Queens Of The Stone Age dusted off some fan favourites for the first time in years at their first show of 2025 last night (June 10). Watch the footage and see the full setlist below.
Josh Homme and co. played an 18-song set at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts, ahead of a second gig at the venue tonight (June 11).
To kick off the performance, QOTSA treated the crowd to a live rendition of ‘Keep Your Eyes Peeled’ – the opening track from their sixth studio album, 2013’s ‘…Like Clockwork’. It marked the cuts first appearance in the setlist since 2018.
Later, the band played ‘Suture Up Your Future’ from 2007’s ‘Era Vulgaris’ for the first time in front of an audience since 2008. However, a live version of this track does appear on Queens’ new film Alive In The Catacombs.
The group then brought 2002’s ‘Song For The Deaf’ back to the setlist, marking its first appearance in seven years.
Check out fan-shot footage of those three tracks below, along with other songs and the full setlist.
Queens Of The Stone Age played:
‘Keep Your Eyes Peeled’ (first time live since 2018)
‘No One Knows’
‘3’s & 7’s’
‘I Sat By The Ocean’
‘Negative Space’
‘If I Had A Tail’
‘My God Is The Sun’
‘Emotion Sickness’
‘The Way You Used To Do’
‘Carnavoyeur’
‘Paper Machete’
‘Smooth Sailing’
‘Suture Up Your Future’ (first performance in front of an audience since 2008)
‘Make It Wit Chu’
‘Little Sister’
‘Go With The Flow’
‘Song For The Deaf’ (first time live since 2018)
‘Song For The Dead’
Following the second Boston show, QOTSA will perform in Atlantic City on Friday (June 13), before appearing at Bonnaroo 2025 on Sunday (15). Further US dates are scheduled for this month too.
Meanwhile, Queens Of The Stone Age are set to play two huge outdoor headline gigs at Sheffield’s Rock N Roll Circus this summer, shortly after topping the bill at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth.
The group will embark on a European tour later this year as well, where they’ll also appear at numerous festivals such as Øya, Electric Castle, Lowlands, Pukkelpop and Rock En Seine.
In 2024, QOTSA were forced to cancel some live dates in Europe due to Homme requiring “emergency surgery”. The frontman then returned to the stage last December for a Mark Lanegan tribute concert in London.
Queens released their eighth and latest album, ‘In Times New Roman’, in 2023.
Their new concert film, Alive In The Catacombs, earned a four-star review from NME last week. It hailed the project as “moving and meditative”. The movie was screened in cinemas across the globe, and the group have since announced a vinyl and audio release of the unique show.
Last summer, Homme vowed to “roll his sleeves up” so that fans wouldn’t have to wait so long for their next LP. There was a six-year gap between 2017’s ‘Villains’ and ‘In Times New Roman’.
In late 2023, Homme and bandmate Dean Fertita opened up to NME about the group and their personal battles, while looking ahead to what’s next.
“I think we should be making something,” Homme explained, some six months after releasing Queens’ most recent record. “The mantra of the last five years was, ‘It won’t be long now!’ That needs to pertain to making things too. I certainly think we should make more, faster-er, better-er.”
You can revisit the full video interview for NME‘s In Conversation series above.