Linkin Park shocked detractors with an impressive performance in Johannesburg that brilliantly blended hip hop and rock to generate something new for the long time band. With numerous songs including a Jay-Z collaboration on Collision Course, the concert was impressive enough to leave even die-hard haters wanting more.

When news of the band’s South African tour was released, I frivolously posted on Twitter and Facebook ‘Hmmm, Linkin Park, eh? Six years too late methinks…’

I was under the very deluded suspicion that they may be too stale, irrelevant and quite boring after a few ‘meh’ albums, and what seemed like an even more ‘meh’ latest one.

Experiencing Linkin Park’s Living Things tour live at Johannesburg’s Soccer City on Saturday night was a perception-changing concert, which will forever leave me in awe.

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