Legendary alt-metal outfit Deftones have announced an intimate London show, scheduled to take place on June 13th at Kentish Town Forum. The performance, which will be supported by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Grandson, will occur a week after the group’s appearance at Download Festival in Donington Park. You can purchase tickets for the forthcoming show here, when they are made available.
London, we are returning for an intimate show on 13 June with special guest, @grandson. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9AM BST. https://t.co/HseWpLUduQ pic.twitter.com/wbTbhiOGaR
— Deftones (@deftones) May 16, 2022
Tickets for the show will be made available on Friday, May 20th at 9 AM BST. There will also be two presales preceding it; one through O2, which will open at 9 AM BST on May 18th, and another through Live Nation on May 19th, also at 9 AM. Information regarding Download Festival, including remaining tickets, can be viewed here. In other recent news regarding Deftones, the band recently parted ways with long-time bassist Sergio Vega, and debuted a new line-up on their North American tour with Gojira, which saw bass guitar duties being taken up by Fred Sablan, formerly the bass player for Marilyn Manson. Vega announced his departure from Deftones in a video message posted on social media in March.
Up until that point, Vega had been Deftones’ bassist since 2009, when he assumed the role left by founding member Chi Cheng, who was involved in an automobile crash in 2008, ultimately leading to his untimely passing in 2013. Vega stated in the video message, in light of his departure: “It was never about money, it was about a sense of belonging. So that was really it. And ultimately, in parting ways, it was not a function of me trying to renegotiate during the pandemic. It was a function of the contract being cancelled. And me having a little conversation with Chino, and then another conversation with a couple of the guys saying ‘hey’ when they wanted to reinstate the contract.”
Despite his departure from the band, any fan of Vega will know that this does not even come close to spelling the end of his career, and is simply the commencement of a new chapter. Vega is heavily involved with his other band Quicksand, who Vega originally joined back in 1990. The group recently released their fourth full-length album Distant Populations.
Vega has also revealed that he is working on a writing and production project alongside multiple acclaimed artists, however he has yet to unveil the details of this in full, with exception of working alongside Spotlights drummer Chris Enriquez and ex-Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley.
