LONDON, UK (30th May, 2017) – Fresh from releasing their album, One More Light, which hit #4 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart and topped the charts in the USA, Linkin Park return to our shores this Summer for a very special event “One More Night In London”. The show will take place at O2 Academy Brixton on July 4th and tickets go on sale on Friday June 2nd at 9am.
Fans can also purchase tickets at various pre-sales this week including the LPU Presale from 1pm today, D2C Preorder Presale from 4pm, O2 Presale from tomorrow at 9am, LiveNation Presale from Thursday at 9am. Further information, and links to purchase tickets, can be found at https://linkinpark.com/events.
“One More Night In London” is mid-way through the band’s One More Light World Tour. The European leg kicks off on June 9th and Linkin Park also play 3 other dates in the UK, including London’s O2 Arena on July 3rd, Birmingham’s Barclaycard Arena on July 6th and Manchester Arena on July 7th. It’s been an exciting week for Linkin Park. The band made their first ever appearance on Good Morning America with an unprecedented pop-up performance in a New York subway at Grand Central Terminal. They released their 10-track, seventh studio album One More Light on May 19th and notched up their sixth #1 album on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, selling over 111,000 copies. In the UK, they scored the highest charting new release, finishing the week at #4.
Linkin Park are one of the world’s most successful bands. They are the biggest band on Facebook, and command a massive YouTube channel of over 3 billion plays and 7 million subscribers. Their first album, Hybrid Theory is the best-selling debut of this century, certified diamond (10 million) in the US. They have won 2 Grammy Awards, 5 American Music Awards, 4 MTV VMA Awards, 10 MTV Europe Music Awards and 3 World Music Awards. They have sold out stadiums around the world, headlining some of the biggest music festivals including Download, Reading and Leeds in the UK, Rock in Rio in Portugal and Summer Sonic in Japan, as well as the distinction of being the first and only western rock band to play a 5 stadium tour in China. Their most recent tour was the band’s most successful World Tour to date – playing to over 1.5 million fans in 16 countries.
In 2005, the band founded Music For Relief, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing aid to victims of natural disasters and the prevention of such disasters. Since its inception, MFR has raised over 9 million dollars for multiple victims across 4 continents, including Hurricane Katrina, China’s Wenchuan earthquake, a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, earthquakes in Haiti and Japan in 2010, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
LINKIN PARK ONE MORE LIGHT WORLD TOUR UK LEG: July 3rd London O2 Arena July 4th London O2 Academy Brixton July 6th Birmingham Barclaycard Arena July 7th Manchester Arena
