Maybe it was because of the school night scheduling, maybe the sludgy intro, or maybe it just takes time for things to warm up this time of year in Perth.

Whatever the case, it wasn’t until a few songs into Queens of the Stone Age’s show at RAC Arena on Wednesday that the atmosphere started to finally lift to a level to be expected at a rock gig.

Queens of the Stone Age performed at RAC Arena for the final show of their Villains tour. Credit:WAtoday

After sauntering onstage under a Singin’ In The Rain rendition that dissolved into an ominous score, the Californian-born outfit launched into Someone’s in the Wolf, off their 2005 long-player Lullabies to Paralyze.

The intro hardly stirred the crowd. So the rockers went straight on to If I Had A Tail, which managed to get some blood pumping, heads banging and horns in the air.