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Queens of the Stone Age at London's O2 Arena: stage times, support and more

15 November 2023, 13:39 | Updated: 16 November 2023, 11:54

Josh Homme and co play the London leg of their The End Is Nero tour tonight. Find out when to expect them on stage.

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Queens of the Stone Age take to the stage at The O2, London tonight (Wednesday 15th November) for their The End Is Nero tour.

The No One Knows rockers will play their much-anticipated date he capital, treating fans to a career-spanning setlist and hits from their most recent album In Times New Roman...

So what do we know about QOTSA's gig at The O2 so far and what can we expect from the setlist?

Find out what time you can expect them on stage, who joins them as support and more below.

What time are Queens of the Stone Age on at The O2 London?

• Queens of the Stone Age will take to the stage at approx 8.45pm.

Who's supporting Queens of The Stone Age at The O2, London?

• Support comes from Australian punk rockers The Chats and post punk trio Deep Tan.

What are the Queens of the Stone Age stage times at The O2, London?

6:00pm  - Doors Open

7:00pm  - Deep Tan

7:40pm - The Chats

8:45pm  - QOTSA

All timings approx and subject to change. Please arrive in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Can you still buy tickets for QOTSA at The O2?

There are still a limited amount of tickets for Queens of the Stone Age's London gig.

Visit the O2 website or qostsa.com/tour for more.

What will QOTSA play on their setlist?

Take a look at the band's set from their previous night in Manchester for an idea of what they might play.

Queens of the Stone Age's setlist at Manchester's AO Arena on 14th November 2023:

• No One Knows
• First It Giveth
• Smooth Sailing
• My God Is the Sun
• Emotion Sickness (Cappella outro)
• If I Had a Tail
• Time & Place
• Carnavoyeur
• The Way You Used to Do
• I Think I Lost My Headache
• Sick, Sick, Sick
• Negative Space
• I Sat by the Ocean
• Make It Wit Chu
• Little Sister

16. Long Slow Goodbye (Tour Debut, first time since 2018) 17. Paper Machete 18. Go With the Flow 19. A Song for the Dead

How to get to The O2 Arena, London:

The O2 is at SE10 0DX

You can travel to The O2 by river, tube, car, bus and cable car.

The arena is served by Underground station North Greenwich, which is on the Jubilee Line.

Buses 108, 129, 132, 161, 188, 422, 472 or 486 all stop at North Greenwich Station.

Parking for arena events is in Car Park 1.

Visit The O2 event page for full information on the event

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Queens Of The Stone Age announce UK / European tour

QOTSA have shared details of the UK/EU leg of their The End Is Nero tour

Following the first announcement of their The End Is Nero tour last week, with dates across the US and Canada, Queens Of The Stone Age have now announced the UK and European leg of the trek, held in support of their forthcoming album In Times New Roman...

Set to kick off on November 4 in Amsterdam, Josh Hommme's band will continue on through Frankfurt, Berlin, Antwerp, Manchester, London, Glasgow and more before wrapping up on November 22 with a final show in Dublin.

Playing in support of Queens will be Aussie punks The Chats and London-based indie trio Deep Tan.

Fan club pre-sale tickets for the run are available now, with public on-sale tickets available to buy from June 16 at 10am local time.

According to the official press release,  The End Is Nero  tour is is an invitation from the band to "the obscene and the clean, the outcasts and the weirdos, and anyone and everyone in between" to "come celebrate the end of the world, which we hear is 'in a month or two'.

This summer, QOTSA will be playing a short run of UK dates in unconventional venues , including at a seaside amusement park, a castle, and an 18th century cloth hall. They'll also be making appearances at a number of festivals across Europe, including at Pinkpop Festival, Roskilde Festival and Glastonbury Festival.

From August 3, they'll commence on their US trek, with their first show in Michigan, followed by Toronto, Pittsburgh and more. 

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In Times New Roman… is due out this Friday, June 16 via Matador Records.

View the tour dates below:

QOTSA UK/EU dates:

Jun 16: Neuhausen Ob Eck Southside Festival, Germany Jun 17: Landgraaf Pinkpop Festival, The Netherlands Jun 18: Scheessel Hurricane Festival, Germany Jun 20: Halifax The Piece Hall, UK Jun 22: Margate Dreamland, UK Jun 23: Cardiff Castle, UK June 26: Glastonbury Festival, UK Jun 28: Roskilde Festival, Denmark Jun 30: Gdynia Open'er Festival, Poland Jul 02: Werchter Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium Jul 04: Lyon Les Nuits de Fourvière, France Jul 05: Albi Pause Guitare Festival, France Jul 07: Madrid Mad Cool Festival, Spain Jul 08: Lisbon NOS Alive Festival, Portugal

The End Is Nero tour:

Nov 04: Amsterdam Ziggo Dome, Netherlands Nov 05: Esch-sur-Alzette Rockhal, Luxenbourg Nov 07: Paris Accor Arena, France Nov 08: Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle, Germany Nov 09: Berlin Max-Schmeling-Halle, Germany Nov 11: Dusseldorf Mitsubishi Electric Halle, Germany Nov 12: Antwerp Sportpaleis, Belgium Nov 14: Manchester AO Arena, UK Nov 15: London The O2, UK Nov 18: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK Nov 19: Birmingham Resorts World Arena, UK Nov 20: Stockton-on-Tees Globe Theatre, UK Nov 22: Dublin 3Arena, IE

QOTSA US dates:

Aug 3: Sterling Heights Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill, MI* Aug 4: Toronto Budweiser Stage, ON* Aug 5: Pittsburgh Stage AE Outdoors, PA* Aug 7: Bridgeport Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater, CT* Aug 8: Philadelphia TD Pavilion at the Mann, PA* Aug 9: Washington The Anthem, DC* Aug 11: Portland Cross Insurance Arena, ME* Aug 12: Queens Forest Hills Stadium, NY* Aug 15: Raleigh Red Hat Amphitheater, NC* Aug 16: Asheville Rabbit Rabbit, NC* Aug 18: Atlanta Fox Theatre, GA* Aug 19: Nashville Ascend Amphitheater, TN* Sep 16: Chicago Riot Fest, IL Sep 17: Minneapolis The Armory, MN** Sep 19: Omaha Steelhouse, NE** Sep 20: Kansas City Starlight Theatre, MO** Sep 22: Indianapolis TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park, IN** Sep 23: St. Louis Saint Louis Music Park, MO** Sep 24: Louisville Louder Than Life, KY Sep 26: Rogers Walmart AMP, AR** Sep 27: Oklahoma City The Criterion, OK** Sep 29: Denver Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, CO** Sep 30: Salt Lake City The Great Saltair, UT** Oct 02: Portland Veterans Memorial Coliseum, OR** Oct 03: Vancouver Pacific Coliseum, BC** Oct 04: Seattle Climate Pledge Arena, WA** Oct 06: San Francisco Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, CA** Oct 08: Sacramento Aftershock, CA

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**Viagra Boys and Jehnny Beth support

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Queens Of The Stone Age will be playing a trio of UK shows for summer 2023. You can check out the dates in more detail below.

The iconic desert rockers will return to the UK for the first time since the tour supporting 2017’s acclaimed Villains . As part of a long run of summer dates calling at festivals across Europe, the band will now be playing three UK shows in June – kicking off at Halifax’s Piece Hall in Yorkshire on June 20 before stopping off at Margate’s Dreamland on the Kent coast on June 22 and heading over the Welsh border to Cardiff Castle on June 23.

Support at the shows will come from Isle Of Wight indie band Coach Party. Tickets go on general sale from 9am on Friday April 21, with an artist pre-sale available from Wednesday April 19.

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Queens’ frontman Josh Homme recently appeared onstage at Wembley Stadium as part of the Foo Fighters-curated Taylor Hawkins tribute concert . He initially covered David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” with a Nile Rodgers-led band before reforming Them Crooked Vultures for a three-song set.

News of new material from Queens Of The Stone Age is expected this year. Last year, QOTSA bassist Michael Shuman confirmed to NME that there was “new stuff coming“, while Eagles Of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes has also hinted that a new Queens record was “done.”

Last year saw the band reissue three albums of vinyl : their 1998 self-titled debut, their 2013 record Like Clockwork and their most recent album, 2017’s Villains .

Queens Of The Stone Age play the following UK and European shows in 2023:

JUNE: 16 – Neuhausen Ob Eck, Southside Festival 17 – Landgraaf, Pinkpop Festival 18 – Scheessel, Hurricane Festival 20 – Halifax, The Piece Hall 22 – Margate, Dreamland 23 – Cardiff, Cardiff Castle 28 – Roskilde, Roskilde Festival 30 – Gdynia, Open’er Festival

JULY: 2 – Werchter, Rock Werchter Festival 4 – Lyon, Les Nuits de Fourvière 5 – Albi, Pause Guitare Festival 7 – Madrid, Mad Cool Festival 8 – Lisbon, NOS Alive Festival.

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Queens Of The Stone Age have announced details of a trio of UK shows for summer 2023. Check out dates and ticket details below.

The desert rock veterans will be returning to the UK for the first time since the tour for their acclaimed 2017 album ‘Villains ‘. As part of a long run of summer dates calling at festivals across Europe, the band will now be playing three UK shows in June – beginning at Halifax’s The Piece Hall on June 20 before taking in Margate’s Dreamland on June 22 and Cardiff Castle on June 23.

Support at the shows will come from Isle Of Wight indie band Coach Party .

Tickets go on general sale from 9am on Friday April 21 and will be available here , with an artist pre-sale available from Wednesday April 19.

Queens Of The Stone Age’s summer 2023 European headline tour dates are are:

JUNE 16 – Neuhausen Ob Eck, Southside Festival 17 – Landgraaf, Pinkpop Festival 18 – Scheessel, Hurricane Festival 20 – Halifax, The Piece Hall 22 – Margate, Dreamland 23 – Cardiff, Cardiff Castle 28 – Roskilde, Roskilde Festival 30 – Gdynia, Open’er Festival

JULY 2 – Werchter,  Rock Werchter Festival 4 – Lyon, Les Nuits de Fourvière 5 – Albi, Pause Guitare Festival 7 – Madrid, Mad Cool Festival 8 – Lisbon, NOS Alive Festival

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This comes after last month saw QOTSA frontman Josh Homme share a new and rare public statement about his ongoing legal battle with ex-wife Brody Dalle .

The pair have been involved in a long-running public battle for custody of their three children. Both Dalle and Homme filed their respective restraining orders against each other in 2021, while Dalle was  convicted in November of that year of one count of contempt  by a Los Angeles judge for “wilfully” failing to hand her five-year-old son over to Homme in September as part of an agreed custody deal.

In Homme’s new and lengthy statement, he revealed that a new permanent restraining order was granted against Dalle for a period of one year and 11 months, meaning she is not allowed to contact the Homme family, including Josh, his parents and the former couple’s three children – adding that: “The goal of the Los Angeles Family Court System and Joshua Homme’s sincere hope is that the conclusion of this matter will result in the ability for both Homme and Dalle to co-parent their children peacefully.”

More recently, Josh Homme appeared onstage at Wembley Stadium as part of the  Foo Fighters -curated  Taylor Hawkins tribute concert . First he covered  David Bowie ’s ‘Let’s Dance’ with a  Nile Rodgers -led band before  reforming Them Crooked Vultures for a three-song set.

News of new material from Queens Of The Stone Age is expected this year. Last year, QOTSA bassist Michael Shuman confirmed to NME that there was “new stuff coming “, while Eagles Of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes also confirmed to a fan that a Queens record was “done”.

Last year saw the band reissue three albums of vinyl : their 1998 self-titled debut, their 2013 record ‘ Like Clockwork ‘ and their most recent album, 2017’s ‘ Villains ‘.

Meanwhile, Homme recently that  making an album with country musician Nikki Lane “saved my life” .

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Ahead of their eagerly anticipated headline show on Glastonbury ’s Other Stage (Sunday 25th June) and sold-out UK shows, Queens Of The Stone Age have today announced the details of their ‘The End Is Nero’ UK and European Arena tour. The Autumn dates will kick off on 4th November at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome before getting to the UK on 14th November at Manchester AO Arena and London’s The O2 on 15th November. The End Is Nero tour ends on 22nd November at Dublin’s 3Arena. Queens of The Stone Age Fan Pre-sale and Three customer pre-sale start today at 10am BST / 11am CEST with public on-sale following Friday 16th June, 10am local time. Main support on all dates comes from The Chats and deep tan.

Tickets are on sale now from this page on Ticketmaster .

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 judgement at the door, bring anything and everything else.

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In Times New Roman … will be available digitally and physically on June 16th via Matador Records. To Pre-order or pre-save visit here . On the eve of release fans are invited to ring in the long awaited album at MIDNIGHT CLUB parties taking place at record shops and pubs across 23 countries. The MIDNIGHT CLUB starts at 11pm June 15th and will feature giveaways, exclusive merch including limited edition coloured vinyl, and—in a few select locations—signed merchandise and ticket giveaways. MIDNIGHT CLUB will provide the QOTSA faithful with a first chance to hear In Times New Roman… in its entirety, amongst friends, family and of course appropriate levels of bacchanalia.

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Queens’ will also headline The Other Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2023 on Sunday 25th June. Glastonbury will mark the climax of a week of UK shows starting at Halifax The Piece Hall (Tuesday 20th June), Margate Dreamland (Thursday 22nd June) and Cardiff Castle (Friday 23rd June). All shows sold out immediately upon announcement last month and will see Queens playing on British soil for the first time since their headline show at Finsbury Park in 2018.

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UK dates in bold

• 04/11/23 Amsterdam – Ziggo Dome
• 05/11/23 Esch-sur-Alzette – Rockhal
• 07/11/23 Paris – Accor Arena
• 08/11/23 Frankfurt – Jahrhunderthalle
• 09/11/23 Berlin – Max-Schmeling-Halle
• 11/11/23 Dusseldorf – Mitsubishi Electric Halle
• 11/11/23 Frankfurt – Jahrhunderthalle
• 12/11/23 Antwerp – Sportpaleis
• 14/11/23 Manchester – AO Arena
• 15/11/23 London – The O2
• 18/11/23 Glasgow – OVO Hydro
• 19/11/23 Birmingham – Resorts World Arena
• 20/11/23 Stockton-on-Tees – Globe Theatre
• 22/11/23 Dublin – 3Arena

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Queens of the Stone Age tour will come to AO Arena in Manchester

Queens of the Stone Age will bring the End if Nero tour to the UK this week. Tickets for the arena shows went on sale earlier in 2023.

Josh Homme and the gang will be coming to major cities across the British Isles including stops in Manchester, London, Birmingham, Dublin and more. The band have also been announced for Download Festival 2024 and will be back across the pond.

The tour kicks off at the AO Arena in Manchester on Tuesday, November 14 and continues through to 22 November, coming to an end in Dublin. The band will be joined by support acts for the UK and Ireland shows this month.

Fans attentions will be turning to the upcoming shows - as Ticketmaster issues availability warnings for the shows. You might be wondering about the timings for the arena shows this month.

Here's all you need to know:

What are the door times for the tour?

The first show on the End Is Nero tour will be at the AO Arena in Manchester on Tuesday, November 14. The doors at the venue will open at 6pm, according to the venue's website.

When does concert start?

The gig is set to start at 7.30pm, according to the AO Arena. It gives fans plenty of time between the opening of the doors at 6pm.

Queens of the Stone Age will have a support act and so will not take to the stage until later in the evening. On the recent run of European shows, the band started at around 9pm.

How long is a Queens of the Stone Age concert?

The band have been on the road across Europe in recent weeks and these previous shows give fans a hint of what to expect. Queens fo the Stone Age have been on the stage for around two hours each night.

The rockers will play a setlist featuring approximately 20 songs - including an encore. However this is approximate and subject to change.

Queens of the Stone Age announce June 2023 UK tour

They play a trio of outdoor gigs

Queens of the Stone Age will play their first headline UK shows in five years this summer.

Sandwiched by their previously confirmed European festival performances, Joshua Homme and co. will perform a trio of outdoor concerts in England and Wales in June 2023.

QOTSA open at Halifax’s The Piece Hall on Tuesday 20th June before playing Margate Dreamland (Thu 22nd June) and Cardiff Castle (Fri 23rd June). Isle of Wight indie rockers Coach Party will support at all three dates.

Tickets to Queens of the Stone Age’s UK shows go on sale from Kerrang! Radio Tickets at 9am on Friday 21st April.

Queens of the Stone Age last performed live in the UK in July 2018 as part of their global Villains Tour.

Their European festival dates this summer include Southside Festival, Pinkpop, Roskilde, Open'er Festival, Mad Cool, NOS Alive and Rock Werchter.

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Halifax The Piece Hall – Tue 20th

Margate Dreamland – Thu 22nd

Cardiff Castle – Fri 23rd

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Before Black Sabbath, Ozzy was a jack-of-all-trades working as a construction site labourer, trainee plumber, apprentice toolmaker and car factory horn-tuner. However, it was his job in an abattoir that left a lasting impression on Ozzy. "I had to slice open the cow carcasses and get all the gunk out of their stomachs," he said. "I used to vomit every day; the smell was something else."

Steve Harris – Architectural draughtsman

After studying architectural drawing at Leyton Sixth Form College, the 19-year-old Steve Harris founded Iron Maiden in 1975 but earnt a wage working as an architectural draughtsman in the East End of London. Steve told Nights with Alice Cooper in 2020: "Straight after school, went straight into that job. I did my college stuff and on the weekends, two nights a week, and I made sure I got qualified to a certain degree because I thought, if the band don't work, then I'll have something to fall back on." Steve briefly became a street sweeper after losing his job, but fortunately Iron Maiden's career took off at the turn of the 1980s.

Gene Simmons – Assistant to Vogue magazine editor

The young Chaim Witz (who later renamed himself Gene Klein) was a self-certified "excellent typist" and in the mid-sixties landed himself a job as an assistant to an editor at fashion bible Vogue Magazine. Fortunately he downed the typewriter and a few years later started KISS with Paul Stanley. The rest, they say, is history.

Kurt Cobain – Janitor

During Nirvana's embryonic stages, the teenage Kurt worked as a janitor to help fund the band. Bassist Krist Novoselic said: "Here was a man who would never clean his kitchen or take out the garbage, or do those kind of chores, but Kurt Cobain was not a lazy person. Basically he cleaned toilets – that's how he paid for (our first) demo."

Chris Cornell – Fish handler

Long before his Soundgarden days, the late-great Chris Cornell earned a crust working for his seafood wholesaler. A far cry from his eventual lifestyle as a rock star, Chris told Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2010: "My job was to wipe up the slime and throw away the fish guts. I met pretty much every sous-chef in town because they would come in and look around at what we had. I think we had the best wholesale seafood in town. The owner was impeccable about it."

Eddie Vedder – Security guard

In the early nineties, Eddie worked a variety of jobs including as a contracted security guard at La Valencia Hotel in San Diego. After the demise of his first band Bad Radio in 1990, Eddie worked as a night attendant at a petrol station. Fortunately his fortunes changed when friend and ex-Red Hot Chilli Peppers member Jack Irons handed him a demo from a band looking for a new frontman…

David Bowie – Butcher’s delivery boy

After discovering the life-changing music of Little Richard, the 10-year-old David Jones quickly decided he wanted to be a saxophone player for his musical idol. Determined, David got a job as a butcher's delivery boy to fund the purchase of his first instrument and took his first tentative step on his glittering music career.

Freddie Mercury – Market stall trader

Freddie and Roger Taylor both had separate stalls on the top floor of the now demolished Kensington Market in London in the early seventies. Alongside clothing items, Freddie sold many of his own paintings and drawings on the stall and even continued to work there when Queen released their self-titled debut album in 1973.

Patti Smith – Toy factory worker

Although it sounds like a harmless enough job on paper, Patti's job in a toy factory testing toys and packing boxes was a traumatic experience for her. Speaking about her colleagues, Patti said: "The stuff those women did to me in that factory was horrible. They'd gang up on me and stick my head in a toilet full of p***."

Joe Strummer – Gravedigger

In his early 20s Joe decamped from London to Newport, South Wales, where, alongside being the part-time frontman of band The Vultures, he worked as a gravedigger at St Woolos Cemetery. When the band split in 1974, Joe packed in his job and moved back to London and formed new rockabilly outfit The 101ers.

Keith Richards – Tennis ball boy

The legendary Rolling Stones axeman worked as a ball boy at a tennis club as a young lad – predominately for his mum and dad Doris and Herbert! He says: "My parents played tennis and I was dragged every weekend to the court as their ball boy, so I got to know the ins and outs of the game!"

Jonathan Davis – Embalmer

After studying at the San Francisco School of Mortuary Science, Jonathan became a professional embalmer. Speaking to The Guardian in 2015, Jonathan said mortuary college was an intriguing experience: "I've pulled so many dead bodies out of cars. It's like a puzzle. Trying to figure out how someone died. It gave me attention too. It was f***ing weird. I got into it for attention and ended up liking it."

Lemmy – Jimi Hendrix’s roadie

A far cry from some of the humdrum jobs on this list, the late Motörhead legend became a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience in his early twenties when he was sharing a flat with Noel Redding and the band's manager Neville Chesters. He was paid £10 a week to go on tour with Jimi plus the extra incentive of "handfuls of acid."

Lars Ulrich – Tennis player

The Metallica drummer has tennis in his blood; both his dad Torben Ulrich and granddad Einer Ulrich were professional tennis players for Denmark. Instilled with a love of the game and ranked in Denmark's top 10 for his age, at 16 Lars attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida but realised it wasn't for him: "At the academy, I realized that my ability wasn't enough to be a successful professional, far from it, and the discipline necessary was not in me."

Tony Iommi – Sheet metal worker

The heavy metal pioneer aptly worked with heavy metal pre-fame. The much-fabled story goes that aged 17, Tony lost the tips of his middle and ring finger on his right hand in an accident at the metal factory, however, inspired by jazz musician Django Reinhardt (whose fourth and fifth fingers were paralysed from burns) it did little to thwart his enthusiasm for guitar playing. With the aid of thimbles, over the ensuing years Tony honed his inimitable and influential metal sound.

Tom Araya – Respiratory therapist

The bassist/vocalist used his job as a certified respiratory therapist (dealing with air mixture ratios, drawing blood, asthma and more) at the Brotman Medical Centre in California to partially fund Slayer's debut album 'Show No Mercy'. Pleased he escaped the humdrum life, Tom told KNAC: "I'd get up in the morning and deal with traffic; and then leave at three and deal with traffic." He was at the hospital when Michael Jackson was treated for burns in 1984.

Eric Clapton – Bricklayer’s assistant

Kicked out of art school in 1961, Clapton was told he had to work for his granddad Jack Clapp if he was to carry on living under the same roof as him and wife Rose. Making £15 a week, Eric said working with a master bricklayer "was no laughing matter" due to the hard work but "I really did love it. (My grandfather's) legacy to me was that I should always do my best, and always finish what I started."

Jon Bon Jovi – Janitor

Aged 17 in 1979, the young John Francis Bongiovi Jr. landed a job as a janitor at his cousin Tony Bongiovi's Manhattan recording studio, Power Station. It was while sweeping the floors here that John made his first professional music recording by singing lead vocals on the festive Star Wars song 'R2D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas' from Meco's 1980 holiday album 'Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album'. Balancing his day job with his fledgling rock career, John laid down a number of songs at the studios. In 2001 the unearthed tracks were released as the album 'The Power Station Years: The Unreleased Recordings'.

Maynard James Keenan – Army soldier

The Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifier singer and esteemed winemaker joined the United States Army in 1982 after being partially inspired by the Bill Murray movie Stripes. Distinguished in basic and advanced training, Keenan spent two years in the army but turned down a four-year appointment to West Point (United States Military Academy) and opted to pursue a career in music insteam. The rest, they say, is history.

Tool's Adam Jones - Visual effects on movies

Prior to achieving global fame as the guitarist with Tool, 57-year-old Adam Jones worked in make-up, special effects and set design on a number of blockbuster Hollywood movies. Famous films Jones worked on included Batman Returns, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Dances with Wolves, Ghostbusters II and Jurassic Park. Jones also created the fearsome 'Freddy Krueger in the womb' make-up for 1989 horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, and he worked on its predecessor A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. Due to his work in the special effects industry, Adam Jones has used his stop motion camera techniques on a number of Tool videos including 'Sober', 'Prison Sex', 'Stinkfist',' Ænema', 'Schism', 'Parabola', and 'Vicarious'. His warped visual creations are a mainstay of Tool's live concerts with the videos often played alongside the live music.

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Bones UK release new single with QOTSA’s Mike Shuman

Watch the video for Bones UK’s new single Won’t Settle, which came about after the duo “banged our brains with Mike Shuman” of Queens Of The Stone Age.

Bones UK have just unveiled a killer new single called Won’t Settle.

The track hears the pair – vocalist/guitarist Rosie Bones and guitarist Carmen Vandenberg – team up with Queens Of The Stone Age ’s Mike Shuman for what they call a “classic rock’n’roll” sound, as well as taking things back to their London roots.

“It’s about freedom,” Bones UK add. “Not settling, settling down, up or any way around.”

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