Deftones announce huge London 2025 Crystal Palace Park show with Weezer
Deftones have announced a huge London concert next year with Weezer.
Both acts will be teaming up for the headline show at Crystal Palace Park on Sunday, June 29 in 2025. Tickets go on sale this Friday (November 8) at 9am GMT and can be purchased here.
A presale will also be held on Wednesday (November 6) at 9am GMT through to Friday morning with tickets available to purchase here.
Also joining the line-up at Crystal Palace Park are UK Hardcore outfit High Vis. More acts will be announced in the coming weeks.
Weezer previously teamed up with Green Day and Fall Out Boy for their global ‘Hella Mega Tour’ in 2022.
Meanwhile, Chino Moreno recently joined The Smashing Pumpkins on stage in Portland in September for a version of Pumpkins deep cut ‘Jellybelly’.
Over the years, Deftones have covered a number of Weezer tracks. In 2001 they performed ‘Say It Ain’t So’ at Rock in Rio.
They have also covered and performed ‘El Scorcho’ a number of times in the past.
Elsewhere, Moreno previously told NME that he wished he had written Weezer’s ‘The Blue Album’. Weezer recently released a 30th anniversary reissue of their debut album earlier this year.
He said at the time: “[I wish I’d written] more or less the whole record ‘The Blue Album’ from Weezer. Those songs themselves are so simple in a way but they just penetrate, it’s just a great record. I remember saying back then that I wish I was in that band and had written this batch of songs because they’re so fun to play and so fun to sing, and we used to soundcheck to that whole record!”
Elsewhere, Deftones played their version of Japan’s ‘Ghosts’ live for the first time at their Día De Los Deftones festival at the weekend.
The band were headlining the fifth iteration of their own curated festival at Petco Park in San Diego on Saturday (November 2), where they gave a live debut to their cover of the 1982 synth-pop classic, the studio version of which they released as a bonus track to their 2010 album ‘Diamond Eyes’.
The set also included a number of other rarities, including 2003’s ‘Hexagram’ and 1997’s ‘Lhabia’ for the first time since 2018 and ‘Rickets’ for the first time since 2019.
In September 2023, Deftones teased an upcoming full-length album – potentially slated for a 2024 release – which would follow on from 2020’s ‘Ohms’. Guitarist Stephen Carpenter said at the time that the group were “starting to work on new material for a new record”.
This April, Deftones gave fans an update on their new LP. “[We] have a whole record recorded all musically,” explained Moreno. “And it’s pretty much my job right now to finish up the vocals.”
But the vocalist said he didn’t want to “put a definite timeframe” on the album’s release, adding: “We’re not really in a rush. We want it to be great. I think that’s most important. But it is coming, and, yeah – it’s really good.”
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