Queens Of The Stone Age debuted new song ‘Easy Street’ and played some rarities as they began their ‘Catacombs’ tour in the US last night (Thursday October 2). Watch the videos and check out the setlist below.
Josh Homme and co. delivered a 17-song set at The Chicago Theatre in the Illinois city, with the performance being divided into three acts and an encore.
The current run of intimate gigs follows QOTSA’s stripped-back performance at the historic Parisian Catacombs last summer, which was captured for a recent concert film and live album.
During the third act of yesterday’s tour opener, Queens surprised the crowd by premiering a new track, ‘Easy Street’.
Footage of the track has since emerged online, with fans speculating over whether it will appear on the band’s next album. One user on Reddit commented on the raw and jaunty song’s “Flamenco vibe”, with another saying it was “maybe the most catchy thing they played tonight”.
Easy Street Clip (Chicago 10/2) New Song(?)
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Elsewhere in the set, QOTSA dusted off ‘Someone’s In The Wolf’ from their 2005 album ‘Lullabies To Paralyze‘ for the first time since 2018. They then aired a rendition of ‘Mosquito Song’ – a hidden track on ‘Songs For The Deaf‘ (2002) – for the first time in 18 years.
Additionally, they brought back ‘You Got a Killer Scene There, Man…’ (2005) after almost two decades, ahead of giving ‘Hideaway’ (2017) its first outing in seven years. Later, Queens revisited ‘Fortress’ (2017) following an eight-year absence from their set.
Queens Of The Stone Age’s setlist was:
Act 1:
1. ‘Running Joke’ / ‘Paper Machete’
2. ‘Kalopsia’
3. ‘Villains Of Circumstance’
4. ‘Suture Up Your Future’
5. ‘I Never Came’
Act 2:
6. ‘Someone’s In The Wolf’ / ‘A Song for the Deaf’ / ‘Straight Jacket Fitting’ (first time Someone’s In The Wolf played live since 2018)
7. ‘Mosquito Song’ (first time since 2007)
8. ‘Keep Your Eyes Peeled’
9. ‘Spinning In Daffodils’ (Them Crooked Vultures cover) (live debut for QOTSA)
Act 3:
10. ‘”You Got a Killer Scene There, Man…”‘ (first time since 2007)
11. ‘Hideaway’ (first time since 2018)
12. ‘The Vampyre Of Time And Memory’
13. ‘Auto Pilot’
14. ‘Easy Street’ (live debut, unreleased)
15. ‘Fortress’ (first time since 2017)
16. ‘…Like Clockwork’ (first time since 2018)
Encore:
17. ‘Long Slow Goodbye’
In addition to their current dates across North America, Queens Of The Stone Age will bring their ‘Catacombs’ tour to the UK and Europe later this month – with this leg including a night at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Find any remaining tickets here.
They’ll also open for System Of A Down at their two huge headline concerts at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the capital next summer.
QOTSA released their eighth and latest studio album, ‘In Times New Roman’, in 2023. They recently played two massive gigs in Sheffield as part of Rock N Roll Circus 2025 (and Homme visited some “Arctic Monkeys landmarks” in the Steel City).
Last summer, the frontman promised to “roll his sleeves up” so that the fans wouldn’t have to wait so long for their next record. 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, their personal battles and plans for the future.
“I think we should be making something,” Homme explained, some six months on from releasing QOTSA’s most recent LP. “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.”
