Reviews

In support, Josh Homme offered up the like-minded rockers, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, whose entertaining contortions and gothabilly set the stage for their hosts and got the large crowd warmed up well.

Queens Of The Stone Age (c) Shirlaine Forrest

Everyone was here for the main event though. Since the release of QOSTA’s fifth album, Era Vulgaris, back in June, fans seem to have being growing at a ferocious rate, shown in small part by the rapturous reception for recent single Sick, Sick, Sick.

Not that there wasn’t plenty of fun elsewhere. Josh Homme kept the crowd on their toes by mingling a dash of the Spice Girls’ Spice Up Your Life into the classic Little Sister, and those very same toes began to get squashed down at the front with the wheeling out of such brilliance as the legendary drumming in Song For The Dead.

Queens Of The Stone Age (c) Shirlaine Forrest

There was even a moment of controversy as Josh lit up a cigarette in the most nonchalant of manners before charming the ladies present with I Wanna Make It Wit Chu, a song that pleases both the new fans and the old, originally coming as it does from 2003’s Desert Sessions side project.

All in, the mixture of the set was a well thought out change to their usual shows and though the performance did not seem quite long enough, the choice of Go With The Flow as encore allayed such thoughts and put a brilliant full-stop on a great evening.

Truth is, the Queens Of The Stone Age don’t know how to be disappointing. They are still as confident in song and as exceptional in quality as they ever were, only now they have the added bonus of being more popular than ever.