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A new interview with Dave and Colin from the Rock for People show has been posted.

Wanted to add something about the 2008 show. I am not saying I had anything to do with it, I am just saying the band made great moves with the set. There was a setlist idea thread at the time and I posted in December 2007 and posted like: they should totally play My December, Valentine's Day, open with What I've Done, and fucking bring back A Place for My Head. And add the Krwlng intro to Crawling. Around this time, people were taking petitions to the band at M&Gs to get APFMH back. lol Anyway they played this Hannover show and I wish our site forum went back that far because that's one of the best reactions to a show in the fanbase literally ever. The new set had What I've Done AMBO intro that blew people away, APFMH returned, it had 2 encores, the Valentine's Day debut, My December, etc. It was literally like the whole community going "holy shit!!" So I will be listening to that show today in honor of them being back in Hannover. It was totally ironic/funny I gave some ideas like that and they ended up doing most of them lol. As far as soundchecks go, they definitely didn't soundcheck at the festivals because LP is not getting there at 8-9am for a festival & it is usually the crew playing songs over the PA. But they very well could be on stage running through the From Zero stuff in Hannover. This would make sense since they didn't do full band rehearsals in Europe for this tour. That seems likely. Enjoy the show!

Stained was a song I liked probably the least on the album when it dropped and once I saw it live I became a big fan of it. Same for IGYEIH. Both come off well live. I really hate to say it as Good Things Go is my favorite song on the studio album, but that song live is just not the best in terms of the new material. It's fine but changing the tuning on it I feel like detracts from the song. I of course want to see it a lot but I think it literally may be the weakest of the new From Zero songs. Even Over Each Other has a pretty big punch live.

Agreed about Alex improving big time. Still wonder if the "had to learn all the songs in 3 days" thing he said is accurate - he's said it twice and that would really make a lot of sense for the sound, but regardless he's only getting better as well as the rest of the band. It's natural that there would be an adjustment period with essentially a brand new band on stage. Loving the shows lately. There are a lot of social media negative comments about Nova Rock. That's odd. They say Emily isn't moving enough on stage. Yeah, she stays on the micstand for pretty much all of SIB and lets the crowd sing much of Crawling, but... almost an odd thing to complain about because she is sounding good. Noticed she touches her ears on SIB at Nova Rock - wonder if they had the same type of in-ear monitor issues that they had at Welcome to Rockville recently. She doesn't sound overly sick or anything to me watching this show.

That's the only one we don't have the set times for yet, which is quite odd.

Interesting Mike already knew ASAP they had a longer set at show 2 than show 1. If he's saying both Points and LFY (2 of the 3 on the poll), then WFTE could get played. Let's see what happens. This appears to be the longest set time they get in Europe on this tour at a festival. The rest so far appear to be 90 minutes while this is 100 minutes.

A song Linkin Park has not publicly talked about yet... Stained! The Making Of for the song on LPTV is now out.

Surprised to see quite a bit of negativity on socials about the show. A lot of people didn't like it - said the band was not energetic enough, didn't engage the crowd much. That's interesting considering the energy is pretty similar to 2017, IMO. Also this article: https://www.krone.at/3812311 That's a big difference after they won over the U.S. rock crowds recently, especially the grand slam Sonic Temple performance which surprised the casuals a lot.

Lying From You sounds badass - especially that further back video. The guitar, specifically. Alex is really improving quickly; you can hear a pretty noticeable difference from the 2024 start of the touring. The band sounds great.

Think it just has to do with how busy their team and label are right now - the UEFA game into the Europe tour time period has been insanely busy for them. They'll definitely get to it. Thanks for compiling all of that and sending it.

If this is really the exclusive vinyl, I was hoping it would be a little cooler of a design or something for Germany as opposed to just a red vinyl and a white vinyl.

Not surprised at today's set with Rockville going over - they dropped the rotation spot. Let You Fade in there. Wouldn't surprise me if the exact set is used in Czechia. Overall a very solid show and glad they are playing Overflow, but especially Lying From You which needs to be in every show.

Yes Werchter 2017 was webcasted. That's a great show, and the setlist is fantastic. Wanted that Heavy intro by Brad to keep evolving over time... https://www.facebook.com/rockwerchterfestival/posts/10155420937705699?__cft__[0]=AZU7sXcV8sxOJZjAzdQLAAQzm8rWbT9CdUKGoBiSqTaPGLC0JOFkID6Uq8kkUDePFWDsoBUxyunXGU1Gkwzk0tuLkUzMGGdP_bDXiaunm1cYJvPjj194AxRYa7aIAwHAc81inonuWUaInHzWNM3Mve7p9D2pI1M2NkOgQ70h9YyQjFYCK-gOSEsD3goItc-tZrg&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R https://linkinpedia.com/wiki/Live:20170701 Just saw we have no setlist pic from that show? That seems odd - will check my phone gallery archives from that tour in 2017, I thought we had one for all those shows.

Session mid-show with Joe and Colin on stage I think could be pretty cool. Agreed on show openers / encore openers. The new ones Mike made are insanely good.

I shared this with them before the LP comeback, @martinez - have you sent this to Adam? Happy to nudge it if you need me to.

Linkin Park has announced pop-up experiences in Germany for the tour, saying, "Germany - Join the From Zero World Tour Pop-Up Experience in a city near you. Find the Linkin Park bus filled with collectors’ items, limited edition merchandise, and plenty of surprises. Full details will be revealed on June 13th → http://linkinpark-bus.de" The website says, "The Linkin Park Bus is hitting the road. On board: exclusive merch, exclusive vinyl color, competitions, photobox and more. Come back for more details on June 13th." It looks like a new From Zero vinyl variant will be released on this tour of Germany. Stay tuned for more information, as well as more European event info as it comes out.

Ironically just listened to Grafenhainichen 2009 this morning and thought Session was awesome. Joe's DJ spot in the set is pretty short, but they did shorten Session when using it. Would love to see it pop back up.

Newsletter won't be show-by-show but will have highlights, yeah. It's like 3-4 sentences each for 3 topics. But this is the one spot on the Internet to come to learn every single thing about every show lol. The LPA one is a bit shorter. https://www.lpassociation.com/forum/threads/june-12-2025-nickelsdorf-austria-nova-rock-2025.47233/ Agreed. Did not know the Berlin show was 75,000 either. That is going to be a massive show. Rock Werchter was streamed in 2024 and 2023. That seems like a lock unless LP says no, which it doesn't make sense why they would say no since they are building the new era of the band. Seems like we can get that one.

Alright let's get this thing going. Really looking forward to the tour - we've covered a million shows over the years...20 years this year with updating actual setlists after shows. Wow. Nova Rock is as "LP' as it gets for a European Tour... it's right there with Rock am Ring in terms of consistency, etc for the band. There were rumors this year that the promoter paid an extra guarantee to the band to *not* play Rock am Ring & Rock im Park in 2025 so Nova Rock got an exclusive... have heard this several times since last fall. But the RaR/RiP promoter just says the band elected to play stadiums in Germany over festivals. It's good to see they can do a mixture on the world tour - maybe stadiums one year and just fewer stadiums + festivals the year after like they are doing with From Zero. Think we don't get any of these set changes until the first headline show in Hannover. LP got 90 minutes at Welcome to Rockville and *played over* by a full 10 minutes, finishing a few minutes after midnight. The set end time was 11:50pm. That's a 21 song set. They get 90 minutes again at Nova Rock - I could see them going down a song or something slightly shorter for this. I am not sure how strict the European festivals are on the set end times/curfews, but just a note that they indeed went over significantly at Rockville. The festival set is really good and the band should be coming in on quite a high for this tour. They hit a grand slam at Sonic Temple, really shocking the casual U.S. rock fans if you saw social media posts around the show/after the show. Rockville was also a good show. And then they had Munich's UEFA performance... they should really be ready for these stadiums and huge European festivals. These are the largest crowds they'll have played to with the new lineup. Rockville was the largest U.S. show they've ever played as a headliner (aka, like literally of any show but Live 8 in 2005). It will be so cool to see the stadiums in Berlin, Paris, London, etc with LP in them. This is something we would have never guessed would be happening even just 1 year ago. Wild. Also happy about the live guide updates we made - @Rasputin 93 is a legend. The tour will be quite fun to cover - let's do it. For Austria and Czechia I'll take the same set they just did at Sonic Temple and Rockville - keep Lying From You there, rotate around Casualty/APFMH/Given Up in that spot, and keep Let You Fade since it's new. That's a cool song at a festival. But if they want to rotate something else there, that's cool too.

That is absolutely insane. They just passed 500,000 tickets in Germany after the comeback if you are going by the "concert capacities" of all the venues in Germany in 2024-2026 + these 2 festivals so far. Crazy, crazy, crazy. LP is bigger than ever there and that's their largest market on the planet. For example - 11 shows in Germany = 500,000+ tickets. If you run a 9k/show average in the U.S. with one stadium show you're just over 300,000 tickets at 31/32 shows.

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The audio, the vocals especially, are definitely from Austin. Sure it's edited some to make it sharper but this sounds awesome. I A/B'd it to the audience recording and it isn't an insane change or anything. The mixing on these is A+ and this is a solid release. We really need a full show sometime in this quality. From the Inside would be a big one, and Lost, if they are working on more.

Topps has announced that they will be offering Linkin Park trading cards. A few of the cards will come signed, with stage-used guitar picks.

LP Europe - Summer 2026 2026.05.29 Stockholm 2026.06.01 Hamburg 2026.06.02 Hamburg Night 2? -or- 2026.06.03 Festival? No guesses on a festival that weekend 2026.06.05 Rock am Ring / Rock im Park 2026.06.07 Rock im Park / Rock am Ring 2026.06.09 Vienna 2026.06.11 Munich 2026.06.12 Munich Night 2 2026.06.14 Download UK? The date seems to line up. 2026.06.16 Lyon 2026.06.18 (-or- 19): Festival? Graspop Belgium, maybe, if they keep their recent date pattern? 2026.06.21 Rock in Rio Lisboa 2026.06.23 Madrid 2026.06.24 Madrid Night 2 - Possible? 2026.06.26 Florence

Wow this is massive.