Next July, twenty one pilots will be taking on another huge stadium.
While we're still waiting to see if twenty one pilots will be adding any more legs to their amazing Bandito Tour, the Columbus, Ohio duo have been sporadically announcing shows throughout the summer in 2020 – with another date just announced.
Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun will be bringing "the show to a stadium in Moscow", they say, taking on the VTB Arena Central Stadium on July 12. Fan pre-sale begins December 18 at 12pm local time, while general sale kicks off on December 20.
The band will also be stopping off Ireland the month before, performing at Summer In The City at the RDS Arena on June 25 alongside blackbear and Nothing But Thieves. Coincidentally, that show in particular is the night before Glastonbury 2020, so fingers crossed we'll get to witness twenty one pilots take on one of the world's most legendary music events.
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In other twenty one pilots news, Tyler and Josh recently spoke of how they might potentially launch a new album – and how it wouldn't be anything like the run-up to last year's Trench LP, which saw the pair enter long social media blackout beforehand.
"I don't know that there would be a world in which we completely go off the map again," says Josh.
"Completely going off the grid was tough for both of us in a lot of ways," he later added. “We’re both wired to always be wanting to do something that pushes us forward.”
Ahead of Trench's release last year, Tyler and Josh told Kerrang! about how they went offline, with fans having no idea what they were up to in that time.
“The idea of the concept of stepping away from social media began in, like, 2011 or 2012," Josh explained. "Just what it looked like for us mentally, and in the sense of, ‘How is that possible in our culture?’ We grew up in a world where bands are self-promoting – it’s what you have to do. To eliminate that factor was scary, but it was something that we felt was worth experimenting with, and see how that affected things. Social media can be a distraction sometimes (laughs). To remove some of that was healthy, and in some ways I’m still affected by it. We’re ‘back online’ now, but sometimes I forget to take a picture of something, or talk about something publicly, because I’ve learned to live more in the moment.”
“The truth is, wherever humans gather, there’s going to be a bunch of emotion," added Tyler. "There’s emotion that you can pour into it, there’s emotion that you can receive from it – and ultimately that’s what the internet is. It’s a bunch of us that have gathered in this area, and we’re sharing emotions. And I knew I wanted to preserve any and every emotion for this record only. I didn’t want it to be affected by any sort of outside source. So it’s nothing against social media, necessarily; it was more a protection of the recording and the writing process, which is very delicate. It was about trying to block out those pressures and influences from the outside.”
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