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Start date | May 30, 2014 | ||||||
End date | September 6, 2015 | ||||||
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The Hunting Party Tour was 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 30, 2014, in Lisboa, Portugal, and ended on June 14 in Castle Donington, England, where they played Hybrid Theory in its entirety. The tour also featured special guests Of Mice & Men and Rise Against. On January 15, 2015, the band begun the world tour for The Hunting Party with the first leg under North American Tour. During a show at Indianapolis, Chester Bennington injured his leg, which led to the cancellation of the tour North American Tour. [3] [4] [5] [6] The band continued the world tour on May 9, performing at the first edition of Rock In Rio in America. It was Linkin Park's last full album tour to feature Chester Bennington as vocalist before his death in 2017.
Rumors of a tour from Linkin Park first circulated after the release of the trailer for the Carnivorous Tour. The tour's first leg was in Europe where the band played nine shows. The leg had a duration of sixteen days. The tour began with the "Rock In Rio" show in 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 the Carnivores Tour, and was titled as "The Hunting Party European Tour". The duration of the second leg was twenty-two days which included sixteen shows. Of Mice & Men were included as special guest for this leg and also toured with Linkin Park in 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 color depth of 10 bit. The broadcast was confirmed on November 13, 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 nineteen shows but only three shows took place, after the cancellation of the rest shows, due to the leg injury of Chester Bennington. Later on 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 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. This leg will feature Lower Than Atlantis as special guests for the Berlin show. [9] The shows included Rock in Roma and the FM4 Frequency Festival.
A new leg was introduced during early May, which included five shows in China. The leg was named as "The Hunting Party China Tour". The leg was powered by Life and presented by Mercedes-Benz. All the shows during the leg will take place at stadiums across China. [10] Only eight hours after the announcement, the box office for the five concerts broke past 24 million yuan ($3.8 million). Also, since the announcement, tickets for the concert have almost sold out.[ citation needed ]
Sales for general tickets began on November 7, 2014. Linkin Park offered pre-sale tickets for the fan club members. [11] 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. [12] The promotional poster for the tour featured the hashtag as "#THEHUNTINGPARTYTOUR". The volunteering during the tour was done by "Music for Relief" [13] The Chinese leg of the tour was powered by "Life" and presented by "Mercedes-Benz". The presale of the tickets started on May 6. The tickets were provided by "Yongle Ticket" and "228". [14]
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. [15] The shows between November 22–24, made Linkin Park again the third largest gross collector with $3,154,280 collected. [16] The tour had only five shows in China, but as the shows were announced, the box office broke past 24 million yuan ($3.8 million).[ citation needed ]
These set list are representative of the shows in Parque de Bela Vista, Lisbon, Portugal, at Rock in Rio 2014, in Frankfurt, Germany, at Festhalle, in Rybnik, Poland, at Rybnik Stadium, and in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the first edition of Rock in Rio USA. [17] [18] [19] [20] It does not represent all dates throughout the tour.
Date | City | Country | Venue | Opening acts | Attendance | Revenue |
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Europe [25] [26] | ||||||
May 30, 2014 [upper-alpha 1] | Lisboa | Portugal | Parque da Bela Vista | Queens Of The Stone Age | 90,000 / 90,000 | $39,000,000 |
June 1, 2014 | St. Petersburg | Russia | Petrovsky Stadium | 21,405 / 21,405 | ||
June 2, 2014 | Moscow | Olympic Stadium (Moscow) | 30,000 / 30,050 | |||
June 5, 2014 | Wrocław | Poland | Stadion Miejski | Fall Out Boy | 41,000 / 42,771 | |
June 7, 2014 [upper-alpha 2] | Adenau, Rheinland-Pfalz | Germany | Nürburgring | Animal Jazz | 80,000 / 82,000 | |
June 8, 2014 [upper-alpha 3] | Nürnberg | Volkspark Dutzendteich | Fall Out Boy | 70,000 / 70,000 | ||
June 10, 2014 | Milan | Italy | Ippodromo del Galoppo | 32,000 / 32,000 | ||
June 12, 2014 | Interlaken | Switzerland | Flughafen Interlaken | 12,000 / 12,000 | ||
June 14, 2014 [upper-alpha 4] | Castle Donington | England | Donington Park | N/A | 105,000 / 110,000 | |
TOTAL | 481,405 / 490,226 (98%) | |||||
The Hunting Party Brazil Tour | ||||||
October 18, 2014 [upper-alpha 5] | Belo Horizonte | Brazil | Outside of Mineirão | Panic! at the Disco | 20,000 / 20,000 | $2,800,000 |
October 19, 2014 [upper-alpha 6] | Brasilia | Outside of Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha | 20,000 / 20,000 | |||
TOTAL | 40,000 / 40,000 (100%) | |||||
The Hunting Party European Tour | ||||||
November 3, 2014 | Zürich | Switzerland | Hallenstadion | Of Mice & Men | 13,000 / 13,000 | $17,500,000 |
November 4, 2014 | Stuttgart | Germany | Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle | 14,000 / 14,000 | ||
November 6, 2014 | Cologne | Lanxess Arena | 18,000 / 18,000 | |||
November 7, 2014 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Ziggo Dome | 17,000 / 17,000 | ||
November 9, 2014 | Oberhausen | Germany | König-Pilsener-ARENA | 14,000 / 14,000 | ||
November 10, 2014 | Hamburg | O2 World | 12,942 / 14,402 | |||
November 12, 2014 | Leipzig | Arena Leipzig | 14,000 / 14,000 | |||
November 13, 2014 | München | Olympiahalle | 15,000 / 15,000 | |||
November 14, 2014 | Vienna | Austria | Wiener Stadthalle | 15,000 / 15,000 | ||
November 16, 2014 | Paris | France | Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy | 19,000 / 19,000 | ||
November 17, 2014 | Frankfurt | Germany | Festhalle | 14,000 / 14,000 | ||
November 19, 2014 | Berlin | O2 World | 14,930 / 14,930 | |||
November 20, 2014 | Bremen | ÖVB Arena | 14,500 / 14,500 | |||
November 22, 2014 | Manchester | England | Phones 4u Arena | 15,192 /15,444 | ||
November 23, 2014 | London | O2 Arena | 26,922 / 31 580 | |||
November 24, 2014 | ||||||
TOTAL | 252,000 / 252,000 (100%) | |||||
North America [27] | ||||||
January 15, 2015 | Orlando | United States | Amway Center | Of Mice & Men Rise Against | 9,197 / 10,973 | $537,490 |
January 17, 2015 | Nashville | Bridgestone Arena | 6,126 / 8,191 | $485,447 | ||
January 18, 2015 | Indianapolis | Bankers Life Fieldhouse | — | — | ||
TOTAL [28] | 15,323 / 19,164 (80%) | $1,022,937 | ||||
North American Summer Tour | ||||||
May 9, 2015 [upper-alpha 7] | Las Vegas | United States | MGM Resorts International | Of Mice & Men Rise Against | 85,000 / 85,000 | $15,700,000 |
May 17, 2015 [upper-alpha 8] | Columbus | Mapfre Stadium | 40,000 / 40,000 | |||
May 23, 2015 [upper-alpha 9] | Pryor | Catch the Fever Music Festival Grounds | 60,000 / 72,000 | |||
May 24, 2015 [upper-alpha 10] | San Antonio | AT&T Center | 19,000 / 19,000 | |||
June 19, 2015 [upper-alpha 11] | Montebello | Canada | Marina de Montebello | Mad Caddies | 66,600 / 66,600 | |
June 23, 2015 | Mexico City | Mexico | Arena Ciudad de México | — | 17,600 / 22,300 | |
June 25, 2015 | Monterrey | Arena Monterrey | 11,500 / 17,599 | |||
June 27, 2015 [upper-alpha 12] | Mack | United States | Jam Ranch | Nothing More A Day To Remember | 30,000 / 30,000 | |
June 30, 2015 [upper-alpha 13] | Milwaukee | Marcus Amphitheater | the one and only PPL MVR A Day To Remember | 25,000 / 25,000 | ||
TOTAL | 282,700 / 295,499 (96%) | |||||
The Hunting Party China Tour [29] [30] | ||||||
July 17, 2015 | Nanjing | China | Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre | Rise Against | 57,000 / 61,443 | $13,000,000 |
July 19, 2015 | Shenzhen | Shenzhen Bay Sports Center | 20,000 / 20,000 | |||
July 22, 2015 | Shanghai | Hongkou Football Stadium | 33,060 / 33,060 | |||
July 24, 2015 | Chongqing | Chongqing Olympic Sports Center | 58,680 / 58,680 | |||
July 26, 2015 | Beijing | Workers' Stadium | 66,161 / 66,161 | |||
TOTAL | 294,700 / 305,499 (96%) | |||||
The Hunting Party European Tour [31] [32] | ||||||
August 20, 2015 [upper-alpha 14] | Hasselt | Belgium | Kempische Steenweg | Limp Bizkit | 66,000 / 66,000 | $32,000,000 |
August 22, 2015 [upper-alpha 15] | St. Pölten | Austria | Green Park | Kendrick Lamar | 100,000 / 100,000 | |
August 23, 2015 [upper-alpha 16] | Hockenheim | Germany | Hockenheimring | Farin Urlaub Kraftklub Halestorm | 14,000 / 14,000 | |
August 25, 2015 | Rybnik | Poland | Rybnik Stadium | The Last Internationale My Riot | 20,000 / 20,000 | |
August 27, 2015 | Minsk | Belarus | Minsk Arena | Rili Dope | 13,500 / 13,700 | |
August 29, 2015 | Moscow | Russia | Sports Complex Olimpiyskiy | Jack Action | 22,000 / 25,000 | |
August 31, 2015 | Jämsä | Finland | Himos Park | Disco Ensemble Dead By April | 18,000 / 18,920 | |
September 3, 2015 | Berlin | Germany | Stadion An der Alten Försterei | Lower Than Atlantis | 40,000 / 40,000 | |
September 5, 2015 [upper-alpha 17] | Düsseldorf | Esprit Arena | Broilers Kraftklub | 50,000 / 55,600 | ||
September 6, 2015 [upper-alpha 18] | Rome | Italy | Ippodromo delle Capannelle | Simple Plan | 40,000 / 40,000 | |
TOTAL | 383,500 / 393,220 (98%) | |||||
Grand Total | 1,749,628 / 1,795,608 (97%) | $123,000,000 |
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