Queens of the Stone Age Cancel Remaining 2024 Shows
“Josh has been given no choice but to prioritize his health and to receive essential medical care through the remainder of the year,” band says in statement
Queens of the Stone Age have canceled the remainder of their 2024 tour dates — including a string of North American shows and festival gigs scheduled for the fall — as Josh Homme continues his recovery from an unspecified surgery he underwent in July.
“QOTSA regret to announce the cancellation and/or postponement of all remaining 2024 shows. Josh has been given no choice but to prioritize his health and to receive essential medical care through the remainder of the year,” the band wrote on social media.
The group was scheduled to perform eight North American shows this autumn, starting with a two-night stand at Boston’s MGM Music Hall on September 27 and 28. All five of the band’s standalone shows — including concerts in Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin — will all be pushed to to-be-announced dates in 2025, while QOTSA had to cancel their festival appearances at Bridgeport’s Soundside, Memphis’ Mempho, and Mexico City’s Corona Capital.
In July, Queens of the Stone Age abruptly canceled their European tour after Homme had to return stateside “immediately for emergency surgery,” the band said in a statement. “Due to continued medical care, it is under doctors’ orders that Josh Homme remain in their care in the United States.”
At that time, QOTSA’s North American shows remained on the schedule before they were ultimately nixed on Friday. “Josh and the QOTSA family are so thankful for your support and the time we were able to spend together over the last year. Hope to see you all again in 2025,” the band added Friday.
The group were touring in support of their latest album, In Times New Roman …, which came out in 2023, the same year that Homme revealed that he’d previously undergone surgery to remove cancer.
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