04.07.2011 - London, England - iTunes Festival

On July 4th, 2011 Linkin Park will be headed to London, England to play the Roundhouse as part of the iTunes Festival. They will have support from the Neon Trees as they take the stage for the final date of this touring cycle. The Roundhouse is also the most intimate venue they will have played on this tour, housing a 3300 standing & 1700 seated capacity.

Linkin Park have been playing shorter festival setlists on their past few dates, normally comprising of 22 listed tracks, however they have still been switching it up slightly by altering the order in which the tracks are performed. In fact, over the last two shows in Arras, France and St. Gallen, Switzerland they have completely removed One Step Closer from the set.

There are a few things about the show in London that are worth noting. As mentioned, this is their final date of this touring cycle, it's the most intimate venue they have performed in and on top of that, Mike Shinoda himself as promised something "special" at this show. As to what that is it's a guessing game.

Update: In a LPU Chat at 1:30PM BST on July 4th, Mike went on to say that the "surprise" can't really be classed as that, and it's not a big deal. He said he's going to stop using that word as people expect something really amazing.

Another factor for this show is the ticket holders themselves, the general public never got a chance to buy tickets as they could only be "won" through entering your details into the iTunes mailing list. Select tickets were also put up for bidding via Music For Relief. It will be interesting to see what type of audience this process will wield and just how many genuine fans will be at the show. Let's hope the ticket distribution won't hinder the usual engaging crowd we're used to seeing at Linkin Park shows.

The best detail about this show is that it will be broadcast live for your viewing pleasure! You will be able to watch the whole show live at the following times:

8pm BST / 3pm EDT / 12pm PDT
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The show will be webcast LIVE HERE. You can also watch the show on your iPad, iPod or iPhone by downloading the app. from HERE. Keep in mind Neon Trees will take the stage first, Linkin Park are expected to play an hour later at 9pm BST.

What do you think this "special" element will be? We've had guesses on our forums from a new song, A Thousand Suns being played front to back, more older songs being played... who knows?! Let us know your thoughts on the LPA Forums.

Update: You can now watch the whole performance via the iTunes Festival App or via the link below directly from iTunes.

Watch Linkin Park Perform at the iTunes Festival
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Rolling In The Deep (Adele Cover / Piano Version) courtesy of Uzzae | Mitch
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Setlist:

01. The Requiem
02. Papercut
03. Lying From You
04. Given Up
05. What I've Done
06. Empty Spaces
07. When They Come For Me
08. No More Sorrow
09. Jornada Del Meurto
10. Waiting For The End
11. Burning In The Skies
12. Numb
13. The Radiance
14. Breaking The Habit
15. Fallout
16. The Catalyst
17. Crawling
18. Faint
19. One Step Closer
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20. Rolling In The Deep [Piano Version] (Adele Cover)
21. Wisdom, Justice and Love
22. Iridescent
23. New Divide
24. In The End
25. Bleed It Out (A Place For My Head bridge)

 

I'm hoping for ATS front to back, at least that's the most likely I think. It's a smaller venue and intimate setting so what better place to do that? They could always play out the rest of the show with the hits.

 

Maybe, we'll know by the logistics tomorrow. Might be more difficult with it being on iTunes but we'll let you know tomorrow if we can.