Living Things+

Living Things+ is an international live DVD release by Linkin Park in 2013 titled Live At Admiralspalast Berlin, Germany. The DVD (packaged with the normal Living Things CD) combo was released at varying times in spring and summer 2013 during the Living Things World Tour and features songs performed from Hybrid Theory, Meteora, Minutes To Midnight, A Thousand Suns, Living Things, as well as single "New Divide".

The Berlin show was originally shown in theaters in the U.S. on June 25, 2012 to celebrate the release of the album and webcasted globally the same day by Telekom Street Gigs.

Background

In June 2012, Linkin Park kicked off their shortest world tour for an album yet when they began their European Tour for Living Things in Portugal at Rock in Rio in Portugal. This short twelve show European Tour would be the only visit to the continent for the band in support of the album. A mix of festival shows and outdoor/stadium headline shows were scattered across Europe for the band to play, following a warm-up club show in Los Angeles.

At the time, Linkin Park was only performing two live songs from Living Things - lead single "Burn It Down" and promo song "Lies Greed Misery".

On June 5, 2012, Linkin Park performed in Berlin after their Rock am Ring and Rock im Park shows for a small show at the Admiralspalast. To gain admission to the show, fans had to win tickets from Telekom Street Gigs or from the LP Underground. The band filmed the event and showed it in theaters across America for the "Living Things Concert Event" on June 25, 2012.

Additionally, the show was released to television, radio and an online webcast in the days leading up to the theater showing.

Of note and importance for the significance of the show, before the concert that night, Linkin Park "performed" "Powerless" at a soundcheck to be included in a video of the song to promote the upcoming movie "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". The video included footage from the song's "performance" at soundcheck, the film, and other portions of the Berlin show. It was directed by Timur Bekmambetov. Very few shots of Brad are shown in the filming due to Mike recording the guitars on the song in the studio. This is the only time that the song has been played live in any form by the band and it is unknown how much of it was actually "live" as they could have been performing to a backing track or even lipsyncing part of it.^[1]

Composition

Living Things+ features a full set of eighteen professionally mixed and mastered songs from the band's show in Berlin.

At this time, Linkin Park performed two distinct rotating setlists in Europe. Their "festival" setlist opened with "A Place For My Head" while the "headlining" setlist opened with "Tinfoil" and "Faint". As such, Berlin received the headlining setlist.

The setlists at the time were notable for the band bringing back deep cuts from Hybrid Theory, including "With You", "Runaway", and "Points Of Authority". While A Thousand Suns deep cut "Blackout" remained in the setlist for this tour, there were no other non-singles included in the show except for "Lies Greed Misery". Since this was the first performance of the "headlining" setlist in Europe, following the club show in Los Angeles, it was the first performance of "Lies Greed Misery" in this set. It was not in the warm-up show because the song had not been revealed publicly yet.

"Leave Out All The Rest", "Shadow Of The Day", and "Iridescent" were performed together in a medley, unofficially called the "Ballad Medley" by fans.

"Bleed It Out" was performed with a portion of "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys during the bridge, in tribute to Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys who passed away the month before, in May 2012.

Releases

The show was webcasted by Telekom Street Gigs on June 25, 2012, the same day that it was shown in theaters in the United States.^[2] The Telekom Street Gigs broadcast was shorter in length, omitting a handful of songs, and featuring both pre and post-show segments with the host Simon Gosejohann at the venue. He also interviewed the band before the show.

Titled Live At Admiralspalast Berlin, Germany, the CD / DVD combo was released at different times in 2013. The European release was announced on February 26, 2013 and was originally set for March 22, 2013 but was postponed to March 29, 2013.^[3] The Asian releases coincided with Linkin Park's upcoming summer shows there - July, 3, 2013 (Japan), August 2, 2013 (Taiwan), etc.

Living Things+ was not released in the United States and was only released internationally.

Four songs were cut from the DVD for an unknown reason (likely time/space) - "Runaway", "Points Of Authority", "The Catalyst", and "Crawling". These four songs were not shown in United States theaters on June 25, 2012 either and they were also not included in the show's webcast by Telekom Street Gigs. While not mentioned in the track listing on the DVD, "Tinfoil" was included on the DVD before "Faint".

The artwork on the cover is the same artwork using on the "Living Things" vinyl release.

Theater Airing

On June 2, 2012, Linkin Park and Fathom Events announced that the concert in Berlin would be aired in U.S. theaters on June 25, 2012. The band released a trailer on June 7, 2012 to their YouTube page.^[4]

"Linkin Park will celebrate the release of their new album, LIVING THINGS, by bringing their live show to nearly 500 movie theaters nationwide. "Linkin Park One Night Concert Event: Recorded Live in Berlin" will hit select theaters on Monday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. local time. The evening will begin with a special welcome from the band, and follow with a performance of both their new songs and chart-topping hits. Presented by NCM Fathom Events and Warner Bros. Records, the show was captured on June 5 in Berlin, Germany during Linkin Park’s World Tour. Tickets for the Linkin Park One Night Concert Event are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com."

The theater airing was presented by NCM Fathom Events and Warner Bros. Records and featured a special welcome from the band.

Track Listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1	Faint (includes "Tinfoil", which is not listed in the tracklist)	Linkin Park	4:14
2	Papercut		3:16
3	With You		3:36
4	Given Up		3:49
5	Blackout		4:44
6	Somewhere I Belong		4:48
7	New Divide		5:01
8	Lies Greed Misery		2:31
9	Waiting For The End		5:27
10	Breaking The Habit		3:18
11	LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent		5:46
12	What I've Done		3:29
13	One Step Closer		4:25
14	Burn It Down		3:54
15	In The End		3:41
16	Numb		3:06
17	Bleed It Out		5:20