Deftones capped off their 2026 UK and European winter tour with an epic sold-out show at London’s The O2 last night (Friday February 20). Check out footage, photos, the setlist and more below.
In support of their acclaimed 2025 album ‘Private Music‘ – one of the best of the year according to NME – the band ended their arena run by playing to a massive 20,000-capacity crowd in the capital, with the crowd including famous superfan, Dead Man’s Shoes actor and musician Paddy Considine, who attended three of the “phenomenal” band’s shows this week and also recently got a ‘White Pony’ tattoo on his arm.
Members of Don Broco, The Cure and Foals‘ drummer Jack Bevan were also in attendanece.
After support from Denzel Curry and Drug Church, Chino Moreno and co arrived on stage before cinematic and dramatic visuals and tore into ‘Around The Fur’ classic ‘Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)’ – inviting the first of many circle pits that didn’t relent throughout the immaculately tailored career-spanning set.
After ‘White Pony‘ cut ‘Digital Bath’ and a long flurry of thank yous, Moreno addressed the crowd. “Let me see everyone,” he said as the house lights lit up the packed room. “F****** gorgeous,” he continued, before a regenerated young audience, largely thanks to ‘Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)’, ‘Sextape’ and ‘Cherry Waves’ all taking on a second life by going viral on TikTok in recent years and bringing new fans to their back catalogue, as well as the warm reception for ‘Private Music’. It added up to a celebration of the rarity of a band at the peak of their powers after 38 years.
Those tracks received the warmest reception, while other highlights included feral outings of ‘Rocket Skates’ and ‘Swerve City’, the mass sing and sway along to the majestically melancholy ‘Change (In The House Of Flies)’, ‘Private Music’ highlight ‘Milk Of The Madonna’ landing like an old favourite and the early beast ‘7 Words’ bringing things to a primal close.
“Even if we thought about it that way – ‘Oh, we need to make something for everybody’ – I think we’d be fooling ourselves to think we had a formula to do that,” Moreno told NMEabout their accidental viral success last year. But what’s the secret sauce for this? “The answer is that I don’t know. I would like to think that it is because we’ve written good songs that have stood the test of time and transcend generations.”
Check out more footage, photos and the setlist from the show below
Unreal. @deftones are just on another level. @TheO2. pic.twitter.com/1Snmj5et1E
— Andrew Trendell (@AndrewTrendell) February 21, 2026
Deftones – My Own Summer. London O2 Arena 20/02/2026 #deftones#deftonesfan#deftonestourpic.twitter.com/wj12YchwAk
— Logan (@deepdarkwoodss) February 21, 2026
Deftones’ setlist at The O2, London was:
‘Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)’
‘Locked Club’
‘Rocket Skates’
‘Diamond Eyes’
‘Ecdysis’
‘Digital Bath’
‘My Mind Is A Mountain’
‘Souvenir’
‘Swerve City’
‘Rosemary’
‘Cut hands’
‘Infinite Source’
‘Sextape’
‘Hole in the Earth’
‘Change (In the House of Flies)’
‘Genesis’
‘Milk Of The Madonna’
Encore:
‘Cherry Waves’
‘My Own Summer (Shove It)’
‘7 Words’
The band now hit South America, Japan and Australia before returning for a run of huge UK and European outdoor dates, including headlining London’s All Points East x Outbreak on Saturday August 23.
The likes of Interpol, AFI, Mannequin Pussy and Salem were this week added to the already stacked line-up, which also features IDLES, Amyl & The Sniffers, Esdeekid, JPEGMAFIA and many more. Visit here for tickets and more information.
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