![]() ![]() So it’s good to see him so relaxed here, swearing happily and good-humouredly telling off gun-jumping moshers towards the end of the set: “You fuckin’ go when I say so!” Even Elton’s fireworks can’t drown out Song for the Dead at the end, as the crowd roils and thrashes once more. (Except perhaps the Pyramid stage.) Homme is coming off the back of cancer treatment and is embroiled, still, in a protracted child custody dispute with his ex-wide Brody Dalle and her partner Gunner Foxx, the outcome of which is tied up in US courts. “There’s nowhere in the fuckin’ world we’d rather be right now!” he yells. Homme looks like a dirty preacher with a manicured beard and ’stache, and he’s grinning ear to ear the whole way through. But they’re also unselfconscious, Troy Van Leeuwen and Dean Fertita performing all the ripping, finger-stretching bluesy solos alongside Homme without any of the pretension, and they’re not afraid to be languid either, letting those filthy detuned chords linger. It’s the most danceable alt rock out there, as proven by The Way You Used to Do from the album Villains, unleashed about halfway through the set (sure enough, feet don’t fail us now). CAPO 2 Verse A D There are certain people you just keep coming back to Fm E A She is right in front of you A D You begin to wonder could you find a better one Fm E A A Compared to her now she's. They sound like sex and whiskey with an edge of dangerous nihilism. ![]() By the time they’re busting out No One Knows an hour later, the audience stretches back to the tents and are yelling the riff back at them. When they open with a blistering doubler of Go With the Flow and The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret, there aren’t many bodies any further back that the mixing desk. And actually, over the course of the night, QOTSA get the crowd they deserve. The entire set is like the opposite of Royal Blood’s recent onstage tantrum. ![]() Grinning ear-to-ear … Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age performing on the Other stage. ![]()
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