Video has emerged which appears to show Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme kicking a female photographer in the face during a performance at a weekend concert in the US.
The incident happened while the alt-rock band were performing at Los Angeles radio station KROQ's annual Christmas acoustic concert on Saturday night.
Chelsea Lauren, a photographer for Shutterstock, said the incident was unprovoked and that Homme was even smiling before he struck her.
"It was obviously very intentional," Lauren said. A representative for Homme, 44, did not immediately respond to Variety's request for comment.
Footage of the incident has been released on Instagram and shows Homme walking past Lauren and then backtracking a step to kick away her camera.
"I saw him coming over and I was shooting away," Lauren told Variety.
"The next thing I know his foot connects with my camera and my camera connects with my face, really hard. He looked straight at me, swung his leg back pretty hard and full-blown kicked me in the face.
"He continued performing, I was startled, I kind of stopped looking at him, I just got down and was holding my face because it hurt so badly."
Lauren later returned to the media room and a concert organiser received a text from an audience member asking if Homme had kicked a photographer.
Lauren sought hospital treatment later in the evening and is now being urged to press charges. She says she plans to file a police report on Sunday.
"I feel like if I don't do anything, he gets to kick people in the face and not get in trouble because he's a musician," Lauren said.
"That's not right."
Minutes after the incident, Lauren said Homme took out what appeared to be a knife and deliberately cut his own forehead, dripping blood for the rest of the performance.
Reuters.