Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, who I saw, fleetingly, from a distance, performing at Wireless yesterday, has been dissing The Rolling Stones, a little, saying they rely to heavily on their older material. Homme, of course, has supported the Stones, and he's been saying that he feels Mick Jagger et al now only record new music as a way of giving them a bit of media profile from which to promote their live shows, which rely primarily on back catalogue.
Homme told the Sun: "I'm really on the opposite side to what those guys are doing. We played with them and I totally enjoyed it. It was great to see. But they only put out albums to remind people they're going on tour. For me it's about creative output. They only go on tour so people can hear their older songs. If I understood that was happening to us, I wouldn't hesitate to take a long break. You should feel lucky to be making music and if you don't you should sit down for a second and burn yourself with a cigarette because you need to feel that luxury and that should be what fuels your tank. If that's not the case then you have been running on empty for too long".