My Own Summer: Deftones & Alt-Metal Night

Name: My Own Summer: Deftones & Alt-Metal Night
Start: 2025-12-06T20:00:00+13:00
End: 2025-12-07T00:00:00+13:00
Location: Ding Dong Lounge

Sat, Dec 06

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Ding Dong Lounge

First Saturday of summer. Relive burned CDs, basement chaos, and Deftones distortion. DJs Drew Bang & guests. $5 presales, $10/$15 entry. Summer starts loud.... just like it did in 2002.

My Own Summer: Deftones & Alt-Metal Night

Time & Location

Dec 06, 2025, 8:00 PM – Dec 07, 2025, 12:00 AM

Ding Dong Lounge, 26 Wyndham Street, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

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The first Saturday of summer belongs to distortion. My Own Summer is Ding Dong Lounge’s tribute to Deftones and the alt‑metal wave that defined a generation. On Saturday 6 December.... the very first Saturday of summer, we’re turning the main bar into a time machine: back to burned CDs, mall‑goth nights, and distortion bleeding through bedroom walls.

DJs Drew Bang and guests take over with a DJ‑only set of alt‑metal, nu‑metal, shoegaze, and post‑hardcore. No live bands, just pure chaos from behind the decks.

Expect brutal grooves and ethereal textures from:

Deftones (My Own Summer, Change, Digital Bath, Knife Prty)
Alt‑metal & post‑hardcore — A Perfect Circle, Chevelle, Taproot, Glassjaw, Helmet
Nu‑metal crossover — Linkin Park, Korn, Slipknot, Staind, System of a Down

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Dec 03, 8:30 PM
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