Original image: radnomadvisuals on Instagram For their next show in Australia, Linkin Park heads to Adelaide for a show at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Linkin Park has played two out of their three shows in Adelaide at this venue, in 2007 and 2010 respectively. Let’s dig in a bit to the band’s history in the city. At the show before this one in Melbourne, Chester had broken his wrist at the start of ‘Papercut’, so at this show Mike took the time before Papercut to explain why Chester was wearing a cast and talking about it. For ’Shadow of the Day’, Mikes tech Kurt played Chester’s guitar part, coming out and joining the band on stage. Speaking of ‘Papercut’ and other people playing guitar… in 2010 the band made the (well it would be today at least) controversial decision to drop Papercut from the setlist (absolutely outrageous!), something that they would never do today (i hope!). A recurring thing on this leg of the tour was that fans would join the band on stage and play Mike’s guitar on Faint, and that happened at this show as well. As of now the bands last performance in Adelaide came all the way back in 2013 when they toured as part of that year’s Soundwave festival along other bands like A Perfect Circle, and Stone Sour. For this tour there were no official recordings, but we had something about Papercut in the other two paragraphs, so let’s look at a video of that song. Most recently, Linkin Park visited Melbourne and going by the recordings, comments, and reviews, they absolutely crushed it! The general consensus seems to be that they were really firing on all cylinders to deliver two fantastic shows. Night One: For night one the band started off the show with the usual Somewhere I Belong, Up From the Bottom (which now seems to be permanently moved to the start of the show), and The Emptiness Machine. Sprinkled in between those songs were Lying From You and Crawling. Moving on to act two the set continued as per the usual, with the first rotation song of the act being ‘Over Each Other’. As for the other rotations/variations of the act we first saw ‘CASTLE OF GLASS’, then the ‘Lift Off’ demo verse on Mike's solo medley and ‘IGYEIH’ before the usual act ender; ‘One Step Closer’. As for the rest of the show, we finally saw the welcome return of ‘Let You Fade’ in act four, played for the first time since September 19 in Portland. Night Two: Oh boy, here we go, what a damn show. As always the show started with the three mainstay opening songs, now mixed with Points of Authority and New Divide. After Burn It Down in Act 2, the band decided to give Cut the Bridge its Australian debut, ‘From the Inside’ came back to the set and after that they rolled into ‘Two Faced’ like they usually do. Something that usually doesn’t happen though is that Emily went down into the crowd for the bridge and decided that now would be a good time for her first crowdsurfing moment (in Linkin Park)! Next they pulled out ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ from its apparent retirement (along with ‘Let You Fade’ they hadn’t played it since September 19 in Portland), ‘From the Inside’ made a welcome return to the set, and ‘A Place for My Head’ made its 2026 debut. However, unfortunately ‘Heavy Is the Crown’ was a rare cut from the setlist, since it debuted at the third show after the band’s return in Hamburg, Germany on September 22, 2024. ‘Stained’ was also on the setlist in Act 3 but got cut. It’s unknown exactly why these two songs got cut, it could be Emily struggling with her voice or it could be due to time, or maybe they just didn’t feel like playing those songs, only the band knows. After this the band heads to Sydney where they will play on the 14th & 15th before traveling to Auckland, New Zealand where they will end this leg of the tour on the 18th. With live streaming becoming more accessible than ever, fans at home have been able to watch shows on social media via YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram livestreams from attendees. While we are not asking our readers to livestream the show, if anyone reading this finds a stream or is streaming it themselves, let us know so we can watch along with you! Will you be attending this show tonight? Visit our official LPA Meetup Thread if so and let others know! We'd love for you to send any pictures or videos from the show our way as well @LPAssociation on Instagram and Twitter. Whether you're attending or not, come and discuss the show in our forums. Remaining shows: March 14, 2026: Sydney, Australia March 15, 2026: Sydney, Australia March 18, 2026: Auckland, New Zealand
They should get a set with just every single rotation cut thrown in there. "Friendly Fire", "My December", "Given Up", everything. Throw in "Blackout" and/or "With You" for good measure.
Unfortunate news for fans in Adelaide who got their date added later. Hopefully four days will give enough recovery time for the remaining dates.
I met team members tonight at an event and it was very full-steam-ahead energy, no suggestion that Syd shows might not happen. Qudos hasn't changed course with their messaging either. they haven't posted since the cancellation, so I was wrong there