Linkin ParkBuilding further anticipation for their first Australian tour in 13 years, Linkin Park have announced the opening of two pop-up stores.
The American nu-metal stars have teamed up with fashion brand Deus ex Machina and packed the stores in Melbourne and Sydney with merchandise, showcasing the collaboration exclusively for the pop-up stores and offering options different from what you can pick up at the band’s gigs.
Fans in Melbourne can purchase items at the pop-up store from Saturday, 7 March, to Tuesday, 10 March, from 9 am to 6 pm. Located at the Oshi Gallery on Smith Street, Collingwood, the shop is a short tram ride from the Melbourne CBD.
The Sydney store opens on Friday, 13 March, and remains open until Monday, 16 March. Open from 9 am to 5 pm, the store is at 98-104 Parramatta Road in Camperdown, under 20 minutes from the Sydney CBD.
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The band notes that fans who attend the pop-up stores will receive wristbands, distributed “on a first-come, first-served basis,” with assigned time slots. Fans can then arrive at the stores when their time slot begins.
Linkin Park kicked off their highly anticipated From Zero tour of Australia and New Zealand in Brisbane last night (3 March).
The tour continues with a second night in Brisbane tomorrow (5 March), followed by two nights at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena (8 and 10 March), a show at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre (12 March), two nights at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena (14 and 15 March), and concludes with a show in New Zealand – Auckland’s Spark Arena on Wednesday, 18 March.
Reviewing the band’s first show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, The Music’s Claire Dunton wrote, “The first of seven shows in the Australian leg of the tour was an unbelievable feat of production, effects, and sound, proving that Linkin Park still holds their crown as rock royalty.”
Across a 27-song set, From Zero was the album the band pulled from the most, with eight songs, followed by five songs from Hybrid Theory (2000), four songs from Meteora (2003), and a handful from 2007’s Minutes To Midnight, 2012’s LIVING THINGS, and 2010’s A Thousand Suns.
Plus, the band revisited Mike Shinoda’s side project, Fort Minor, with Where’d You Go, and included a solo from Joe Hahn, who provides Linkin Park’s scratching, turntables, sampling, and programming.
It’s important to note that last night’s setlist won’t be repeated on each night of the tour. There are typically eight songs that wind up in rotation in Linkin Park sets, meaning that Thursday night’s show in Brisbane will be different to this one.
Check out the first setlist from Linkin Park’s first Australian tour in 13 years on The Music.
