Queens of the Stone Age Statement on Emergency Tour Cancelation

Queens of the Stone Age have introduced that they’re canceling the the rest of their July tour dates.

A publish on the band’s social media accounts states that frontman Josh Homme “must return to the United States immediately for emergency surgery.” The nature of his harm or ailment isn’t specified, with the band noting “every effort was made to push through and play for you, but it is no longer an option to continue.”

The information impacts a combination of eight deliberate European headlining exhibits and pageant appearances, starting July 10 in Vitrolles, France and concluding July 27 in Athens.

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According to their web site, Queens of the Stone Age’s subsequent presently scheduled tour date is August 24 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The band final carried out on Saturday evening in Milan, Italy, after canceling their look at the AMA Music Festival the earlier evening resulting from unspecified sickness.

On July 2, Homme revealed that QOTSA would grow to be the first band to carry out inside the Catacombs of Paris, and that the efficiency would happen in “a week’s time or so.” A selected date was not listed, and there was no report that the present occurred.

Queens of the Stone Age are presently touring in help of 2023’s In Times New Roman…, which was their first album since 2017’s Villains. Prior to the launch of the album, Homme revealed he had been recognized with most cancers in 2022, and had a profitable operation to have it eliminated.