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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE / Photo – Andreas Neumann

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Queens of the Stone Age will headline some special events, as part of the LOOKOUT Festival, when they arrive in Australia for their ‘The End Is Nero’ Summer 2024 Australian and New Zealand tour.

These exciting events will see the international rock icons joined by Aussie favourites Spiderbait, The Chats, Pond, Gut Health, and Lola Scott.  So, gather your mates for this huge day out!

LOOKOUT is a live music concert event that celebrates the best of alternative rock with music that has stood the test of time, along with some fresh new sounds on the scene.  It will feature some of the most iconic names plus rising stars making noise in the industry.

‘The End Is Nero’ Summer 2024 Australian and New Zealand tour, is the band’s first appearance in Australasia since 2018. The official announcement comes after the band excitedly teased the news via social media last week, “sending shockwaves of excitement through the Gold Coast and beyond.” – GC Mag.

The far-reaching tour, hailed by NME as “a band reaching the peak of their powers” and the Lincoln Star Journal to proclaim it “the best rock show I’ve seen in a very long time” will see the band perform in front of tons of fans.

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‘The End is Nero’ tour is in support of their acclaimed eighth studio album, ‘In Times New Roman…’ which debuted at #2 on the ARIA charts and which NME Australia described as “their darkest, knottiest material to date.’ The End Is Nero tour is an invitation from Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore to come celebrate the end of the world, which we hear is “in a month or two.” They would like to encourage the obscene and the clean, the outcasts and the weirdos, and anyone and everyone in between to attend, this is where you belong. Leave your judgment at the door, bring anything and everything else.

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Spiderbait [Credit Giulia McGauran]

The narrative of the Spiderbait story is so fantastical it could only be based in truth: three friends from a small country Australian town taking on the Australian music scene on their own terms and emerging triumphant 25 years later, the friendships unscathed but their band one of the biggest and best on the national scene.

As brash and confident as they are strange and uncompromising, the three founding members of Spiderbait – Janet, Whitt and Kram – started humbly in the rural NSW township of Finley, the fervent music lovers taking inspiration from everything from Slayer to The Bangles and meshing into one intoxicating and unique brew.

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The Chats

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Hands down the world’s greatest post-millennial punk-rock group, The Chats have skipped past the unimaginable banana skin of COVID-19 to emerge tougher, faster, funnier, more riotous – even better for 2022!

The trio, originally formed in Australia’s self-explanatory resort Sunshine Coast, are a once-in-a-generation band who reconnect popular music with its roots in ultra-raw rock ‘n’ roll, inject their own fresh perspective, and have duly made an instantaneous connection with their youthful peers right across the globe. Most people know them for their 2017 breakthrough banger, ‘Smoko’, but that has proved to be just the party-starter, merely the entrée to a high-volume, full-throttle world where intoxication, excitement, and laughter rule supreme – the kind of kinetic thrills which have all but drained out of contemporary pop/rock.

Originally formed in the turn of the 2010’s, as “a Royal Trux-cum-Cream power trio,” fronted by Allbrook with Jay Watson and Joe Ryan, Pond added Jamie Terry shortly afterwards, with James Ireland later rounding out the irrepressible five-piece. Ever prolific, Pond boasts an impressive eight studio albums in their ever-expanding repertoire.

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POND

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Pond released their new polychromatic music machine on October 1st, 2021 via Spinning Top Records / Secretly Distribution and the record debuted at #6 on the ARIA album chart. On their ninth studio album, the Fremantle five piece recapture an anarchic sense of uncertainty and fly closer than ever before to the creative supernova that has blazed across so much of their music. Taking a leaf out of krautrock outliers Can’s book, at the start of 2020 Pond embarked on a series of totally off-the-cuff jam sessions from which songs and ideas could be pulled out.

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Gut Health

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Emphasising a relentless driving rhythm section backed by angular guitars & accompanying synthesisers, brought home by the effervescent vocal stylings of front-person Athina Uh Oh, GUT HEALTH create a powerful live performance categorised by their unfiltered theatrics, tongue-in-cheek delivery, joyous groove and definitive precision in their tight execution.

With varied sonic backgrounds from punk to jazz, and influenced by queer rave culture, GUT HEALTH creatively merge these worlds together, presenting a unique mix of danceable art-pop/post-punk which mirrors the ethos of New York’s No-Wave revolution of the late ‘70s.

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Lola Scott – Credit Brianna Da Silva

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A new era of Lola Scott is here with new single ‘High School Drama’ off the back of a heavy year of touring with national supports for Men I Trust, Holly Humberstone, CLEWS, Teenage Dads, and festivals. Building on her sonic base of rock inspired alt pop, ‘High School Drama’ expands with lo-fi distorted guitars, infectious energy + cheeky lyrics.

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LOOKOUT FESTIVAL
TOUR DATES 2024

Sunday 18th February
Torquay Common, Torquay VIC

Saturday 24th February
Broadwater Parklands, Gold Coast QLD

~ All events are strictly 18+ ~

Tickets through Ticketmaster

Queens of The Stone Age Fan Club pre-sale: Wednesday 25th October (11.00am local time)

Face to Face pre-sale: Friday 27th October (12.00pm local time)

General Public on-sale: Monday 30th October (1.00pm local time)

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About Queens of the Stone Age:

Formed by Joshua Homme against a backdrop of 1990s Palm Desert, California, Queens of the Stone Age is what happens when a multidimensional musical entity outgrows the very genre it creates. Too prolific, ambitious and just plain brilliant to be tethered to or limited by the confines of any genre.  Ultimately morphing into the behemoth that has blessed the world with a range of bangers from “No One Knows” to “Little Sister,” “My God is the Sun” to “The Way You Used To Do” and everything in between. Undeniably rock — yes, always, but with the blood, sweat and dark magical swagger only Homme and his cohorts can conjure.

Regularly hailed as one of the greatest live bands in existence, Queens of the Stone Age consists of Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore… What started off as “generator parties” in the desert has evolved to sold out arenas and headlining the main stage of your favourite summer festival.

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AMNPLIFY – DB