8.26.14 Q+AL Sydney Australia Concert #1
Aug 17, 2014 17:43:18 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Aug 17, 2014 17:43:18 GMT -5
Queen + Adam Lambert
Sydney, Australia #1
Date: August 26, 2014
Event Times
Box Office: 5.30pm
Boulevard Cafe: 5.30pm
External Doors: 6.30pm
Internal Doors: 6pm
Queen: 8pm
Event Finish Time: 10.20pm
US Time: 6:00 AM EDT Tuesday, August 26, 2014
World Clock: Find your time here www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Q%2BAL+Sydney&iso=20140826T20&p1=240&ah=2&am=30
Twitter Follow List: twitter.com/adam_events/lists/aug-26-sydney-australia
Audio Stream: mixlr.com/fiercemama2/
Venue: Allphones Arena
(Sydney Super Dome)
Capable of holding around 21,000 people, the arena is the largest permanent indoor venue in Australia. Capacity for a stage set-up like Queen + Adam Lambert should be around 13,000-14,000.
Source: The amazing mlg @mlg621
twitpic.com/earohb - Thank you – PHOTO: My Mind’s Eye Images, @tuke18, jp1958, @camerarena, julzwithnell
Setlist
Procession (recorded)
1. Now I'm Here
2. Stone Cold Crazy
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
8. Somebody To Love
9. I Want It All
10. Love Of My Life (Brian and Freddie video)
11. '39
12. A Kind of Magic (Roger)
13. Bass Solo (Neil)
14. Drum Duel (Roger and Rufus)
15. Under Pressure (Roger and Adam)
16. Dragon Attack
17. Who Wants To Live Forever
18. Guitar Solo (Brian)
19. Tie Your Mother Down
20. Gimme That Love (Vocal solo, Adam)
21. I Want To Break Free
22. Radio Gaga
23. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
24. Bohemian Rhapsody (Adam and Freddie video)
Encore
25. We Will Rock You
26. We Are The Champions
God Save the Queen (recorded)
Interesting Facts
- This is the first of two shows in this venue.
Videos
jadelle11's video playlist link
good videos here: www.youtube.com/user/farrahjoyy/videos
Now I'm Here
youtu.be/IDlsKsW6QNM
Stone Cold Crazy
youtu.be/0Lj9XtcEoWU
Another One Bites The Dust
youtu.be/A3SSPz4YZeg
Fat Bottomed Girls
youtu.be/W_YjVtL6P-g
In The Lap Of The Gods
Seven Seas Of Rhye+Killer Queen
youtu.be/VIrPSoJkl5c
Killer Queen
youtu.be/30eXS9ttvNg
Somebody To Love
youtu.be/LRwR8PLnHgk
I Want It All
youtu.be/r5v3Zb25tbE
Love Of My Life
youtu.be/KOTYuLSJYQw
'39
youtu.be/FJoa49FoWig
A Kind Of Magic
youtu.be/fimb3a77Xkk
Bass Solo+Drum Duel
youtu.be/2PGOa0cRncg
Under Pressure
youtu.be/vuT95T37hG8
Dragon Attack
youtu.be/qG1PRGrqyC0
Who Wants To Live Forever
youtu.be/6hmnHqcgyTA
youtu.be/iqK2JSTkotg
Guitar Solo
youtu.be/t3sVCDfBffU
Tie Your Mother Down
youtu.be/cFAqkyKnNZc
Gimme That Love(Sing Along)
youtu.be/tFul9GYYIz0
I Want To Break Free
youtu.be/hQqMJzfgHWg
Radio Ga Ga
youtu.be/OW0M2c_Qy9U
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
youtu.be/VkmJDr9JUnM
Bohemian Rhapsody
youtu.be/smHSdRaqPaA
We Will Rock You
youtu.be/0try9vwUaBI
We Are The Champions
youtu.be/nZ97esOh0EI
Photos
ROY @roy6169 · 32m
Dominici
Getty images
Sarrasoz
Sarrasoz
Ticketek Australia @ticketek_AU
(photo tweeted by Adam)
Selected Tweets/IG Posts
instagram.com/p/sKFF15J4G7/ - video of sold out arena
Fiercemama @fiercemama_ 2m
OMG EVERYONE CHEERING....BEFORE IT EVEN STARTED!!!
mmadamimadamm @mmadamimadamm 21s
RT @trendssydney: #queen is now trending in #Sydney trendsmap.com/au/sydney
Makayla @xiihy4lyfx 8s
HOLY FUCKING SHIT AHHHDJSJSKJSJSJWJEJ DUCKKCKDKDJDKKD
Makayla @xiihy4lyfx 3m
LADIES WALKING PAST US: "WHY DID HE AUDITION FOR IDOL IF HE WAS THIS AMAZING?!?!?!"
Fiercemama @fiercemama_ 4m
So... we hear it from Dr bri first.... they were filming this show!!!!!! Woohooooo How excited are we??? Aaahhhhhh
kittybaroque @kittybaroque · 4m
They are filming in Sydney, Brian said we will all be able to buy it :-D
blakkrrox @blakkrrox
ommggggg!!!! Adam is the #king of improv. That audience participation was electric!!! Bet u could hear it from the moon : D
ADAM LAMBERT @adamlambert · Aug 26
Thank u Sydney!
Dr. Brian May @drbrianmay · Aug 26
Great Sydney audience last night - thanks Guys ! Expect a big surprise tonight ! Bri
Dr. Brian May @drbrianmay · Aug 26
Sorry no tweet of last night's video selfie stick epic. I messed up ! No vid. But we recorded the whole show so you may still see it ! Bri x
mmadamimadamm @mmadamimadamm 7m
RT @boysinbandsx: QUEEN IS FUCKING LIFE ADAM LAMBERT IS AMAZING WHAT A CONCERT
Gelly @14gelly 5m
instagram.com/p/sKXuZRGoBz/
He is not Freddie but he was pretty amazing I'm now a glambert #queen
Di Hendy @dihendy 8m
Holy cats, vivacious Versace, jewelled crowns, riveting riffs & bewitching beats @adamlambert @queenwillrock was a life altering experience!!!
the LAB @tbtbangkok 14m
What an amazing concert queen really do rock you and now I have a bit of a man crush on Adam Lambert! — at Queen... fb.me/6Y3znSpZm
David Meehan @djmeehan17 14m
@adamlambert just left the Sydney show and you were amazing. Charisma, swag and ridiculous vocals #Queen
Simon Burke @simonburke 43m
best night #queen + the freakishly brilliant @adamlambert thx to richard gavin & all @audicanberra
jason_barry_
11 minutes ago
Mind blowing from the start to the glittering end. #Queen V.2 absolutely nailed it! Song after song... spliced with just the right amount of vintage freddie footage. Real music, played by living legends... goes straight into my all time top 5!!! #adamlambert
Conor McNally @conormcnally2 15m
Two words about Queen + Adam Lambert - FREAKING AWESOME!
Reviews
Queen review: Adam Lambert out-camps Freddie Mercury at Allphones Arena
Bernard Zeul
Queen and Adam Lambert
Allphones Arena, August 26
Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars
Two of the things we learnt watching (half of) Queen with (all and more of) Adam Lambert: it is possible to out-camp Freddie Mercury – who knew? – even without tiny shorts and a loose tank top; but you can't cut off the marvellous Seven Seas Of Rhye even earlier than the original, while playing in full the oafish I Want It All, and expect to be forgiven.
Rockin' out ... Singer Adam Lambert and original Queen guitarist Brian May perform at Allphones Arena. It is Queen's first tour of Australia since 1985.
Rockin' out ... Singer Adam Lambert and original Queen guitarist Brian May perform at Allphones Arena. It is Queen's first tour of Australia since 1985. Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
Lambert, bringing Mercury by way of George Michael from the minute he stepped out in studded and glittered leather, in a sense was on a hiding to nothing. As good as his voice is, as flamboyant as his stage persona is, as many outfits as he could change into (five, if you're wondering), he was not going to really measure up against the legend as much as the reality of one of the best front men ever.
On the other hand, Lambert had little to lose as everyone expected him to not measure up and some probably expected him to mess up. Therefore he could impress with a wide and expansive voice that only sometimes tipped over into excessively florid but never missed a (high, low or mid) note. And he could entertain with a sense of the theatrical which was in the spirit, if never as natural (I blame the performance schools and talent shows), as Queen's original.
That said, I'm not sure Freddie Mercury would have given a shout out to "all my fat assed bitches out there".
Oddly enough though, while the potential for crass karaoke rock show, and the spectre of an INXS-with-whomever-was-available-this-week atmosphere, had loomed large in the lead up, Lambert was neither the centre of attention nor the point of the night. Instead it quickly became clear that Queen today is finally, undeniably Brian May's band.
He'd always been the musical fulcrum but when you're in a band with a Freddie Mercury, who played, sang, wrote and dazzled, it's hard to be seen quite as clearly. Now however, May's guitar sounds were astonishingly good, his solos precise and his playing, whether choppy and tough in Stone Cold Crazy and Tie Your Mother Down, groove-aware on Dragon Attack or subtly prog in Love Of My Life, was fabulously on-point.
What's more he could make a serious fashion faux pas (a ridiculous gold, fancy dress shop-style witch's robe he put on for the guitar solo in Bohemian Rhapsody) and just about get away with it. Just about.
The other remaining original, drummer/vocalist Roger Taylor, didn't show any signs of age, more than capable of matching his son Rufus, who mostly was on percussion but on occasion swapped with dad on the kit. Taylor sounded good too in his lead vocal on A Kind Of Magic, certainly better than May had in Love Of My Life and '39.
(Something odd, in passing. While Mercury was referred to many times on stage, incorporated into the show on the screen and generally venerated in absentia, not one word was said about retired bassplayer John Deacon.)
Even as I enjoyed Under Pressure, with Taylor taking up the Bowie lines, and the cabaret rock of Killer Queen, I'm not sure what they were thinking with three separate instrumental sections where we had solo bass (technically impressive but inconsequential), a drum-off between the Taylors (energetic but clunky and dull) and a guitar exploration (which went from space junk to Mark Knopfler to several shades of tedium). Admittedly these were mostly mercifully short but they were also momentum killers.
But then I was one of the few who could have lived without Radio Gaga and I Want To Break Free and I still don't understand why Seven Seas Of Rhye was cut off. Did I mention I wasn't forgiving that?
Queen and Adam Lambert play Allphones Arena August 27
The set list:
1. Now I'm Here
2. Stone Cold Crazy
3. Another One Bites the Dust
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited
6. Seven Seas of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
8. Somebody to Love
9. I Want It All
10. Love of My Life
11. '39
12. A Kind Of Magic
13. Under Pressure
14. Dragon Attack
15. Who Wants to Live Forever
16. Tie Your Mother Down
17. I Want to Break Free
18. Radio Ga Ga
19. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
20. Bohemian Rhapsody
Encore:
21. We Will Rock You
22. We Are the Champions
Read more: www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/queen-review-adam-lambert-outcamps-freddie-mercury-at-allphones-arena-20140827-108tiv.html#ixzz3BbLV5Q46
LIVE REVIEW: QUEEN 26TH AUGUST 2014
ALLPHONES ARENA SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
By Brendon Veevers
British icons Queen have long been regarded as one of music’s finest collectives. Breaking into the mainstream in the 70’s, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon solidified themselves into the history books with a string of hits that have become iconic masterpieces of pop/rock over the last 40 years including Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, I Want To Break Free, Radio Gaga and A Kind of Magic among the dozens of songs that have made the band true pioneers or glam rock and idols to millions of fans around the globe.
Since Mercury’s death in 1991, the band has taken on a couple of forms in order to continue to deliver the hits to their loyal fan-base and to keep the Queen torch burning bright over the past 2 decades without their founding front-man. Minus their reclusive bass player John Deacon, May and Taylor decided to begin performing again as Queen back in 2004 with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers taking on the mighty front man role that was left vacant by Mercury. Several years and hugely successful world tour later and the lead singer role has now been taken over by American Idol and glam/pop powerhouse Adam Lambert and the band have taken back to the road on a new world tour packed full of all the hits from the famous Queen catalogue.
Arriving at Sydney’s Allphones Arena last night, you had the instant feeling that you were about to witness something pretty epic and special. The stage was set out in the shape a an enormous letter Q, allowing for a multifunctional circular backdrop to lower throughout the show and a walkway out to the crowd for the band to deliver acoustic performances and for Lambert to strut his stuff in truly iconic and flamboyant bravura.
While there is no chance that Adam Lambert could ever really replace Freddie Mercury as the bands iconic front-man in the eyes of fans and music aficionado’s, the singer led the band spectacularly last night in Sydney with hits that may not have been penned by him but that he made his own nonetheless. Dressed in black leather with golden studs and clutching a golden microphone, the singer’s fabulously camp strut up and down the decked out stage fit with laser beams and lights displayed a glam rocker in his element, jamming with one of the staples of the genre as if it were always his destiny to be doing so. His vocals rose above the 20,000 strong punters that flocked to the venue to catch the bands return to Australian shores since the The Works World Tour of April 1985.
The night was a solid hit fuelled spectacle with the set delivering the bands greatest hits and peppered with some tracks perhaps less well known by the casual Queen fans in the crowd. Everything that you could want in a show from this band was found at some point or another and Lambert’s seemingly effortless ability and confidence in delivering some of the most significant songs in history was evident throughout tracks like Another One Bites The Bust, I Want It All, Fat Bottomed Girl, We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions.
Among the highlights of the night was Lambert’s extravagant performance of Killer Queen. Donning a camp, golden spiked and tasselled top and killer heels, the singer pranced around the stage every bit the glamourous entertainer that he has become known as over these past few years. Setting to the end of the runway to be met by a lavish purple velvet couch, the singer delivered a powerful performance of the track clutching a bottle of champagne and making quirky faces to the crowd and the band before he took back to the main stage and delivered an exceptional rendition of the bands roof-raising power ballad, Somebody To Love, hitting all the high notes and doing so with ease.
Despite the significant age difference between the band and their latest front-man, Brian May and Roger Taylor were on top form throughout the show, delivering thunderous drum and epic guitar solos within songs and getting in as much of the limelight as possible. Brian shone during the shows acoustic centre, offering fans an intimate performance on acoustic guitar of ’39 and Love of My Life which showed images of the late and great Freddie Mercury on the stages gigantic screen as the iconic guitarist paid tribute to his friend. Visuals of Mercury were also utilised during the bands thunderous performance of Bohemian Rhapsody as well as snippets form the tracks music video being placed within the performance to add further nostalgia to the show.
Having seen numerous set lists floating around before the show, I went along expecting not to hear my favourites from the band – I Want To Break Free, A Kind of Magic and Invisible Man. While the latter was omitted for some of the bands more lesser known commercial treats like Seven Seas of Rhye and Last Horizon, the former two were delivered in fabulous 80’s style with Taylor taking the confident lead on A Kind of Magic, belting his way through one of the bands more pop-oriented masterpieces with gusto and vocal precision. Taylor was also on top form during his duet with Lambert for the David Bowie/Freddie Mercury hit, Under Pressure.
As the band played for a solid 2 hours and 30 minutes, laser beams and stadium worthy lights shone, air-jets went off and rockets blasted the arena with shiny golden confetti. The band also split the vocal hits up with a number of impressive solos including an indulgent guitar segment from May and a drum battle between Taylor and his son, Rufus, now a fundamental member of the bands backing band.
Last night’s performance was everything we could have expected from a Queen show and more. We were offered all of the bands major hits and a truly memorable performance from icons of the industry and one of the greatest vocalists around today. It was visually stunning, it was nostalgic and it was musically epic to its core.
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