DEFTONES BRING ‘PRIVATE MUSIC’ TOUR TO GLASGOW

PHOTO GALLERY | DEFTONES | OVO HYDRO, GLASGOW | 13th February 2026 by Becca Kilpatrick

Californian alt metal band, Deftones, played their biggest ever Scottish headline show last Friday at Glasgow’s very own OVO Hydro, with 14,000 fans swarming through the front doors.  Insane opening sets from Drug Church and Denzel Curry set the tone for the evening ahead, crowd surfers pilling over the barricade at the first opportunity.

Touring on the back on their latest album private music released in august last year, this album has come with a wave of shows for fans to scramble over, with the band headlining one of London’s All Point East dates on 23 August 2026 and a headline show being announced for Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre at the end of August with opening acts like Idles and Ecca Vandal. 

Opening the show with ‘Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)’ from their most iconic album Around the Fur, had the crowd hyped and ready for what the show had to offer. Chino Moreno’s eerie yet alluring vocals alone aided in fabricating such an enchanting atmosphere within the venue, every fan with their eyes locked to the stage. The set continued jumping from album to album, featuring ‘Sextape’, ‘Hole in the Earth’ and ‘my mind is a mountain’. 

The encore arrives and fans scream as the opening notes of ‘Cherry Waves’ rings throughout the room, followed by ‘My Own Summer (Shove It)’ and ‘7 Words’. With that the night was wrapped up, the crowd shuffle their way out of the Hydro, clad in their newly purchased merch and clutching their private music vinyl in hand. 

1. Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
2. locked club 
3. Rocket Skates
4. Diamond Eyes
5. ecdysis
6. Digital Bath
7. my mind is a mountain
8. souvenir
9. Swerve City
10. Rosemary
11. cut hands
12. infinite source
13. Sextape
14. Hole in the Earth
15. Change (In the House of Flies)
16. Genisis
17. milk of the madonna
18. Cherry Waves 
19. My Own Summer (Shove It)
20. 7 Words