It’s not often that a barber from Cornwall gets the call to cut the hair of one of the world’s biggest bands but that's exactly what happened this week.

Sweeney, as he's known, from Sea Dogs Barbers in High Cross Street, St Austell, received an email from the tour manager of Californian rockers Queens of the Stone Age asking if he could cut their hair before their acclaimed Eden Sessions gig on Tuesday.

The heavily tattooed barber said: "I got the email on Monday night and thought it was a wind-up at first."

Sweeney headed to the Eden Project on Tuesday afternoon and not only styled the band's main man Josh Homme, but also guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and Jon Safley, bass guitarist with LA band CRX, who supported QOTSA later that night.

"Josh was really nice, like a lad you'd talk to in the pub really. I found him to be quite a wise bloke."

Josh was accompanied at Eden by his musician wife Brody Dalle and their three children.

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Sweeney added: "It was a very family-orientated atmosphere. Josh said he wanted his hair cut like his son and called him over, so I did it in the same mohawk sort of style. He called me 'The Magician' after I did it."

The barber told him that one of his customers was gutted because they wanted to go to that night's show but couldn't find a babysitter. Queens of the Stone Age's tour manager then gave him three tickets so their child could come too.

"They were very generous, they got all the Sea Dogs Barbers boys in as well as partners and friends. We ended up having dinner with them - it was all very normal and just like cutting someone's hair in the shop," said Sweeney.

"We watched the England v Colombia game with the band. They wanted to watch the whole thing, but their tour manager told them they couldn't, they had to get on stage!"

Queens of the Stone Age then went on to play a glorious two-hour set, which many people believe is now the best gig in Eden Sessions' history. And their hair looked brilliant.