South American and European Tour 2010

Introduction

The South American and European Tours in fall and winter 2010 were the first two tours for Linkin Park's album A Thousand Suns. The trip to South America lasted for three shows in early October, before the band flew to Europe for the sixteen show arena tour across Europe. This was Linkin Park's first visit to South America since 2004, when they played one show in Brazil, and their first full tour of Europe since summer 2008.

Before the tour

Three promotional shows, including one album release show, took place in September for the album. On September 7th at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, KROQ hosted the Kevin and Bean Breakfast Show with Linkin Park as the band was working through their production rehearsals. Waiting For The End, Iridescent, and The Catalyst were performed for the first time.

On September 12th, the band played a unique set for the MTV VMA's - in front of the Griffith Observatory. Around one thousand LP fans were invited to see the performance for free. The Catalyst was broadcasted in the last few minutes of the 2012 VMA show. This was the first "iconic" venue that the band performed at on the A Thousand Suns World Tour. The Griffith Observatory, the Puerta de Acala in Madrid and Red Square in Moscow were three locations the band played on the tour.

On the 14th, Linkin Park held their album release show for A Thousand Suns. The only way to get in to the show was to buy tickets that were available to LPU members, those who preordered LPUX, and those who preordered A Thousand Suns from linkinpark.com. The show was sold out.

Debuting a brand new setlist, this was the first time that The Requiem, The Radiance, Wretches And Kings, Jornada Del Muerto and Fallout were performed live. Wretches And Kings was listed on the setlist with parentheses around it because the band was unsure, even up to show time, whether they were going to play the song or not, but they decided to play it at the last minute. This was the first time that New Divide opened a show and the first time that What I've Done closed a show. Additionally, this was the only time that the studio version of The Radiance was performed. After this show, the Oppenheimer speech was removed from it, leaving just the instrumental, and Joe live scratched the Savio speech from Wretches And Kings after it.

Summary

After the tour

Rehearsals

Production rehearsal

Crew

Name	Job
Jim Digby	Production Manager
Ken "Pooch" Van Druten	FOH Engineer
Kevin "Tater" McCarthy	Monitor Engineer
Sean Paden	Guitar Technician (Brad)
Mark Fiore	Videographer