{"id":503062,"date":"2026-03-30T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503062\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:50:12","slug":"watch-weezer-play-a-surprise-rooftop-gig-for-their-the-gathering-tour-initiation-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503062\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Weezer play a surprise rooftop gig for their ‘The Gathering’ tour “initiation week”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weezer<\/a> played a pop-up rooftop gig in Los Angeles as part of their \u2018The Gathering\u2019 tour \u201cinitiation week\u201d \u2013 check out footage below.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Weezer\u2019s Rivers Cuomo: \u201cIf Taylor Swift ever wants to make a rock album, I\u2019d love to help out!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The band announced their upcoming US tour, which is set to kick off in September, earlier this week. As well as the dates, they also shared a series of \u201cinitiation\u201d events, writing: \u201cBefore The Gathering Spreads, it is born in Los Angeles,\u201d on Instagram.<\/p>\n

These events kicked off on Thursday (March 26) with a \u201cknowledge test\u201d at the LA chain restaurant Barney\u2019s Beanery, before an ominously titled \u201csunset ceremony\u201d on Friday. Ahead of it, they hinted to fans that \u201call four\u201d would be present, and that the location would be revealed, \u201cto the chosen only\u201d.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be a Beatles-esque rooftop gig atop the Hinano Cafe, which saw Rivers Cuomo<\/a> and co. play a five-song acoustic set that included Weezer classics like \u2018Undone \u2013 The Sweater Song\u2019, \u2018Buddy Holly\u2019, \u2018Island in the Sun\u2019 and \u2018Say It Ain\u2019t So\u2019, as well as \u2018Go Away\u2019 featuring guest Best Coast<\/a>\u2019s Bethany Cosentino.<\/p>\n

Check it out below.<\/p>\n

Further events include a pickleball tournament, featuring the band members, scheduled for March 30. Weezer\u2019s \u2018The Gathering\u2019 tour kicks off September 8 in Sacramento and spans 32 shows, looping around the U.S. and Canada before concluding in Los Angeles on October 24.<\/p>\n

The band will be joined by special guests The Shins<\/a> and Silversun Pickups. You can see a full list of dates below, and find tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news, the band announced last month that they would be celebrating their 34th anniversary by re-releasing all their coloured albums on vinyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They also revealed that a newly-unearthed Weezer album consisting of early demos and rarities will be released<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Record Store Day 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The LP, entitled \u20181192\u2019, is taken from the band\u2019s early sessions in November 1992 upon formation. Founding bassist Matt Sharp discovered the record while looking through a series of \u201clost-album\u201d master tapes.<\/p>\n

The album is set to feature early demos of Weezer classics like \u2018Say It Ain\u2019t So\u2019 and \u2018Undone (The Sweater Song)\u2019 \u2013 demos which would land them a record deal with Geffen in 1993.<\/p>\n

With the help of Sharp as producer and Joe Chicarrelli on mixing, the record has been remixed from tape to vinyl in a fully analogue process. Three thousand copies will be made available to purchase on April 18. Check out the\u00a0full list of Record Store Day 2026 releases here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We last spoke to Weezer in 2024<\/a>, when frontman\u00a0Rivers Cuomo<\/a>\u00a0reflected on the making of their debut album, often referred to as \u2018The Blue Album\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that struck me was how physically close we all were, not just the four of us, but there was a whole crowd of young men, packed into very small apartments in a very small part of Los Angeles, who were just constantly hanging out and talking, debating and discussing music and style, and we didn\u2019t even have television sets back then so there was very little to distract us,\u201d he told\u00a0NME\u00a0at the time. \u201cAnd obviously we had no wives, children or girlfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo added: \u201cWhen we released the \u2018Blue\u2019 album, I definitely felt like it was the greatest album of all time. I figured there was a chance I was wrong, but to me, it was my favourite album of all time and I assumed other people would feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weezer played a pop-up rooftop gig in Los Angeles as part of their \u2018The Gathering\u2019 tour \u201cinitiation week\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,3584,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-503062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}