9.1.14 Q+AL Brisbane Australia Concert
Aug 17, 2014 18:25:37 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Aug 17, 2014 18:25:37 GMT -5
Queen + Adam Lambert
Brisbane, Australia
Date: September 1, 2014
Event Times
6:30pm External Doors open
7:00pm Internal Doors open
8:00pm Queen commence (no support act)
10:00pm approx. finish (play straight through)
US Time: 6:00 AM EDT Monday, September 1, 2014
World Clock: Find your time here www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Q%2BAL+Brisbane&iso=20140901T20&p1=47&ah=2&am=30
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Venue: Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Capacity around 10,500 for a concert with an end-stage like Q+AL.
Source: mlg @mlg621 Poster 09.01.14 Brisbane, Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre @queenwillrock + @adamlambert. Unofficial. twitpic.com/eb32wk
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, short version)
11. '39 (Brian)
12. There Were the Days of Our Lives (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. The Show Must Go On
25. Bohemian Rhapsody
Encore
26. We Will Rock You
27. We Are The Champions
God Save the Queen (recorded)
Interesting Facts
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Videos
jadelle11's video playlist link
1. Now I'm Here
youtu.be/clV6r-9Dgqg
2. Stone Cold Crazy
youtu.be/Lszx4l5GG88
3. Another One Bites The Dust
youtu.be/fo2qFmytM60
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
youtu.be/06kIUssTX4E
5. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
youtu.be/zt41F__9MVY
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
youtu.be/37ZiV1lR5Kc
8. Somebody To Love
youtu.be/4sit-3Jum6A
9. I Want It All
youtu.be/bB__TRsG5hU
10. Love Of My Life (Brian, short version)including Waltzing Matilda
youtu.be/vlf56xBIUFA
11. '39 (Brian)
youtu.be/pSFQs5FOcIQ
12. A Kind Of Magic (Roger)
youtu.be/u5sOySEhlPQ
13. Bass Solo (Neil)
14. Drum Duel (Roger and Rufus)
youtu.be/YfmbmEyfc5s
15. Under Pressure (Roger and Adam)
youtu.be/EmYNvLtPUDE
16. Dragon Attack
youtu.be/LRcWH1Zg6QU
17. Who Wants To Live Forever
youtu.be/uPhAzVLtxlo
18. Guitar Solo (Brian)
19. Tie Your Mother Down
youtu.be/HQUpj6OfpCk
20. Gimme That Love, (vocal solo, Adam)
youtu.be/qeednJ2Z58g
21. I Want To Break Free
youtu.be/OkW-l6Qh-p8
22. Radio Gaga
youtu.be/Iv39Rj3_Tww
23. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
youtu.be/Lddg8wefu_8
24. The Show Must Go On
25. Bohemian Rhapsody
youtu.be/tp0wK9Bn9gQ
Encore
26. We Will Rock You
youtu.be/Ob-CDcxiKyU
27. We Are The Champions
youtu.be/6doBeaaMICs
Photos
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kraM Photographie
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kraM Photografie
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kraM Photografie
www.facebook.com/leanne.fortey/media_set?set=a.10203956235920096.1073741836.1048322166&type=3
kurtla
#QUEEN SO EXCITED OMG #gonnadie
Carl Neumann Photography
James Barber
Diana.Kat
Carl Neumann Photography
Carl Neumann Photography
bambambrockman
Selected Tweets/IG Posts
cirquedevic
instagram.com/p/sbMg5WgJvu/
I have always believed it true that we do not remember days; we remember moments. I think there is a certain sadness in that forgetting is inevitable...but I also think that sometimes, incredible moments are enough. This is one that will stay with me forever. To Brian, Roger, Rufus, Neil, Spike and Adam: thank you. I thought you might like the photo. #queenbert #WWTLF
James Barber @brizzyguitar
Mr @adamlambert, what can I say but, fierce, stupendous, original yet faithful, good looking, good with kids, the list goes on!! :-)
Greta @gretski06 35m
Another guy just said he is a Queen fan from ages ago and said Lambert was brilliant! Dad told him how we have been following him for years.
Sam @bad_Cat_ 44m
I didn't go to see Queen expecting 70's Queen. And Adam Lambert as frontman wasn't any way like the INXS debacle. It was an awesome concert
SAM @kalebert_ 45m
GOD FUCKING DAMN IT I LOVE ADAM LAMBERT
@monkeykel: Just Got Home From Seeing @adamlambert and @queenwillrock OMG FanFreakingTastic
@themollytron: OH MY GOD @queenwillrock WAS FREAKING AMAZING! thankyou @adamlambert for doing an incredible job #lifecomplete
@trina134 1m
Damn @adamlambert your voice is unreal ????????
@glamfannation 47s
@adamlambert @drbrianmay @officialrmt WOAH!! \O/ #Brisbane
Barbara @barbls23 53s
@adamlambert you've given 150% of yourself at every #QAL Concert! Your Brilliant, Spectacular and I love and adore You!
@detachprincess 31s
@drbrianmay Thank you ♥ @officialrmt thank you ♥ @adamlambert thank you. ♥
Paul M @jestacat 45s
@adamlambert : #GlamRockKing. @queenwillrock still got it after all these years.
@shadyalien: Gonna say it again - he is a vocal freak - geezus!!!
@girlclumsy: Magic moment as Brian May plays Waltzing Matilda and the whole crowd sings softly along. #Queen pic.twitter.com/Hct3rFUxKJ
@julies_24 1m
@queenwillrock @adamlambert That was farking epic!!! Thank you!!! \m/ #brisbaneloveyou
@gretski06: @adamlambert You Sir are the best thing I've ever seen!
mel_Tea 1m
Omg what a fucking fantastic night of rock,iconic songs & legends. Once again thank u @drbrianmay @officialrmt & @adamlambert! #queenbrisbane
@liveoutlouder 35s
@adamlambert @drbrianmay I have been thoroughly schooled in the art of rock and magic tonight. Oh. My. God.
lidbud 1m
@adamlambert You just KILLED It in Brisbane!!!!!!!!
@bellesxxoo I mean........it is ridiculous how good he is.......can't even wrap my brain around it sometimes......
@shadyalien I agree. Gifted beyond. I want to see it plastered everywhere. Adam Lambert Artistic Genius!
Dona Friend @ruthdfriendmuse
@adamlambert UR ROCKIN QUEEN in2 the next 100 years, wish we could live 4ever, UR made 4 them & them 4 U.Take over & QUEEN will be happy. U2
@aintbroken: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ^^ *dededededededededed*
@mcdonellaussie: @drbrianmay @adamlambert Bloody fantastic Thank You great Show I am Falling in love Adam haha you were nah are brilliant"
Reviews
Queen rock the Brisbane Entertainment Centre: review
September 2, 2014 - 6:29AM
Natalie Bochenski
Adam Lambert on stage with Brian May in Sydney. Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
Hours after Queen and Adam Lambert lifted the roof off the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, it will be difficult for many in the crowd to provide more than a breathless: "That was amazing. I can't believe I was there. That was amazing."
With a rock 'n' roll show combining reunion, tribute and baton-passing facets, Queen and Adam Lambert delivered just over two hours of pure sensation straight into the nerves and bones of anyone fortunate enough to witness it.
Lambert, of course, is the ring-in, the latest in a series of singers who have appeared with Brian May and Roger Taylor in the years since November 24, 1991.
That date is etched on the heart of every Queen fan, for it marked the day the world lost Freddie Mercury.
His spectre hung heavy in the air as the audience readied itself on Monday night. Would Lambert be just a pale imitation? Was it even right for the others to perform without Freddie?
Bass player John Deacon certainly took that tack, retiring from the music industry in the 1990s and shunning the limelight ever since. But May and Taylor's approach is one of proud ownership of the work created with and alongside Mercury, tempered with a deep fondness and respect for their lost friend. Lambert, it therefore had to be assumed, must have something.
The old and the new ... Adam Lambert and Brian May.
The band was heartily welcomed to stage, but there was a sense of audience reticence about Lambert during the first two numbers, Now I'm Here and Stone Cold Crazy. It takes the familiar funky lick of Another One Bites the Dust to truly relax fans, and by Fat Bottomed Girls, Lambert's brash delivery and flamboyant stage persona (complete with studded leathers and sky high quiff) have brought the audience onside.
Meanwhile May has begun an evening's worth of solos as awe-inspiring as that shock of ringlets that encircle his head like a curly halo. The solos serve the twin purposes of allowing Lambert, Taylor and/or their supporting musicians a brief respite and reminding you that May is the best damn guitarist in the entire damn universe. He doesn't so much play the instrument as conjure notes from it, notes that gratefully explode in a perfect cascade of sound.
The simple but effective set design features an oval-shaped rig with a runway on its left-hand side, beautifully creating the letter "Q". Lambert returns in a gold-fringed jacket and sparkly platform shoes to explore the runway to the esoteric Seven Seas of Rhye, before finding himself on a chaise with a fan and a cheeky version of Killer Queen.
It's here where Lambert starts to make the crowd eat out of his hand. His animated face fills the big screen, all suggestive eyebrows, princess attitude and effortless high notes.
Once the song finishes, Lambert chats while mopping the sweat off his brow, thanking the audience for suspending their disbelief to let him sing the music, and paying tribute to the late, great Freddie Mercury. It cements the audience's approval: this man is not trying to be Freddie. He loves him as much as we do, he just sings better than we do at 2am karaoke.
Lambert also has the endearing habit of looking thrilled to bits every time he ends up next to May in full flight, which happens as the anthemic Somebody to Love rings out over the capacity crowd. He rampages up the scales to the falsettos like a pre-pubescent rocket, and welcomes everyone to the church of glam rock for a joyous singalong ("Find…me… somebody to love, find...me….somebody to love"). I Want It All closes out the bracket, the booming, uncompromising vocals reinforced by Taylor's beat and May's dextrous solo.
The mood softens, and May then takes a seat alone at the end of the runway. He declares it's lovely to be in Australia because he feels a part of our lives for a moment, then picks out a sublime Waltzing Matilda on his acoustic guitar.
May is now a noted astrophysicist, but I suspect wizardry may be involved in the spell he casts over the crowd, which sways gently and softly breaks into the lyrics. It is a magical moment, but there is an even better one to come.
"Shall we sing one for Freddie?" he asks, to a roar of approval. What follows is the most tender moment of the show: May singing Love of My Life, the audience joining in, and finally archival concert footage of Mercury himself beams onto the big screen.
I can't have been the only one to notice big fat tears sploshing down my face.
Once it's over, May lightens the mood and uses a "selfie stick" to take a video of the audience doing a wave, before bringing out Taylor and their three supporting musicians for a lesson in Einstein's general theory of relativity, time dilation and an intimate performance of the beautifully folksy '39.
Taylor then impresses with strong lead vocals on A Kind of Magic, before setting up a game of duelling drum kits with none other than his own son, Rufus Tiger Taylor, who's been supporting on percussion all evening. Both are phenomenal, prompting one lady nearby to yell "You've still got it, old man!" which thankfully the elder Taylor didn't hear.
Drums still at the front of the runway, Taylor is joined again by Lambert for Under Pressure, in which Taylor takes the David Bowie part. Those lyrics seem extra poignant sung by an older man ("It's the terror of knowing what this world is about"), while Lambert again adds power and range.
When May asks the crowd "What do you think of the new man?", the applause is deafening. Lambert has won them over, and launches into Dragon Attack, a song designed for strutting and flashing some style. It is, however, immediately dwarfed by the epic brilliance of Who Wants to Live Forever. Here, Lambert's haunting vocal sends chills up the spine, and the performance possibly even betters the Mercury/May version used for the film Highlander.
The crowd is then treated to an extraordinary extended solo from Brian May called Last Horizon, which again seems to connect his mastery of music with his specialty in science. May plays up and down the neck of the guitar with no trouble, getting sound out of every fret, no pick required, just battle-hardened fingers and the alchemist's secret knowledge of how to turn sound waves into emotional heat. It was like a message from the edge of the universe, speaking to us in a scientific musical language only our hearts understand.
Lambert dons zebra print stripes for Tie Your Mother Down, jams with the audience, then teams up again with May for a ferocious wail on I Want To Break Free.
The show is building to a crescendo now, and the entire audience is ready to sing along to the uplifting Radio Ga Ga, not to mention take part in the essential all-in overhead double clap. Then the spirit of Elvis seems present in the room when Lambert shimmies along to Crazy Little Thing Called Love, just another example of how Queen managed to transcend music styles and popular trends.
Bohemian Rhapsody is of course the official closing song, and again archival footage of Freddie singing is seamlessly weaved into the live transmission. The whole crowd headbangs at the appropriate time, and offers huge acclaim as Freddie's face appears for the final "Any way the wind blows".
It's not the actual end, and of course it can only truly end one way.The audience begins the familiar stomp-stomp-clap of We Will Rock You before May returns to the stage to ramp it up, and Lambert turns leopard with a print suit and fabulous diamond crown.
We Are the Champions follows, its warm embrace giving the crowd one last group hug and confidence booster before it returns to the non-awesomeness of a life outside the Queen concert. A final bow to the electric version of God Save the Queen and it's over.
When the ledger of great rock bands is finally balanced, Queen must surely come out in the top five. For many, Freddie, Brian, Roger and John will be number 1. It's rare to find a band that everyone likes, with such a musically strong and well-known repertoire. It's also rare to find a talent like Lambert, able to channel his vocal power into a respectful but not slavish interpretation of Mercury's works. Freddie may be gone, but he would surely approve.
Read more: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/music/queen-rock-the-brisbane-entertainment-centre-review-20140902-10b7p0.html#ixzz3C6ZL9w95
Concert Review: Queen + Adam Lambert
Scott Russell@scottrussell_1
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, September 1, 2014
Before last night’s Queen + Adam Lambert concert, I was hardly enthused by the idea of an American Idol alumnus fronting Queen. Standing in for Freddie Mercury is challenging enough, but it’s exacerbated by question marks over the authenticity of even calling it ‘Queen’ without the presence of Mercury or retired bassist John Deacon.
Since he passed away in November 1991, many have tried to fill Mercury’s shoes. Some (George Michael at the Wembley Tribute Concert) have made a much better go if than other (Jesse J at the Olympics). But even the best have struggled to truly capture Freddie’s campness, charisma and vocals without straying into imitation territory. Until now.
The questions I had over Lambert’s suitability were answered by the first couple of songs (‘Now I’m Here’ and ‘Stone Cold Crazy’) . The man can sing. And I mean really sing. He brought to Brisbane the arena-filling falsettos, the outrageous outfits and the flamboyance that fronting Queen demands, together with his own brand of glamour and brash stage presence. When Brian May asked the crowd what they thought of the “new guy”, the answer was a resounding roar of approval.
The hard rock numbers (‘I Want it All’, ‘Tie Your Mother Down’), the pop-songs (‘I Want to Break Free’), the ballads (‘Who Wants to Live Forever’) – Lambert nailed them all, but he was at his best on the more theatrical songs like ‘Somebody to Love’ and ‘Killer Queen’. The latter saw him lay on a velvet chaise-lounge, fanning himself and sipping Moët, somehow managing to out-camp Freddie Mercury while delivering a note-perfect version of the song.
As good as Lambert is though, he is still of course a hired gun to front what is ostensibly now the ‘Brian May and Roger Taylor show’. They are the only active original members of the band, and for much of the evening the spotlight is firmly on them.Brian takes lead vocals on ‘Love of My Life’ and on the folksy ”39′, while Roger takes the microphone for ‘A Kind of Magic’ and duets with Lambert on the Queen & Bowie Track ‘Under Pressure’.
Both showed off their musical chops too, with Roger engaging in a drum battle with his son Rufus (who together with Spike Edney on keyboards and Neil Fairclough on bass form the rest of the touring band), and Brian delivering a blistering guitar solo. Both are insanely talented, but these interludes possibly sapped the concert’s momentum a notch, as does an impressive but mostly unnecessary bass solo.
But of course, more than Brian, more than Roger, Queen WAS Freddie Mercury.The greatest front-man of all time is never far away, appearing on the massive big screen (which sits in the middle of a circle and runway which together form a giant ‘Q’) twice to rapturous applause – first to sing along with Brian on his stirringly fragile take on ‘Love of my Life’, and later during his masterpiece, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
These brief and poignant moments are reminders of the musical genius of Freddie Mercury, and the reaffirmation of Queen’s status as one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. As prodigiously talented as Adam Lambert is and as brilliant as May and Taylor are, Queen without Freddie Mercury can only ever be a re-creation.
But what a magical re-creation it was.
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