Queens of the Stone Age
Thursday 29 February 2024
Queens of the Stone Age are officially heading to our place as part of their ‘The End Is Nero’ Summer 2024 New Zealand tour, the band’s first appearance in Australasia since 2018!
'The End is Nero' tour is in support of their acclaimed eighth studio album, ‘In Times New Roman…’ which debuted at #2 on the ARIA charts and which NME Australia described as “their darkest, knottiest material to date.’ The End Is Nero tour is an invitation from Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore to come celebrate the end of the world, which we hear is “in a month or two.” They would like to encourage the obscene and the clean, the outcasts and the weirdos, and anyone and everyone in between to attend, this is where you belong. Leave your judgment at the door, bring anything and everything else.
Formed by Joshua Homme against a backdrop of 1990s Palm Desert, California, Queens of the Stone Age is what happens when a multidimensional musical entity outgrows the very genre it creates. Too prolific, ambitious and just plain brilliant to be tethered to or limited by the confines of any genre. Ultimately morphing into the behemoth that has blessed the world with a range of bangers from “No One Knows” to “Little Sister,” “My God is the Sun” to “The Way You Used To Do” and everything in between. Undeniably rock — yes, always, but with the blood, sweat and dark magical swagger only Homme and his cohorts can conjure.
Regularly hailed as one of the greatest live bands in existence, what started off as “generator parties” in the desert has evolved to sold out arenas and headlining the main stage of your favourite summer festival.
The far-reaching tour, hailed by NME as “a band reaching the peak of their powers" and the Lincoln Star Journal to proclaim it “the best rock show I’ve seen in a very long time”, this is a show that cannot be missed!
