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I don't want to lay down a huge post in the thread but I think one really cool thing that I have learned and apply to my life almost daily is my knowledge of world geography due to this band. Seeing where shows happen, where tours go, where festivals are, etc has educated me quite well in world geography. I know capitals, etc extremely well and have learned things about random places such as Macau and Hong Kong due to the shows there.

The fourth show of the European Tour is a special one as Linkin Park returns to the Netherlands to perform in Amsterdam for the first time since September 24, 2001! In case you weren't counting, that's 4,792 days ago. And what a better way to coincide this cool event than by holding the 12th LPU Summit there on November 7th...which is exactly what Linkin Park is doing. Linkin Park has actually performed in the Netherlands a few times before, but it is often skipped when they play Europe, especially on headlining tours. In fact, this is the first non-festival headlining appearance they've had in the country since they were touring for Hybrid Theory. This show, at Ziggo Dome, will be their first arena show in the Netherlands and if the setlist trend continues (B, A, B, A, B, A, etc), then Amsterdam will get Setlist A. Their first show in the Netherlands actually came in Amsterdam, when they opened for the Deftones that March, and they returned in September to headline the same venue (Heinekin Music Hall). While they were set to return to play Pinkpop in Landgraaf in 2003, the entire tour was canceled and therefore the band didn't return for Pinkpop until 2007. Pinkpop got another show on the Living Things World Tour in 2012 and that has been the latest show in the country. Amsterdam will be their third show in the city of Amsterdam but only their fifth show in the Netherlands. The 12th LPU Summit will be held at this show, following the two that were held earlier this year in Darien Center, NY and Woodlands, TX. This is the first year that three LPU Summits have been held in the same calendar year since 2011, when Chicago, Hamburg, and Tokyo all had a Summit. At both of the Summits earlier this year, fans were treated to an acoustic performance of Final Masquerade and were able to participate in the usual Summit activities (stage walk, auction, bacsktage tour, M&G, etc). Mike also threw verse one of Reading My Eyes over the intro of Bleed It Out in Darien Center, NY for Summit #10. Who will be heading to the Summit? We've seen some fans on social media that flew over from the United States for the show and we assume many from all across Europe, especially Germany, will be in attendance as well. In other news, LPU XIV is launching soon...presumably in the next week or two weeks. The laminate has already gone on sale in Köln for 20€. As you can see, it features artwork by James Jean, who did the artwork for The Hunting Party. Lastly, it seems like the 13th LPU Summit will be held on February 12, 2015 in Calgary, AB. Don't plan your trip quite yet until it's confirmed, but the method used to determine the Summits (aka which shows don't have the deluxe ticket packages for sale) has proven to be accurate as of late. After this show, Linkin Park has a day off before the tour continues in Oberhausen, Germany on the 9th. This will be their first show ever in that city and will be the third of nine German shows in November. Hamburg follows the day after that with ten more shows remaining on the tour after Hamburg. You can find the rest of the 2014 tour dates here and the 2015 dates here. Show Page Notes Date: November 7, 2014 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Venue: Ziggo Dome Show #: 4 of 16 Other Bands: Of Mice & Men Soundcheck Setlist: 1. Burn It Down (Faster Tempo; w/ Different Beat) 2. A Place For My Head SETLIST: 01. Mashup Intro #2 02. Guilty All The Same 03. Given Up 04. Points Of Authority 05. One Step Closer (Ext. Outro) 06. Blackout (Shortened; Instrumental) 07. Papercut (Shortened) 08. Rebellion 09. Runaway (Shortened; 'Wastelands' Transition Outro) 10. Wastelands 11. Castle Of Glass (Experience Version; w/ ATS Interlude Speeches) 12. LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent 13. Robot Boy (Shortened) 14. Joe Solo Medley 15. Burn It Down 16. Waiting For The End (Apaches Intro; Wall Of Noise Outro) 17. Final Masquerade 18. Mike Solo Medley (w/ Joe) (w/ Skin To Bone Remix) 19. Numb (Numb/Encore Intro/Outro) 20. In The End 21. Faint (w/ Austin Carlile; Ext. Outro) ---------------------------------------------------- 22. Lost In The Echo (Shortened) 23. New Divide (Shortened) 24. Crawling (Shortened; w/ Faster Tempo) 25. Until It's Gone (Shortened) 26. What I've Done (Ext. Guitar Solo Bridge) 27. Reading My Eyes (Verse 1 Acapella) 28. Bleed It Out (Ext. Bridge w/ Drum Solo + The Catalyst Refrain) - The 12th LPU Summit was held before this show. At the soundcheck, the band performed 'Burn It Down' with a faster tempo, as well as a different beat, and a full performance of 'A Place For My Head'. - Austin Carlile from Of Mice & Men came out to perform 'Faint' with the band. While this was the first time on tour that he came out, he did so back on the Carnivores Tour on the 9.15.14 Los Angeles, CA date. - Mike rapped the first verse of 'Reading My Eyes' a capella style before the intro of 'Bleed It Out' started.

Fuck it I'll go to this one.

The EE line is clearly marked and will work just fine. Only get there like an hour before doors IMO and you can find the EE spot very easily. Easiest way to get in early? Join the LPU, print your confirmation of your order, show up in the EE line and show it to Lorenzo and bam you're in early. I recommend it like Jonas said to everyone in the LPU regardless of if you have floor or not. Merch booth is open, food/beer lines are open, etc.

I actually bet they don't do a western USA tour. These are festivals, remember. I think they'll do Loudwire and Rock In Rio, and of course Not So Silent Night and maybe KROQ AAC. That'll cover the west coast, with perhaps one more show thrown in the mix (maybe another radio show or a festival). Remember Tucson already had a show in 2014, then they played Phoenix. Englewood got a show and now Grand Junction. There's no need to tour out west again IMO, and they're hitting the northwest on this upcoming winter tour. My guess is: Jan-Feb: North American Tour March-May: BREAK May-June: Rock In Rio USA + ?????? (but not more USA) Maybe they go to Asia/Australia in May and June and these two shows sandwich that? I think these two festival shows will sandwich some type of international tour. July-Aug: Europe Sept: Rock In Rio Brazil + South America

Cool! That 2008 show is a DSP I listen to frequently. Great German shows on that tour. Oh I had no idea... I should have researched that! I will fix it. Thanks! Wow, small world. enjoy the show!

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When will they hit Asia and Australia/New Zealand on this touring cycle? But I don't think they'll skip Europe...there is simply too much money to be made by touring festivals in Europe in the summer. The band gets paid over $1,000,000 for some of them (if not all). September is rumored to be Brazil's Rock In Rio show + other South American shows. I wonder how it'll all play out.

Suddenly, the western USA doesn't feel so lonely for 2015. As fans were disappointed by the lack of western USA tour dates in the upcoming North American Tour, more dates in that part of the country are slowly being announced. A brand new music festival in Mack, Colorado (near Grand Junction), called the Loudwire Music Festival, is set to take place from June 26-28, 2015 and Linkin Park has been announced as the first headliner of the festival. This is interesting because late June is usually a time that the band is in Europe for festivals when they do a full on tour (not a short one) in Europe in the summertime. Perhaps the touring will be different in 2015...? A presale for this festival is live now and more information can be found here. Three day passes start at just $79 and students can get a three day pass for $69. 2/13 EDIT: Weezer confirms that they'll play on the 26th while Rob Zombie confirms that they'll play on the 28th, leaving Linkin Park for the 27th.

Why are they getting in before the LPU?

Haven't checked in on this thread in a while. Sorry for all the quoting, but I wanted to address a lot of stuff, haha. Yeah, I definitely think they'll change the setlists and add new songs from The Hunting Party, among other things. That sucks man! I was hoping we could see LP together again! Nashville of all places would have been great. Next time for sure. The list doesn't refer to the actual venues, it refers to the last time they were in the city. Pittsburgh was December 2003 for a radio show. 2004 and 2008 in Burgettstown...that's technically another city and we count it differently, especially since the only time they'd play Burgettstown is in the summer. Interesting fact: Burgettstown was scheduled for Honda Civic Tour in 2012 and was "canceled" last minute by Live Nation & Linkin Park and replaced by Alpharetta instead. That's why the tour routing looks so weird. It was supposed to go Camden -> Burgettstown -> Auburn Hills, but they swapped it for Alpharetta for some reason. The southeast was actually going to get zero shows on that tour. And that information comes from a very very very reliable source at the time in 2012 (before the tour was officially announced). I guess so, yeah. I guess it'll be Calgary. That's pretty far away from where they've done a Summit before and it's also in Canada. I don't see any sense in doing one in Atlantic City even though that venue is very historic and is cool as fuck. Really jealous I don't get to see that show. Just like you, I can't believe they skipped New Orleans AGAIN. I thought they'd hit in 2008 on the arena tour and I definitely thought this arena tour would get a show. They haven't been there since 2003. Really crazy. They need to book a show there, seriously. I'd love to come there and see LP at the arena. This is extra surprising considering they don't play Georgia anymore and there isn't a lot of southeast stuff on this tour. Done! Agreed. No I don't think they'll add any other shows to this tour. The west coast isn't getting shows for a reason. They usually only play Phoenix once every touring cycle now, but I could be proven wrong if they go back there this summer. California and Las Vegas have the holiday radio show(s) and Rock In Rio. Interesting that they skip Cleveland too. Cleveland and New Orleans are cities that desperately need a Linkin Park show. Rise Against put on an amazing live show when I saw them in 2012. They did a preshow M&G at a local record store and I got a picture with them and they made their vinyl out to me. Badass. I was front row at the show which was unconventionally done behind the Masquerade at a 10,000 capacity open air park with a hill. That shit was NUTS. A Day To Remember blew the place apart and Rise Against killed it. Really impressive. They aren't in my top 10 bands but I do jam to them and love their music. It's been a while since LP has gotten an amazing opening act that is legit smaller than them and I am glad I am able to see Rise Against on this tour. As much as I bitch about their opening bands, they finally nailed it with Rise Against. Yes they kick ass!! And with early entry: the LPU goes in just before the package people I believe.

Linkin Park's third show of their European Tour for The Hunting Party takes them back to Köln, Germany on November 6th. This is a city that LP has visited since all the way back in 2001, making this their sixth show in the city and third at this venue! This is a bit of a longer history than normal for a city on tour, but it's an interesting one as Köln actually has some cool facts about it in the Linkin Park world. Most preshow posts don't hit this length, but you might learn something about the city below. On March 11, 2001, the band stopped by the Palladium on the Deftones' 'Back To School' Tour across Europe with Taproot. There's a rare proshot video of With You from the show...if you have it, let us know! Later in the year, Linkin Park came back and headlined the same venue on their European Headlining Tour. Chester performed Karma Killer with Cyclefly and Control with Puddle Of Mudd, but unfortunately no recordings exist as far as we know. Moving on to the interesting stuff.... almost seven years later, LP returned to play Kölnarena in 2008 and actually debuted a new setlist at that show (Setlist S at the time), which contained the live debut of In Between! It was the very first time that the long intro to No More Sorrow had been played in the middle of the set and fan favorite Points Of Authority and the set closer combo A Place For My Head -> One Step Closer were all included. However, it was noticeably one of the first setlists to omit Papercut, although the other two sets on the tour had it included. While Papercut was in just one of these three setlists to start the tour, it was quickly added to a second one before this show. It was this tour in 2008 that began Linkin Park's massive touring in Germany, which continues to this day as this tour has NINE shows in the country. 2008 had seven shows in the country of Germany, which was the most of any country outside of the United States. That's actually more than England, which the band used to tour quite a bit until 2012; this tour has just three UK shows compared to Germany's nine. This show is at LANXESS arena in Köln (renamed from Kölnarena) and Linkin Park has played there several times before the show on November 6th. Along with the 2008 show, they headlined this venue in October 2010 for the sixth show of the A Thousand Suns European Tour. This is the show that LP changed the setlist at the time up by swapping Papercut and The Messenger for Lying From You and Leave Out All The Rest, which were both unrehearsed at the time. Interestingly, Mike admitted (at the London Summit later in the tour) that the change was due to feedback he read on LPLive from the setlists on that tour. Cool! But hey, don't get any ideas...... ha! Oh yeah, our picture with him and the red LPLive shirt came from that show too! LPLive staff member Jonas shot a GREAT video of Lying From You at that show and he'd probably kill me if we didn't include it in the post...so here we go: Finally, in between (see what I did there?) Rock am Ring and Rock im Park performances in 2012, the band stopped by the venue to play Burn It Down for TV total Autoball EM in a show that we think MIGHT have been lipsynched due to it being a very random one song TV performance. Chester's vocal track from the Rio+Social event that May is almost exactly the same as the one in Köln. A subliminal tweet by a certain crew member (we are refraining from naming them) after the fact pretty much confirmed it, but feel free to speculate away. Two shows have been completed so far on this European Tour. The band played Zürich (Set on the 3rd and then Stuttgart (Set A) on the 4th. In Stuttgart, Crawling was dropped for an unknown reason, Mike skipped the With You rap on the Until It's Gone intro (messing Joe up too) and Rob skipped the Bleed It Out intro. Hmm. It seems that these two setlists will rotate all tour between B and A, so it should be pretty easy to determine which one you're getting if you're going to a show. After this show in Köln, the 12th LPU Summit in Amsterdam takes place the very next day on the 7th! We expect to see many of you there! After Amsterdam, the band dives right back in for four German shows in a row by hitting Oberhausen, Hamburg, Leipzig, and München. See you guys on the road! Who will be at the show in Köln? The rest of the 2014 tour dates can be found here.

Setlist is up. http://lplive.net/shows/db/2014/20141104

Has Tom Morello been confirmed? I have only seen it on one site and that was months ago.

Wow awesome mix. Ryan sounds fantastic.

Set A so far in Stuttgart. UIG intro was messed up. RTN over the medley as usual. Same thing as always, no changes. Show is almost over.

I would assume the same too but we will see. There's a reason why there aren't any west coast shows on the North American Tour. Vegas in May. I guess San Jose and LA for the Xmas shows. KROQ AAC is at Shrine Auditorium now.

Linkin Park will be the night one headliner at Live 105's Not So Silent Night at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA on December 12, 2014. Fall Out Boy, Rise Against, Young The Giant, Future Islands and Walk The Moon round out the lineup. More information can be found here. The band performed at the same event back on December 7, 2001 in San Jose, CA and headlined Live 105's BFD in Mountain View, CA on June 5, 2011.

I agree. I think two sets is all they're getting for this tour. In Europe in 2010, they had the one setlist but rotated in 2 songs for the German fans who wanted to see some variety.....aaaaand we already have more changes between Set A and Set B right now than they did in 2010. I wish they'd have 3 diverse setlists again. Maybe for the USA tour.

They added those on the setlist to start the tour in Copenhagen. Those songs were at every show of the tour. That tour featured one setlist the whole tour except for when they swapped BIO/WID in the order. That was before they started rotating setlists. First source of the tour here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDDn91DwpAFmofJQlWIE5Q HD video + audio

I've been asked to come and do another preshow post, so here we go! Linkin Park's second show of the sixteen show European Tour for The Hunting Party comes in Stuttgart, Germany at Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle. The band is no stranger to Stuttgart, performing there twice before in back-to-back years (2009 and 2010). The 2009 show (on what we semi-refer to as the "New Divide Promotional Tour") was an outdoor show at Cannstatter Wasen for over 30,000 fans. Considering this was just a headlining gig and not a Projekt Revolution show or a festival, that's pretty impressive. The electrifying show had a nice, rare verse of Reading My Eyes over the outro of Points Of Authority (along with an accidental mashup of High Voltage and Dolla for the intro) and an intense New Divide / Faint / One Step Closer encore that really got the place going. I like to keep personal opinions out of show posts, but that's probably my favorite Linkin Park show I've ever attended due to how amazing the crowd was (huge pit on No More Sorrow, etc) and how "on" the band was that day. Moving on, Linkin Park returned to Stuttgart in 2010 to Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle for the second A Thousand Suns show in Europe. The band likely would have returned in fall 2012 when they were rumored to headline 6+ German shows again on a canceled tour, but they make their return today when they bring The Hunting Party to town. Yesterday on the 3rd, the tour kicked off in Zürich at Hallenstadion, a nice arena in downtown Zürich that unfortunately has fallen victim to a local sound restriction even though it is indoors. The setlist for that show was Set B, and the actual physical setlist said "US Set B V5", meaning the band probably isn't changing things up for Europe. Our guess is that the setlists will undergo changes in 2015 for the North American Tour. What do you think? Is there still a chance they could swap a song or two in for this tour? Or debut a Set C? This tour as you know has NINE shows in Germany, so perhaps something will change. Who is going to the show in Stuttgart? Be sure to say hey to our staff member Jonas and our good friends like Thomas who will be in attendance! The tour continues in Köln, Germany at LANXESS Arena on the 6th, after an off day. The band is no stranger to the city and won't actually perform in a new city (to them) until they arrive in Oberhausen, Germany on the 9th. The 12th LPU Summit in Amsterdam comes on November 7th (early in the tour), so be sure to stick around for coverage of that! You can find the rest of the 2014 tour dates here.

I'll do the Stuttgart post tonight just for you LinkinJoze

Is there any update on the time frame for an Indian show?

Couldn't emphasize that more. LP is a huge band and has pretty much nothing to gain by doing secondary markets. They could tour 12-15 large markets a year in the USA and do just fine instead of playing 12,000 seat B cities. Really shows they are doing this for the fans by coming to these cities. Major props. Many fans are able to see them this tour that aren't able to see them usually.

NYC show is in Brooklyn. That's the same thing. LA I bet has shit later in the year.