Parked in Mumbary
Nostalgia isn't the right feeling to describe something that feels more like a rebirth than a mere recall. To watch Linkin Park perform was like witnessing a family finally come to terms with grief and produce something familiar but new - not in the shadows of a lost titan but with broken pieces of Mirror of Erised in the hands of each member. 'My name is Mike, this is Emily. And in the role of Chester Bennington this afternoon is each one of you,' Shinoda had announced over a year ago when Linkin Park came back From Zero with their new vocalist Emily Armstrong. They didn't need to repeat this beautiful quote ever again - since the music spoke and continues to speak for itself. We sing Chester's lines. We all do that. We take our role very very seriously since the band returned like a Phoenix - with the Order of Chester. We sang again - in Mumbai. We sang Numb and Faint and Crawling and Castle of Glass with Emily and some of us who had not yet by-hearted Heavy is ...