WRAPUP: Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts - Love Earth Concert Tour Leg #1 - Statistics, Links + More

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts Malahaide Castle, Dublin, Ireland - June 26, 2025
 Photo by thrasher(Click photo to enlarge) 

Now that the Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' Love Earth Concert Tour Leg #1 has concluded in Europe, it's a good time to look back as we look forward to Leg #2 in North America.

 

  Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' Love Earth Concert Tour Leg #1

via Sugar Mountain (Click photo to enlarge)

 

Via Sugar Mountain,  we can see that the recently completed Europe Leg #1 of Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' Love Earth tour drew relatively deeply from the albums After The Gold Rush, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Harvest and Ragged Glory with 3 songs each.

Interestingly, the setlists varied with 27 songs drawn from across 16 different albums ranging from 1969's  Crazy Horse's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere to CSNY's Looking Forward.

The core setlist songs played at each of the 13 Europe tour concerts were: Be The Rain, Cinnamon Girl, F*!#in', Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black), The Needle And The Damage Done, Harvest Moon, Sun Green, & Name Of Love.

  

The concerts with the most songs played was July 7 - Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland and July 11 - Hyde Park, London, England  with a total of 18 songs.

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' Love Earth Concert Tour Leg #1 - Europe

via Sugar Mountain

There were zero concert performance debuts or unreleased song performances, unlike NEIL YOUNG 2023 COASTAL TOUR. And -- surprisingly --  no songs played from the newest album Talkin' To The Trees.

More Neil Young concert statistics @ Sugar Mountain (thanks Tom! Sorry to miss you on this leg.)  

More on the Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts - Love Earth Concert Tour  (see concert reviews).

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' Love Earth Concert Tour Leg #2 - North America

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>>> NOTE: Concert Setlists, photos, reviews @ links below. Updated continuously. <<<

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Dublin Memories of Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts + Van Morrison @ Malahaide Castle

Downtown Dublin, Ireland(Click photo to enlarge)

Now that the 1st Leg of Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' 2025 love earth WORLD Tour is complete, we've finally posted our Dublin, Ireland concert memories of the day.

And oh what a day ... June 26, 2025.

On this day, Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' are scheduled to play Malahaide Castle with Van Morrison opening. And the thrashers were all in.

First up, meeting our hosts of the day Mary and Dave Fallon for lunch at the appropriately named O'Neills Pub. Then off to some quick local Dublin sight seeing.

O'Neills Pub - Dublin, Ireland

w/ Mary and Dave Fallon

Main Post Office Building

Down by the River (Liffey River)

Spire of Dublin

(or the stiletto in the ghetto, the pin in the bin, the stiffy by the Liffey, the spire in the mire, or just the spike)

In one of the many synchronicities on our Irish adventures, while on the train to the concert, we managed to be sitting across from a guy wearing a 2013 Neil Young and Crazy Horse shirt.   After exchanging greetings and pleasantries on the upcoming day, our new friend mentions that his buddy Gavin was featured on Thrasher's Wheat back in 2009.

In one of those OMG moments, the whole tale of Gavin and his family's wish for "Harvest Moon" in Dublin in memory of their late father came rushing back.

Gavin's Family and Papa Joe - 2009

[editor: one the prime drivers of why this post has taken us so long to get completed was trying to re-connect on this subject.  Gavin: Not sure if you made the Dublin concert but hopefully our message got passed along.]

Malahaide Castle 

The Holy Rail

w/ Finland Friends

As the day waned and rain began to drizzle, Van Morrison arrived on stage with a full band, horn section and backup singers.

Van Morrison and Band

Van Morrison and his band played a mix of classics like "Into The Mystic" and a range of back catalog and newer songs.

Van was apparently in a pretty good for the day even smiling and cracking a joke while introducing the band.  The set completed with an extended "Gloria" allowing everyone in the band a chance to solo and jam -- after Van left the stage.

After Van Morrison's set, the anticipation and wait for Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts begins to build. Likewise, the rain begins to get steady and pickup.

And Neil opens with "Be The Rain" -- appropriately so -- while dispensing with the what had been a standard concert opening acoustic number like "Sugar Mountain."

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts 

 Neil & Chrome Hearts: Corey McCormick (bass) & Anthony LoGerfo (drums)

Micah Nelson

Spooner Oldham

"Old Man"

In conclusion -- and our tour lesson - while we minimized our photo taking we somehow missed getting a shot during "Hurricane" of Micah going nuts on the flying keyboard while the rain drops flew. We missed shots of the big "Rockin' In The Free World" encore.  And we entirely missed a shot with Neil's face recognizably visible under his hat.

But the lesson is that we were busy enjoying ourselves, the band, friends and the Dublin rain. And as it should be.

So the trouble on the long delay is that while we set out to bring back our Dublin Memories of Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts to our Thrasher's Wheat audience, we failed.  We failed our readers because we focused on being present and in the moment.  Not snapping away, taking notes and just about anything else distracting from the live, concert experience.

And you would think after our last trip to Europe in 2013 that we might have learned something.

Why do we keep f*!#in' up?! Obviously, because it feels so good ...

More on Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' love earth 2025 WORLD tour (concert setlists, photos, reviews, etc.)

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>>> NOTE: Concert Setlists, photos, reviews @ links below. Updated continuously. <<<

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Neil Young Answers The Question: "What is a Thrasher?"

THRASHER
via Neil Young Archives | T-C | LTE (Click photo to enlarge)

Now that the 1st Leg of Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts' 2025 love earth WORLD Tour is complete, Neil is back to answering letters on NYA.

In particular, Neil answers the immortal question: "What is a Thrasher?" (thanks Road Dawg!)

And more importantly, Neil promises to add the song Thrasher to the setlists for the  upcoming North American Leg #2.  Obviously, the song resonates deeply with the proprietors of this blog.

Which reminds of the time that The NYA Team announced a major discovery back in 2019 of the original lyrics for Neil Young's song "Thrasher".

Original "Thrasher" Lyrics

Apparently, the original "Thrasher" lyrics were "hiding behind hay bales"?!

(More on the nine page original lyric manuscripts for Neil Young's epic, immortal and legendary song "Thrasher" which reveal several telling lyric changes made during the evolution from writing to 1st performance. )

 

The Essential “Thrasher” Request Fold Up Sign

(never leave home without it ... or attend a Neil concert w/o)

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Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts: Adidas Arena, Paris, France - July 13

Tonight, Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts Love Earth Tour performs @ Adidas Arena, Paris, France. Final stop on Leg #1.

Got a report? Drop us a comment below.

Check Sugar Mountain for setlist updates and Chronological Grid, Recording Summary, Statistics and Extras. 

Check back for updates, reviews, setlists, photos, etc. 

More concert reports @ “Love Earth Tour”: Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts Concert Dates (UPDATED CONTINUOUSLY).  

Love Earth Tour Stage

Dahalla @ Rattvik, Sweden 

image via Rusted Moon

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Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts: Hyde Park, London, England - July 11

"Rockin' In The Free World"  

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts

photo via David F.

Neil Young 

Photo by Raph Pour-Hashemi

NEIL YOUNG & THE CHROME HEARTS
⚡️⚡️🌍🌍
BST Hyde Park, London
Friday 11th July, 2025
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📸: @RaphPH pic.twitter.com/fyrFQ7Tq06

— Raph Pour-Hashemi 📸 (@RaphPH) July 11, 2025

A brilliant day at BST - Yusuf/Cat Stevens and Neil Young.
Magical music . . . pic.twitter.com/mcFUEKjwPt

— Mark Fuller (@MBF70) July 11, 2025

Photo by JRC McCord 

NYCH - "Ambulance Blues"

NYCH setting up

Yusuf/Cat 

Van

Van Morrison hits the stage

MORE BARN!

Backstage

photos via David F.

Gates are opened! Enjoy the day

Today's the day!

The event of the season with Van Morrison ["Moondance"], Yusuf/Cat Stevens ["Moon Shadow"] and Neil Young ["Harvest Moon"] and The Chrome Hearts Love Earth Tour performing @ Hyde Park, London, England.

On the cusp of a full moon -- no less.

Got a report? Drop us a comment below.

Check Sugar Mountain for setlist updates and Chronological Grid, Recording Summary, Statistics and Extras. 

Check back for updates, reviews, setlists, photos, etc. 

More concert reports @ “Love Earth Tour”: Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts Concert Dates (UPDATED CONTINUOUSLY).  

Love Earth Tour Stage

Dahalla @ Rattvik, Sweden 

image via Rusted Moon(Concert reports @ “Love Earth Tour”: Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts Concert Dates - UPDATED CONTINUOUSLY).  

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