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Linkin Park locks in Decembertour dates

Tue 14th Sep, 2010 in Local News

Cancel the front row seats and jacuzzi you had planned for the Bon Jovi tour, ‘cause Linkin Park is indeed coming this summer. An announcement this afternoon confirms five arena shows around Australia in December for the Californian angst idols.

Linkin Park is touring its new album A Thousand Suns, which sees the band regrouping with Rick Rubin after 2007’s Minutes To Midnight. Don’t expect early-2000s throwbacks, though. “I made my mind up three years ago: I don’t want to scream any more,” Chester Bennington told the Los Angeles Times this week.

No doubt he’ll make an exception when it’s time to unleash some of the older Linkin Park numbers on the December circuit…

Linkin Park tour dates:

Friday 3 December – Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Tuesday 7 December – Burswood Dome, Perth
Thursday 9 December – Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Saturday 11 December – Acer Arena, Sydney
Monday 13 December – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

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JackT

JackT said on the 14th Sep, 2010

I choose my comebacks carefully.

Shieldsy23

Shieldsy23 said on the 14th Sep, 2010

scweet, this could be good.
suprised their not doing bdo

lukey26

lukey26 said on the 14th Sep, 2010

Saw them in 07.

Ehhh...

MilkySheep

MilkySheep said on the 14th Sep, 2010

Linkin Park, Bon Jovi and U2 all in a week... I know where all the bogans dole payments are going!

TheLach03 said on the 14th Sep, 2010

linkin park december 13. muse december 15.

good week :)

Hinee

Hinee said on the 14th Sep, 2010

I'm a real sucker for nostalgia, and LP back in the day were fucking rad. I have both Jack Johnson and The Eagles the following week, still will be hard to say no to this

ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 14th Sep, 2010

CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN

THESE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUNDS THEY WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL NOT HEEEEEEEEEEEEL

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 14th Sep, 2010

shazie

shazie said on the 14th Sep, 2010

2 nights of Muse and biffy clyro and then this the day after? Yes please

Jose Cuervo

Jose Cuervo said on the 14th Sep, 2010

CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN

THESE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUNDS THEY WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL NOT HEEEEEEEEEEEEL

hahahahahaah thank you

ThatDude123

ThatDude123 said on the 14th Sep, 2010

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l88krvnQ191qbey7go1_500.jpg

/obligatory

williamb

williamb said on the 14th Sep, 2010

gorillaz on a monday, linkin park on a tuesday, & bon jovi on a wednesday... i knew all that annual leave was gonna come in handy... :d

Jose Cuervo

Jose Cuervo said on the 14th Sep, 2010

Wow what a week

Clipse, Jay Z, Gorillaz

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 14th Sep, 2010

Well, two out of three ain't bad.

lowfive

lowfive said on the 14th Sep, 2010

crawling in my skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

these woooooooooooooooooounds they wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil not heeeeeeeeeeeel

haha! they're fricking awful.

williamb

williamb said on the 14th Sep, 2010

lol, well gorillaz and lp are for me... jovi is coverage for fasterlouder :p

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 14th Sep, 2010

You're still going.

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 14th Sep, 2010

I'm assuming you mean Gorillaz as one of those two, but who is supposed to be the other good one? :S

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 14th Sep, 2010

My hatred of Bon Jovi is well documented. I also enjoy Linkin Park - not nearly as much as I used to, but I don't hate them at all.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 14th Sep, 2010

I'll be honest,I've never really understood your seething hatred of Bon Jovi.

They aren't great band but they've done some solid work in the vein of "cock rock" and they seem like pretty personable dudes.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 14th Sep, 2010

Really? They seem like the biggest douchebags on the planet.

I hate 90% of that era of shitty hair-metal/stadium rock - Poison, Whitesnake, KISS, Winger, et al.

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 14th Sep, 2010

But you rate a washed up nu-metal band? True...

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 14th Sep, 2010

http://topnews.in/light/files/Jon-Bon-Jovi.jpg

Deal with it.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 14th Sep, 2010

That's a horrible picture!

What did I say about Disturbed?

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 14th Sep, 2010

How do you feel about Jon Bon Jesus?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mS8UxWB_9JE/SZPKKEovqDI/AAAAAAAAAwA/dW2wVdV-Y-A/s400/jon_bon_jovi_01.jpg

Jose Cuervo

Jose Cuervo said on the 14th Sep, 2010

http://topnews.in/light/files/Jon-Bon-Jovi.jpg

Deal with it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY FUCK POTD..... I <3 MR BECK

http://imgur.com/KDRE0.gif

rodismdotcom

rodismdotcom said on the 14th Sep, 2010

Linkin Park will be playing two shows daily in then years time supporting Wayne Newton...

gumbuoy

gumbuoy said on the 14th Sep, 2010

Maybe they're forcing him?

Williamb did you do something bad? Is this a punishment for late submissions, or bootlegging a gig?

williamb

williamb said on the 14th Sep, 2010

maybe they're forcing him?

williamb did you do something bad? is this a punishment for late submissions, or bootlegging a gig?

lol nah i didnt do anything bad :p

i requested it... not because of the "awesome" *cough* music, but because it looks good on paper when those 50 something year old music editors are perusing my images to give me a job... :p

williamb

williamb said on the 14th Sep, 2010

washed up.... hardly...

mattchew

mattchew said on the 15th Sep, 2010

i just got front mosh to lp's brisbane show

benr3

benr3 said on the 15th Sep, 2010

^
Where did you get them from?

Does anyone know how much these tix cost?

benr3

benr3 said on the 15th Sep, 2010

^
Where did you get them from?

Does anyone know how much these tix cost?

Just answered my own question,

you got them from the fan club pre-sale and they cost you $132 each.

I can see Coppel having a tough time moving these tix at this price.

spintheblackcircle

spintheblackcircle said on the 15th Sep, 2010

U2, Gorillaz, Bon Jovi, Muse and now Linkin Park all playing the same week/weekend in Melbourne and all the while im going to be at Meredith. Im so very happy with the choice i've made.

sarcasm_mister

sarcasm_mister said on the 15th Sep, 2010

132!!! im planning on buying tickets for a friend for his 21st. but tickets for both of us plus the bullshit fees. im looking at 270+ for a band i stopped loving 5yrs ago.

plus $1 to be donated to charity. thats a great gesture but $1 out of 132 sounds like a bit of an insult. but i guess thats better than nothing.

benr3

benr3 said on the 16th Sep, 2010

My sentiments exactly!

Hate to break it to you but it'll cost you $300 if you wait for the ticketek pre sale, $132 is a fan club special price.

mattchew

mattchew said on the 16th Sep, 2010

you get a presale password if you bought their new album from their site or if your a member of the lp underground thing... i bought the cd. it cost me $280 for two tickets including booking fees and postage... i think can get a visa presale this friday.

gumbuoy

gumbuoy said on the 16th Sep, 2010

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 16th Sep, 2010

Like you expected it to be any different?

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 16th Sep, 2010

It seems that whole Linkin Park rape thing wasn't an isolated incident.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 16th Sep, 2010

Hide your kids, hide your wife!

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 16th Sep, 2010

More like hide your wallet.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 16th Sep, 2010

Run and tell THAT, Braveheart.

afimelb

afimelb said on the 28th Sep, 2010

fuck linkin park i used to love them but they now seem money hungry. presale costs 20 on top of the high cost of the ticket and booking fee and pre sale was only open to lpu members which fork out 60 bucks a year. fuck that if they were 100 dollars i would of seen them again but this is stupid. even u2 and jay z cost 100.

shows how linkin park care about their fans

sarcasm_mister

sarcasm_mister said on the 29th Sep, 2010

^^

with you there. how high could their production costs really be? is it cos theres 6 of them in the band so they want just as much as someone in a 3 or 4 piece band.

benr3

benr3 said on the 29th Sep, 2010

Linkin Park will have agreed to a flat rate of pay for the tour. Big bands don't get paid differently depending on ticket sales/price, If the tour goes well the promoter gets rich, if it goes badly the promoter loses money. Linkin Park themselves have nothing to do with it.

Its the promoter we have to thank for the cost of tickets.

benr3

benr3 said on the 29th Sep, 2010

$100 for some of the worst seats in the venue, if you want to see anything you'll be paying around $300

lukey26

lukey26 said on the 29th Sep, 2010

Just pay $15, and go see Saw 3D. Chester is in it, and looks like he's gonna die. Ironically, apparently his character is a rapist.

sarcasm_mister

sarcasm_mister said on the 29th Sep, 2010

i just bought my $40 tickets to the second U2 n Jay-z show. im in section 101-1 (look at the seating plan below) the only concern is that my view will be slightly impeded by the stage set up.

the $100 tickets are for GA. so far from being the worst seats in the venue.

https://premier.ticketek.com.au/dbimages/sfx61816.gif

benr3

benr3 said on the 29th Sep, 2010

Enjoy watching U2 on a large TV screen while they play mere metres away from where you are sitting!

sarcasm_mister

sarcasm_mister said on the 29th Sep, 2010

the band always moves around. so even if i am right behind the pillar i wont miss much. and ive already got GA tix to the first night so it doesnt bother me.

anyways back to linkin park.

any tips on support act? im hoping that it will be dead letter circus who will be supporting muse in brisbane on the 5th and 6th.

and any news on whether LP will be continuing their pearl jam like official bootleg releases.

lukey26

lukey26 said on the 29th Sep, 2010

Many Machines on Nine (mm9) wouldn't surprise me at all.

shazie

shazie said on the 29th Sep, 2010

Hopefully with the price of tickets they get an international support. Wouldn't mind DLC playing before an international support though (if they have 2 support bands).

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 30th Sep, 2010

DLC opening for LP would be a great opportunity for those guys. It'll probably be someone like Birds of friggin' Tokyo, though.