{"id":138622,"date":"2025-11-17T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138622\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:16:08","slug":"alt-rock-legends-deftones-announce-one-off-new-zealand-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138622\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt-rock legends Deftones announce one-off New Zealand show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">In August, frontman Chino Moreno told the New York Times: \u201cWe\u2019ve always tried to stray away from boxing ourselves into any one certain sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe made music for us, based on all the influences we like. And those influences really vary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Deftones have one of alternative rock music\u2019s most devoted followings, with the legacy band enjoying a revival of renewed interest, particularly from younger fans, thanks in part to a wave of early 2000s nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Each year, the group put on Dia De Los Deftones, a full-day festival of music and culture curated and headlined by the band at San Diego\u2019s Petco Park. It has run for six iterations so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Next year\u2019s Aotearoa show will be the first time the band have played in New Zealand since their appearance at the Big Day Out in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The metal veterans were supposed to perform a show at Auckland\u2019s Trusts Arena in March 2020, but that concert was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">In June 2025, the band were scheduled to play at Glastonbury Festival for the first time since 1998. However, the group had to cancel their set on the day, due to a band member\u2019s illness.<\/p>\n<p>Deftones New Zealand Tour 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">With Special Guests Interpol and Ecca Vandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">When: Wednesday May 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Where: Spark Arena, Auckland<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Tickets: General public tickets go on sale at 2pm on Friday November 21. Westpac New Zealand Mastercard runs from 1pm Tuesday November 18 until 1pm Thursday November 20. A Live Nation pre-sale begins 1pm Thursday November 20 and runs until 1pm Friday November 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">For complete tour and ticket information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.co.nz\/\">Live Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In August, frontman Chino Moreno told the New York Times: \u201cWe\u2019ve always tried to stray away from boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2246,94415,25429,51,380,28914,156,1888,62086,157,117,111,139,69,94416,1523,6777,10538,1305,165,1533,80],"class_list":["post-138622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-2246","tag-altrock","tag-announce","tag-auckland","tag-decade","tag-deftones","tag-entertainment","tag-first","tag-legends","tag-music","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oneoff","tag-over","tag-performance","tag-play","tag-show","tag-their","tag-will","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}