11.15.17 Adam News and Info
Nov 14, 2017 23:26:54 GMT -5
Post by tinafea on Nov 14, 2017 23:26:54 GMT -5
Amsterdam Reviews
thanks to skaschep with the translations
NPO Radio 2 @nporadio2
De ene na de andere Top 2000-hit kwam voorbij tijdens de rockshow van @queenwillrock met @adamlambert in @ziggodome: radio2.nu/ziggodome-queen #NPORadio2
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ADAM LAMBERT DIZZYING WELL AS FRONTMAN QUEEN IN ZIGGO DOME
AN ALMOST INFINITE STREAM OF HITS November 14, 2017 07:31
Freddie Mercury is irreplaceable. That's what singer Adam Lambert knows too well when he performs with the two original Queen members in the Ziggo Dome on Monday night. Still, it's nothing less than an unbeatable rock show.
IMPOSSIBLE
Get stuck in the footsteps of one of the best and most popular rock singers of all time. It is impossible. Still, there have been other vocalists who have been in memory of Freddie Mercury with the remaining Queen members. This happened for the first time during the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 and later, Robbie Williams, boy group Five, sang the cast of the Queen's musical We Will Rock You and Freddie's great example Paul Rodgers with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor . None of them knew the spirit of the original Queen singer as well as Adam Lambert.
IRON GIANT
The European tour of Queen with Adam Lambert has only sold out shows, as is the case in the Ziggo Dome. The concert is being tripped with a sample of the monster hit 'We Will Rock You' after the robbery on the cover of the 40-year-old Queen's album News Of The World has risen. This jubilant iron giant, also known as Frank, returns to the show a few more times, even if only three songs from News Of The World are sung.
VOCAL ARTS
Queen immediately shows his most solid side by playing "Hammer To Fall", "Stone Cold Crazy" and "Tie Your Mother Down". The flamboyant Adam Lambert is already given the opportunity to show his vocal arts, with the familiar voices of May and Taylor in the background. The singer is dazzlingly good as Queen's frontman. That while songs like 'Another One Bites The Dust', 'Fat Bottomed Girls', 'Do not Stop Me Now' and 'Bicycle Race' are inextricably linked to Freddie Mercury's powerful voice.
KITSCH FACTOR
The hymn on the bicycle is tied to Roger Taylor's ode to the car, 'I'm In Love With My Car', with the drummer taking Lambert's song. The head of Robot Frank is emerging from the guitar stage, while Lambert with luminous high heels at his feet is on top and sings 'Killer Queen'. Lambert represents Queen's kitsch factor with pain and does it with just as much a wink as Freddie Mercury would have done. His performance at 'Get Down, Make Love' is delicious over-the-top.
FREDDIE IS A LITTLE BIT OF IT
With the serial Queen songs, Lambert will be in the spotlight. His performance of Somebody To Love strongly reflects George Michael's (Brian May Adam Lambert calls stupid Albert) and he sings 'Under Pressure' as a duet with Roger Taylor, who takes David Bowie's vocals. The most emotional moment in the show is when Brian May sings solo 'Love Of My Life' with acoustic guitar. Freddie Mercury appears behind him on screen to sing the last passage of the moving ballad.
ALL REGISTERS WILL OPEN
In the almost endless stream of Queen hits ('I Want It All', 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love', 'A Kind Of Magic', 'I Want To Break Free', 'Who Want To Live Forever', 'Radio Gaga '), Lambert gets the space to sing his breakthrough hit' Whataya Want From Me ', written by singer Pink. The finale is for classic classic classics, the powerful 'Bohemian Rhapsody', the album most often on top of the Top 2000. All registries are erected, with May's guitar solo as an undisputed highlight, and the audience sings every Galileo and Figaro. As an advent of this spotless rock show, we are following 'We Are The Champions' and again 'We Will Rock You'.
*****
OOR @oor
Adam Lambert houdt Queen fit, zo zagen we gisteren in de Ziggo Dome. Lees hier ons hele verslag! oor.nl/concerten/adam-lambert-houdt-queen-fit/ …
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I've edited it here and there. There were a lot of Dutch sayings in the text that didn't get translated well.
ADAM LAMBERT KEEPS QUEEN FIT
'No bicycle bells allowed,' read witty signs on the outer doors of the Ziggo Dome. "I should have taken my vacuum cleaner," grinned a gray man when he got the bad news. You already guessed: Queen is back in the country. The legendary rock band got a new life a few years ago when old members Roger Taylor and Brian May met the young Adam Lambert. This former pop star to start became second at American Idol, then did not achieve much with his own work, but found on invitation of May and Taylor his second calling as second coming of Freddie Mercury. Like Queens eternal singer, Lambert has a far-reaching falset, a flamboyant look and a great love for showbiz and the like. Queen + Adam Lambert was born.
During a first show in the Ziggo Dome, we already saw how the youthful energy of Lambert made Queen worth the effort again. That was almost three years ago when cooperation was more or less in its infant shoes. In the meanwhile, the company has stirred the world and visited a great deal of arenas. Piece of cake for Taylor and May, who will be able to clap and mow again as they always did. For Lambert, however, it was all new. The singer has a lot of experience and could gradually grow in his role as Queens new frontman. And you see that. During his second show in the Ziggo Dome, Lambert makes a much stronger impression than before. He is no longer the guest who can sip into Mercury's impossible big shoes. No, Lambert is really the boss now. This is his band, this is his show. After all, it is not Queen, damn it! It's Queen plus Adam Lambert!
The pop star has actually hijacked the classic material of the band. He does not bring the songs anymore like Mercury would have done, but in his own way. And sometimes, as with Bohemian Rhapsody, he really looks like Mercury, to the great pleasure of the many fans who still adore Queen as if it were their mother. But on many other moments, like during a fierce Stone Cold Crazy, Lambert is just himself. Just a little harder than Freddie was. Vocal less strong, but more powerful in his image speech. The character of Lambert makes this Queen more than just a gorgeous tribute band. The material is known, but the performance and performance are not. The emphasis is also (probably why) more than before on playing music than on emotional talks about the past. Fewer images of Freddie, more action by Adam.
Of course, Queen and Lambert still do enough to plead the old fanbase. However, this is mainly in the song selection. From Somebody To Love to We Will Rock You and from Your Tie Your Mother Down to Under Pressure: Every hit is kicked off. In the setlist, this show is almost the same as the 2015 concert. This means that a concert of Queen + Adam Lambert is also a show that you tend to check the box. Once seen beautiful, but you know it right now? That this is not the case may be a surprise. In 2017 going to Queen means seeing the development of Adam Lambert. He gets this fossilized band moving again. He makes it tough and exciting again. You are almost curious about what the future on Queen-level will bring us.
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Lust For Life @lflmagazine
Het publiek in de uitverkochte @ziggodome zag Queen + Adam Lambert gisteravond zowel ontroerend klein als overweldigend groots. Lees hier ons verslag! lflmagazine.nl/concertrecensies/queen-adam-lambert-in-de-ziggo-dome-2017 …
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Queen + Adam Lambert in the Ziggo Dome
Queen has been longer active in 2017 without Freddie Mercury than with. Pop singer Adam Lambert proved earlier already to be an appropriate addition to the remaining members, although the young American at first glance looks a little crazy next to Brian May and Roger Taylor's very white hair. Can the typical collaboration be convincing tonight?
After Paul Rodgers, it has been American Idol finalist Adam Lambert who since 2012 completed Queen, nowadays composed of guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. In January 2015, they already played a sold-out Ziggo Dome, and this time they give a new show for an equally filled room, in which Lambert once again appears to be a flamboyant frontman.
What you would expect from the neighbors in the Arena (soccer stadium) has moved to a full Ziggo Dome. Impatient sounds and whistles for the band that kept people waiting for twenty minutes. At the intro sounds of We Will Rock You, the men are forgiven immediately. Rock classics like Hammer To Fall and Tie Your Mother Down make clear that there is still juice in Queen. Fat Bottomed Girls, Killer Queen, Do not Stop Me Now and Bicycle Race follow, which show a Lambert that is in his element on the big stage and in this big company. Not only is he an extremely strong vocalist, his humor and interaction with May and Taylor, and the hall melts hearts. Vocal limitations seem unknown by Lambert. Sometimes it's very slick, just like his outfits. It shines and glitters, while the singer parades over the stage - like a thick wink to Queen's heyday.
Especially Killer Queen shows Lambert in top form. Between the vocal capriols, he knows with an incredible dose of charisma stories to tell. Lambert is not Freddie Mercury, and that makes he clear as well. 'No shit!' With this he takes away the last doubt and it becomes clear why 17,000 people are gathered here. In honor of Freddie and Queen's music.
Moving small
Lambert understands exactly when he can make the spotlight one's own and when another is due to this place. For example, Brian May knows how to stir tears with Love Of My Life, although it is good to hear that he has spent quite a few years. Still, it is Freddie who sends an "ohh" through the public through archive images. Unexpectedly beautiful is especially Under Pressure, now a moving little duet between Taylor and Lambert. The spotlight focuses entirely on Taylor when he also takes A Kind Of Magic for his vocal account, leaving the drum set behind.
A huge disco ball can not be missed for I Want To Break Free, after which Lambert's own work also passes the revue - for many, surprisingly, not unknown. A great deal of use is made of all the resources that the grand hall offers: grand lights, smoke machines, floating stage and full screen graphics of the starry sky, album covers and video clips. Almost no hit remains unplayed and after Bohemian Rhapsody it is obviously not over. Freddie Mercury himself plays the vocal game of Wembley '86 with us, after which We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions as expected end the evening.
New life
Queen + Adam Lambert is more than a nostalgic trip: it's blowing new life into an inheritance that has long lost its strength. The Ziggo Dome saw Queen tremendously small and overwhelmingly big, with a lot of spectacle and at other times just subtle and cliché, with lighters in the sky. People enjoyed the music that is still one of its kind after almost half a century. Freddie's legacy continues in this reincarnation of Queen, with the passionate frontman Adam Lambert.
Queen + Adam Lambert in the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
Seen on Monday, November 13, 2017
Photos: Kim Balster
QAL Setlist
WWRY (Teaser)
Hammer To Fall
Stone Cold Crazy
Tie Your Mother Down
Another One Bites The Dust
Fat Bottomed Girls
Killer Queen
Speech
Don't Stop Me Now
Bicylce Race
I'm In Love With My Car
Get Down Make Love
I Want It All
Love Of My Life
Somebody to Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Drum Battle
Under Pressure
I Want To Break Free
Whataya Want From Me
Take My Breath Away (Teaser)
Who Wants To Live Forever
Guitar Solo
Radio Ga Ga
Bohemain Rhapsody
Encore:
Day-O (Freddie)
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
European and UK Tour 2017
1-Nov Prague, Czech Republic O2 Arena
8-Nov Vienna, Austria Stadhalle
17-Nov Kaunas, Lithuania Zalgiris Arena
19-Nov Helsinki, Finland Hartwell Arena
21-Nov Stockholm, Sweden Friends Arena
22-Nov Copenhagen, Denmark Royal Arena
25-Nov Dublin 3 Arena
26-Nov Belfast SSE Arena
28-Nov Liverpool Echo Arena
30-Nov Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
1-Dec Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
3-Dec Glasgow The SSE Hydro
5-Dec Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
6-Dec Leeds First Direct Arena
8-Dec Sheffield Arena
9-Dec Manchester Arena Arena
12-Dec London O2 Arena
13-Dec London O2 Arena
15-Dec London The SSE Arena, Wembley
16-Dec Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
New Zealand and Australian Tour 2018
17-Feb Auckland, New Zealand Spark Arena
18-Feb Auckland, New Zealand Spark Arena
21-Feb Sydney, Australia Qudos Bank Arena
22-Feb Sydney, Australia Qudos Bank Arena
24-Feb Brisbane, Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre
27-Feb Adelaide, Australia Adelaide Entertainment Centre
28-Feb Adelaide, Australia Adelaide Entertainment Centre
2-Mar Melbourne, Australia Rod Laver Arena
3-Mar Melbourne, Australia Rod Laver Arena
6-Mar Perth, Australia Perth Arena
Adam's Schedule
2018 New music and a solo album