QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Will Make History As First Band Ever To Play A Concert In The Paris Catacombs

Queens of the Stone Age will quickly be the inaugural band to carry out a live performance on the historic Catacombs of Paris. Frontman Josh Homme revealed the groundbreaking occasion throughout a press convention finally weekend’s Hellfest pageant in Clisson, France. The efficiency is about to be recorded as properly.

Homme shared: “In every 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 have been engaged on it for 18 years, attempting to get myself inside this exalted place in Paris. And it is utterly reside.”

Discussing the choice to file the live performance, Homme added: “I might wish to take a few of these concepts, that are kind of ubiquitous, like a reside file, and do one thing a bit completely different with them. As a result of I feel with the way in which the Web is, individuals can see us play reside so merely, in so many alternative methods, that I might love to do one thing reside that can not be seen in a means that isn’t typically accomplished. And we launch these variations. And let the followers management the remainder. The followers can management the remainder of how one can see us reside. Come see us play, watch it on-line. I do not care how a child takes his medication — blown up the ass or down the throat. Nevertheless you discover our music and nevertheless you wanna discover it’s superb for me, however I wish to attempt to do a few of these concepts another way. So, that is why I discussed the Catacombs.”

The Paris Catacombs have a storied historical past, originating within the late eighteenth century resulting from important public well being points linked to overcrowded cemeteries. Between 1785 and 1787, the stays from Paris’s largest cemetery, Saints-Innocents, have been transferred to an underground website on the former Tombe-Issoire quarries. The situation was consecrated because the “Paris Municipal Ossuary” on April 7, 1786, later gaining the famed moniker “Catacombs” in reference to the Roman catacombs that had lengthy captivated the general public creativeness. By 1809, the Catacombs have been open to the general public by appointment.