to Melbourne for two nights, to repeat the Night 1, day off, Night 2 series there. A lot of interesting moments in the band's history have taken place in Melbourne, so we're looking forward to LP hopefully adding to that this time. Adelaide, Sydney, and Auckland follow. We'll catch you for Brisbane night 2 and are excited to see what they bring out for song rotations! If you're going to the show, have an amazing time!

It's time! Linkin Park is back on tour and is visiting a familiar location that they haven't been to in a VERY long time.... Australia! It has been 4,747 days since Linkin Park was last in Australia, playing Perth for the Soundwave Festival alongside icons like Metallica, Blink-182, A Perfect Circle, and more. That's a LONG time. According to Download Festival's promoter, Linkin Park was actually going to return at the beginning of 2018 to Australia, so the wait wasn't going to be nearly this long. That all comes full circle now as the band heads down under to both Australia and New Zealand for 8 shows in just over 2 weeks to play their first-ever two night stand in Brisbane, with other two-night runs in Melbourne and Sydney, peppered with shows in Adelaide and Auckland. The band Polaris will be joining for all Australia dates, with Vana joining in Auckland. Did you know Linkinpedia has a tracker now to show you all shows in a city Linkin Park has played? Check this out. Brisbane is no stranger to the band's touring, with Linkin Park having played five shows there previously. Sadly, we have no setlist for the inaugural show in Brisbane in May 2001 - that crazy tour that took them from the USA to Australia and New Zealand to Japan, the USA again, and then Europe. Holy shit! But what we do know from a review is that it is likely the first time Chester played "Jane Says" by one of his favorite bands Jane's Addiction, to open the encore. LP didn't have enough songs to fill the entire setlist in 2001 with Hybrid Theory songs because the album was so short, so we saw some Hybrid Theory EP songs over the course of the touring cycle as well as covers and more. "Jane Says" was a brief one in the show and that tour even saw "The Morning After" by Chester too. That first tour down under took LP to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Auckland, before heading to Japan for their first visit there too. "Jane Says" by Chester live in Japan 2001, as we don't have a recording from Australia. Sadly in 2003, we didn't have a setlist for that show either but Linkin Park didn't change the set much at that exact time of the Meteora tour, so it's very likely it's just the normal headline setlist that they then added songs to in Tokyo (and of course Seoul that we have from the Meteora 20 box set). Brisbane was a part of the legendary Livid Festival in Australia (which sadly is no more) as Linkin Park played Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane on that journey to Australia. Interestingly, they were able to add a massive headline show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between the Melbourne and Brisbane shows. We are pretty partial to the 2007 Brisbane show, as the band was firing on all cylinders to close the New Zealand and Australia Tour. There is nothing super eventful from this show, but sometimes that's the best - LP kicks the door in and burns the place down with an amazing performance. If you have followed along with Linkin Park setlists for a long time, you may remember this is the famous "Set B" from 2007. That's the one with "No More Sorrow" opening (boy, where's that song these days?) and it had "QWERTY" in-and-out of it for a bit in the summer. But look how unique the run of songs is - you actually got to see "Shadow of the Day" with the album transition right into "What I've Done" in the middle of the set, something they didn't do very much, and then an interesting placement of "Hands Held High" between "Pushing Me Away" (Piano Version)" and "Breaking the Habit". And that encore? Wow. "The Little Things Give You Away", "Cure for the Itch", "Bleed It Out" with Chester in the crowd (with a broken wrist! ...wild), and "Faint". Damn! Hey, we'd welcome ANY of those songs back that they aren't currently playing! This is a very good show and worth a listen today. Brisbane 2007... an excellent show! Linkin Park returned again in 2010 to Brisbane on the A Thousand Suns World Tour. At this point, Australia was really steady on the touring consistency from the band and things really didn't start becoming abnormal until The Hunting Party when LP skipped the region entirely. In 2010, the band performed their main "A-1" setlist to kick off the tour, the most common at the time, but were able to sing Happy Birthday to Brad on the intro of "The Messenger", who celebrated his birthday two days prior before the tour kicked off. We are keeping track of the Happy Birthday celebrations on show pages/the wiki, and we know we have another one coming for Joe in Sydney this tour. Happy Birthday Brad! Chester jokes that Brad didn't get to celebrate because of the massive time change when traveling to Australia. Linkin Park's last show in Brisbane before this current tour was on Soundwave 2013. Linkin Park played a great set and interestingly, "Castle of Glass" was actually in this festival setlist in the middle, but the band dropped it because of issues with Brad's keypad. Chester, in a funny comment, said, "Fuck that, let's play A Place for My Head!", but as we saw several times on that tour, the band's set time was very limited because Metallica played after them and they didn't have time to actually swap songs around mid-show like they sometimes did on the LIVING THINGS World Tour (and A Thousand Suns, for that matter when technical issues occurred. There actually not a ton of GREAT videos from that show, probably because the crowd was having such a blast and Soundwave was known for some truly rowdy crowds. "With You" - a common track across the entire LIVING THINGS World Tour, but a very rare track since then. So what can we expect from Australia 2026? We know the band will change 7-8 songs a show at their two-night runs and we wouldn't expect anything different for Brisbane. What we also know is "Let You Fade", "Unshatter", and "Keys to the Kingdom" have gone missing and haven't been seen since the North American Tour last summer/fall. We might need some wanted posters out there for those songs. And there hasn't been a "new OLD song" added to the show, aka something from the back catalog, in quite a while either. We'd love to see "With You", "Shadow of the Day", or anything else they're willing to play. Let's see... we didn't get anything new for the South American Tour and the Middle East + India Tour recently... so we aren't sure what they will do! What we do know is that we'll be covering the shows as usual and we're excited for the band to be back "down under"! If you're going to the tour, have a great time and enjoy Brisbane. We're hoping the band continually returns to the region with the new lineup and they keep playing these nice two-night stands which lets fans see so many songs. Next up... night 2 actually comes after an off day between shows in an interesting/new move from the band. So, no show tomorrow but they are back for night 2 in Brisbane on the 5th before heading over to Melbourne. We'll see you over on social media for the show coverage! Drop your predictions or what you'd like to see below, if you have any! We really want them to add something from the back catalog to the show because so many songs haven't been played in a very long time. Maybe we'll get lucky with one...?

They are just fan events, some with exclusive merch and giveaways and exclusive items (like the From Zero LP logo from the deluxe edition photoshoot). Good way to hang with other fans. Have been to a few and they are not bad.