Eleven months in the past, Queens of the Stone Age cancelled all the remaining dates on their 2024 tour to permit singer Josh Homme to deal with his well being. On the time, they mentioned “Josh has been given no alternative however to prioritize his well being and to obtain important medical care by means of the rest of the yr.”
The announcement got here simply weeks after QOTSA have been pressured to cancel a run of European dates so Homme might bear emergency surgery for an unspecified medical situation. Now, Homme is opening up concerning the interval earlier than the scuttled dates and the prolonged restoration from the medical emergency he suffered simply because the band was about to tick off a 20-year bucket listing merchandise: recording a reside set within the legendary Catacombs of Paris.
Chatting with Consequence of Sound, Homme mentioned that final July he was hit with one other well being disaster — he has not but specified what it was for privateness’s sake — which put the search to carry out the subterranean set in jeopardy. And whereas they made the onerous resolution to remain in Paris and lay down the set that grew to become their latest EP and brief movie, Alive in the Catacombs, he advised CoS that lower than a day after laying down the set he was flown again to the U.S. and sedated for emergency surgical procedure that pressured the cancellation of the 2024 tour.
These medical crises got here on high of earlier well being struggles for Homme, 52, who has additionally shared that he had surgical procedure for an undisclosed most cancers after being identified in 2022.
“I used to be in a really troublesome bodily spot, and I’m actually grateful that I used to be, really,” Homme mentioned of the onerous alternative he confronted to both abandon his dream or push by means of the ache. “I couldn’t take into consideration the rest however the place we have been. It’s higher that I used to be unwell, as a result of I believe if I used to be effectively, we’d’ve perhaps been extra ‘California’ about it and thought ‘Man, it’s so cool to be right here…’ And one thing about that sort of sucks.”
Homme mentioned lower than a day after the efficiency with a trio of string gamers he was being “sedated and put below,” after which he spent “the subsequent seven months in mattress. I had lots of time to assume, you recognize? I used to be advised I used to be gonna spend 18 months, two years there, so I used to be not excited.”
Following the lengthy restoration interval, Homme mentioned by December, his medical doctors advised him he was going to be okay, at which level he was raring to get again out on the street. “I felt like a rodeo bull leaning on the gate,” he mentioned. “It’s like, whenever you open this f–king gate, I’m gonna run. I’m gonna run.”
After that lengthy lay-off, Homme and the band will crank their reside machine again up within the fall for the stripped-down Catacombs Tour, which is able to hit theaters on a North American run starting on Oct. 2 with a present on the Chicago Theatre following an upcoming string of European dates in August.