Queens rule but Reznor also nails it
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Queens of the Stone Age tore up the stage at The Qantas Credit Union Arena. Picture: Attila Szilvasi.
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IT was billed as the Massive Double Headline tour and the combined alternative rock force of Queens Of The Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails proved to pack a mighty punch at the opening concert in Sydney last night.
A toss of the coin decided NIN would open and the band took the stage with house lights blazing and wasted no time unleashing their industrial rock assault.
Frontman Trent Reznor has retooled the band as a four piece for the Australian tour and they were kept busy switching between instruments, even within the same song.
That added to the pace of a show which drew widely from their career and last year’s Hesitation Marks, with Reznor and his bandmates bringing the energy early in the set and the audience feeding it back to them in the second half.
Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails didn’t waste any time unleashing their industrial rock assault. Picture: Attila Szilvasi.
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Nine Inch Nails set a cracking pace and the audience responded. Picture: Attila Szilvasi.
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By the time they reached the enduring young adult angst of Head Like A Hole, the floor was pulsing.
And then they shocked with a haunting Hurt, the song Reznor had acknowledged belonged to Johnny Cash after his visceral version.
But the first night of the tour belonged to Queens Of The Stone Age.
Josh Homme and his band bring a sexy swagger and knowing wink to dirty rock’n’roll that makes you want to dance.
Josh Homme showed off one of the finest voices in rock. Picture: Attila Szilvasi.
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Queens of the Stone Age bring a sexy swagger and a knowing wink to dirty rock and roll. Picture: Attila Szilvasi.
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Their show was more man than machine and the band engaging the crowd with beats mainlined to the feet and riffs which get hips swinging as much as heads banging.
His voice is truly one of the finest in rock today, not shirking the high notes on the sexy as hell Make It Wit Chu and rumbling with intent on No One Knows.
This tour proved to be as thrilling a proposition in reality as it was on paper.
NIN and QOTSA perform at Qantas Credit Union Arena tonight.
Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of the Stone Age and Brody Dalle (Josh Homme’s Australian wife) kicked off their Australian Massive Double Headline tour in Sydney. Picture: Anthony Reginato
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