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 eventually weekend’s Hellfest pageant in Clisson, France. The efficiency is ready to be recorded as properly.
Homme shared: “In per 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, making an attempt to get myself within this exalted place in Paris. And it is fully reside.”
Discussing the choice to file the live performance, Homme added: “I might prefer to take a few of these concepts, that are type of ubiquitous, like a reside file, and do one thing a little bit totally different with them. As a result of I feel with the best way the Web is, folks can see us play reside so merely, in so many various methods, that I might love to do one thing reside that can’t be seen in a approach that isn’t usually achieved. And we launch these variations. And let the followers management the remainder. The followers can management the remainder of the way to 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 nonetheless you wanna discover it’s effective for me, however I want to attempt to do a few of these concepts otherwise. So, that is why I discussed the Catacombs.”
The Paris Catacombs have a storied historical past, originating within the late eighteenth century on account of vital public well being points linked to overcrowded cemeteries. Between 1785 and 1787, the stays from Paris’s largest cemetery, Saints-Innocents, had 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 had been open to the general public by appointment.
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