On Saturday night, Queens Of The Stone Age performed KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas concert in Los Angeles. During the performance, founding member Josh Homme kicked Shutterstock photographer Chelsea Lauren in the face, with Lauren telling Variety, “It was obviously very intentional.” Homme’s assault occurred during Queens Of The Stone Age’s fourth song “The Evil Has Landed”, during which Homme appeared to try to kick the camera out of her hand, instead kicking it directly into her face.

However, as told by Jeff Kravitz, the photographer was not the only victim of Homme’s during the show. As he noted in a Facebook post, “Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age sent two people in the photo pit to the medic last nite. One was photographer Chelsea Lauren who posted a video of getting kicked in the head that is just shocking in it’s casual approach to violence. The other victim was a security guard who got a light kicked into the back of his head.”

A few minutes after the incident with the photographer, Homme took out a knife and cut open his own forehead so that his wound was dripping blood for the rest of the performance. He also allegedly called the audience “retards” and yelled “Fuck Muse” during the set.

Today, Queens of the Stone Age posted a statement via Twitter in which Josh Homme apologized to Chelsea Lauren.

[H/T Consequence Of Sound; Photo: Chelsea Lauren / Shutterstock]