Deftones - Koi No Yokan tour
I know it's not always advisable to make rash judgements so close to an event, but I am just going to say: I have never had a better time at a gig than last night at Brixton Academy. I've loved this band since I was 15, and finally got to see them 13 years later when they are still producing the best work of their career. I went with a friend who has a similarly long history of being a huge fan but never getting to see them live and we hollered and jumped and generally made nuisances of ourselves like I haven't done in years. They scattered the set list beautifully between big hitters and deep cuts, across almost all the albums (the lack of Saturday Night Wrist is forgivable, I guess), and they played an amazing version Change which may be my favourite song ever written.
That they can still be so vital after obviously having cranked out some of these songs thousands of times is amazing.
Three Trapped Tigers: very impressive. Kind of a perfect way to ease in to the night, I'd like to see more of them.
LetLive: sounded kind of played out when I heard a couple of tracks on YouTube yesterday but sheer conviction was enough to overcome a pretty derivative sound. Sometimes you don't need total inventiveness out of a support band, just something fun. They were that.
All in all, spectacular. Me and my friend have now decided to follow Deftones around every time they tour, like the singularly unconvincing daughter in Taken and her bullshit U2 tagalong.
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i concur (and have a similar time gap...spooky)
managed to meet someone in plan b for a ticket thanks to twitter, walked down in a t shirt from my house and just dived in, utterly incredible, even got to grab chino for a bit whilst he shouted in my face, emotional times
also Let Live were hilarious
the singer was a real Daryl Palumbo copycat....dont like seeing guitars smashed but when he started running around with it i chortled
Yup,
They did a job, it was all very silly and excitable and it set a nice uptempo tone for Deftones. DEFINITE Glassjaw fixation! I love an earnest front man.
I really, really wanted to see this tour, but wasn't in town when they played.
I'm 23, and have also been into them since I was 15. I was lucky enough to see them in 2006, which was one of the best gigs I've ever seen.
what the fuck have you guys been doing for 10 years?
they tour every other eyar pretty much :/
I keep missing them
I've seen them twice, once in Nottingham and Once at Leeds Fest. I was in a bad way at leeds though.
Being poor,
missing ticket announcements, not knowing anyone who'd be able to go, living in the gig free tundra of Darlington. Just one of those things, really. The only show I was close to definitely going to was Leeds Uni, probably 2007ish, which I had to miss for a funeral. I am now, however, fully intending to make up for lost time by stalking them around Europe.
BLOODY CAPE AND RIVIERE!
absolutely amazing gig
Deftones ALWAYS produce. Chino's vocal is always so incredible, AND he had a cold! ridiculous.
Shame the sound is so average in the Academy, otherwise a near perfect evening.
what a set list by the way
Never seen them do Dia The Flu. amazing scenes
I was upstairs...
..which i thought might taint the experience, but it was amazingly good throughout. Very strong setlist i thought, and a general sense of hysteria roppling through the crowd.
If the prick filming it on his giant jabscreen is reading this, let it be know that you and your jabscreen came close getting pint'ed.
i saw deftones for the first time on the saturday night wrist tour
and had been a fan since my own summer was released...so what is that, over 10 years?
but anyway, the moment the first chords of be quiet and drive were played was probably once of the most spine tingling moments i've experienced at a gig. completely magical :)
i had that feeling for Be Quiet and Drive too
I remember the curtain coming down to them opening with that over ten years ago at Docklands, and it still makes me go all funny even now.
Jonah
did his acoustic version of Be quiet... at his shows last year.
Amazing feeling to hear that live.
One of the best opening 5 songs to a gig I've been to
Spine-tingling, tears in the eyes, heart-pounding, massive sense of elation in the crowd.
Wish they were all like that.
This looks accurate...
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/deftones/2013/o2-academy-brixton-london-england-73db2e39.html
I'd forgotten that Riviere was in there
so they did cover every album. Awesome.
just got sent a photo of the setlist from the PR
so turned it into a playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/0Eq6VlDWWnZ1y6OjDoBJMj
for completeness
i did one of glasgow http://open.spotify.com/user/sheeldz/playlist/7sMkjiqjLAHnTdu8BJLV69
great gig
loved the slowed down version of Passenger. Suprised they didn't play Leathers had been looking forward to hearing that live.
Agreed
It's one of the strongest tracks on Koi. Strange ommission.
Just phenomenal
absolutely one of the best rock bands in the world. They're really on top of their game right now, and it's so nice to see these gigs packed out. I hope they come back for more later this year.
they don't play anything off SNW because they realise it's a jumbo pile of poo
I'm gutted i missed this tour, but couldn't be bothered to see them at Brixton again. glad they're still superb
SNW is good!
easily the weakest, though
i prefer it to
Deftones and Diamond Eyes
i dont think anyone needs to open up the whole SNW debate again
however, i fail to see how you can be a deftones fan and not really like 90% of that record
every time you think a song is going to be really good on SNW
it turns out it's actually a jumbo pile of poo. thankfully Deftones know that, thus have barely played anything off it since touring it
For my money:
White Pony > KNY > SNW > Diamond Eyes > Deftones > ATF > Adrenaline
Was A cracking good night
But someone needs to teach the Brixton soundman to turn the bass drum down, or everything else up.
Do they play Rx Queen or DIgital Bath these days?
Nope.
Absolutely gutted I missed this.
Could not get a ticket for love nor money.
I totally wrote some words about this show / band / being old...
http://thequietus.com/articles/11460-deftones-live-review
the quietus?
are deftones that far from relevancy already? i feel old :(
Wow. Burn.
alright dad but you know that the front page features
Hawkwind, Marian Faithful, Slyvia Plath, the history of MIDI, something about Bill Hicks, and a review of an Ennio Morricone boxset, right?
Is none of that relevant?
It's not like it's content dredged up for nothing. At least, I don't think it is.
But yeah. Deftones are old-timers now aren't they. Adrenaline was half a lifetime ago.
don't fret
i make a comment about the Quietus being the Word magazine of the internet every time someone links to it
i like you really
although i am too young to read the site
I'm too old to read this one.
i'm sorry
brilliant review
and a great reflection on the deftones history and present standing.
is there any other band like them from that period? i think not
Linkin Park
are admittedly a little later and a lot more mainstream are, I'd say, the only other act from the nu-metal era to have maintained any sense of artistic growth, uniqueness or integrity (especially considering how massive they are)
Did not mean to this this.
Integrity? Linkin Park. Cheers for the chuckle.
Spot on Mike, I left Brixton thinking no band could possibly achieve what Deftones have, despite their emergence from the mire of nu-metal.
considering Linkin Park where one of the best selling album artists of the 00s in the world
there artist evolution has by far out stripped any of their contemporaries - or arguably that of any artist of similar stature - like a giant pop-metal Radiohead they've been able to release what they want whilst retaining their loyal fanbase and the essense of their sound despite no two albums sounding the same.
Aren't NIN the giant pop-metal Radiohead?
they're not as giant
no one?
fine
be slaves to your sixth form prejudices
but i'm right
and deep down you know
Ok, so I'll just about go with you on they release what they want.
But it's resolutely awful. Unlike Deftones which, bar the misstep that was SNW, continue to up their game.
I didn't say I like them
just that they're the only band from that period who could possibly be considering has having done something parallel to the Deftones in terms of being able to constantly evolve whilst maintaining a fanbase and (although they aren't as good) maintaining what for them is a very consistently quality backcatalogue.
although you don't like like Saturday Night Wrist so you're a lost cause really
Have they maintained it though?
I get that they're still a pretty big deal for some people, but their relevancy is surely at an all-time low, whereas Deftones seem to be more vital than ever at the moment.
their last album debuted at number one in seventeen countries
including the US and UK beating the newest Maroon 5 album in both.
Wikipedia tells me it wasn't a critical success but outside of Kerrang they never really have been.
and as a big chart act, they've never really been given much credit as having artistic integrity the way that Deftones have. But that isn't quite the comparison I was reaching for.
I was comparing Linkin Park to the rest of their peers, and Linkin Park albums to each other rather than saying Linkin Park are as good as Deftones. And in that context I think I am right.
So basically you're comparing Linkin Park to Linkin Park?
not quite
the post i originally replied to said that no other band from the period have managed what the Deftones have - artistic evolution, some semblance of relevancy, retaining a loyal fanbase - and the response is/was that the next closest thing to Deftones in that regard is the evolution of Linkin Park.
From run of the mill rap-metal stompers, through U2 style stadium rock, glitchy twitchy electronics, collaborating with Jay-Z and a bunch of other stuff, they are the only other band of that era to have successfully evolved as artists without ever really making any big misteps or falling off the face of the Earth.
I suppose you could argue Slipknot too but all they really did was made the leap from their nu-metal infused debut to their more straightahead second album and have basically been perfecting a set template since then.
although admittedly
relevancy is a bit of a contencious thing when none of these bands are of much interest to anyone who wasn't doing their A-Levels in 2001
Was at the Barrowlands show last week.
Excellent as ever but I think I preferred them last time they toured, the set list was much better and surprisingly (seeing as it was at the academy) the sound was actually better.
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/deftones/2010/o2-academy-glasgow-glasgow-scotland-43d557fb.html
Aww, you got Elite
JEL
Lotion into Feiticeira into Digital Bath into Knife Party into Elite
I was going out of my mind at this point.
wonder if london's slower setlist was a result of Chino feeling ill?
that was on the last tour
that setlist is huge