It Appears that the Job of Concert Security in Norway is to Deliver Fans Over Barracades to be Roughed Up by Artists

Didn't they used to pull people over barriers so Bono could hug them? Not so at this Queens of the Stone Age concert over the weekend. Posted just for the fact it's making Paul Stanley look tolerant in comparison.

via Stereogum.

Comments

[Mic Hell]

Somehow, Homme's not a guy I would have expected to toss out "faggot" as an invective. But I wouldn't take any shit if I had a fever of 102, either.

[sdr]

Granted the kid might be a dumb schmuck, but
calling him "faggot" and the other language
only proves the Queens are nothing but white
trash garbage who could just as well be the
studio band for Morris Cerrullo Helpline on
ION...or open up for Donnie Swaggart at Giants
Stadium...

[REF]

I can't get enough of this stuff. My favorite all-time idiot fan is that guy who keeps screaming "Sing About A Girl."

[Sven]

ICE CREAM EATING MOTHERFUCKER.

[Chris from Oslo]

The guy threw a shoe. Not as big a deal as when Bowie got a popsicle in his eye -- on the same stage I think -- but I'd yell fiercly at the guy too, and would love the chance to kick his ass. People should come for the music; if you don't like it you leave. You don't throw crap.

[Jim]

Yeah, don't throw crap! And also... don't have your meathead bouncers lift a (presumably) teenage kid up so you can kick him in the face after calling him a faggot. In the U.S. that kid could sue the shit out of Homme.

Whatever the dumb kid did, there's no excuse for acting the way Homme did. Fucking crybaby. Guy's got more issues than National Geographic.

[WORMTRAINER]

UH ugly QUEEN !
Josh Homme is another UGLY AMERICAN!
WHO needs stone age attitudes ...just like that other dinosaur BUSH,come on , invade Norway, they are shoe terrorists!

[DanO]

He's never too sick to fight. Except that time he was in Niagra Bar on the lower East Side and got his ass handed to him in rapid fashion when he started a fight there.

[jeff]

Josh Homme's response:
Member of the Peanut Gallery:

Some journalists & citizens on the internet & are wondering: Q? Am I a homophobe because I included a slang for gay in with other "acceptable" curse words during a verbal lashing I gave a young concertgoer, after being hit by his shoe, during a show the other day? A= Nope. My gay family & friends, as well as myself, KNOW I am not a homophobe. For years now I've known gay is not a choice; one's skin color doesn't determine one's intelligence level; & red hair doesn't mean you're someone's stepchild. You see, it's not the words, it's their intent. I never said, nor suggested, that being gay is wrong, but apparently, based on your outrage to my flu-infused rant, you do! By that logic... I also told that young whipper snapper I'd have anal sex with him... how can I possibly reconcile these opposing viewpoints? I called him a pussy too. Does it mean I hate our one worlds' collective vagina?I never have been nor intend to be politically correct. That's your cross to bear. To me, that PC world would suck more shit than the porta-potty truck at Glastonbury. Homophobic? I'm in Queens of the Stone Age for crissake... You say, "So. Your band name doesn't prove anything." Maybe not. But it's a helluv a lot more definitive than the logic of some watchdog... (sorry canine-American, canine-European, canine-African, canine-Australian & canine-Asian) moralist, keeping score from pure perfectionville? If your glass house is squeegeed that clean & you need to do something, do what the great philosopher Bill Hicks once suggested: - forgive me-. Or don't. I'm not asking for either, OK? I think you should let both of your cheeks go loose so the stick will drop out. Either way I expect that you'll soon find another injustice from your chair, then roll to your bullhorn & point it out to the rest of us... Because you're so above it all. Or If you'll allow me to translate a wish of mine into your PC lingo:
Will you please go have consensual, sex with yourself.
Pretty please with all natural, carbon offset sugar on top.

Sincerely,
Mr. Missundastood
A.K.A. Joshua, Baby Duck, Jho
Head Choreographer & Do Stuff Corporation's pansexual spokes-thing