Queens Of The Stone Age announced to headline Sheffield’s Rock N Roll Circus 2025
Queens Of The Stone Age are headlining Sheffield’s Rock N Roll Circus 2025 – find all the details below.
Last week, the Josh Homme-fronted band began teasing an upcoming huge gig in Sheffield after they shared a photograph of Ecclesall Road in the Steel City showing a poster for the city’s edition of the Rock N Roll Circus festival.
Now, it’s been revealed that they’re set to headline the festival on August 27, which takes place at Don Valley Bowl, as one of only two shows they’ll play in the UK in 2025.
Also announced today (February 17), they’ll be joined on the line-up by Viagra Boys, Fat Dog, The Bug Club and So Good.
Of Queens Of The Stone Age’s addition to the festival’s line-up, organiser Ali O’Reilly said: “We’re taking Rock N Roll Circus to the next level in 2025. Bringing a band such as Queens of the Stone Age to Sheffield is a huge moment for us and we can’t wait to welcome them to the Big Top in August.
“They are the perfect act to open our celebrations and fit everything that our brand is trying to achieve,” she continued. “It’s been a long time since they’ve performed in this part of the world, and we’re honoured and excited to have them.”
Pre-sale tickets go live on Wednesday (February 19) at 9am, which you can sign up here for, and general sale will begin on Friday (February 21) also at 9am. Find ticket information here.
Queens Of The Stone Age are the latest to be announced for the Sheffield leg of the Rock N Roll Circus, which already has Reverend & The Makers on board, as well as The Libertines‘ Pete Doherty and Carl Barât, The Lottery Winners, Groove Armada (DJ set) and more for its “20-year anniversary party”.
Last year’s Rock N Roll Circus in Sheffield was headlined by Richard Hawley, Becky Hill and Milburn.
The appearance is one of two UK shows for 2025, alongside a headline slot at Victorious Festival. The band are set to embark on a European tour this summer too, where they’ll also play various festivals like Øya and Electric Castle.
Last July, QOTSA were forced to cancel some live dates in Europe due to frontman Homme needing “emergency surgery”. The singer then returned to the stage in December for a Mark Lanegan tribute concert in London.
Queens’ first show back is currently scheduled for June 10 in Boston, Massachusetts. That same month, they’ll play at Bonnaroo 2025 in Manchester, Tennessee.
The band released their eighth and latest studio album, ‘In Times New Roman’, in 2023. In a four-star review, NME wrote: “They’ve pitched their comeback between an emotional exorcism for Homme, but with enough fan-service for the die-hards; this is up there with their darkest, knottiest material to date, and will be appreciated all the more for it.”
Last summer, Homme vowed 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.”
You can revisit the full video interview for NME‘s In Conversation series above.
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Laura Molloy
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