Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has told Australia’s Triple J radio station that his band will be concentrating on touring with Nine Inch Nails this summer because he believes festivals have become ‘too grand’.
“Lots of festivals are like 50 or 60 bands,” he says. “It’s too much to encapsulate; the idea is too grand. I think the notion of somewhere between six and 10 bands is much stronger.”
“Everyone’s chasing the dough all the time instead of trying to make art. I know that Trent and myself get so obsessed with trying to set our own bar that it’s nice to put bands together and have that solidarity and have something that’s greater than the sum of its parts.”
Meanwhile, Nine Inch Nails have a return to the UK due for May when they will play the Birmingham LG Arena (18th), Glasgow’s Hydro Arena (20th), Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena (21st), The O2 in London (23rd), the Nottingham Capital FM Arena (24th) and Manchester’s Phones 4U Arena (25th).
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