Queens of the Stone Age cancel remaining 2024 exhibits

The rock group Queens of the Stone Age will not be touring for the remainder of the yr as deliberate, as frontman Josh Homme struggles along with his well being.

“QOTSA remorse to announce the cancellation and/or postponement of all remaining 2024 exhibits,” the band stated within the announcement beneath that was posted on its social media accounts Friday. “Josh has been given no selection however to prioritize his well being and to obtain important medical care by way of the yr.”

The next dates have been postponed till 2025:

• 9/27, 28 in Boston
• 10/1 in Cincinnati
• 10/2 in Chicago
• 10/4 in Madison, Wis.

The next dates are canceled:

• 9/29 in Bridgeport, Conn.
• 10/6 in Memphis
• 11/17 in Mexico Metropolis

“Competition ticket holders are suggested to go to particular occasion websites for up to date data. Ticket holders for QOTSA exhibits will probably be contacted by level of buy with additional details about the brand new dates,” the band stated within the announcement.

“Josh and the QOTSA household are so grateful on your help and the time we have been capable of spend collectively over the past yr,” the assertion continued. “Hope to see you all once more in 2025.”

Homme revealed in June 2023 that he had been identified with most cancers a yr earlier. On the time, he instructed Revolver that he had undergone a profitable surgical procedure to take away it, however he didn’t disclose particulars.

The founding father of the group behind hits akin to “No One Is aware of,” Homme and his band have been on a global tour in July when he needed to “return to the USA instantly for emergency surgical procedure,” in keeping with the official assertion. They canceled and postponed eight exhibits, and had deliberate to return to the street in August.

The band, which dropped its first album in 1998, had been selling its eighth, In Instances New Roman.., which was launched in June 2023. Over their profession, QOTSA have been nominated for eight Grammys.

“I favored having made it,” Homme instructed the Los Angeles Instances in December 2023. “It is getting tougher and tougher to do, as a result of I put a lot strain on eager to be uncooked, weak, trustworthy. How rather more trustworthy are you going to be? It is extra the phrases. I like messing with preparations and all that stuff. But it surely was simply onerous to know what to say.”

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