“I have to say it was the most bizarre musical experience I think I’ve had”: Queens Of The Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen on what it was like to play for the “bones of six million people” in the Catacombs of Paris

Troy Van Leeuwen of Queens of the Stone Age plays a red/orange Gretsch onstage, and is framed by a triangle of yellow-green stagelights.

If you have every wondered what it would be like to perform underground for an audience comprising a film crew and the remains of six million people, take it from someone who has done it before, it is pretty weird.

Troy Van Leeuwen did just that when he and Queens Of The Stone Age took to the Catacombs of Paris, in July 2024, to perform a stripped-down set of Queens classics.