Linkin Park still has a few dates left of this massive European run, and next up is a headlining set at Open'er Festival in Gdynia, Poland. This is the fourth and final date of Open'er Festival, taking place at the Gdynia-Kosakowo Airfield. Linkin Park are at the top of the bill for the Orange Main Stage, with Doechii, Camila Cabello and Conan Gray performing before them. Per the official timetable, the band's slot is scheduled to begin just after midnight, perhaps technically making this a July 6 show. Gdynia is a city which Linkin Park has never performed in, but there have been several shows in Poland throughout the band's touring history. The very first was in June 2007, a month into a Europe tour leg which began right after the release of their third studio album, Minutes to Midnight. For this date and a couple of others, Linkin Park performed as a support act for Seattle grunge legends Pearl Jam, who were on a European tour all throughout June, seemingly between album cycles. Half of this tour leg saw Pearl Jam headlining festivals (including Optimus Alive, a festival in Portugal actually named after their song "Alive") but among the non-festival dates was a show on June 13, 2007 at Stadion Slaski, an outdoor stadium venue in Chorzów, Poland, where Linkin Park was part of the bill as the last opening band. Linkin Park mainly spent this May-June 2007 tour leg playing their own arena shows and at European festivals; the opener set they delivered in Chorzów was naturally slightly shorter. It included two Minutes to Midnight songs which were debuted live at the beginning of the Europe tour leg, "Leave Out All The Rest" and "The Little Things Give You Away", alongside "What I've Done" (at this point the only single), "No More Sorrow" and "Bleed It Out", while "Given Up" was one of the newer songs excised from the set for time. Also worth checking out is this video and photo montage, seemingly created by a Linkin Park fan who uploaded it to YouTube just a few days after the event: Years later, on June 9, 2012, Linkin Park headlined the Orange Warsaw Festival at Stadion Legii in Warsaw, a stadium since renamed Stadion Wojska Polskiego. As they had opened for Pearl Jam in 2007, this 2012 festival set marked Linkin Park's first show as a headlining act in Poland. This tour led up to the June 26 of the band's fifth album LIVING THINGS, and the setlist duly included the already-released album cuts "BURN IT DOWN" and "LIES GREED MISERY", along with a rap verse from "UNTIL IT BREAKS" previewed during the extended "Waiting for the End" intro. Other staples from the set at this time included a new extended intro for "Somewhere I Belong", a "ballad medley" which combined "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day" and "Iridescent", and a cover of Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" worked into "Bleed It Out". The band kicked this set off with "A Place for My Head" (playing the extended intro but leaving out the longer ending), followed by "Given Up", "Faint" and "With You" - quite the four-song run to start a show with. "New Divide" was strangely not performed, and it's said that the band actually skipped it by mistake. On June 5, 2014, Linkin Park played at show at Stadion Miejski in Wrocław, Poland, with Fall Out Boy as their support act. This was the band's second-ever headlining set in Poland, and their first that wasn't at a festival. It was part of a European tour preceding the June 17 release of the sixth Linkin Park album The Hunting Party. Like others throughout that entire Hunting Party tour cycle, this show started off with an intro consisting mainly of elements from "The Catalyst" and "The Requiem" (with playback vocals, instead of the live effected vocal that Mike Shinoda performed throughout the A Thousand Suns tour cycle), immediately contrasted with the aggressive six-minute lead single "Guilty All the Same". During this first song, there was a mishap with the aggressive pitch correction for Chester Bennington's verse parts; this same issue also occurred on other dates during this tour leg, most notably at Rock Am Ring. As the album hadn't been released yet, the only other Hunting Party songs in this setlist were "Wastelands" and "Until It's Gone", which got its own extended intro. The setlists around this time also notably featured shortened arrangements of older songs, including "Papercut", "Runaway" (where the bridge was reworked to transition straight into "Wastelands") and "New Divide", as well as brief instrumental passages from deep cuts "Blackout" and "Robot Boy" which served as interludes that started each act. In addition, band members Joe Hahn and Mike Shinoda each had solo segments during the show, with medleys which featured songs like the Meteora instrumental "Session" and Nick Catchdubs' hip-hop remix of "Skin to Bone" from RECHARGED. In August of 2015, much deeper into the Hunting Party tour cycle, Linkin Park embarked on another European run. Midway into it, on August 25, the band performed a show in Rybnik, Poland, at Stadion Miejski, also known as Rybnik Stadium. Although the three-act structure remained, most of the 2015 shows featured a new setlist which started off with "Papercut", outfitted with a new extended intro. More songs from The Hunting Party, "Rebellion", "A Line in the Sand" and "Final Masquerade", had been added in as staples by this point, "Rebellion" having been less-consistently played throughout earlier 2015 tour legs. Other highlights from the 2014 sets, like the new live arrangement of "CASTLE OF GLASS" and Shinoda and Hahn's solo segments, were carried over in this 2015 European leg, while Hybrid Theory songs "Points of Authority" and "With You" were among the songs swapped out. Other additions for 2015 setlists included the Meteora cut "From the Inside" and a shortened version of Linkin Park's collaboration with Steve Aoki, "Darker Than Blood", from Aoki's 2015 album Neon Future II. Shinoda's solo medley now also featured his 2015 Fort Minor single "Welcome". 2017 saw Linkin Park's most recent show in Poland, when they headlined Impact Festival at TAURON Arena Kraków in Kraków (natch) on June 17, part of a European tour which followed the release of their seventh album One More Light. Like many shows from the One More Light tour cycle, this set kicked off with an ambient intro with lyrics from "ROADS UNTRAVELED", leading into "Talking to Myself". Other setlist staples during this period included various songs from the new album, such as "Good Goodbye", "Nobody Can Save Me", "Invisible" and the title track "One More Light", as well as a fresh new intro for "Leave Out All the Rest", an extended guitar solo section for "What I've Done", and a piano-based version of "Crawling". The "Experience" arrangement of "CASTLE OF GLASS" was carried over from the Hunting Party shows, with Mike Shinoda now delivering rap verses over the ending; for the Impact Festival set, he performed a verse from "A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES". At this show, the band debuted an extended intro for "One More Light", which they continued using for the remainder of the One More Light shows. For the closer, "Bleed It Out", Linkin Park was joined on-stage by Machine Gun Kelly, who performed a verse from his song "What I Do" (something he previously did during Linkin Park's surprise Warped Tour set in 2014). Another major highlight of this show was the return of the Hybrid Theory fan-favourite "A Place for My Head", back by popular demand and performed start-to-finish for the first time since September of 2015, and with a new extended intro to boot. A recording of "Nobody Can Save Me" from this show (combined with another recording from a July 2017 show in London) was included on the 2017 live album One More Light Live. 8 years on from that, Linkin Park are now making a long-awaited return to Poland as part of their current European tour leg which has seen immense success, with virtually ever show being a massive highlight of this From Zero tour cycle. The band's most recent show, headlining 2025's edition of Belgium's Rock Werchter, saw "Cut the Bridge" being played once again, now marking its first appearance in a festival setlist, and "From the Inside" also being included early on in the set, a song which hadn't been performed since Linkin Park headlined Hellfest late last month. "Lying from You" also turned up during the encore segment, the first time it has been placed that late in the setlist since the Asia tour leg in February 2025. Emily Armstrong also went all-in for the "Heavy Is the Crown" bridge, delivering an impressive 16-second scream without pausing: With rotation choices "A Place for My Head" and "Let You Fade" both missing from that set, one or both might make a return for the Open'er Festival set tonight. "New Divide" was also once again absent from the setlist at Rock Werchter after being brought back for the Düsseldorf show prior; if the pattern holds, it will probably be played once again at this festival show. Following this headline set at Open'er Festival, Linkin Park will play two back-to-back headlining dates at Deutsche Bank Park, a stadium venue in Frankfurt, Germany, on July 8 and 9, before finishing up this historic Europe run with a show at the Stade de France in Paris on July 11. In the meantime, come and discuss this Gdynia, Poland show on our message board! Upcoming Shows: July 08, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany July 09, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany July 11, 2025: Paris, France ---------------------------------------------- SETLIST: - ACT 1 (Inception Intro A) - 01: Somewhere I Belong 02: Cut the Bridge 03: Lying From You 04: The Emptiness Machine - ACT 2 (Creation Intro A) - 05: The Catalyst - Shortened (no third chorus; no breakdown) 06: BURN IT DOWN 07: Two Faced 08: Where'd You Go - Shortened; intro, first verse, and chorus only 09: Waiting for the End - 2024 intro 10: Up From the Bottom 11: One Step Closer - 2024 intro and outro - ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) - 12: Lost - Hybrid version 13: Overflow 14: What I've Done 15: Over Each Other 16: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro 17: In The End 18: Faint - Extended outro - ACT 4 - Encore (Resolution Intro A) - 19: Papercut - Extended intro 20: Heavy Is the Crown 21: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with "A Place For My Head" verse 1; extended outro[/B]
If they have a history of playing "A Place for My Head" in Poland...don't stop now LP! But also... QWERTY PLAY QWERTY amirite @juancpin
Since the set is so late at night, hopefully, they get a bit impulsive due to sleep deprivation and play "QWERTY" on a whim
SETLIST: - ACT 1 (Inception Intro A) - 01: Somewhere I Belong 02: Cut the Bridge 03: Lying From You 04: The Emptiness Machine - ACT 2 (Creation Intro A) - 05: The Catalyst - Shortened (no third chorus; no breakdown) 06: BURN IT DOWN 07: Two Faced 08: Where'd You Go - Shortened; intro, first verse, and chorus only 09: Waiting for the End - 2024 intro 10: Up From the Bottom 11: One Step Closer - 2024 intro and outro - ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) - 12: Lost - Hybrid version 13: Overflow 14: What I've Done 15: Over Each Other 16: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro 17: In The End 18: Faint - Extended outro - ACT 4 - Encore (Resolution Intro A) - 19: Papercut - Extended intro 20: Heavy Is the Crown 21: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with "A Place For My Head" verse 1; extended outro[/B]
People hoping LP will change their setlist in some dramatic fashion (including idiots who keep pleading for SIB to be dropped) are on the strongest of copium