Queens of the Stone Age announce theatre screenings for special Paris Catacombs show

Queens of the Stone Age have announced a limited number of theatre screenings for their special concert film, Alive in the Catacombs. The new screening will give fans the chance to see the band’s exclusive and long-rumoured performance at the Paris Catacombs, which holds the remains of over six million people across 200 miles underneath the city. 

The band’s theatre screening will take place internationally on 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th June. The performance will be shown in theatres across 20 different countries and will feature a preview of the band’s forthcoming intimate documentary film, which details the making of Alive in the Catacombs. 

The performance, which was filmed in July last year, will give fans a once in a lifetime chance to see the band in a unique historic setting. The film debuts a specialist one-off setlist spanning the band’s iconic catalogue, with each track adapted especially for the spooky venue. “[It’s] the biggest audience we’ve ever played for,” jokes the band’s founder and lead singer, Joshua Homme.

“We’re so stripped down because that place is so stripped down, which makes the music so stripped down, which makes the words so stripped down…” continues Homme. “It would be ridiculous to try to rock there. All those decisions were made by that space. That space dictates everything, it’s in charge. You do what you’re told when you’re in there.”

“If you’re ever going to be haunted, surrounded by several million dead people is the place. I’ve never felt so welcome in my life,” the rock singer adds.