Queens Of The Stone Age have booked a show in the Paris Catacombs.
The announcement was made by frontman Josh Homme during a press conference held at French rock festival Hellfest. During the conference, he said he’d been trying to book a show at the Catacombs for 18 years and now, having finally succeeded, Queens Of The Stone Age will be the first band to ever perform there. The performance is set to be recorded live.
No further details have been confirmed about the gig, including when it will take place or how many people can attend.
The historic Catacombs has been open for public visitation since the 19th century and hold the remains of around 6million people. They remain a popular tourist attraction in Paris.
While the band was at Hellfest 2024, they shared footage of fans engaging in a wild wall of death during the opening of their hit ‘A Song For The Dead’. Last year, the band went viral when the song was performed at Glastonbury and the massive crowd came together to mosh over the hit, marking it as one of the most energetic moments of the 2023 instalment.
Last year, Queens Of The Stone Age released their eighth full-length studio release ‘In Times New Roman‘. In a four-star review, NME described the album as one that used “pain to encourage a rawness in their sound”. “‘In Times New Roman’ is unlikely to win over those perched on the fence,” it read. “But with enough fan-service for the die-hards; this is up there with their darkest, knottiest material to date, and will be appreciated all the more for it.”
Now, the band are set to re-release their 1998 debut self-titled album (you can pre-order it here). Speaking with NME at this year’s edition of Download Festival last month, guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and drummer Jon Theodore opened up about the re-release. “We love that record. I think we all listened to it before we were in the band, but we’ve been playing a couple of those songs along the way so it does bring back memories,” said Leeuwen while Theodore added: “It’s good to refresh them and make them current again. We do try to play to play them all the time and for most people it was their first look at the band. So it always goes over well when we play the songs.”
Last December, Queens of the Stone Age sat down with NME to talk friendship and connection, a “romance” with Dave Grohl, a backstage run-in with Elton John and more.
On the topic of their future, their frontman Josh Homme said: “I think we should be making something. The mantra of the last five years was, ‘It won’t be long now!’ That needs to pertain to making things too. I certainly think we should make more, faster-er, better-er.”
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