Tickets priced, ah hem, at the 'reasonable' price from £74 (inc. booking fee) are on sale this Friday 21 April at 9am.
Venue pre-sale on-sale from Wednesday from 9am, and Queen
and Adam Lambert Fan club pre-sales on-sale available at the same time. VIP
Packages available include an on-stage seating package!
For their 2017 tour, the band will unveil a brand new show
including a specially designed state-of-the-art production. The choice of
performance material will no doubt acknowledge this year’s 40th anniversary of
Queen’s biggest-selling studio album to date, News of the World from
1977, which yielded the immortal anthems ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘We Are the
Champions’.
Queen drummer and co-founder Roger Taylor insists the 2017
tour “will look entirely different to the show we took around before.
Production has really changed a lot, the things you can do now, you have a much
broader palette, the technology has really come along.
“But we don’t use it all. We don’t play to click track. It’s
100% live. We're planning on doing stuff we either haven't done before or
haven't done for a long time. We started as an albums band, that's what we
were. The fact that we had hits was just a byproduct.”
Guitarist Brian May confirms Queen’s 2017 shows will have a
more ambitious musical agenda:
“The general public knows the hits, so you've got to cater
for that,” he said, “but we can chuck in a few things that people really don't
expect. We’ll do quite a bit more of that this time around. There are so many
dimensions to Adam, which of course fits with our music. He can get down and do
the rock stuff really dirty, and you have all those dimensions, and we can
explore that even more.”
Adam Lambert welcomes the challenge of digging deeper into
the band’s canon of classics.
“What people should know if they came to the shows a couple
of years back, is obviously we will still be playing the big hit songs you know
and love from Queen, but we thought it would be good to challenge ourselves a
bit,” he explains.
“Change it up a little bit, change the visuals, change all
the technology, change the set list to some degree. We will probably be pulling
some other songs out of the Queen catalogue which we haven’t done before, which
I am very excited about.”
Queen + Adam Lambert’s 2017 touring show has been custom
tailored for the band by some of the world’s most cutting-edge creative
talents. Responsible for design and production is Ric Lipson from
Entertainment Architects Stufish Productions, renowned worldwide for their
innovative work with artists such as Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, and U2, as
well the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Making use of over 300 moving lights during the show is the
highly acclaimed lighting designer Rob Sinclair, who has illuminated tours for
major artists including Adele, Peter Gabriel and Kylie Minogue. The
production’s genuinely eye-popping laser elements are the work of ER
Productions, behind both the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012
Olympics and seen by over 900 million people worldwide. On the musical side,
the Queen + Adam Lambert touring band also features Spike Edney on keyboards,
Neil Fairclough on bass, and Tyler Warren on percussion.
Since first sharing the stage for the American Idol final in
May 2009, Queen + Adam Lambert have proved to be a hugely successful global
partnership, having now played more than 90 shows in every corner of the world.
In summer 2012 they played their first full live shows across Europe, making
their spectacular official debut in front of half a million people in Kiev.
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