September 3, 2015 - Berlin, Germany

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    Filip

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    [THUMB]http://www.lpassociation.com/upload/images/082415-213225_LPeuro15.png[/THUMB]​

    Three days after their spectacular performance in Jämsä, Finland, Linkin Park plays Berlin's Stadion An der Alten Försterei tonight, September 3rd. English rock band Lower Than Atlantis will be tonight's special guests.

    This is the bands second show in Germany this year, following the August 23rd Hockenheim show, and Mike's third, as he's had a Fort Minor show in Berlin just last night. The band are no strangers to Berlin, having played there eight times in their career, at least once in support of each of their studio albums. So, there's quite a bit of ground to cover here. The bands first show in Berlin was way back in March 2001, when they were supporting Deftones on their "Back To School" tour. Their first headlining show happened in September of the same year. The show happened only a day after the tragic September 11 attacks in which many people lost their lives, and a very interesting clip of Chester adressing the event can be found on YouTube. The band returned to Berlin in September 2003 on their Meteora European Tour, and started their Minutes to Midnight touring cycle with a very intimate show in Berlin in April 2007. A lot of interesting things happened at this show. For the first time ever, "One Step Closer" opened the show while "Faint" took the position of the last song. "Given Up", "What I've Done" and "No More Sorrow" had their live debuts, and a fan named Richard was invited on stage by the band to play guitar on "Faint", as he requested to do so at the Meet and Greet. Because Richard could not play the brand new "Faint" outro, Mike mashed up the song with Fort Minor's "There They Go" for the ending. This was the only time the "Faint / There They Go" mashup was performed live, and since absolutely no cameras were allowed, we are left with 2007 phone camera quality videos of the performance.

    [video=youtube;dT9cRRlAKuY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT9cRRlAKuY[/video]

    "Bleed It Out" mashed up with Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" in honor of the late Adam Yauch aka MCA from the 2012 show, a personal favorite of mine.

    The band played in Berlin again in June 2008 on the European Projekt Revolution Tour, just days before their iconic Milton Keynes performance, which was filmed for their live album "Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes". The band played twice in October 2010, however, the first of those shows was just a private production rehearsal on which only a few fans were present. Nevertheless, the band went through the full setlist. In June 2012 the band filmed the music video for Powerless in Berlin on the morning before their show at the Admiralspalast. This show was live streamed and later played in select US theaters on June 25, 2012. This theatrical release was released later on "Living Things+" a CD/DVD release of the bands fifth studio album. The bands show in November 2014 was once again broadcast live, and oh boy, in what quality. It was announced as the "first live concert in the world to be broadcast at Astra 19.2 degrees East in Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 pixel) in HEVC standard, at 50 fps and a colour depth of 10 bit." Mike also mentioned the show would be released as a live DVD, however this never happened, or at least hasn't happened yet.

    [video=youtube;xUTxS24jcEI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUTxS24jcEI[/video]

    The "Castle of Glass Experience" from the 2014 show.

    Phew, now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about what the band has been doing recently. For the first time during The Hunting Party's touring cycle "Rebellion" and "Points of Authority" are both being performed live, instead of being switched out one for another like before. Chester usually comes out and sings the ending of "Welcome" with Mike. During the Minsk and Moscow shows, the fans organised some lovely flashmobs, during "Final Masquerade" and "Welcome", respectively. The band has reacted to these very positively, posting pictures of the flashmobs on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. Can we expect a flashmob in Berlin tonight?

    With Mike performing with Fort Minor in Berlin just the night before, there is a slight possibility "Welcome" and "Remember The Name" won't be on tonight's setlist, although this is more likely to happen in Düsseldorf when both Linkin Park and Fort Minor have shows on the same day. What could be their replacements?

    After this show, like I mentioned earlier, both Linkin Park and Fort Minor will be playing at Düsseldorf's Rock im Sektor festival on the 5th. Then Linkin Park heads to Rome, Italy on the 6th, while Fort Minor has a show in London on the 8th. It's a hectic week for the band, and especially Mike, who's truly amazing. Or more precisely, freaking crazy.

    What do you expect from this show? Will you be attending? Come, tell us in our forums!

    Remaining tour dates:
    9/5 Dusseldorf, Germany, Rock Im Sektor - Linkin Park and Fort Minor
    9/6 Rome, Italy, Rock In Roma - Linkin Park
    9/8 London, England, Scala - Fort Minor
     
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    Well written post
     
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    very nice job (Y)
     
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    Everybody is changing colors and it makes me uncomfortable
     
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    Good.
     
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    This.
     
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    I heared Mr.Hahn wasnt at the show? :wat:
     
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    Good post, Filip! Congrats.

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    Filip

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    Yes, his tech Warren filled in for him. I'm not sure if we know why, but it'll definitely be posted in the Düsseldorf post.

    Thank you!
     
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