Queens of the Stone Age returned to the Austin City Limits (ACL) stage for the first time in a decade with a performance unlike anything in the show’s 50-plus-year history. In a rare television appearance, Josh Homme & Co. presented their innovative opus Alive in the Catacombs—conceived and recorded in the ancient tombs beneath Paris—delivering an epic, multi-act, full-hour master class in music and mood, accompanied by a nine-piece orchestra.
The episode premiered Saturday, January 31 as the penultimate installment of ACL’s Season 51, with the full episode available to stream now at pbs.org/austincitylimitsand on the free PBS App.
Queens of the Stone Age Austin City Limits setlist:
Running Joke / Paper Machete
Kaliopsia
Villains of Circumstance
I Never Came
Someone’s In The Wolf
Mosquito Song
Keep Your Eyes Peeled
Spinning in Daffodils
The acclaimed concert film Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs is now available to stream for free on Youtube. Queens of the Stone Age fans around the globe are invited to witness the band’s intimate, powerful performance, set deep within the ancient, atmospheric underground tombs of Paris. Filmed and recorded in July 2024, the band is captured as you’ve never seen or heard them before with a carefully selected setlist spanning the band’s catalog, each song chosen specifically and epically reimagined in deference to the Catacombs.
The companion film directed by Andreas Neumann, Alive in Paris and Before, is also part of this free Youtube release.The intimate behind the scenes documentary film reveals the emotional and physical trials Queens of the Stone Age overcame to create Alive in the Catacombs.
