6.23.18 Adam News and Info
Jun 23, 2018 11:10:23 GMT -5
Post by metislight on Jun 23, 2018 11:10:23 GMT -5
Sorry for my late review! Had a little time for all things to settle in my mind and got a little rest after the stress of traveling.
So here is my Berlin and Hamburg review.
The unexpected summer tour took me and my sister vilynka87 completely by surprise. We knew we will do at least 2 shows
once the tour dates were announced and we decided to go to both Berlin and Hamburg. A lot of fans we know from
social media and a few people we met last year in queue in Vienna were coming too. Beside seeing the shows I was very much
anticipating to meet & make some new friends and see friends we've met before. My sister could not make it to the gigs since she
is in US right now. She is a bit jealous cause of that but I'm jealous too cause she will see QAL in Vegas and meet many of atopers
there I hope.
I arrived in Berlin on the 18th early in the morning. I wanted to visit the city since childhood and did a little
sightseeing. In the evening I met with a polish glambert whom we know as Janna on youtube. We walked around the arena
and met a group of glamberts made up of German, French and Polish fans who like us were scouting the arena and
planning on where to do the queuing next morning.
The hotel we booked was about 7 min walk from the arena so the next morning when I got to the que at 5:40 I was already nr 15.
The girls we met the evening before started the qeueing at 3 am. It was a great day to be queuing. Not to cold in the morning
not too hot during the day.
As @ivaalambert and marionm mentioned before it was proper glambert camping. Loved it! It was nice meeting petrajo too.
The only downside was that around 7 am the construction work around the arena begun so we had to endure very loud noise, drilling and digging in the concrete,sand and dust flying into our faces the whole day. Could not listen to music and had to sit close to be able to hear each other talk
Because of the loud noise we didn't even hear the sound-checking at all. Arena had some good soundproofing too
The awesome part was getting to chat with people from different countries. One learns so much about the world from that.
One positive thing was because of the construction most of entrances at the other side of the arena where not gonna be open and
we could relax knowing that those queuing will be able to get to the desired spots. We heard from fans who did other gigs, that at some other venues the staff sometimes opened doors on one side earlier than others and that meant people who were queuing the whole day got in later then some people who have just arrived before the show, which was so unfair.
We had a little incident with a group of queenies made up of dudes.
The staff set up one "Fast track lane" for people with no bags and those guys arrived around 3 pm and went into that lane.
We told them about the numbers and that we won't have bags by the time we will go through security but they laughed in our faces and didn't move. It all worked out perfectly in the end anyway because the staff told us they are gonna open all the entrances simultaneously and we divided the queue among the rest entrances. We passed the security really quick
So we got to the tip of the B-stage with our group which was amazing. I stood on the left side of Janna, so I had same view as
you can see in her videos and marionm was with us in the same spot.
The barrier and first few rows were made up of like 70-80 % glamberts, many I know from social media groups plus some passionate queenies so the energy was off the scale. The audience was amazing.
Right from the first song I saw that Adam was in a very playful mood. He was interacting with the audience a lot from the start.
The more we reacted and laughed at those signature Adam-moves and gimmicks the crazier and hotter it got
Seriously I have never laughed so much at a concert before. Adam was so much...uuuhhhh. One moment he is so hot another he is such a dork. The mind has hard time coping with that.
I watch at least around ten videos from every QAL and solo shows and it hit me that this gig was one of the best QAL shows.
The vocals were insane!
I kept shaking my head in disbelief a lot of times and I still can't get over that insane WATC riff we got. The whole gig was insane.
Adam is very confident, he grew in confidence, as if that was even possible.
The Queen songs are in his bones, it is obvious. He is at the peak now. His voice has matured, his range expanded, I can
feel he works on his lower range a lot and the transitions are seamless, all of them. He always had the natural performance skills,
the stage is where he belongs, yet I can see who much he still keeps working on perfecting and honing those skills.
Some things are as natural to him now as is breathing.
I have no formal training myself and cassie and Angelina explain it better but I used to hang around with opera singers
backstage when I was a teenager and my mum was a wedding singer.
I heard a lot about singing and how hard it is to do certain things with one's voice, to get the muscles & membranes to be so flexible as to extract the sound one wants. Harder still to maintain that apparatus.It is hard to be a versatile singer.
One has to be able to adapt to get that certain sound and texture and tone and hit the notes at the same time and do all the transitions flawlessly. Add to that the nerves and the fact that one has to put on a show, to perform the song at the same time and it is a lot of work.
Many fall back on their training (even if unconsciously) and thus sound the same way doing all the songs.
Queen's catalogue is so diverse it is beyond the ability of many singers.
There a few singers in history I'd say, who have had the vocal control Adam does, the ability and stamina to sustain the mind-blowing singing show after show.
I love Adam so much for consciously doing all that he does to protect and nurture this natural gift he has.
I love seeing that look on Adam's face when he knows that he's nailed it and in the Berlin show he had many of those moments.
The sound was amazing. The tech is really good at that venue.
The band all played the best they could and it was so jelled and so in sync it just flowed. Brian, who like Adam,is usually very
concerned with the sound was relaxed this show. I didn't notice any worry on his face, nor any look of worry or frustration between
Adam and Brian, like I noticed at the Vienna show last year when they had some sound problems.
Adam was interacting a lot with the audience and even answered a fan as you have seen in the videos. I got a one eye contact moment, less then in Vienna last year, cause Adam divided his attention between at lot of glamberts We had that group of
screaming younger glamberts at the tip of the barrier too.
Last year in Vienna I touched Adam's fingertips during Radio Gaga. In Berlin I got a proper full palm high-five from Adam.
It was very hot by the end of the show and I'm not sure if it was the AC failing or that everyone's blood was boiling from the hotness of the performances
AC was working properly at the start of the show just saying...
There was a queenie beside marionm and it was her first time seeing them with Adam, she knew nothing of Adam before this.
I got a kick out of the shocked and dazed expression on her face, that most of us probably had the first time we seen & heard Adam. She kept repeating " it was amazing...he is amazing..." while walking out of the venue.
I always remember that shock I got when I first saw Adam when I see it on someone else's face.
I was so "high" after the concert that I simply could not gather my thoughts and kept smiling all the time.
When we returned back to the hotel Adam posted that instagram story about the Berlin gig and as marionm wrote I could not stop "sqqquuuueeeeeee"-ing all the time.
He could not even wait to post it after he had a shower
Oh Adam, we love you so much
I'm glad that it was felt by everyone,fans and the band how great this show was.
@q3 you have a sixth sense I think. How did you know this show is gonna be special days ahead???!!!
We had only a few hours of sleep as we had to wake up at 4 am to catch the first train from Berlin to Hamburg.
There was that ticket panic we had as marionm wrote in her review but I was so happy after the Berlin show nothing
could break that spell. It was allright in the end and we had a proper laugh when it all worked out.
The queuing in Hamburg was very organized. We were number 10 and 11 at 8 am. It was a smaller queue than in Berlin.
A lot of familiar faces from Berlin were there though. Met a newbie here too. Her name is Julia.
We got the desired barrier spots again,this time on Adam's side, close to the main stage so we got another
perspective than in Berlin. Janna was with us, so its the view one can see in her videos.
I loved the chance to observe the workings on the main stage, the sounds of crew moving stuff under the B-stage etc.
This time behind us was a large group of queenies. As I picked up from some of their conversation, some of them have
heard about Adam singing with Queen but never been to a QAL concert. Not sure if they seen any footage either.
Up to Killer Queen when we screamed "Adaaaamm" they were screaming " Queeennnn" and they kept looking mostly
at Brian and Roger while glamberts & queenberts kept looking at Adam. So it was very funny how part of
the heads in the crowed was turned in one direction and part in another - in Brian's direction.
By the end of the concert, all of them could not take their eyes off Adam though. Even the men
I got another kick from seeing how many of them plainly stared at Adam with that same universal look of disbelief
on their faces. Many shook their heads when he did the crazy riffs.
It never gets old to watch how people fall under the Adam F Lambert effect. Been seeing it since Idol hahahahaha.
I did notice that Brian was a little tired during this show. IMHO it would be better not to do 2 shows in a row in the
future cause it is getting hard for them. Adam cut some notes short too which is understandably after the insane singing
he did in Berlin. But I always enjoy to get different variants of the same songs, like when he ends the songs on lower
notes instead of higher.
I noticed that after Brian's solo, the crew went to help Brian get out of the protection gear which supports him when he
is on that platform, he was having a hard time walking for a moment. I forgot Brian had knee surgery e few years back.
He did lots of running and even jumping on the stage during 2 shows in a row and it got him.
So as marionm mentioned we went to the back entrance to see the band leaving and I saw that again. Poor Bri.
They are working really hard for us in these gigs. So glad they have a longer break between Germany and Italy gigs.
They really need it.
From the point of view we had, I could see Adam when he tripped during Radio Gaga. My heart skipped a bit, but he
recovered quickly and it wasn't going to end up in a fall. I was actually impressed with the lightning fast reaction from Hanan. He is very good at his job.
I danced a lot at the Hamburg gig. Didn't dance so much in Berlin as I froze too many times from the insane vocals Adam did
and forgot to move
The queenies behind me where dancing, rocking it and were loud the whole show.
I got eye contact a few times during the Hamburg show. Adam notices when people are "rocking it out" and dancing.
I even got a quick smile from him when I was fist pumping and he was looking in our direction. Adam is very observant of the audience. He takes it all in.
I forgot how he makes one feel like one is under the spotlight.Took me by surprise in Hamburg. It's like he drills right through you when he looks at you.
Like when he noticed the queenies at the barrier in Berlin (those who were rude to us earlier in the day) were
passive during the show. Adam kept looking over their heads mostly and to the glamberts behind them.
What is the point to getting to the barrier if one is just passive during the show? Could have done
that sitting. I know that they wanted to see Bri & Roger up close to the point that they
argued with us to bypass the queue. Fact was that they didn't even cheer loudly when Brian and Roger where close which annoyed me slightly.Some people are like that
I'm glad I had half a day in Hamburg after the concert. Walked a little in the city with marionm .
Too bad it didn't work out to meet up with betty . Hope we will meet the next time at one of the solo gigs.
Wish everyone going to the next gigs as amazing experiences as I had at these two shows. I've made memories
for life.
you all and thank you for reading this rather long post.
So here is my Berlin and Hamburg review.
The unexpected summer tour took me and my sister vilynka87 completely by surprise. We knew we will do at least 2 shows
once the tour dates were announced and we decided to go to both Berlin and Hamburg. A lot of fans we know from
social media and a few people we met last year in queue in Vienna were coming too. Beside seeing the shows I was very much
anticipating to meet & make some new friends and see friends we've met before. My sister could not make it to the gigs since she
is in US right now. She is a bit jealous cause of that but I'm jealous too cause she will see QAL in Vegas and meet many of atopers
there I hope.
I arrived in Berlin on the 18th early in the morning. I wanted to visit the city since childhood and did a little
sightseeing. In the evening I met with a polish glambert whom we know as Janna on youtube. We walked around the arena
and met a group of glamberts made up of German, French and Polish fans who like us were scouting the arena and
planning on where to do the queuing next morning.
The hotel we booked was about 7 min walk from the arena so the next morning when I got to the que at 5:40 I was already nr 15.
The girls we met the evening before started the qeueing at 3 am. It was a great day to be queuing. Not to cold in the morning
not too hot during the day.
As @ivaalambert and marionm mentioned before it was proper glambert camping. Loved it! It was nice meeting petrajo too.
The only downside was that around 7 am the construction work around the arena begun so we had to endure very loud noise, drilling and digging in the concrete,sand and dust flying into our faces the whole day. Could not listen to music and had to sit close to be able to hear each other talk
Because of the loud noise we didn't even hear the sound-checking at all. Arena had some good soundproofing too
The awesome part was getting to chat with people from different countries. One learns so much about the world from that.
One positive thing was because of the construction most of entrances at the other side of the arena where not gonna be open and
we could relax knowing that those queuing will be able to get to the desired spots. We heard from fans who did other gigs, that at some other venues the staff sometimes opened doors on one side earlier than others and that meant people who were queuing the whole day got in later then some people who have just arrived before the show, which was so unfair.
We had a little incident with a group of queenies made up of dudes.
The staff set up one "Fast track lane" for people with no bags and those guys arrived around 3 pm and went into that lane.
We told them about the numbers and that we won't have bags by the time we will go through security but they laughed in our faces and didn't move. It all worked out perfectly in the end anyway because the staff told us they are gonna open all the entrances simultaneously and we divided the queue among the rest entrances. We passed the security really quick
So we got to the tip of the B-stage with our group which was amazing. I stood on the left side of Janna, so I had same view as
you can see in her videos and marionm was with us in the same spot.
The barrier and first few rows were made up of like 70-80 % glamberts, many I know from social media groups plus some passionate queenies so the energy was off the scale. The audience was amazing.
Right from the first song I saw that Adam was in a very playful mood. He was interacting with the audience a lot from the start.
The more we reacted and laughed at those signature Adam-moves and gimmicks the crazier and hotter it got
Seriously I have never laughed so much at a concert before. Adam was so much...uuuhhhh. One moment he is so hot another he is such a dork. The mind has hard time coping with that.
I watch at least around ten videos from every QAL and solo shows and it hit me that this gig was one of the best QAL shows.
The vocals were insane!
I kept shaking my head in disbelief a lot of times and I still can't get over that insane WATC riff we got. The whole gig was insane.
Adam is very confident, he grew in confidence, as if that was even possible.
The Queen songs are in his bones, it is obvious. He is at the peak now. His voice has matured, his range expanded, I can
feel he works on his lower range a lot and the transitions are seamless, all of them. He always had the natural performance skills,
the stage is where he belongs, yet I can see who much he still keeps working on perfecting and honing those skills.
Some things are as natural to him now as is breathing.
I have no formal training myself and cassie and Angelina explain it better but I used to hang around with opera singers
backstage when I was a teenager and my mum was a wedding singer.
I heard a lot about singing and how hard it is to do certain things with one's voice, to get the muscles & membranes to be so flexible as to extract the sound one wants. Harder still to maintain that apparatus.It is hard to be a versatile singer.
One has to be able to adapt to get that certain sound and texture and tone and hit the notes at the same time and do all the transitions flawlessly. Add to that the nerves and the fact that one has to put on a show, to perform the song at the same time and it is a lot of work.
Many fall back on their training (even if unconsciously) and thus sound the same way doing all the songs.
Queen's catalogue is so diverse it is beyond the ability of many singers.
There a few singers in history I'd say, who have had the vocal control Adam does, the ability and stamina to sustain the mind-blowing singing show after show.
I love Adam so much for consciously doing all that he does to protect and nurture this natural gift he has.
I love seeing that look on Adam's face when he knows that he's nailed it and in the Berlin show he had many of those moments.
The sound was amazing. The tech is really good at that venue.
The band all played the best they could and it was so jelled and so in sync it just flowed. Brian, who like Adam,is usually very
concerned with the sound was relaxed this show. I didn't notice any worry on his face, nor any look of worry or frustration between
Adam and Brian, like I noticed at the Vienna show last year when they had some sound problems.
Adam was interacting a lot with the audience and even answered a fan as you have seen in the videos. I got a one eye contact moment, less then in Vienna last year, cause Adam divided his attention between at lot of glamberts We had that group of
screaming younger glamberts at the tip of the barrier too.
Last year in Vienna I touched Adam's fingertips during Radio Gaga. In Berlin I got a proper full palm high-five from Adam.
It was very hot by the end of the show and I'm not sure if it was the AC failing or that everyone's blood was boiling from the hotness of the performances
AC was working properly at the start of the show just saying...
There was a queenie beside marionm and it was her first time seeing them with Adam, she knew nothing of Adam before this.
I got a kick out of the shocked and dazed expression on her face, that most of us probably had the first time we seen & heard Adam. She kept repeating " it was amazing...he is amazing..." while walking out of the venue.
I always remember that shock I got when I first saw Adam when I see it on someone else's face.
I was so "high" after the concert that I simply could not gather my thoughts and kept smiling all the time.
When we returned back to the hotel Adam posted that instagram story about the Berlin gig and as marionm wrote I could not stop "sqqquuuueeeeeee"-ing all the time.
He could not even wait to post it after he had a shower
Oh Adam, we love you so much
I'm glad that it was felt by everyone,fans and the band how great this show was.
@q3 you have a sixth sense I think. How did you know this show is gonna be special days ahead???!!!
We had only a few hours of sleep as we had to wake up at 4 am to catch the first train from Berlin to Hamburg.
There was that ticket panic we had as marionm wrote in her review but I was so happy after the Berlin show nothing
could break that spell. It was allright in the end and we had a proper laugh when it all worked out.
The queuing in Hamburg was very organized. We were number 10 and 11 at 8 am. It was a smaller queue than in Berlin.
A lot of familiar faces from Berlin were there though. Met a newbie here too. Her name is Julia.
We got the desired barrier spots again,this time on Adam's side, close to the main stage so we got another
perspective than in Berlin. Janna was with us, so its the view one can see in her videos.
I loved the chance to observe the workings on the main stage, the sounds of crew moving stuff under the B-stage etc.
This time behind us was a large group of queenies. As I picked up from some of their conversation, some of them have
heard about Adam singing with Queen but never been to a QAL concert. Not sure if they seen any footage either.
Up to Killer Queen when we screamed "Adaaaamm" they were screaming " Queeennnn" and they kept looking mostly
at Brian and Roger while glamberts & queenberts kept looking at Adam. So it was very funny how part of
the heads in the crowed was turned in one direction and part in another - in Brian's direction.
By the end of the concert, all of them could not take their eyes off Adam though. Even the men
I got another kick from seeing how many of them plainly stared at Adam with that same universal look of disbelief
on their faces. Many shook their heads when he did the crazy riffs.
It never gets old to watch how people fall under the Adam F Lambert effect. Been seeing it since Idol hahahahaha.
I did notice that Brian was a little tired during this show. IMHO it would be better not to do 2 shows in a row in the
future cause it is getting hard for them. Adam cut some notes short too which is understandably after the insane singing
he did in Berlin. But I always enjoy to get different variants of the same songs, like when he ends the songs on lower
notes instead of higher.
I noticed that after Brian's solo, the crew went to help Brian get out of the protection gear which supports him when he
is on that platform, he was having a hard time walking for a moment. I forgot Brian had knee surgery e few years back.
He did lots of running and even jumping on the stage during 2 shows in a row and it got him.
So as marionm mentioned we went to the back entrance to see the band leaving and I saw that again. Poor Bri.
They are working really hard for us in these gigs. So glad they have a longer break between Germany and Italy gigs.
They really need it.
From the point of view we had, I could see Adam when he tripped during Radio Gaga. My heart skipped a bit, but he
recovered quickly and it wasn't going to end up in a fall. I was actually impressed with the lightning fast reaction from Hanan. He is very good at his job.
I danced a lot at the Hamburg gig. Didn't dance so much in Berlin as I froze too many times from the insane vocals Adam did
and forgot to move
The queenies behind me where dancing, rocking it and were loud the whole show.
I got eye contact a few times during the Hamburg show. Adam notices when people are "rocking it out" and dancing.
I even got a quick smile from him when I was fist pumping and he was looking in our direction. Adam is very observant of the audience. He takes it all in.
I forgot how he makes one feel like one is under the spotlight.Took me by surprise in Hamburg. It's like he drills right through you when he looks at you.
Like when he noticed the queenies at the barrier in Berlin (those who were rude to us earlier in the day) were
passive during the show. Adam kept looking over their heads mostly and to the glamberts behind them.
What is the point to getting to the barrier if one is just passive during the show? Could have done
that sitting. I know that they wanted to see Bri & Roger up close to the point that they
argued with us to bypass the queue. Fact was that they didn't even cheer loudly when Brian and Roger where close which annoyed me slightly.Some people are like that
I'm glad I had half a day in Hamburg after the concert. Walked a little in the city with marionm .
Too bad it didn't work out to meet up with betty . Hope we will meet the next time at one of the solo gigs.
Wish everyone going to the next gigs as amazing experiences as I had at these two shows. I've made memories
for life.
you all and thank you for reading this rather long post.