Linkin Park continues with their conquest of Europe, playing their second show in Germany for this leg of the tour, this time at the iconic Olympiastadion. Berlin is one of the cities that the band has played the most, currently sitting at 10th place with 12 performances. If you're wondering, the top 3 are in order: Los Angeles, London, New York. But we're not gonna talk about all Berlin performances today, instead we're just gonna do a quick rapid fire of some notable performances. 2001: March 13, Columbiahalle; First show in Berlin for the band, opening for Deftones, remember the venue name. 2007: April 28, Kesselhaus; No More Sorrow, Given Up and What I've Done were all performed live for the first time, and it was also the first time that anyone had heard Given Up and No More Sorrow in any form as those songs had not been released yet. 2012: June 05, Admiralspalast, Telekom Street Gigs; the "music video" for 'POWERLESS' was filmed before the show during soundcheck, and the show was filmed and released on the LIVING THINGS+ DVD. 2015: September 03 at Stadion an der Alten Försterei; Joe was not present at this show as he had to leave earlier in the tour, his tech Warren filled in for him. Thanks to @Christøffer for putting together this list. But let's focus a bit more on the last time that Linkin Park and Mike Shinoda played in the city. 2017 was the last time Linkin Park rolled through Berlin, and that show sure offered some surprises. Did the show open with a normal song? No, it opened with a Mercedes AMG ad, but to be fair the whole show was part of the Mercedes 50th Anniversary Celebration, so I guess we can't complain too much. After the ad Chester came out and sang part of 'One More Light' acapella, the only time that the song was ever performed in that way and making a very weird start for the show. A few songs later the next surprise came along; 'Nobody Can Save Me' got its live debut and replaced 'Battle Symphony' in the setlist. For the start of the encore, Brad, Chester, and Rob performed 'Sharp Edges' acoustically, with Brad and Chester playing at the end of the catwalk for the entire song. The performance of the song was released to promote the 'One More Light Live' album that came out in December of 2017, but in May of 2022 we also got a short video as part of the 'Notes From The Band' series of posts that the band did at the time, of Chester and Brad rehearsing the song. Mike Shinoda returned to Berlin with the first real show of the Post Traumatic tour in 2019. This was one of 7 shows on that tour that were played in Germany, all of them taking place in a different city. The venue that this show was performed at was the 'Columbiahalle', the same place that Linkin Park played at in 2001. See? I told you to remember the venue name before... At the show Mike was joined on the stage by some guests; a fan named Philip played piano on 'In the End', singer Jennifer Weist of the band 'Jennifer Rostock' joined for 'A Place for My Head', as did Mike's tech Mark, playing guitar on the song. Berlin was also the place for one of the 'Already Over sessions'. This was a series of performances where Mike gathered a group of local musicians from every location, and got them to perform a couple of songs with him in a studio. For this performance Mike and his newly assembled band performed 'Already Over' and 'In My Head'. Okay, let's jump to 2025 and the band's latest performance; Hanover, Germany. This was just the band's second performance ever in the city and it was quite the upgrade from the last time they were in town. The band went from a 14,000-capacity arena in 2008 to a stadium that can hold 49,000 people, an upgrade we've seen a lot of on the 'From Zero' tours. This was the first full headline show for the band since their May 8 performance in Greenville, North Carolina and it saw the welcome return of some songs that were cut out of the recent festival performances; 'Where'd You Go' before 'Waiting for the End', and the solo slots for Mike and Joe all came back. Along with that we had 'Lying From You', 'Casualty' and 'Over Each Other' all in the rotation slots. In terms of the "Mike's random verses" for his solo slot, he performed verse one of 'I.O.U' from his Post Traumatic album and on the 'Bleed It Out' bridge he did the first verse of 'Cut the Bridge'. While this is not the first time that 'Cut the Bridge' has been featured over 'Bleed It Out', all other times it's been the bridge of that song and not any of the verses. So like I said in the beginning of this post, this show marks Linkin Park's debut at Berlin's Olympiastadion. The stadium is the biggest one in Berlin, and third biggest in Germany, only being beaten out by the Allianz Arena (which Linkin Park just performed at, and will perform at again in 2026) and the Westfalenstadion - no shows scheduled there yet, but it's a venue in Germany... Linkin Park will play there one day. After this the band heads over to Switzerland to perform a show in Bern, a city that they've never played a show in before. With livestreaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you! Will you be attending the show? Are you attending any shows this year? If so, have you let people know in the meet-up thread? Come discuss in our forums. Upcoming Shows: June 20, 2025: Bern, Switzerland June 22, 2025: Clisson, France - Hellfest Festival June 24, 2025: Milan, Italy - I-DAYS Festival June 26, 2025: Arnhem, Netherlands June 28, 2025: London, UK July 01, 2025: Düsseldorf, Germany July 03, 2025: Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival July 05, 2025: Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival July 08, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany July 09, 2025: Frankfurt, Germany July 11, 2025: Paris, France SETLIST: ACT 1 (Inception Intro B) 01: Somewhere I Belong 02: Cut the Bridge 03: Crawling 04: New Divide - short Moscow intro 05: The Emptiness Machine ACT 2 (Creation Intro B) 06: The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown) 07: BURN IT DOWN 08: Up From the Bottom 09: Where'd You Go - shortened; intro, first verse, and chorus (Fort Minor) 10: Waiting for the End - 2024 Intro 11: CASTLE OF GLASS 12: Two Faced 13: Joe Solo - with Colin 14: Mike Solo Medley - 'When They Come for Me', 'Lift Off' & 'Remember the Name' Mashup; With Colin 15: Given Up 16: One Step Closer - 2024 Intro & Outro; with grandson ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) 17: Lost - Hybrid Version 18: Good Things Go 19: What I've Done ACT 4 (Kintsugi Transition) 20: Overflow 21: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro 22: In The End 23: Faint - Extended outro ACT 5: Encore (Resolution Intro B) 24: Papercut - Extended Intro 25: Let You Fade 26: Heavy Is the Crown 27: Bleed It Out - Extended Bridge with "A Place for My Head" verse 1; extended Outro
Olympiastadion, Wembley, Stade de France... This is gonna be a crazy show. From the Whisky a Go Go to some of the largest stadiums in Europe. From Xero indeed! Also random side note but while I had the wiggles today watching Berlin performances I saw this: Would love to have that piano outro back!
Listen. Linkin Park. I know you're in here. Nine Inch Nails started their tour this week. With only 2 dates played so far this week, they have rotated out 9 songs on the setlist from one night to the other. Nine. Trent Reznor is 60. Don't be outdone by an old fart. Put some variety in your setlists. Rotate out SIB. Play some songs you haven't done in over a decade. I believe in you.
Oh Olympiastadion, I remember that one for it hosting football's World Cup final in 2006. And probably other big events since then. Even though we all knew it, it's a good reminder how gigantic the scope of LP return has been in Europe. Still can't believe how explosive the crowd was from what I've seen from the Hannover show.
SETLIST: ACT 1 (Inception Intro B) 01: Somewhere I Belong 02: Cut the Bridge 03: Crawling 04: New Divide - short Moscow intro 05: The Emptiness Machine ACT 2 (Creation Intro B) 06: The Catalyst - Shortened (No third chorus; no breakdown) 07: BURN IT DOWN 08: Up From the Bottom 09: Where'd You Go - shortened; intro, first verse, and chorus (Fort Minor) 10: Waiting for the End - 2024 Intro 11: CASTLE OF GLASS 12: Two Faced 13: Joe Solo - with Colin 14: Mike Solo Medley - 'When They Come for Me', 'Lift Off' & 'Remember the Name' Mashup; With Colin 15: Given Up 16: One Step Closer - 2024 Intro & Outro; with grandson ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) 17: Lost - Hybrid Version 18: Good Things Go 19: What I've Done ACT 4 (Kintsugi Transition) 20: Overflow 21: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro 22: In The End 23: Faint - Extended outro ACT 5: Encore (Resolution Intro B) 24: Papercut - Extended Intro 25: Let You Fade 26: Heavy Is the Crown 27: Bleed It Out - Extended Bridge with "A Place for My Head" verse 1; extended Outro
Holy cow. This was such an amazing show. The Energy at the Stadium. The cheering and clapping from the crowd who were all smiling. And given up. Damn. I'm just so happy and can't get the grin from my face since last night Aaand let's not forget the incredible support from grandson and architects. They know how to rile up a crowd. I'm really glad I've booked my tickets for Hamburg next June I'll sort through the videos I took and share gladly, if anyone is interested.
I would love to see them! It sounds Iike the show had some incredible energy from what I've heard so far. Germany does it yet again haha
The size of the crowd at this show was absolutely insane. I mean look at those Two Faced is low key becoming one of their most hype live tracks. It goes WILD.