QOTSA cancel all remaining 2024 tour dates

Queens of the Stone Age have cancelled the remainder of their 2024 tour due to frontman Josh Homme requiring “essential medical care”.

North American festival dates at Soundside Music Festival and Mempho Music Festival have been cancelled alongside the band’s slot at Mexico City’s Corona Capital.

Meanwhile, US headline shows at MGM Music Hall, Boston, Andrew J Brady Music Center in Cincinnati, Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago and Breese Stevens Field in Madison have been postponed to next year.

“QOTSA regret to announce the cancellation and/or postponement of all remaining 2024 shows,” says a statement posted to the group’s social media accounts. “Josh has been given no choice but to prioritise his health and to receive essential medical care through the remainder of the year.

“Josh and the QOTSA family are so thankful for your support and the time we were able to spend together over the last year”

“Josh and the QOTSA family are so thankful for your support and the time we were able to spend together over the last year. Hope to see you all again in 2025.”

The rockers were forced to cancel a string of European festival headline dates last month due to 51-year-old Homme requiring “emergency surgery”.

The cancelled performances included Festival Jardin Sonare in France, Slovakia’s Pohoda Festival, Germany’s Zitadelle Spandau, Czechia’s Colours of Ostrav, METAstadt in Austria, Electric Castle Festival in Romania and Athens Rocks in Greece, as well as two headline shows at SRC Salata in Croatia.

They also pulled out of slots at Norway’s Øya, Sweden’s Way Out West, Denmark’s Syd for Solen, Caberet Vert in France, Lowlands in the Netherlands, Belgium’s Pukkelpop and Portugal’s Villar de Mouros.

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