19.06.2011 - Oberursel, Germany

Tonight Linkin Park will play Oberursel, Germany where they'll play the Hessentag State Fair Festival. This is their second of four shows in Germany this Summer and also marks their third Projekt Revolution show of the tour, with one more remaining in Munich on June 25th.

This show follows last nights show in Leipzig, Germany where the band switched things up again and came out with a new set. The set which started with The Requiem and Papercut also included Burning In The Skies, Breaking The Habit and an awesome inclusion of Blackout, which came in the encore of the set, following Wisdom, Justice And Love & Iridescent. Blackout was first featured in the encore in Detroit, Mi on January 25th 2011, so it's great to see it return to the closing tracks of the set.

The set may sound familiar and that's because it is. Linkin Park first used this set on February 1st 2011 in Boston, MA, except they have simply replaced Shadow Of The Day with Blackout for this updated reincarnation.

Having both Blackout and Burning In The skies is a special occurrence as it's the first show to include both songs since Canberra, Australia on December 16th 2010! What also made this a special performance of Blackout is it's the first time bassist, Dave "Phoenix" Farrell has used a customised Star Labs Ztar for the performance, you can check out more about his custom "Z6X" in this news article we featured in February.

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Blackout performed 18.06.2011, courtesy of Besserwissertyp​

In arguably the best set of the tour so far, it's great to see the band constantly changing up sets and switching out songs for others. Who knows if the band have even more up their sleeve for the next shows of the tour. What did you think of the set and what do you want to see the band include next? With a total of 6 A Thousand Suns songs played in Leipzig, Wretches & Kings, The Messenger and Robot Boy are the only songs left to be played at all on this tour from the album.

After this show the band will have a day off as they head to Hamburg, Germany on June 21st for the LPU Summit which is the only show of the four German shows that isn't a Projekt Revolution date.

Who's going to see Linkin Park in Oberursel? Let us know on the LPA Forums below, along with any other thoughts on this show or the tour.


Setlist:

01. The Requiem
02. Faint
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. Burning In The Skies
11. Numb
12. The Radiance
13. Iridescent
14. Fallout
15. The Catalyst
16. Shadow Of The Day
17. In The End
18. Bleed It Out (Reading My Eyes 1st verse, drum solo & A Place For My Head over bridge)
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19. Empty Spaces
20. When They Come For Me
21. Papercut
22. New Divide
23. Crawling
24. One Step Closer

Source: Thanks to BlackChester for the updates!

 

That was by far the best performance of Blackout from LP...better than even LA. But man, Blackout has some amazing backgrounds!!!
We are definitely going to have to find a close up image of Phoenix using his Ztar.

 

I feel like he actually forgot the lyrics again. You could hear everyone around kind of laughing at that moment. And MSG's screams just weren't as perfect as last nights.