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{{Release
| Name = iTunes Festival: London 2011
| Type = live EP
| Artist = Linkin Park
| Cover = ITunesFestivalEP.jpg
| Released = July 7, 2011
| Recorded = [[Live:20110704|July 4, 2011 London, England]]
| Length = 27:54
| Label = Warner Bros. Records
| Distributor = Warner Music Group
}}

'''iTunes Festival: London 2011''' is a digital EP release by Linkin Park in July 2011, containing songs from the band's performance at the London iTunes Festival on July 4, 2011.. The EP features songs performed from ''[[Hybrid Theory]]'', ''[[Minutes To Midnight]]'', ''[[A Thousand Suns]]'', as well as the cover "[[Rolling In The Deep]]", a track by Adele.

== Background ==

The ''A Thousand Suns'' World Tour took Linkin Park to Europe two different times - once in fall 2010 for a run of headline arena shows followed by a summer 2011 tour with a mix of festivals, indoor arena shows, special one-off shows like the Transformers 3 Premiere in Moscow, and the return of Projekt Revolution in Europe.

New setlists were debuted for this tour, incorporating album deep cuts like "[[Blackout]]" and "[[Burning In The Skies]]" on top of standard songs for the world tour.

Linkin Park concluded their summer 2011 tour across Europe with a performance in London, England at the brand new iTunes Festival. The setting for the show was the intimate Roundhouse, a hard ticket to get for fans. The entire show was streamed for free on iTunes.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110816022302/http://mikeshinoda.com/2011/07/22/linkin-park-live-in-london/ Linkin Park: Live in London &laquo; Mike Shinoda&#039;s Blog], July 22, 2011</ref>

== Composition ==

[[File:ITunesFest Setlist.jpg|thumbnail|Show setlist]]

''iTunes Festival: London 2011'' features six professionally mixed and mastered songs from Linkin Park's show in London, England. The full show was webcasted by iTunes.

The versions of the six songs on the release are standard, with the exception of "[[Bleed It Out]]" featuring a bridge with the first verse and bridge of "[[A Place For My Head]]".

"Rolling In The Deep" was performed by Mike and Chester to open the encore of the show (replacing "Blackout") because iTunes requested the band play the track after the video went viral of Linkin Park's Hamburg LPU Summit acoustic performance of the track earlier in the tour.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20111014064329/http://mikeshinoda.com/2011/06/22/linkin-park-underground-summit-adele-rolling-in-the-deep-cover/ Linkin Park Underground Summit: Adele &#8220;Rolling In The Deep&#8221; cover &laquo; Mike Shinoda&#039;s Blog], June 22, 2011</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20111201092549/http://mikeshinoda.com/2011/07/04/linkinpark-cover-adele-rolling-in-the-deep-itunes-festival-roundhouse @LinkinPark Cover Adele Rolling In The Deep: iTunes Festival / Roundhouse &laquo; Mike Shinoda&#039;s Blog], July 04, 2011</ref>

== Releases ==

The EP was released digitally three days after the show on July 7, 2011 after being mixed by Ethan Mates.<ref>https://www.lpassociation.com/forum/threads/itunes-festival-london-2011-ep.34398/ LPAssociation: iTunes Festival: London 2011 EP</ref>

On July 8, 2011, Linkin Park emailed fans saying, ''"As many of you have seen online, we performed at the Roundhouse in London for the iTunes Festival earlier this week. We've seen so many great comments from you all that we decided to release an EP from the show, including our cover of Adele's "Rolling In The Deep." Full tracklist below. Click here to download it on iTunes. We hope you enjoy. -Chester"''

The false start on "Rolling In The Deep" was not included in the track. This performance of the song was released as a standalone single and was never performed again.

On February 8, 2013, Linkin Park released three additional songs from this performance (not included on the ''iTunes Festival: London 2011'' EP) on the [[Living Things#Australian Tour Edition|''Living Things'' Australian Tour Edition CD]] before the band's tour of New Zealand and Australia. The second CD in the release contained five live songs - three from the London iTunes Festival show in 2011 ("[[In The End]]", "[[New Divide]]", and "[[What I've Done]]") and two from Rock im Park 2012 ("[[Burn It Down]]" and "[[Lies Greed Misery]]") as well as the KillSonik remix of "[[Lost In The Echo]]".<ref>https://lplive.net/forums/topic/9466-living-things-australian-tour-edition-cd LPLive: LIVING THINGS Australian Tour Edition CD</ref>

== Track Listing ==

<tabber>
|-|Standard Edition=

{| class="wikitable"
! No.
! Title
! Writer(s)
! Length
|-
| 1
| Iridescent
| Linkin Park
| 4:10
|-
| 2
| Waiting For The End
| Linkin Park
| 4:10
|-
| 3
| Rolling In The Deep
| Adkins Adele, Epworth Paul
| 4:01
|-
| 4
| The Catalyst
| Linkin Park
| 5:41
|-
| 5
| Papercut
| Linkin Park
| 3:15
|-
| 6
| Bleed It Out
| Linkin Park
| 5:20
|}

</tabber>

== Personnel ==

=== Linkin Park ===

* '''Chester Bennington''': Vocals
* '''Mike Shinoda''': Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboard
* '''Brad Delson''': Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
* '''Dave "Phoenix" Farrell''': Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
* '''Joseph Hahn''': Turntables, Sampling, Programming, Backing Vocals
* '''Rob Bourdon''': Drums, Backing Vocals

== Gallery ==

<gallery mode=packed style=text-align:left>
ITunesFestivalEP.jpg|Digital cover
</gallery>

== References ==

[[Category:Linkin Park Live Albums]]
[[Category:Linkin Park Videography]]