The Hunting Party Tour
Tour by Linkin Park | |||||||
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Associated album | |||||||
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Start date | May 30, 2014 | ||||||
End date | September 6, 2015 | ||||||
Legs | 5 | ||||||
No. of shows | 30 in Europe (divided in 3 legs) 12 in North America (After cancellation of 16 shows) 5 in Asia | ||||||
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The Hunting Party Tour is the eleventh concert tour by American alternative rock band Linkin Park.[1][2] It was launched in support of Linkin Park's sixth studio album, The Hunting Party (2014). The tour was partially announced in May 2014 through a teaser released after the release of trailer of a co-headlined tour Carnivores Tour by Linkin Park and Thirty Seconds to Mars. Later, the tour was officially announced on November 23 with a whole trailer in promotion. Its first leg under the name European Tour began on May 30, 2014, in Lisboa, Portugal, and ended on June 14 in Castle Donington, England, where they played Hybrid Theory as a whole album. The tour features special guests Of Mice & Men and Rise Against. On January 15, 2015, the band begun the world tour for The Hunting Party with the first leg under North American Tour. During a show at Indianapolis, Chester Bennington injured his leg, which led to the cancellation of the tour North American Tour.[3][4][5][6] The band continued the world tour on May 9, performing at the first edition of Rock In Rio in America.
Background
Rumours of a tour from Linkin Park first circulated after the release of trailer of Carnivorous Tour. The tour's first leg was in Europe where the band played 9 shows. The leg had a duration of 16 days. The tour began with "Rock In Rio" show at Lisboa. And later the tour took a break after the Download Festival where the band played Hybrid Theory as a whole album together for the first time. The first leg included shows like "Rock in Rio", "Rock am Ring" , "Rock im Park", "Alfa Romeo City Sound", "Greenfield" and "Download Festival".
The second leg of the tour started after the end of "Carnivores Tour", and was titled as "The Hunting Party European Tour". The duration of the second leg was 22 days which included 16 shows. Of Mice & Men were included as Special guest from this leg and also toured with Linkin Park to North America. The leg was the return of band from North America back to Europe. It started on November 3, at Zürich in Switzerland. The same date was also the official declaration of "The Hunting Party Tour". The show at O2 World in Berlin became the first live concert in the world to be broadcast at Astra 19.2 degrees East in Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 pixel) in HEVC standard, at 50 fps and a colour depth of 10 bit. The broadcast was confirmed on November 13 by Warner Music Germany and SES. The band released a pop up store in Berlin during the tour, and it was sponsored by "Samsung".
The third leg of the tour was officially announced on November 3, 2014, after the completion of Carnivores Tour. The trailer revealed that the tour would feature guest artists like Of Mice & Men and Rise Against. The second leg was supposed to have 19 shows but only 3 shows took place, after the cancellation of the rest shows, due to the leg injury of Chester Bennington. Later on the another additional leg was introduced as North American Summer Tour in support of the album. Whereas Of Mice and Men and Rise Against were not included in the line up.[7][8]
The concert tour was kept going by continuing the second leg of European Tour. The leg is scheduled to take place after the Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington's Spring U.S. Tour and seven headlining concerts by the band like Rock in Rio USA where the band will play with artists like "Deftones", "John Legend", "No Doubt", "Metallica", and "Taylor Swift", Rock on the Range, Rocklahoma, Amnesia Rockfest, Loudwire Music Festival and Summerfest. The leg will feature Lower Than Atlantis as Special Guests for the Berlin show.[9] The shows includes like Rock in Roma and FM4 Frequency Festival.
A new leg was introduced during early May, which included five shows in China. The leg was named as "The Hunting Party China Tour". The leg was powered by "Life" and presented by "Mercedes Benz". All the shows during the leg will take place at stadiums across China.[10] Only eight hours after the announcement, the box office for the five concerts broke past 24 million yuan ($3.8 million).Also, since the announcement, tickets for the concert have almost sold out.[11]
Linkin Park closed out their Hunting Party Tour at the Rock in Roma Festival on September 6, 2015, unfortunately a fan died on his way to the concert, the band dedicated a song (A Place For My Head) to the fallen fan, the song wasn't planned or rehearsed. Bennington inform the crowds about his death and some fans knew him and chanced "A Place For My Head".[12][13]
Development
Sales for general tickets began on November 7, 2014. Linkin Park offered pre-sale tickets for the fan club members.[14] The set list mixed The Hunting Party with the rest of the band's catalog. A minute-long trailer for the tour premiered in November 2014, featuring a British narrator and assorted live scenes, paired with some of the bands' songs, including "Bleed It Out", "In The End", "Guilty All the Same", "Final Masquerade", "What I've Done" and "Rebellion" by Linkin Park and "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore", "Tragedy + Time" by Rise Against.[15] The promotional poster for the tour featured the hashtag as "#THEHUNTINGPARTYTOUR". The show at O2 World in Berlin became the first live concert in the world to be broadcast at Astra 19.2 degrees East in Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 pixel) in HEVC standard, at 50 fps and a colour depth of 10 bit. The broadcast was confirmed on November 13 by Warner Music Germany and SES. The band released a pop up store in Berlin during the tour, and it was sponsored by "Samsung". The volunteering during the tour was done by "Music for Relief"[16] The Chinese leg of the tour was powered by "Life" and presented by "Mercedes Benz". The presale of the tickets started on May 6. The tickets were provided by "Yongle Ticket" and "228".[17]
Opening Acts
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Gross
Though the band had only three shows in North America after the cancellation of the remaining dates, the gross compiled by the tour was $1,022,937 making the band the third largest gross collector of January.[18] The shows between November 22–24, made Linkin Park again the third largest gross collector with $3,154,280 collected.[19] The tour had only five shows in China, but as the shows were announced, the box office broke past 24 million yuan ($3.8 million).[11]
Set list
* Intro
** Ext. Outro
*** Ext. Bridge
2014 Promo Summer Tour Setlist:
2014 End-Summer to Winter Setlists:
Set A
Act I
01. "Mash-Up Intro #2"
02. "Guilty All the Same"
03. "Given Up"
04. "Points Of Authority"*
05. "One Step Closer"**
Act II
06. "Blackout" (short; instrumental)
07. "Papercut" (short)
08. "Rebellion"
09. "Runaway" (short); bridge into "Wastelands")
10. "Wastelands"
11. "Castle of Glass" (Experience Version: Album Version and Recharged Remix Version)
12. "Leave Out All the Rest" / "Shadow of the Day" / "Iridescent"
Act III
13. "Robot Boy"
14. "Joe Hahn's Solo"
15. "Burn It Down"
16. "Waiting for the End" (with "Until It Breaks" verse 2 and "Wall Of Noise" outro)
17. "Final Masquerade"
18. "Wretches and Kings" / "Remember the Name"
19. "Numb" (with "Numb/Encore" intro & outro)
21. "In the End"
22. "Faint"**
Encore
23. "Lost in the Echo" (short)
24. "New Divide" (short)
25. "Crawling" (short)
26. "Until It's Gone" (short)
27. "What I've Done"***
28. "Bleed It Out"* ** ***
Set B
Act I
01. "Mash-Up Intro #2"
02. "Guilty All the Same"
03. "Given Up"
04. "With You"
05. "One Step Closer"
Act II
06. "Blackout" (short; instrumental)
07. "Papercut" (short)
08. "Rebellion"
09. "Runaway" (short); bridge into "Wastelands")
10. "Wastelands"
11. "Castle of Glass" (Experience Version: Album Version and Recharged Remix Version)
12. "Leave Out All the Rest" / "Shadow of the Day" / "Iridescent"
Act III
13. "Robot Boy"
14. "Joe Hahn's Solo"
15. "Numb" (with "Numb/Encore" outro)
16. "Waiting for the End" (with "Until It Breaks" verse 2 and "Wall Of Noise" outro)
17. "Final Masquerade"
18. "Wretches and Kings" / "Remember the Name"
19. "Lying From You" (with 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You" intro & outro)
20. "Somewhere I Belong"
21. "In the End"
22. "Faint"
Encore
23. "Burn It Down" (short)
24. "Lost in the Echo" (short)
25. "New Divide" (short)
26. "Until It's Gone" (short)
27. "What I've Done" (ext. bridge)
28. "Bleed It Out" (ext. intro/bridge/outro)
2015 North American Tour setlist:
2015 Summer Shows setlist:
2015 Summer to fall setlist:
Tour dates
Date | City | Country | Venue | Opening act | Attendance | Box Office |
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Europe[20][21] | ||||||
May 30, 2014[A] | Lisboa | Portugal | Parque da Bela Vista | Queens Of The Stone Age | 68,000 / 90,000 | 39.000.000 $ |
June 1, 2014 | St. Petersburg | Russia | Petrovsky Stadium | 21,405 / 21,405 | ||
June 2, 2014 | Moscow | Sports Complex Olympiysky | 70,000 / 70,050 | |||
June 5, 2014 | Wrocław | Poland | Stadion Miejski | Fall Out Boy | 41,000 / 42,771 | |
June 7, 2014[B] | Adenau, Rheinland-Pfalz | Germany | Nürburgring | Animal Jazz | 100,000 / 150,000 | |
June 8, 2014[C] | Nürnberg | Volkspark Dutzendteich | Fall Out Boy | 40,000 / 42,000 | ||
June 10, 2014 | Milano | Italy | Ippodromo del Galoppo | Animal Jazz | 12,000 / 12,500 | |
June 12, 2014 | Interlaken | Switzerland | Flughafen Interlaken | 12,000 / 12,000 | ||
June 14, 2014[D] | Castle Donington | England | Donington Park | 105,000 / 110,000 | ||
TOTAL | 469,405 / 550,726 (86%) | |||||
The Hunting Party European Tour | ||||||
November 3, 2014 | Zürich | Switzerland | Hallenstadion | Of Mice & Men | 16,000 / 16,000 | 17.500.000 $ |
November 4, 2014 | Stuttgart | Germany | Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle | 14,000 / 14,000 | ||
November 6, 2014 | Cologne | Lanxess Arena | 18,000 / 18,000 | |||
November 7, 2014 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Ziggo Dome | 17,000 / 17,000 | ||
November 9, 2014 | Oberhausen | Germany | König-Pilsener-ARENA | 15,000 / 15,000 | ||
November 10, 2014 | Hamburg | O2 World | 18,000 / 18,000 | |||
November 12, 2014 | Leipzig | Arena Leipzig | 14,000 / 14,000 | |||
November 13, 2014 | München | Olympiahalle | 17,000 / 17,000 | |||
November 14, 2014 | Wien | Austria | Wiener Stadthalle (Halle D) | 15,000 / 15,000 | ||
November 16, 2014 | Paris | France | Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy | 21,000/ 21,000 | ||
November 17, 2014 | Frankfurt | Germany | Festhalle | 14,000 / 14,000 | ||
November 19, 2014 | Berlin | O2 World | 17,000 / 17,000 | |||
November 20, 2014 | Bremen | ÖVB-Arena | 15,000 / 15,000 | |||
November 22, 2014 | Manchester | England | Phones 4u Arena | 21,000 /21,000 | ||
November 23, 2014 | London | O2 Arena | 42,000 / 42,000 | |||
November 24, 2014 | ||||||
TOTAL | 274,000 / 274,000 (100%) | |||||
North America[22] | ||||||
January 15, 2015 | Orlando | United States | Amway Center | Of Mice & Men and Rise Against | 15,323 / 16,486 | 3.000.000 $ |
January 17, 2015 | Nashville | Bridgestone Arena | 19,000 / 20,000 | |||
January 18, 2015 | Indianapolis | Bankers Life Fieldhouse | 18,500 / 19,000 | |||
TOTAL | 52,823 / 55,486 (96%) | |||||
North American Summer Tour | ||||||
May 9, 2015[E] | Las Vegas | United States | MGM Resorts International | Of Mice & Men and Rise Against | 85,000 / 85,000 | 15.700.000 $ |
May 17, 2015[F] | Columbus | Mapfre Stadium | 40,000 / 40,000 | |||
May 23, 2015[G] | Pryor | Catch the Fever Music Festival Grounds | – | |||
May 24, 2015[H] | San Antonio | AT&T Center | 19,000 / 19,000 | |||
June 19, 2015[I] | Montebello | Canada | Marina de Montebello | Mad Caddies | 66,600 / 66,600 | |
June 23, 2015 | Mexico City | Mexico | Arena Ciudad de México | – | 17,600 / 22,300 | |
June 25, 2015 | Monterrey | Arena Monterrey | 11,500 / 17,599 | |||
June 27, 2015[J] | Mack | United States | Jam Ranch | Nothing More and A Day To Remember | 30,000 / 30,000 | |
June 30, 2015[K] | Milwaukee | Marcus Amphitheater | A Day To Remember | 25,000 / 25,000 | ||
TOTAL | 282,700 / 295,499 (96%) | |||||
The Hunting Party China Tour[23][24] | ||||||
July 17, 2015 | Nanjing | China | Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre | – | 57,000 / 61,443 | 13.000.000 $ |
July 19, 2015 | Shenzhen | Shenzhen Bay Sports Center | 20,000 / 20,000 | |||
July 22, 2015 | Shanghai | Hongkou Football Stadium | 33,060 / 33,060 | |||
July 24, 2015 | Chongqing | Chongqing Olympic Sports Center | 58,680 / 58,680 | |||
July 26, 2015 | Beijing | Workers Stadium | 66,161 / 66,161 | |||
TOTAL | 294,700 / 305,499 (96%) | |||||
The Hunting Party European Tour[25][26] | ||||||
August 20, 2015[L] | Hasselt | Belgium | Kempische Steenweg | Limp Bizkit | 66,000 / 66,000 | 32.000.000 $ |
August 22, 2015[M] | St. Pölten | Austria | Green Park | Kendrick Lamar | 100,000 / 100,000 | |
August 23, 2015[N] | Hockenheim | Germany | Hockenheimring | Farin Urlaub, Kraftklub and Halestorm | 14,000 / 14,000 | |
August 25, 2015 | Rybnik | Poland | Rybnik Stadium | The Last Internationale and My Riot | 20,000 / 20.000 | |
August 27, 2015 | Minsk | Belarus | Minsk | Rili Dope | 13,500 / 15,086 | |
August 29, 2015 | Moscow | Russia | Sports Complex Olimpiyskiy | Jack Action | 22,000 / 25,000 | |
August 31, 2015 | Jämsä | Finland | Himos Park | Disco Ensemble and Dead By April | 18,000 / 18,920 | |
September 3, 2015 | Berlin | Germany | Stadion An der Alten Försterei | Lower Than Atlantis | 40,000 / 40,000 | |
September 5, 2015[O] | Düsseldorf | Germany | Esprit Arena | Broilers und Kraftklub | 50,000 / 55,600 | |
September 6, 2015[P] | Rome | Italy | Ippodromo delle Capannelle | Simple Plan | 40,000 / 40,000 | |
TOTAL | 383,500 / 394,606 (97%) | |||||
Grand Total | 1.757,128 / 1.875,816 (94%) | 120.200.000 $ |
Notes
- ^ This show was played for "Rock in Rio".
- ^ This show was played for "Rock am Ring".
- ^ This show was played for "Rock im Park".
- ^ This show was played for "Download Festival".
- ^ This show was played for "Rock in Rio USA".
- ^ This show was played for "Rock on the Range".
- ^ This show was played for "Rocklahoma". The show was cancelled due to bad weather.
- ^ This show was played for "Bud Light River City Rockfest".
- ^ This show was played for "Amnesia Rockfest".
- ^ This show was played for "Loudwire Music Festival".
- ^ This show was played for "Summerfest".
- ^ This show was played for "Pukkelpop".
- ^ This show was played for "FM4 Frequency".
- ^ This show was played for "Rock’n’Heim".
- ^ This show was played for "Rock im Sektor".
- ^ This show was played for "Rock in Roma".
References
- ^ THE HUNTING PARTY TOUR – NORTH AMERICA 2015 Linkin Park Mon, November 3, 2014
- ^ Linkin Park Announce The Hunting Party Tour with Rise Against and Of Mice & Men Revolver November 3, 2014
- ^ THE HUNTING PARTY TOUR - CANCELLED Linkin Park, January 20, 2015
- ^ Linkin Park Cancel 'Hunting Party' Tour Following Injury Rolling Stone January 21, 2015
- ^ Linkin park cancel remaining Hunting Party tour dates Kerrang!
- ^ Linkin Park cancels tour Dunk in Donut
- ^ Alex Young Amnesia Rockfest reveals 2015 lineup, and (once again) it’s insane Consequence of Sound. February 11, 2015. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
- ^ Alex Young Rock in Rio USA reveals inaugural lineup, and it’s as massive as you’d expect Consequence of Sound. January 14, 2015. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
- ^ THP Tour Special Guest in Berlin - Lower Than Atlantis Linkin Park July 22, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- ^ Chinda Tour Tickets On-Sale Now Linkin Park May 27, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- ^ a b Linkin Park announces The Hunting Party tour to come to China in July Global Times. May 11, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm5Pyh0zzns/
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsPYiE7s72g/
- ^ THE HUNTING PARTY TOUR - TICKETS ON SALE NOW Linkin Park Fri, Nov 7, 2014
- ^ The Hunting Party Tour with Special Guests: Rise Against and Of Mice & Men | Linkin Park YouTube November 3, 2014.
- ^ Linkin Park The Hunting Party Tour: Volunteer Opportunities Music for Relief
- ^ The Hunting Party China Tour Linkin Park May 6, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- ^ Bob Allen Foo Fighters Rule Newest Hot Tours Recap Billboard. February 12, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^ Bob Allen Michael Buble's Milestone O2 Shows Lead Hot Tours Billboard. January 29, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^ Europe-Linkin Park shows 2014 LPLive
- ^ Linkin Park announce UK "The Hunting Party Tour Dates Official Charts June 8, 2014.
- ^ North America-Linkin Park shows 2015 LPLive
- ^ https://twitter.com/linkinpark/status/596141099854397441
- ^ http://linkinpark.com/news/247723
- ^ Lineup 2015 Rock 'n' Heim
- ^ Rock im Sektor 2015: Bands, Tickets, Line-Up für das neue Festival – GIGA Giga