Linkin Park Summer Tour Round-Up

Linkin Park have now finished up the Summer leg of their World Tour. The 17 date run through Europe and briefly the US consisted of festival dates, Projekt Revolution shows, Arena stops, Movie Premiere's and an intimate show in London to finish up the cycle.

Linkin Park began the tour in Irvine, CA on June 4th and ran for a whole month until July 4th, where they played their final show at the iTunes Festival in London, England. Out of a total 17 shows, Linkin Park played 09 unique setlists, with the majority being variants of one another where they would substitute songs for others, remove songs all together and in rare instances include a new track. Linkin Park had to cater to a lot of different audiences on this cycle and mixing up their sets gave them the freedom to gauge reactions to see what worked best.

Songs that we didn't get from A Thousand Suns on this tour included Wretches & Kings, The Messenger and Robot Boy. The Messenger only had one performance at the LPU Summit in Hamburg but never made a full setlist. Robot Boy however has never been played and remains the only track from A Thousand Suns to be performed live at all.

Highlights of this tour include the performance of Iridescent at Moscow, Russia which marks the first and only time the band performed the Transformers: Dark of the Moon edit of that song. This was also the only show where the band opened with a special intro into New Divide, where The Requiem opened every other date in the cycle. One Step Closer also got cut from this show, which would later be replicated in Arras, France & St. Gallen, Switzerland, meaning this track didn't get played at a total of three shows.

Burning In The Skies saw a return to the tour in Stockholm, Sweden, Blackout also returned to the set alongside Burning In The Skies at Leipzig, Germany for the first time since Canberra, Australia last year. This track was played a total of three times, all at Germany. Blackout also made the encore, which is a very rare occurrence and has only been seen once before in Detroit, Mi on January 25th, 2011.

One of the biggest surprises of the tour was when Linkin Park first performed an acoustic version of Rolling In The Deep, a cover of UK female artist Adele at their LPU Summit in Hamburg, Germany on June 19th. They would then later play the song as a piano version in a full set at their final show of the tour in London, England on July 4th, a "surprise" Mike Shinoda teased days before the performance.

It was an awesome tour that covered a lot of ground in Europe and definitely made for some great DSP's. Linkin Park will now take almost 2 months off from touring until they play a Music For Relief Benefit show in Los Angeles, CA on August 31st in an intimate, yet to be announced venue. This will be followed by the Asia Tour, where Linkin Park will play 11 dates beginning September 6th in Hong Kong and will run until September 25th where they'll finish up in Singapore. It's unknown what the band will do after this leg of the tour, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it!

Thanks so much for keeping up with us on the Summer Tour information, and for your reference, you'll find a list of the unique sets the band played on this leg and where they played them by clicking the navigation link at the end of this article. For more details on the tour including transitions and individual Bleed It Out nuances etc, and to submit content for any show, as always you can check out the LPA Tour Page.

Let us know what you thought of the tour, which shows you attended and what your favorite set was! We'd love to know your thoughts on the LPA Forum!

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Jun 4, 2011 - Linkin Park - Irvine, CA, USA, Verizon Wireless Ampitheater

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 Muerto
10. Waiting For The End
11. Numb
12. The Radiance
13. Breaking The Habit
14. The Catalyst
15. Crawling
16. Faint
17. One Step Closer
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18. Wisdom, Justice and Love
19. Iridescent
20. New Divide
21. In The End
22. Bleed It Out

Jun 5, 2011 - Linkin Park - Mountain View, CA, USA, Shoreline Ampitheater
Jun 11, 2011 - Linkin Park - Nickelsdorf, Austria, Nova Rock Festival
Jun 12, 2011 - Linkin Park - Donnington, UK, Download Festival

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 Muerto
10. Waiting For The End
11. Wisdom Justice and Love
12. Iridescent
13. Numb
14: The Radiance
15. Breaking The Habit
16. The Catalyst
17. Crawling
18. New Divide
19. In The End
20. Bleed It Out
21. Faint
22. One Step Closer

Jun 14, 2011 - Linkin Park - Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson Globe Arena
Jun 16, 2011 - Linkin Park - Helsinki, Finland, Kaisaniemi Park
Jun 19, 2011 - Linkin Park - Oberursel, Germany, Hessentag State Fair Festival

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
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19. Empty Spaces
20. When They Come For Me
21. Papercut
22. New Divide
23. Crawling
24. One Step Closer

Jun 18, 2011 - Linkin Park - Leipzig, Germany, Festweise
Jun 21, 2011 - Linkin Park - Hamburg, Germany, O2 World
Jun 24, 2011 - Linkin Park - Munich, Germany, Reitstadion Riem Stadium

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 Muerto
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. Wisdom, Justice and Love
21. Iridescent
22. Blackout
23. New Divide
24. In The End
25. Bleed It Out

Jun 23, 2011 - Linkin Park - Moscow, Russia, Vasilyevsky Spusk - Red Square

01. New Divide (Extended Moscow Into)
02. Papercut
03. Given Up
04. Faint
05. Empty Spaces
06. When They Come For Me
07. No More Sorrow
08. Jornada Del Muerto
09. Waiting For The End
10. Numb
11. The Radiance
12. Breaking The Habit
13. Crawling
14. Fallout
15. The Catalyst
16. In The End
17. Wisdom, Justice and Love
18. Iridescent (Transformers: Dark of the Moon Version)
19. What I've Done
20. Bleed It Out

Jun 26, 2011 - Linkin Park - Imola, Italy, Autodromo di Imola (Racing Circuit)

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. Numb
11. The Radiance
12. Iridescent
13. The Catalyst
14. In The End
15. Bleed It Out
16. Empty Spaces
17. When They Come For Me
18. Papercut
19. New Divide
20. Crawling
21. One Step Closer

Jun 28, 2011 - Linkin Park - Arendal, Norway, Hove Festival
Jun 30, 2011 - Linkin Park - Rotselaer, Belgium, Rock Werchter Festival

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 Muerto
10. Waiting For The End
11. Wisdom, Justice and Love
12. Iridescent
13. Numb
14. The Radiance
15. Breaking The Habit
16. The Catalyst
17. Crawling
18. New Divide
19. In The End
20. Bleed It Out
21. Faint
22. One Step Closer

Jul 1, 2011 - Linkin Park - Arras, France, Main Square Festival
Jul 2, 2011 - Linkin Park - St. Gallen, Switzerland, Open Air Festival

Setlist:
01. The Requiem
02. Faint
03. Papercut
04. Lying From You
05. Given Up
06. New Divide
07. Empty Spaces
08. When They Come For Me
09. No More Sorrow
10. From The Inside
11. Jornada Del Muerto
12. Waiting For The End
13. Wisdom, Justice and Love
14. Iridescent
15. Numb
16. The Radiance
17. Breaking The Habit
18. The Catalyst
19. Crawling
20. In The End
21. What I've Done
22. Bleed It Out

Jul 4, 2011 - Linkin Park - London, UK, The Roundhouse

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

 

I second this notion.

 

I hope the band have a well deserved break (while working on new music of course )

Summer Tour highlights:
- I enjoyed watching the stream of the London show today, great show!
- The Russian fans made the Moscow show pretty special too with the signs and confetti.
- I also liked the fact that Blackout AND Burning In The Skies were played at some shows, the more ATS tracks the better.

 

Hmm ... they didn't play "Wretches" once. :"

 

Are you saying Wretches & Kings will be... forgotten?

...okay, I admit that was bad.