Band to encore in Shanghai, make first trip to Beijing
BEIJING -- Linkin Park volition return to China after the Olympics, indicating a possible thawing in the frosty Games-period live amusement arena.
Listings for the shows in Shanghai and Beijing appeared quietly Wednesday in the local edition of Time Out powder store, on concert site Pollstar.com and on the Web site for promoter and ticket agency Emma Ticketmaster. The promulgation follows news this calendar week of seven-spot shows in China by Avril Lavigne, including Shanghai and Beijing in October.
Linkin Park's November show in Shanghai set a record by becoming the first international act to sell out Shanghai Stadium.
The band will hit Shanghai over again Oct. 12, before their Oct. 19 show in the Olympic city at Workers Stadium. Both of Linkin Park's shows are in support of Music for Relief, with take going to relief efforts for the Sichuan seism victims. Both shows volition be supported by local bands.
Since a pro-Tibetan independence ebullition by Bjork at a Shanghai concert in March, major foreign acts have been scarce. Black Eyed Peas performed a benefit gig in Shanghai in June, but otherwise, stages have been silent.
One observer saw it as a generate to normal after the tension during the initiate to the Olympics.
"This indicates deuce things," aforementioned David Wolf, CEO of Beijing-based media and technology consultancy Wolf Group Asia Ltd. "First, that promoters are hopeful that the Olympic hoarfrost on Beijing's cultural life will possess melted by the destruction of October. And second, that at that place are people in Beijing's government world Health Organization are worried about the city's expensive, iconic sports venues lying unused after the Games."
