The One More Light World Tour was the ninth headlining (eleventh overall) concert tour by American

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band Linkin Park. The tour supported their seventh studio album, ''

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'' (2017). Beginning in May 2017, the tour visited 21 cities in South America and Europe. Following the death of lead vocalist and frontman

Chester Bennington Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was best known as the lead vocalist of rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of the bands Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, ...

on July 20, 2017, the North American leg and the rest of the tour were cancelled the following day, followed by the final leg of the tour in Japan on October 3, 2017.

Background

Starting October 2016, the band announced several music festival appearances in Argentina, France and Germany. Throughout the remainder of the year, more shows were revealed. In March 2017, a promotional trailer was released on

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to promote standalone concerts in the U.K. This was followed by the band performing several promotional concerts and press interviews. The band announced the North American tour with a comical trailer which was released through

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. The trailer showed Machine Gun Kelly being interviewed and Bennington and Shinoda intervening and asking him to tour with them, resulting him to leave the interview in amusement. Another comical video, for the promotion of

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co-headlining shows, known as "Welcome to Blinkin Park". The video included a couple on a tinder date taking Linkin Park and Blink-182 with them to decrease the awkwardness. Tickets for the North American leg are sold through

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's new "Verified Fan" program, an initiative to help prevent

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. The band announced $1 from each ticket sale will be donated to "

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", a charity foundation to aid survivors of natural disasters and environmental protection. Each ticket will also include a physical or digital copy of the band's latest album. Commenting on the upcoming tour, guitarist Brad Delson stated:

"Our fans know how much love we put into our live show. They know how much we enjoy the connection when we play a fan favorite on stage. The emotional and sonic content of this new batch of songs is going to bring a whole new dimension to the show."

On July 20, 2017, Chester Bennington died by suicide in his home in

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suburbs of Palos Verdes Estates,

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. His final performance with the band was on July 6 at the

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, England. Due to his death, the status of the remaining tour dates was placed into question. The next day, Live Nation announced that the North American leg would be canceled, and customers would be refunded. Two months later, the band announced the cancellation of the Japan leg of the tour, while also providing refund information.

Opening acts

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* Rise Against *Turbopótamos *

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* Snoop Dogg * Nothing but Thieves, Sum 41,

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* Sum 41 * Rob Zombie * Slayer

Setlist

The following setlists were obtained from the concert of May 11, 2017, held at the Estadio Nacional de Lima in Lima, Peru, and the concert of July 3, 2017, held at The O₂ Arena in London, England. It is not intended to represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

Completed shows

Cancelled shows

Festivals and other miscellaneous performances : Maximus Festival : Download Festival :

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: Impact Festival : Independent Days Festival :

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:Volt Fesztivál :

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: Rock Werchter :Welcome to Blinkin Park :Welcome to Blinkin Park

Personnel

– lead vocals, and rhythm guitar (first half of tour, died on July 20, 2017) *

Rob Bourdon Robert Gregory Bourdon (born January 20, 1979) is an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founding member of the American rock band Linkin Park. Early life Bourdon was born in Calabasas, California. He received classical piano l ...

– drums, percussion * Brad Delson – lead guitar, keyboards on "Waiting for the End", acoustic guitar on "Sharp Edges", synthesizer on "Burn It Down" * Dave "Phoenix" Farrell – bass guitar, backing vocals, samplers on "Good Goodbye" and "Lost in the Echo", rhythm guitar on "Leave Out All the Rest" *

Joe Hahn Joseph Hahn (born March 15, 1977) is an American musician, DJ, director and visual artist best known as the DJ of the American rock band Linkin Park, doing the scratching, turntables, sampling, and programming for all seven of Linkin Park's ...

– turntables, samples, backing vocals *

Mike Shinoda Michael Kenji Shinoda (; ja, 篠田賢治, Shinoda Kenji; born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in 1996 and was the band's collaborative vocal ...

– lead vocals, rhythm and lead guitar, keyboards, piano, rapping, and backing vocals (first half of tour)

References

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