Queens Of The Stone Age: “The goal of music for us is to be able to play things that are difficult to say”

Happy Josh Homme Week! Or at least that’s how it feels when NME meets Queens Of The Stone Age in a fancy London hotel during a wild headline-grabbing few days of supporting System Of A Down at Spurs Stadium, dropping mad collabs with Mastodon and *checks notes* Shania Twain as well as their own eyebrow-raising launch single ‘Easy Street’, personally serving the music media tequila at a playback party for weird and wonderful new album ‘Perfecth‘, and even finding time for the frontman to shoot an episode of Celebrity Gogglebox with his pal and Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears. READ MORE: Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘Perfecth’ review: the desert rock dons adventure into love for their third act “Drinking and watching telly with your mate? It’s a piece of cake,” shrugs Homme. We chat briefly about the frontman and bandmate Michael ‘Mikey Shoes’ Shuman’s love of dry but WTF leftfield British TV comedy (namely Monty Python, The Mighty Boosh, Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace, and the work of Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, and Philomena Cunk) and the surreal nature of the band timeline and diary right now make a lot more sense. “I do have a fondness for world-jumping,” the frontman admits. “That...