Music News - Queens Of The Stone Age return to AU & NZ! No further shows to be added
07 April 2017 - 0 Comments
Arguably the most powerful and critically
acclaimed hard rock band of the last two decades: Queens Of The Stone Age will return to Australia and New Zealand in July 2017 for Frontier Touring,
performing four visceral headline shows.
‘Some bands
are better than others. Chord by chord, line by line, beat by beat, hook by
glorious hook, none is as convincing as Queens Of The Stone Age.’ –
The Los Angeles Times
QOTSA will kick off their tour at Auckland’s
Logan Campbell on Thursday
13th July. They’ll play Sydney’s
Hordern Pavilion on Wednesday
19th July, and Melbourne’s
Festival Hall on Thursday
20th July and then perform for the very first time at Darwin’s Convention Centre on Sunday
16th July.
General public tickets to all shows will go on sale Wednesday 12 April – head over to frontiertouring.com/QOTSA for all of
the details. There will be no second shows in any city – these are your only
chance to catch QOTSA live.
Deadly and debonair, QOTSA – led by founding member/frontman Josh Homme
(guitar/vocals), with Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar), Dean Fertita (guitar/keys),
Jon Theodore (drums/percussion), and Michael Shuman (bass) – having toured both
countries multiple times to sell-out crowds, they are no strangers to
Australian and New Zealand fans.
Emerging from California’s Palm Desert in the late ‘90s with their
seminal 1998 self-titled debut – opener Regular John a blistering statement
of intent – over the next 19 years QOTSA have continually evolved, Homme
forging his own path from album to album. 2000’s Rated R was an international hit,
containing Feel Good Hit Of The Summer, Monsters In The Parasol, and The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret.
2002’s platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated Songs For The Deaf is considered one of the greatest rock records
of all timehands down. It featured guest drummer Dave Grohl plus the #1 song in triple j’s
Hottest 100, No One Knows, alongside Go With The Flow, First It Giveth and more.
2005’s Lullabies to
Paralyze cemented their reign with singles Little Sister and Burn The Witch, while 2007’s Era Vulgaris saw
the band take yet another direction as heard on tracks Sick, Sick, Sick, Make It Wit Chu and 3’s & 7’s.
Most recently, their sixth album, …Like
Clockwork, enlisted Trent Reznor and Elton John, featured My God Is The Sun, I Sat By The Ocean, and the sultry Smooth Sailing, and debuted at #1 on
the ARIA Album charts in Australia and #2 in New Zealand. It topped charts in
the USA, Portugal, Ireland, UK, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland and more,
making it one of the band’s highest-selling discs yet. The follow-up to 2013’s
critically acclaimed …Like
Clockwork is eagerly awaited by fans, with a new album in the
works.
For the last 18 months QOTSA have kept a low profile, working on new material…
Homme collaborating with Iggy Pop on the singer’s 2016 album Post Pop Depression,
which he co-wrote, recorded and produced at his Pink Duck studio in Burbank and
Joshua Tree’s Rancho De La Luna. (Upon release it would be Pop’s highest
charting album ever.)
Now, QOTSA return, at last bringing their military precision and razorblade
rock back to Australia and New Zealand, also headlining Byron Bay festival
Splendour In The Grass on Saturday 22 July. It’s been three years since their
legendary double-bill alongside Nine Inch Nails, shows which left critics and
fans reeling:
‘Arguably the
tightest hard rock band on the circuit ★★★★’– The Guardian
‘Enormous
crowd favourites including ‘Go With the Flow’ and the closing, knockout punch
of ‘A Song For the Deaf’ were blended seamlessly with new tracks, while ‘Better
Living Through Chemistry’ was classic QOTSA that will have fans shaking their
heads in awe for days and weeks ahead’ – Sydney Morning
Herald
‘This was the
feel good gig of the year!' – Stuff.co.nz
‘From the
opening line of ‘Regular John’s’ fuzzy guitar groove, it was time to get
shaking and sweating because Queens of the Stone Age make rock’n’roll music you
can dance to.’ – NZ Herald
‘[Homme’s]
voice is truly one of the finest in rock today, not shirking the high notes on
the sexy as hell ‘Make It Wit Chu’ and rumbling with intent on ‘No One Knows’.’– news.com.au
‘Queens are
the best rock band on the planet’ – The Music
These tickets will go fast – don’t miss out on seeing Queens Of The Stone Age
as they make their welcome return to Australia and New Zealand this July!
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE NEW ZEALAND SHOW
+ Special guests
to be announced
Presented by Frontier Touring
Frontier Members pre-sale runs via frontiertouring.com/QOTSA
Monday 10 April
(NZ shows: 2pm NZST)
to Tuesday 11
April (NZ shows: 2pm NZST)
(or ends earlier if
pre-sale allocation exhausted)
General public on
sale: Wednesday
12 April NZ shows: 12pm
NZST
Thu 13 Jul | Logan
Campbell, Auckland, NZ (18+)
ticketmaster.co.nz | Ph: 0800 111 999
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