Full setlist for Phoenix show (23 June 2017)

felix ibex wrote:

Yes We Will Rock You fast version should Open , Hammer to Fall and Fat Bottom Girls needs to be shortern..too long! much prefer 'Liar' or 'Sheer Heart Attack' to replace them...what a Fantastic Show ..WOW!

FBG can go. It's clogged up the setlists since 2008.

Hammer To Fall I enjoyed watching this morning as it's the full version.

Pim Derks wrote:

Who wants to bet that by the time they reach Europe most of the NOTW material has been scrapped?

Yep. Can see AKOM and IWTBF coming in for Europe. It would be as much of a travesty as limiting I Was Born To Love You to Japan.

Where the fuck is TYMD?!?!?!

5 songs, some of those done.only partially? Hardly what I can a massive retooling of the setlist.

The Robot steals the show lol.

the robot fx are impressive
at the end of the solo the hand came down too soon I hope that was a mistake and not the normal choreography

The setlist is a dream - almost like getting the chance to see Live Killers come to life, in a way. Always wished for that! I can NOT allow myself to spoil every surprise by watching youtube, though, I just can't. Seeing them on July 13 - I MUST MUST MUST wait...

But just imagine, folks, if they took the LP focus theme and did, oh, I dunno, Innuendo instead on the Euro dates?

cmsdrums wrote:

Hurrah - a real overhaul of the set! Will be interesting if Europe stays the same six months down the line (I Want To Break Free an obvious, but welcomed, omission)

Have you noticed that Roger's having concert toms this time?

Damn all the YT videos have been banned :-(

Kuijpy wrote:

Where the fuck is TYMD?!?!?!

Banished, thankfully. It's not exactly been a rarity since 1976, has it?

It has not been a rarity for a reason, it is one of the all time kick ass rockers in a live situation.

If only Queen had a few more such songs, eh?

That's the one thing about this setlist that frustrates me: they're clearly showing a bit willing by adding rarities like GDML, It's Late, Spread into the set, and giving AL all but a couple of lines of Bo Rhap.

But FBG (especially with the White Man intro), LOML with Freddie, I Want It All etc are all really tired. It's not as if these were fresh additions in 2016; they've been in the set throughout the PR/AL era.

You need to remember the entire audience isn't made up of die hard queen fans. There are a lot of people there who will only know the hits...and that's why things like FBG will stay. They can't do an entire set of 70's album tracks, They have to get the balance right. I guess no matter what they'll always be those that are never pleased

brian-harold-may 26643 wrote:

You need to remember the entire audience isn't made up of die hard queen fans. There are a lot of people there who will only know the hits...and that's why things like FBG will stay. They can't do an entire set of 70's album tracks, They have to get the balance right. I guess no matter what they'll always be those that are never pleased

Yep, there's the predictable response: I wasn't asking for that. Then again, why not test the audience further by playing 10-12 album tracks? The best live artists always have done, just as they have an ability to call for audibles based on the mood at certain points of each show based on atmosphere/conditions etc. Heck, Queen didn't exactly have an arsenal of hits to play in 1973/1974/1975, yet won people over.

But given the breadth of their singles catalogue alone, there's so much more that could be done. The post-1984 choices, in particular, have always been somewhat uninspiring during the PR/AL era, after all.

10 of the songs in the current set (taking BHM's guitar solo/Last Horizon as one) appeared in the Q+PR set for Brixton in 2005.

I would remove FBG with headlong and get either innuendo or sheer heart attack in the set instead of stone cold crazy and hammer to fall

A predictable answer to a tired complaint to be honest. It's not 1976 anymore and Queen aren't going to win over a legion of new fans with 70's rock. The music industry is a completely different place. If they played more album tracks the casual fans would complain they didn't do under pressure or another one bites the dust.