The Hunting Party Tour

The Hunting Party Tour is the eleventh concert tour by American 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 5, 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. During a show at Indianapolis, Chester Bennington injured his leg, which led to the cancellation of the tour.^[3][4][5][6]

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 13th 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. There are five shows of the leg officially announced till present. The shows includes like Rock in Roma and FM4 Frequency Festival.

Development

Sales for general tickets began on November 7, 2014. Linkin Park offered pre-sale tickets for the fan club members.^[9] 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.^[10] 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 13th 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"^[11]

Opening Acts

• Animal Jazz (European tour selective dates)
• Fall Out Boy (at Stadion Miejski and Ippodromo del Galoppo)

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.^[12] The shows between November 22-24, made Linkin Park again the third largest gross collector with $3,154,280 collected.^[13]

Set list

This set list is representative of the show in Orlando at Amway Center. It does not represent all dates throughout the tour.

1. "Guilty All the Same"
2. "Given Up"
3. "With You"
4. "One Step Closer"
5. "Blackout"
6. "Papercut"
7. "Rebellion"
8. "Runaway"
9. "Wastelands"
10. "Castle of Glass"
11. "Leave Out All the Rest" / "Shadow of the Day" / "Iridescent"
12. "Robot Boy"
13. "Numb"
14. "Waiting for the End"
15. "Final Masquerade"
16. "Wretches and Kings" / "Remember the Name"
17. "Lying From You"
18. "Somewhere I Belong"
19. "In the End"
20. "Faint"

Tour dates

Notes

References

External links

• Official website