1.13.15 Q+AL Newcastle
Jan 12, 2015 23:24:08 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Jan 12, 2015 23:24:08 GMT -5
Time: The concert is scheduled to start at 20:00 local time.
NOTE: The venue is now listing the concert start time at 20:15. My bet is they will start later. That means add 15 or 30 minutes to the times listed below.
Worldclock: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Q%2BAL+New+Castle&iso=20150113T20&p1=%3A&ah=2&am=45
If you are in North America….
Atlantic (Halifax) Tue 4:00 PM - Tue 6:30 PM
Eastern Tue 3:00 PM - Tue 5:30 PM
Central Tue 2:00 PM - Tue 4:30 PM
Mountain Tue 1:00 PM - Tue 3:30 PM
Pacific Tue 12:00 Noon - Tue 2:30 PM
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, United Kingdom
Venue: Newcastle Arena
Concert capacity: around 11,000
Status: Close to sold out
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Setlist:
New songs for UK in purple.
1. One Vision
2. I Want It All
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. Lap of the Gods....Revisited
6. Seven Seas of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
8. Don't Stop Me Now
9. Somebody To Love
>> Fog on the Tyne (Brief Brian sing-alone, Lindisfarne cover, this was an addition solely for Newcastle)
10. Love of My Life (short version, Brian singalong with Freddie video)
11. '39 (Brian)
12. A Kind of Magic (Roger)
13. Under Pressure
14. Save Me
15. Who Wants To Live Forever
16. Guitar Solo
17. Tie Your Mother Down
18. I Want It All
19. Radio Ga Ga
20. Bohemian Rhapsody
Encore
21. Stone Cold Crazy
22. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
23. We Will Rock You
24. We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen (recorded)
What's New:
New songs, new setlist order.
Adam wore plaid pants.
The tempo of some songs and the overall pace of concert was faster.
Less talking on stage.
Brian's "What's do you think of the new boy?" moved to encore, after SCC.
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Queen and Adam Lambert review – an unlikely union, but it works
Arena, Newcastle
As fanciful as it sounds, in Lambert the legendary rock band have found a flamboyant showman with the Freddie factor
by Dave Simpson
Adam Lambert with Brian May in concert in Michigan last year. Photograph: MediaPunch/REX
In 1985, when Freddie Mercury and Queen reigned over Live Aid, it would have seemed unthinkable that within just six years the great showman would be dead, never mind that in 2015 two of his bandmates would tour with an American Idol talent show runner-up performing the old songs. But the unlikely union works.
It helps that Queen’s back catalogue is so formidable that even a two-hour show isn’t long enough to pack in their best known songs (there’s no You’re My Best Friend or – irony of ironies – The Show Must Go On).
Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are now grizzled, grey-haired men, but still pack the showmanship and musicianship of real rock legends, even if this does mean indulgences such as drum battles (with Taylor’s son, Rufus) and guitar solos that presumably require enough electricity to power a small town.
Surprisingly, though, this show succeeds because of Adam Lambert, not despite him. The 32-year-old has said he wants to celebrate the flamboyant, camp, gay Mercury rather than replace him, but he definitely has the Freddie factor. Where the band’s earlier tours with heterosexual, macho, ex-Free, bluesy shouter Paul Rodgers felt wrong, the black leathered, bequiffed, nail varnished Lambert is every bit the showman that was Mercury.
he American sips champagne while singing a camped up Killer Queen draped across a chaise longue and yells We Will Rock You wearing a silver crown. When Lambert claps hands, the audience clap with him, unprompted. His unusually wide vocal range allows him to hit high notes (notably Mercury’s famous one in Somebody To Love) which would normally require the assistance of even tighter trousers.
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However, the Indianan is no mere talent show get-lucky. Like Mercury, Lambert paid his dues with opera training, theatre, singing in clubs and performing dance and rock, which has given him the dexterity to tackle a catalogue stretching from thumping grooves (Radio Gaga, Another One Bites the Dust) to blistering hard rock (Seven Seas of Rhye, Tie Your Mother Down).
Being the first openly gay man to go straight to a US No 1 (with 2012 solo album Trespassing) does matter. In more conservative times, Mercury sang about his sexuality by way of codes and hidden double entendres; Lambert turns the same songs into riotous celebrations.
There is poignancy, too, when Lambert sings Who Wants to Live Forever under lighting that makes him look like a ghost and in the touchingly warm reception given to May’s achingly sincere Love of My Life, for Mercury.
Because, in a way, this is still the late star’s gig: a homage to his music. It’s Mercury who provokes gasps when he appears on screen to “duet” with Lambert in a Bohemian Rhapsody so riotous one fears the venue may combust.
“There will only be one Freddie Mercury, ever,” Lambert declares, as people roar approval for “the new boy”. However, in Adam Lambert, the late star’s old bandmates have surely found the right person to honour his achievements.
www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/14/queen-adam-lambert-live-review-arena-newcastle
REVIEW: Queen and Adam Lambert, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle.
(Note: this review was run on multiple sites)
by Richard Ord
QUEEN must be one of the only bands where being overblown, over-wrought and over the top are not criticisms, but the bare minimum of requirements when taking the stage.
And when you have to step into the shoes of arch prancer and showman Freddie Mercury, the pressure is most certainly pushing down on you.
That particular pressure has fallen upon Adam Lambert and I’m happy to report he’s no shrinking violet or pale imitation.
The American Idol winner has turned a thankless task into an impressive showcase of a voice that, if not matching Mr Mercury’s, certainly to gives it a run for its money.
There was always the fear that emulating Mercury would turn this show, the first of a nationwide tour, into a soulless X Factor karaoke night.
Had Lambert flounced onto the stage in a leotard sporting a big black moustache and wielding a Union Jack cape, the game would be up.
As it was, the lead singer, while camping it up in a Freddie-esque style, had his own image … most of it gleaned from the all studs and leather cast offs from the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome costume wardrobe. Image-wise he appeared to be channelling George Michael during his Faith period.
Lambert has said he was there not to replace Mercury, but to remind people how amazing he was. A packed arena didn’t need reminding.
Nor did they need reminding of the talents of Brian May and Roger Taylor.
May ran the show from start to finish, and was as comfortable rocking out Fat Bottomed Girls and Crazy Little Thing Called Love as he was endearing himself to the crowd with an acoustic version of Fog on the Tyne or wringing out the emotion on Who Wants To Live Forever.
His guitar work was as note perfect as Lambert’s voice was pitch perfect, as they rattled through hit after hit from decade to decade: Another One Bites the Dust, I Want it All, Killer Queen, A Kind of Magic, I Want To Break Free, every one a winner.
A drum battle between Roger Taylor and his son Rufus and a soaring guitar solo from May mixed things up for the audience and there were some stand-out performances to be had.
Freddie Mercury joining in (via video footage on the big screen) during an acoustic version of Love of My Life brought huge cheers, and his reappearance for the classic Bohemian Rhapsody had the arena rocking, and for some, the tears flowing.
Lambert returned the stage in a leopard print suit with a glittering crown for encores We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions before milking the applause at the end as the national anthem played and gold glitter fluttered from the rooftops. A great night and a great show.
The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen.
www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/what-s-on/gigs-music/review-queen-and-adam-lambert-metro-radio-arena-newcastle-1-7049151#.VLW1fhOPm1g.twitter
Concert Review:
wegotit.at/so-war-der-queen-tourstart-2015/
So the Queen was tourstart
Goggle Translation as original was in German:
For the first time since 1982 the classic Save Me. For this purpose, One Vision as a premiere for Adam Lambert, Freddie "live" and all megahit. At the start of the tour in Newcastle traditional Queen today (13 January) the biggest rock show of the year. On 01 FEB then in Vienna!
Tuesday 13 January 2015 20.28 clock: After Made In Heaven - Track 13 intro Brian May, Roger Taylor and Adam Lambert storm with One Vision stage. 9,500 fans (sold out!) In the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle experience equal to the tour start a premiere, as Lambert has the 1985 hit previously never sung live! The opening song was also a great gesture, Queen finally start for all the concerts of Magic Tour , the last tour of the great Freddie Mercury.
Before Q-shaped video screen and the impressive light show of the Queen history to put on with I Want It All , Another One Bites The Dust at the lambert in black rivets jacket a catwalk by fans along rocked, and Fat Bottomed Girls equal to the big hits from the Talon. Adam Lambert, still not fully accepted by many fans because of his talent show past, it did its thing more than brilliantly.
With the 1974 Rarity In The Lap Of The Gods , the first top 10 hit Seven Seas Of Rhye and Killer Queen , where Adam lay down on a couch and sipped bombastic of champagne, was allowed to finally revive the legendary Medley. A relief after the rather bleak 2005 or the 2008 setlist with Paul Rodgers.
"Hello Newcastle. This is the first show of our European tour and I feel so honored that I get to sing for such legends. One thing first: There is only one Freddie Mercury and today I will try everything to meet him, "said Lambert as an intro to Breakthru , the Queen herself no longer had the program for 26-DEZ-1979 (! ) and only play with Adam Lambert live again.
After Somebody To Love took over Brian May for the loud mitgegrölten Lindisfarne Classic Fog on the Tyne and the traditional Sing-A-Long Love Of My Life on a second stage in the middle of fans singing and also recalled the early Queen -day "I can still remember the concerts in the 70s in the City Hall." For the time travel Hit '39 Brian then took the "astronauts" Roger Taylor, Spike Edney, Rufus Taylor and Neil Fairclough on the second stage ,
For A Kind Of Magic took over the vocals and Roger Taylor agreed then equal to a drum battle with his son Rufus! Only at Under Pressure , in which Taylor on a mini drums on the second stage took over the Bowie part, Lambert returned again to deliver on a balcony-like ridge on the stage edge equal to the absolute highlight: the The Game -Classical Save Me . He was last modified on 03-NOV-1982 (!) in Tokyo in the program! A real sensation! For this, but were in Newcastle on the acclaimed American classic Now I'm Here , These Are The Days Of Our Lives , The Show Must Go On and Love Kills omitted.
According to Who Wants To Live Forever and the obligatory guitar solo started with Tie Your Mother Down the big hit Offenisve: I Want To Break Free , Radio GAGA , where 19,000 hands applauded along in perfect sync, and of course Bohemian Rhapsody . In this case, even the immortal Freddie Mercury was "live". Via video recording he sang a duet with Lambert! What a conclusion!
After the additions surprise Stone Cold Crazy (In cooler full-speed version) and the indestructible Crazy Little Thing Called Love , before Brian to the question "What think ye of the young boys?" more than approving applause reaped, there was a Final obligate the legends Trio: We Will Rock You , We Are The Champions and God Save The Queen . On 01 FEB then in Vienna!
This was the setlist in Newcastle (13-JAN-2015) :
One Vision
I Want It All
Another One Bites The Dust
Fat Bottomed Girls
In The Lap Of The Gods
Seven Seas Of Rhye
Killer Queen
Breakthru
Somebody To Love
Fog On The Tyne (Lindisfarne Cover)
Love Of My Life
'39
A Kind Of Magic
Drum Battle
Under Pressure
Save Me
Who Wants To Live Forever
Guitar Solo
Tie Your Mother Down
I Want To Break Free
Radio GAGA
Bohemian Rhapsody Goodies: Stone Cold Crazy Crazy Little Thing Called Love We Will Rock You We Are The Champions God Save The Queen
Northern Echo
It's a kind of magic for Queen fans in Newcastle
LIVE: Adam Lambert on stage in Newcastle Picture: KEITH TAYLOR
SHOW: Brian May entertains Queen fans in Newcastle Picture: KEITH TAYLOR
First published 2 hours ago in News
by Andy Walker
MUSIC fans may have felt as though they were going slightly mad when rock band Queen took to the stage in the region tonight, sporting a new-look line-up.
But US singer-songwriter Adam Lambert's turn in the Freddie Mercury frontman role, alongside surviving original members including Brian May, proved that the show must go on Queen devotees.
The band kicked off their UK tour at the Metro Radio Arena, in Newcastle, on Tuesday evening.
Indianapolis-born Lambert, 32, has a long history of collaborating with Queen, having performed the group's hit We Are the Champions on American Idol in 2009.
A link-up at the MTV European Music Awards followed in 2011, before Lambert performed a series of sold-out shows with the band in London and across Europe.
Queen guitarist May has described Lambert as a "great interpreter" of the work of Mercury, who died in November 1991.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11721503.It_s_a_kind_of_magic_for_Queen_fans_in_Newcastle/?ref=twtrec
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