Drink The Sea

If you wander past 16 Toneladas on December 4th and feel the pavement humming under your shoes, don’t panic. That’s not an earthquake—it's the gravitational pull of Drink the Sea, the traveling supernova made of musicians who have already shaped half your record collection without asking for permission.

This is a group stitched together from the DNA of alternative rock’s most persistent troublemakers. Peter Buck, the unfazeable architect who helped steer R.E.M. into global consciousness; Barrett Martin, drummer-shaman of Screaming Trees and Mad Season, a man who plays like every strike is a message to some ancient god. Alain Johannes, the spectral wizard behind Eleven and Queens of the Stone Age’s most shadowy corners. Duke Garwood, the Mark Lanegan Band’s desert-soul gunslinger. Plus percussionist Lisette Garcia and bassist Abbey Blackwell, the rhythmic conspirators making sure the whole thing doesn’t levitate off the stage midway through a song.

Together they’re dragging their Drink the Sea Tour 2025 into València like a drifting meteor—ready to unload songs from their two debut albums, a handful of resurrected ghosts from their legendary past bands, and a hypnotic set of films by PBS filmmaker Tad Fettig, stitched into the night like strange moving prayers. It’s not just a concert. It’s a séance. A travelogue. A ritual disguised as a gig.

16 Toneladas, that dark and stubborn temple of R&B and rock ’n’ roll, is the perfect bunker for an event like this. Low ceilings, loud everything, sweat that drips from the walls even when nobody’s playing—exactly the kind of environment where a band like Drink the Sea can pull the floor out from under a crowd and watch everyone fall together.

Expect strings that sound like sirens from another planet. Drums that feel like a warning. Songs that wander, burn, bloom, and collapse like collapsing stars. And expect a room full of people who, for one night, will swear they saw something holy.

On Thursday, December 4, València won’t just hear Drink the Sea, It’ll drown beautifully in it. Be there. Or stay home and wonder why your friends came back glowing.

For tickets and more information: 16 Toneladas