Narc85

lol! the people at the front selling the tickets were definitely shocked. i actually lost count after the 6th ticket of mine was called! luckily they didn't all go to waste... i got to give one to my brother and another to the lady who was in a wheelchair. oh you have no idea how much i'd love to go to the chicago one but i think if i take any more leave from work i may actually have no job to come back to haha. my boss has been pretty tolerable so far, so i definitely wouldn't wanna push it!

LOL! oh wow... now this is weird... that guy was me :$ i hope to god it wasn't my brother walking around saying 'how's about that w*nker who bought 80 tickets' that let you know about that! lol

bumpity bump bump bump! so who off here is going to this thing tomorrow? mate and i from perth are going

dude... mason and i are impressed!

comon dude, you're being a little melodramatic... that was ONE song. the effects layered over his voice on it were barely noticeable anyways. all i'm saying is the general consensus seemed to be the polar opposite of your opinion. you're entitled to have one, as we all are... i'm just stating the fact that it is a minority opinion.

unfortunately the videos don't really do justice to either song - particularly burning in the skies (as i'm sure you've noticed ) in my opinion - burning in the skies was played better - but that would make sense since they have apparently been rehearsing it a lot longer than they've been rehearsing blackout. mate and i were more excited to see blackout - but we definitely noticed a few 'mistakes' - absolutely nothing major, whereas i thought burning in the skies was nearly flawless. both were great live and i certainly wasn't expecting BitS after confirming that blackout was going to be played! glad you all enjoyed the videos! i'll try get a better one for you on wednesday night of each.

oh that was last night oh... btw... BitS: (please remember what i said about the second half of the video before complaining! hehe)

absolutely no problem. BitS is about 15 minutes off - nowhere near as nice quality as this one but was the best i could do unfortunately. hopefully will be able to provide something nicer come wednesday

which should be accessible here: any minute now. i'm also going to leave burning in the skies uploading. i have to give you all an advanced warning - i only got the first minute or so of BITS on my good camera - the second half was captured with my iphone so pretty nasty audio quality, but gives you a good idea of how it was played live enjoy guys, im off to get some sleep!

could use a bit of that to fill in one of my small gaps. mine is about 3 minutes off finishing uploading - quality is... well, a bit nicer than that one but the sound isn't bad on that one

uploading as we speak - please be patient though - i'm using my iphone tethered to a laptop in our melbourne hotel to get this up - and chewing through a fair portion of my monthly quota to do so - all for you guys!!! i've used LPlive as a tag for the video but you can find my channel by searching for Narc85.

eeek. there's about 20-30 seconds missing due to battery change - i was going to record that song only but i had no idea when it would be coming up or if there'd be any other new stuff - so i tried to record from the beginning of the set and go as far as i could video on its way

coming guys fair chance you may have to wait a bit longer for BITS - im literally falling asleep at the laptop here just cracked an energy drink to get through blackout for you - plus, my camera went dead during BITS as well - so half of it was on the iphone - hardly what i'd consider good quality anyways, should be done soon

absolutely incredible hey. it made me view the show in an entirely different light actually... seeing this guy performing and knowing that his little kids were watching him somewhere in the stands just made me see it in a completely new way.

the live version with catalyst vocals/piano over the end of it.

lock it in buddy totally agreed. wonder how on earth wednesday could top that!

wwwworking on it

oh my god. you are absolutely correct. i don't know where W/J/L came from. sorry guys - yes it was the radiance. oh and robot boy - yep - myself and another answered that a bit further up

partial video coming

no worries at all guys (re: the tweets). it's quite easy when you're seated... much more pleasant atmosphere to tweet from lol just confirming the setlist now (and some notes): 01. The Requiem 02. Wretches & Kings 03. Lying From You 04. Given Up 05. What I've Done 06. No More Sorrow 07. From The Inside 08. Jornada Del Muerto 09. Waiting For The End 10. Blackout 11. Numb 12. Wisdom, Justice & Love 13. Burning In The Skies 14. Fallout 15. The Catalyst 16. Shadow Of The Day 17. In The End 18. Bleed It Out (APFMH over the bridge, followed by drum solo, singalong and ext. outro) ENCORE 19. Empty Spaces 20. When They Come For Me 21. Crawling (Chester into crowd during last chorus) 22. New Divide 23. Faint (no fan on guitar) 24. One Step Closer (ext. outro)

you asked me this on twitter hey? sorry i haven't replied yet! bit overwhelmed at the moment! but yes, as op4 confirmed, joe played that (i'm assuming we're talking about chester's sampled vocals in the middle of the track? (sorry, i just realised i've posted twice in a row, but i wanted to add that i took video of blackout and BITS - except my camera died in the middle of the both of them - so i'll splice together what i do have and get it uploaded for all of you)

so im back... and still blown away. i knew blackout was going to be played at least a few hours before the show - which is the surprise i was talking about on twitter. mike confirmed it during the M&G saying they weren't sure if they were ready to do it but we convinced them to try i must tell you all about something that happened tonight which, i would have to say, is the single coolest thing that has EVER happened to me. my friend and i were sitting in the catering area prior to the show - mike/phoenix/joe just metres away - when a small kid approaches me from behind, taps me on the shoulder and says 'daddy, why are you in your pyjamas already?' i looked at him with a face of disbelief, looked at my mate, then looked at the kids mother only to realise that there was talinda bennington with two of chester's kids. i just about died. a) because apparently my board shorts and nike t-shirt looked like pyjamas to a little kid (lol) and because i was being mistaken as chester by his own child. the poor kid buried his face into his mum while we had a chat. we talked about his hair (styled very similarly to his dad) and she commented on the sneakers i was wearing. seriously... still can't get over it hey... what an experience!

hey guys, yup will be tweeting again. also going to the M&G. anyone else going look for a dude in a white Nike t-shirt with 2 sneakers f***ing on it ;D

ha. you were clearly at a different show to everyone else in melbourne. the feedback i could hear from anyone i walked by after the show was astounding to say the least. not to mention the number of NEW linkin park t-shirts i saw walking around melbourne CBD today would suggest you are in a minority with that opinion. chester's voice, as has always been, was absolutely incredible last night.

oh wait... was this the first show to be announced? if it was then yep, it has sold out - but i thought last night looked pretty much sold out so who knows!