Queens Of The Stone Age cover Arctic Monkeys for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge
06 September 2013, 11:21
| Written by
Luke Morgan Britton
(News)
It’s well known that Queens Of The Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys are the best of buds nowadays, what with Josh Homme appearing on the Sheffield band’s new album, AM, and Alex Turner returning the favour on Like Clockwork. Now the bromance has continued with this QOTSA take on one of the new AM album tracks.
Appearing on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, where the band covered Robin Thicke recently, Homme and co dished up this version of ‘Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?’. You can watch that rendition below, via CoS:
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