On my return from the o2 arena

I am still quite excited and hyped up. Why? I just got back from the o2 arena. What's so great about it? I WENT TO SEE LINKIN PARK!!!

Forgive my enthusiasm, you must know that I have been a huge fan ever since I first heard One Step Closer back in 2001. It's only now that they happen to finally come to the UK, when I am old enough to go without parent's bugging me about travelling etc.

Anyway, it was a great show, I went with a few of my cousins who are also die hard fans. Some band opened the show, and they were quite good...though even now I can't remember their names or anything. Like me, everyone else was just hyped up about seeing Linkin Park, anything else was insignificant. In between songs a few people shouted out "Get Linkin Park out!!!"

When they finally came on, it was a prolongued introduction, and the crowd went wild as the curtain dropped and they opened with a brilliant performance of No More Sorrow. One of my favourite songs from the new album right of the bat, not bad at all! As the song came to a close, already they were playing a new intro to a brilliant old song which is often overlooked- Don't Stay. Another superb performance, and I was extremely pleased that they were throwing out old stuff as well, not just focusing on the Minutes to Midnight album.

Tracklist (In no particular order):

-Numb
-Papercut
-Faint (:-))
-Breaking the Habit
-Crawling (Reanimation ver.)
-Effectively the whole new album, ending of course, with What I've Done.

The encore was brilliant, they opened it with One Step Closer (The WHOLE crowd went nuts), followed by In the End (Also strong reaction, practically everyone sung it) and ended with Somewhere I Belong.

The o2 security seemed to be in full force, quite a few kids were thrown out for throwing stuff back at the band (who would throw out full water bottles and even the union jack they had on stage). The standing area was huge, so it was nice to see around 3 pits going on at once. At one point, Chester goes "We love the UK so much, we are filming our new video here. It's a live video, so I want all you crazy motherfuckers moshing it out in a pit!" Of course from then on, not even security could keep the pits down for that long.

It was a brilliant performance, they sound great live. Some of their new tracks which I am not too sure about even sounded really good.

Regardless of what people think of them, it's hard to deny that they have come along way, and they are getting even stronger as time goes on. I just had to compare the Live in Texas performance to tonight.