| July 17, 2015 | |||||||
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| Performance by Linkin Park | |||||||
| Country: | China  | ||||||
| City: | Nanjing | ||||||
| Venue: | Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Stadium | ||||||
| Venue Type: | Stadium | ||||||
| Tour: | The Hunting Party Chinese Tour | ||||||
| Setlist: | US Festival (Full) | ||||||
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Setlist
|Completion=partial |Song x=Given Up |Note x=Rehearsal; Censored |Song x=Remember The Name |Note x=Fort Minor song; Rehearsal; Censored |Suffixx=Encore |Song 1=Papercut |Note 1=2015 Intro |Song 2=Given Up |Note 2=Ext. Outro; Censored |Song 3=Points Of Authority |Note 3=Shortened Intro |Song 4=One Step Closer |Note 4=Ext. Outro |Song 5=A Line In The Sand |Note 5=Keyboard Intro |Song 6=From The Inside |Song 7=Runaway |Note 7=Shortened (Intro/First Verse/Chorus Only); Ext. Outro Transition w/ Wastelands Verse 1 |Song 8=Wastelands |Song 9=Castle Of Glass Experience |Note 9=Wisdom, Justice, And Love Bridge; The Radiance Outro |Song 10=LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent |Note 10=Ballad Medley |Song 11=Robot Boy |Note 11=Intro, Synth Bridge, and Ending Instrumental Only |Song 12=Joe Solo |Note 12=w/ Wretches And Kings, Victimized Remix, Buy Myself, Cure For The Itch, Session, Plc.4 Mie Hæd |Song 13=New Divide |Song 14=Breaking The Habit |Song 15=Darker Than Blood |Note 15=Shortened (First Verse/Chorus Acapella) |Song 16=Burn It Down |Song 17=Final Masquerade |Song 18=Remember The Name |Note 18=Fort Minor song; Shortened (Intro/Chorus/Hybrid Verse/Chorus/Chorus); Censored |Song 19=Welcome |Note 19=Fort Minor song; Ext. Outro Transition; Censored |Song 20=Numb |Note 20=Numb/Encore Intro/Outro |Song 21=In The End |Song 22=Faint |Note 22=Ext. Outro |Suffix22=Encore |Song 23=Waiting For The End |Note 23=Apaches Intro w/ Until It Breaks Verse 3; Wall Of Noise Outro |Song 24=What I've Done |Note 24=Ext. Guitar Solo Bridge |Song 25=Bleed It Out |Note 25=Ext. Intro; Ext. Bridge w/ Sing-a-long; Ext. Ending; Censored }}
Show Notes:
- Linkin Park did not rehearse at Third Encore as usual for this tour, so they performed a rare soundcheck before this show. The soundcheck included Given Up and Remember The Name, amongst (unknown) others.
- Due to the Chinese government's censorship laws, the band was forced to censor Given Up, Remember The Name, Welcome, and Bleed It Out. On Given Up, Chester just skipped "fuck". On Remember The Name, Mike changed "motherfuckers" to "other fellas". On Welcome, Mike just skipped the "fuckers" part of "motherfuckers". On Bleed It Out, Mike didn't rap the entire line of "going out of my fucking mind" and let the crowd sing it instead.
- On the transition outro of Runaway, Mike rapped verse one of Wastelands. Chester sang the first line of the bridge over the outro transition.
- Despite appearing on the physical copy of the setlist, positioned as the opener of the encore, Crawling was dropped for an unknown reason. The song was performed as the opener of the encore at both Mexico shows in June. However, it disappeared from the setlist completely after this show.
- During the bridge of Bleed It Out, Chester conducted a sing-a-long with the crowd.
Other Notes:
- This was Linkin Park's first show in Nanjing.
- This was Linkin Park's first show in China in six years, since Shanghai in fall 2009.
- The band had to submit a list of songs to the Chinese communist government to be "pre-approved" for the setlist. Included were all songs played on the world tour for The Hunting Party up to this point, even those not in the current setlist. 42 songs total were listed, including A Place For My Head, Somewhere I Belong, A Light That Never Comes, With You and Blackout. Keys To The Kingdom, which has not received its live debut yet, was also on the list.
- There was no LPU Meet & Greet at this show. The Chinese Tour did not have the customary M&Gs, which made it the first tour in LP's band history to not have them since the inception of the LPU. Mercedes Benz (tour sponsor), however, held M&Gs before the shows for their own car buyers, etc to meet the band. Instead, two LPU Meetups events were held in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Despite the band not being confirmed to attend, they showed up and fans were allowed to take a group picture with Linkin Park but not get any autographs. Even at these LPU Meetups events, the Mercedes Benz people went first to meet the band.
- There was no opening band for the China Tour.