Our intrepid reporter Jaxxy has just seen her and my favourite comedian: Bill Bailey. He is officially a legend, and if I wasn't running LPFuse, then I'd be running a Bill Bailey fansite, dedicated to the eggs of numbing inevitability. Ahh the eggs... Jon and I gave him one of those eggs in the middle of one of his sets. Boy did that freak him out!

Anyway to the actual point, the prementioned Jaxxy noted that in the show tonight Bill performed a new parody song about an emo who worked in a coffee shop (starbucks). Included in this song bill uses Lying From You...

To those who don't know who Bill is, go buy a DVD or youtube him or something!

Here's some clips of the song
Current version of the song (random lfy cut in)
Preview version of the song (uses lfy as part of the beat)

Click here to watch an interview with Mike Shinoda where he answers some fan's questions. Sure it's worth a watch! :)

Not news, moreso just a joke I saw on a forum that made me laugh

A random video posted on Mike's blog shows him giving his guitar a new look. Check it out :)
click here to view

The O2 arena is actually going to be a great venue for Linkin Park to play at. I was there last night [for MCR and Mindless Self Indulgance who both shouted out Projekt Rev], and the venue was completely transformed and perfect for a live rock band. Hope you're all standing for the show guys.

Just thought I'd let you all know and put minds at rest.

NME has a short article discussing the UK tour dates. The article finishes with the scentence... Linkin Park's full UK tour, with support from Biffy Clyro, now runs: .. followed by the dates. Rumours suggest Julien-K will be opening for both bands.

Click Read More for the whole article.
Thanks Dan for the heads up!

Blabbermouth have put up a report about Chester's on-going project 'Dead by Sunrise".

LINKIN PARK singer Chester Bennington plans to resume work on the debut album from his side project, DEAD BY SUNRISE, which he put on hold while making and promoting the latest LINKIN PARK CD, "Minutes to Midnight". While Bennington intends to do some work on DEAD BY SUNRISE next month during the holiday break, he told The Pulse of Radio that the record will likely be completed next year. "I think I'm gonna attempt to really get the bulk of any recording or any re-arranging from March to May," he said. "We have like a couple of months off there. That way when we finish touring with LINKIN PARK, then I can go in and just finish the record and get it out."

As mentioned quite a few weeks ago, LP did a cover of the song "Little Boxes" for the TV series Weeds. This is possibly the strangest LP cover you'll hear. It's worth a listen!

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Linkin Park will be headlining KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas this year.

"Linkin Park will be headlining night one of Los Angeles' KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas on Saturday, December 8 at the Gibson Amphitheatre! Be sure to tune in to KROQ 106.7 or check www.kroq.com for ticket on-sale information."

Source: LP's MySpace Blog.

LP are now playing the O2 two nights in a row (who do they think they are? Justin Timberlake?! [yes I went there]) and you can get presales from 9am (or from late last night if you were sneaky).

It appears the O2 advertised these dates before the LPU confirmed them but they do have [supposedly] tickets on sale.

Good luck landing a pair for Tuesday 29th January 2008.


...Please don't spend your time complaining about LP not touring in your town, garden, window, walkway, city. They don't choose where they tour, they have a tour manager who tells them 'you'll not be going home for x amount of time'

Source: LPU Newsletters/O2 Loyalty customer txt.

Live Earth CD/DVD

Live Earth - The Concerts For a Climate in Crisis will be released as a CD and 2-DVD package on December 4. The digital album will be released on November 13. This package will feature many of the performances as seen during the Live Earth 2007 broadcast. "Bleed It Out" by Linkin Park will be the first single off this CD/DVD combo.

Proceeds from the sale of Live Earth - The Concerts For a Climate in Crisis will go to benefit the Alliance for Climate Protection, whose mission is to persuade the public about the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.

Click here now to pre-order the CD/DVD.

From their MySpace.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dEzksUARS84

You all might have seen the old one on YouTube, it's linked to on my YouTube page. The label recreated this one and is spreading it around right now for promotion.

Check it out!

Just an update for you all, mike has stated that he'll be slowly moving his blog away from the fortminor myspace page and start posting on his own personal site. However he's currently going to asia so don't expect it to happen over-night!
mikeshinoda.com

Do you want to book Linkin Park yourself? You can do so through this page... Obviously be prepared for a rejection but it'd be pretty strange having them at your wedding doing cover songs of classic cheese, amiright?

Purchasing tickets for one of the london shows via ticketmaster you are offered a LP digi souvenir pack. This confused me at first? Erm a few pictures of the show for £10 or something??? However read the description:

In keeping with the bands innovative stance they are offering you an exclusive souvenir digital tour package where you will receive:

A complete download of the show that you have just witnessed
A digital tour programme that is unique to this offer and unavailable elsewhere
Exclusive photos of the show that you attend

So while more expensive than the US digital recordings, this looks pretty cool.
Least the official bootleg drive is back *packs away his microphone*

Mike just posted about how Music For Relief on eBay are selling lots of merch / specialised items and unique drawings / customisations / pit tickets and prizes to people where the funds all go towards the victims of the Cali-fires.

I'm glad I checked my email this morning! LPU emailed to confirm the UK dates as:

Thu, 24 Jan
Nottingham Arena
UK

Fri, 25 Jan
Sheffield Arena
UK

Sun, 27 Jan
MEN Arena Manchester
UK

Mon, 28 Jan
The O2 London
UK

LPU presales begin at 9am tomorrow (November 7th) with the tickets going on general sale on Friday.

Personally I think it's an odd selection of venues, with Wales, Scotland, Ireland and also Birmingham ignored! But I'm not complaining! We're lucky in the UK that most things aren't too far away if we're determined to get there! I hope that there is a venue you can all reach! Should be an awesome tour! *is mega excited*

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Jon mentioned the previous uk dates, there are already a few companies trying to capatilise on this by selling 'early' tickets. The main culprit of this is londonticketshop. A few fans have already purchased these over-priced tickets, that chances are they are non-exsistant. The company is well known to not provide you with the tickets you paid for!. This is not our view, feel free to search google to see what others have to say!

If you want to get real tickets, go to the LPU and get involved with their official presale, of course this will only happen when the dates are confirmed.

LP will be playing in Switzerland on:

Fri, 18 Jan
St. Jakobshalle
Basel, Switzerland

The LPU presale is on right now! I love it when tour dates are being announced! It's so exciting! Can't wait for official UK dates!