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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 5:17:24 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 5:22:25 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 6:05:46 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 6:08:18 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 6:12:34 GMT -5
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Post by rihannsu on Jun 12, 2022 6:30:19 GMT -5
Q3 , tinafea , cassie not seeing a thread for today. Thanks for letting me know. I have created a thread for Sunday.
cassie
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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 6:52:43 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 7:08:45 GMT -5
Birmingham 5 Star Review twitter.com/birmingham_live/status/1535954583591190535Queen + Adam Lambert blast Utilita Arena fans into emotional universe and beyond
The rock show that had almost everything sent more than 15,000 Queen fans home happy after the first of two nights at Birmingham's Utilita Arena
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Who needs Elon Musk or Sir Richard Branson to blast you into space - just rock up at a Queen + Adam Lambert concert and hold on to their coat tails for the rock-it powered ride of a lifetime, via a dazzling digital backdrop of eye-popping special effects.
Exactly a week after they opened the concert for the Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations and fresh from four nights at the O2 Arena in the capital, singer Adam Lambert declared in the birthplace city of heavy metal "You're louder than London" and said he was honoured to have spent more than a decade contributing to "the greatest rock and roll band of all time".
As you can see in the above video, Great Barr friends Helen Matthews, Georgia Sullivan, Frankie Sullivan and Danielle Smith couldn't wait for the concert to start - they were already singing the hits before they'd even got in.
On the first of two consecutive gigs at the Utilita Arena with another to follow on Sunday, June 12, the Saturday night concert began with a giant crown rising above a stage that would be fit for guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor to showcase their extraordinary work as two of the original four kings of Queen.
Their own national anthems, thunderous riffs, screeching solos, towering vocals and a brief return on screen by the late Freddie Mercury (1946-91) all combined to send the Utilita Arena crowd into Bohemian raptures during a 21st century Queen show which had everything but the Bear and jokes about Paddington's marmalade sandwiches.
Even when Queen + Adam Lambert returned for the encores of We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, there was, rather sadly, no sign of Paddington sitting next to Her Majesty ready to count the band back in with a bit of teacup-tapping - the highlight for many of the entire Platty Joobs weekend.
On a warmer, sunnier night than of late, the first Birmingham show began with Innuendo/Now I'm Here as the set played illusionary tricks with the audience about who was really where. Vast backdrop screens created a central theatrical stage with two screens either side and each one above the equivalent of 'royal boxes' with the unmentioned real people innside them getting a rather different perspective of the show.
Tear It Up and Seven Seas of Rhye followed before Hammer To Fall - which, along with Tie Your Mother Down later - were some of the few songs where the band really rocked in the old-fashioned sense.
Rocking dance grooves were in far greater supply... Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Under Pressure, Another One Bites the Dust, A Kind of Magic and Radio Ga Ga, but it was only the latter - the penultimate song of the main set - which finally got people out of their seats in hip-swinging, hand-waving solidarity with the standing-only arena floor. Perhaps the sound was an issue because in Block 2 it certainly wasn't as clear and energetic as it might have been, especially in the first three numbers.
Songs which best cradled the emotions included Love of My Life, These Are The Days Of Our Lives (thankfully written in the present tense) and Who Wants To Live Forever (everyone connected with heady nights like this, for sure) - although there was no room for one of my own personal favourites, You're My Best Friend.
Songs to uplift the soul? I Want To Take Break Free, Don't Stop Me Now and I Want It All. Biggest smiles on faces? Fat Bottomed Girls and Bicycle Race (The cry "Birmingham, get on your bikes and ride!" had no time to fit in 'to avoid the Clean Air Zone charge' by the way).
In short, there was something - and a mood - for everyone including Bohemian Rhapsody, the set-concluding gothic masterpiece that can clearly only be played live with the same 'kind of magic' trickery which created such an era-defining video back in 1975 - and led on to a best picture nomination for the film of the same name in 2019.
That Queen remain Britain's most original-sounding band is one thing. That Adam Lambert can sing all of their songs without ever trying to impersonate Freddie is, as Brian May says, "amazing." So the result is Queen, but not Queen, with another fascinatingly-different perspective to the one created by Queen + Paul Rodgers (2004-09).
At the Utilita Arena, the American Idol star Lambert was heading towards up-market vaudeville territory with his costume changes, none of which embraced primary colours. Sometimes the 'I'm not Freddie' approach makes you wonder just whose show this is, with May modestly acknowledging that being a lead singer isn't his own strength when he steps up to do just that in a band which only ever had 70s' rivals The Sweet to worry about when it came to four-man harmonies.
May referenced how "the base of the universe could be in Dudley" before the doctor of astrophysics cheerfully admitted that meant he was on "dodgy ground now." He then hovered above the stage mid-concert, surrounded by planetary and swirling celestial events whilst appearing for all of the world he was playing a solo in space.
For May, the passage of time was another interesting theme - as discussed in '39 - saying he'd written a song "this time next year" and wondering what it would be like "to meet your grandchildren's grandchildren."
More.. www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/queen--adam-lambert-blast-24203404
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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 7:12:43 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 12, 2022 7:13:56 GMT -5
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