Queens of the Stone Age are about to do one thing that no different band has completed earlier than: play on the moon! Simply kidding, however enjoying on the moon is perhaps a bit extra doubtless than what’s really occurring: they’re going to turn into the very first band to play the Paris Catacombs.
In a press convention at Hellfest that was reported on by Lambgoat, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme made the stunning announcement concerning the upcoming live performance:
“In per week’s time or so, we’re gonna play within the Paris Catacombs, and we’ll be the primary band to take action. And I’ve been engaged on it for 18 years, attempting to get myself within this exalted place in Paris. And it’s fully dwell.”
In accordance with the Paris Catacombs web site, the catacombs have been created within the late eighteenth century when, as a result of public well being considerations, town’s cemeteries have been moved to an underground website, the previous Tombe-Issoire quarries positioned proper exterior of the capital. In 1809, the Catacombs turned open to the general public by appointment solely.
So QOTSA might be enjoying a present actually amongst the stays of our bodies from the eighteenth century or earlier. That is perhaps essentially the most metallic factor you’ve ever heard, however, with all due respect to Queens of the Stone Age, are they actually the band that’s going to lift the lifeless? For a particular live performance like this, it might look like you’ll anticipate to have a band with a darker, extra demonic picture than QOTSA. Loss of life metallic amongst the lifeless, anybody?
Homme additionally talked about plans to file the efficiency, and had some distinctive concepts for learn how to launch the recording:
“I’d prefer to take a few of these concepts, that are type of ubiquitous, like a dwell file, and do one thing a bit completely different with them. As a result of I believe with the way in which the Web is, folks can see us play dwell so merely, on so many alternative methods, that I’d love to do one thing dwell that can’t be seen in a method that isn’t typically completed.
“And we launch these variations. And let the followers management the remaining. The followers can management the remainder of learn how to see us dwell. Come see us play, watch it on-line. I don’t care how a child takes his drugs — blown up the ass or down the throat. Nonetheless you discover our music and nevertheless you wanna discover it’s tremendous for me, however I want to attempt to do a few of these concepts another way. So, that’s why I discussed the Catacombs.”
So, in a single type or one other, we’ll have the ability to watch this historic efficiency. It guarantees to be one thing actually distinctive.
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