Queens Of The Stone Age have been touring pretty hard in support of …Like Clockwork – topping lineups at music festivals the world over, touring Australia with Nine Inch Nails, blasting Grammy winners at US headline shows – but all good things must come to end.
Josh Homme and his cohorts have announced the final date of their touring festival for later this year, and it looks like it’s going to be a corker.
Taking place on October 31st, Queens Of The Stone Age are hosting a special Halloween-themed concert at Los Angeles’ Forum, titled ‘The End Of The Road’; a mini-festival with enough spooky trimmings to make us consider checking for cheap flights and accommodation online.
As well as headline set from QOTSA themselves, the Halloween bash will feature support from The Kills, former Queens bassist Nick Oliveri and his new band Uncontrollable, and dirty blues songsmith JD McPherson, as Consequence Of Sound reports.
Other attractions on site will include the Blackout Haunted House, sideshow appearances from the tattooed burlesque performers of SuicideGirls, and – of course – encouraging patrons to don their best Halloween get-up for a costume competition to crown the scariest as the King and Queen of Halloween.
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Should you be lucky enough to be in LA this October, pre-sale tickets go on sale Friday 9th July followed by general sale on Sunday 11th July (head here for details).
The Halloween festival means time is up on touring for QOTSA for 2014, and while 2013’s …Like Clockwork broke the six-year gap between new albums for the band, it shouldn’t be such a huge wait before we can enjoy new music.
Ringleader Josh Homme has already hinted he’s been plotting material for a swift follow-up album, even airing a previously unheard song, ‘Villains of Circumstance’, at a rare solo acoustic show last month.
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As previously reported, he’s also working towards knuckling down with Jesse Hughes to complete a new Eagles of Death Metal record, while teasing plans for a possible new entry for his Desert Sessions project, the first in over a decade.
In the meantime, take another spin of the creepy voodoo vibes of Queen of The Stone Age’s ‘The Vampyre Of Time And Memory’ music video (rather than the dismal interactive version) below.
