UPDATE: Queens Of The Stone Age announce Irish shows

The band's sixth studio album …Like Clockwork was released earlier this month and has been hailed as "probably the best rock album by any band in the past five or six years" by one of the album's contributors, Elton John.

Queens Of The Stone Age will play Dublin's O2 November 17 and then make the short trip to Belfast to play the Odysessy arena the very next day.

These dates were announced as part of the band's UK and Irish tour which will see them play Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London's Wembley arena.

Tickets for the show go on sale next Friday, June 21.