The venue is at Stadion Utama Gelora Bung Karno which is pretty close to where we stay. But still we left early so as not to be caught in traffic. We grabbed a quick pizza and beers dinner at Plaza Senayan just next door to the stadium and by 7:00pm, we were already at the entrance gate. The queue into the stadium is rather long but securities worked quickly to clear the crowd. We bought the free standing tickets at Festival B just next to the stage and heard from concert officials that some fans were queueing up as early as 3pm when the gates only open at 6pm. Talk about die-hard fans!
When we got into Festival B, we could see the place is about three-quarter filled, and there was still pretty decent room space around. However as we approached and passed the official start time of 8pm, the crowd begun to get restless, there were some mild pushing and suddenly there were more heads in front of me, and intermittently there were chants of "Linkin Park! Linkin Park!" in the hope that it would bring on the appearance Linkin Park on stage. With every passing minute, the adoring fans were closely watching the camera crew like hawks, as if taking cue from them when will Linkin Park appear to put us out of our waiting misery.
Suddenly the lights were dimmed, and The Requiem, the first track of their latest album A Thousands Suns, pierced through the screaming crowd. At the end of this 3 minute track, flood lights came up and there was Linkin Park on stage and rocking their fans with Papercut. Needless to say the fans went ballistics! Everyone was jumping with their hands in the air. We got pushed back again, and I was so body close to this fan on my left that I could feel his body heat from his sweat-soaked T-shirt. Disgusting! As I turned to my right, a sympathetic fan (she also looked like she was pushed around by the jumping bodies) smiled and said Gawat! (I have since looked up the meaning of gawat and it means serious or crisis)
Linkin Park entertained, rocked and pleased their fans with songs from their latest album as well as well-known hits from their previous albums Minutes to Midnight, Meteora and Hybrid Theory. Not forgetting as well, What I've Done, New Divide and Irisdescent from the Transfomers movie franchise. The 2 hour show passed too quickly and before we knew it, they were singing their final song for the night i.e. Bleed It Out. It was such an awesome night and I'm so glad I told Hubs "let's go for Linkin Park concert" way back in July.
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