Birmingham Shows added! 14th/15th June

SweetCaroline wrote:

PrimeJiveUSA, Are you sure about those ticket sales at the O2? When I looked at this site, it says less than 1% of total tickets are available.

you fucking idiot!
Viagogo, Ticketmaster etc are all "re-sellers" the 1% they have left are from what they hoovered up on initial sales day. Also, the "only 8 tickets left" crap is what they (the re-sellers) do to get you to "buy quickly". mysteriously, immediately after the "last tickets" are sold, these re-sellers appear to have a "handful" more available...who'd have thought?

the actual venue could have several hundreds (or much more) left.

Sunday Birmingham have sold well since it's only the first day, Monday has more tickets left but there's months yet, I'm sure it will be pretty much sold out by then.

02 20th & 21st are pretty much sold out and the rest are likely to by next June, loads of tourists around at that time.

Brenski, “you fucking idiot” says more about you than about me!

SweetCaroline wrote:

Brenski, “you fucking idiot” says more about you than about me!

Oh dear. How very ironic.
Want to say what you say about certain people? Please don't act all offended, if you are offended, insulted by brENsKi's post, you are a hypocrite.

Brenski Birmingham Arena has bad acoustics well it has Adam Lambert now so the place may crumble lol

ST17 wrote:

Brenski Birmingham Arena has bad acoustics well it has Adam Lambert now so the place may crumble lol

Well he's played there three times in the past and he hasn't yet. So I doubt it will happen.

my reasons for not seeing Q+AL are probably different to everyone else's.

It's not about some misguided loyalty to Freddie, it's not even that he can't be replaced - because, right songs then "live" it'll be fine.
There's singers who could do much of the "Queen Catalog" justice live - but they're all dead, all dead: Dio, Delph and George Michael.

No, my reasons are divergent from the norm:
the 2019 setlist yielded only TWO post-"Magic" songs TSMGO and IWIA - so "not enough new" for me to bother with.
There's also been NO new material of their own to play live.

so I'll pass.


Going to see a band/artist repeatedly should give the concert goer something new each time...unless it's Mr Blackmore - in which case, I'll keep going back every time.

brENsKi wrote:

my reasons for not seeing Q+AL are probably different to everyone else's.

It's not about some misguided loyalty to Freddie, it's not even that he can't be replaced - because, right songs then "live" it'll be fine.
There's singers who could do much of the "Queen Catalog" justice live - but they're all dead, all dead: Dio, Delph and George Michael.

No, my reasons are divergent from the norm:
the 2019 setlist yielded only TWO post-"Magic" songs TSMGO and IWIA - so "not enough new" for me to bother with.
There's also been NO new material of their own to play live.

so I'll pass.


Going to see a band/artist repeatedly should give the concert goer something new each time...unless it's Mr Blackmore - in which case, I'll keep going back every time.

I can understand those reasons.

brENsKi wrote:

my reasons for not seeing Q+AL are probably different to everyone else's.

It's not about some misguided loyalty to Freddie, it's not even that he can't be replaced - because, right songs then "live" it'll be fine.
There's singers who could do much of the "Queen Catalog" justice live - but they're all dead, all dead: Dio, Delph and George Michael.

No, my reasons are divergent from the norm:
the 2019 setlist yielded only TWO post-"Magic" songs TSMGO and IWIA - so "not enough new" for me to bother with.
There's also been NO new material of their own to play live.

so I'll pass.


Going to see a band/artist repeatedly should give the concert goer something new each time...unless it's Mr Blackmore - in which case, I'll keep going back every time.

Dio singing Queen??? No way. And who is "Delph"????
GM was very good on STL but he could not sing the Hard Rock SOngs.
Blackmore? Ritchie Blackmore? Those last performances with this so called "Rainbow" were flat. He cannot play anymore..

runner_70 wrote:


Dio singing Queen??? No way. And who is "Delph"????
GM was very good on STL but he could not sing the Hard Rock SOngs.
Blackmore? Ritchie Blackmore? Those last performances with this so called "Rainbow" were flat. He cannot play anymore..

Wow, we actually agree on some things - Dio for Queen, doesn't work for me.

I'm guessing he meant Brad Delp maybe.

I agree about George, loved his voice and that STL was brilliant but I've never heard him do any hard rock songs and I can't him suiting them tbh.

Seems you are not completely lost

I think part of the reason why they probably don't play many post-1986 songs is because of Freddie. A lot of the songs were recorded when he was incredibly ill so playing these songs live may make Brian and Roger emotional remembering about the circumstances they were in - especially with Innuendo and Made In Heaven songs.

Another possible reason is that a lot of the songs are very synthesiser driven or in other words complicated - so they probably won't work well in a live environment. Remember, the later albums they made had more technology on offer so they were able to do what ever they wanted without any limits. So, if they were to play these songs live, some would sound very basic due to it being stripped back. This would lead to some people complaining that it sounds too different to the record version and that it's an insult to Queen's legacy. It's a no win situation!

runner_70 wrote:Dio singing Queen??? No way. And who is "Delph"????
GM was very good on STL but he could not sing the Hard Rock SOngs.
Blackmore? Ritchie Blackmore? Those last performances with this so called "Rainbow" were flat. He cannot play anymore..

I didn't say they'd do everything...I said they could do much of the Queen catalog. if you listen to their singing, you might actually pick that up from their range, tone and techniques.

Dio : There are Sabbath, Rainbow and Dio songs he sang that are very Queen-like in vocal style.
Catch The Rainbow and Die Young to name two.

Brad Delp a great singer who sang with Boston and died just before Dio. - again similar tone, but can also get the higher register that Dio couldn't.

George - again, apart from STL - there are plenty of other Queen songs he could do justice to.

As for the Rainbow comment - usual ignorance from someone who didn't go. If you did then you'd have:
Seen Ritchie enjoying playing with a rock band with a professional attitude - refreshing after decades of Gillan, or Lynn Turner's preening, or various keyboard/bass players not bothering. Blackmore can still play and incredibly well for someone who had had finger surgery. The arpeggios on Highway Star were as good as ever, and Burn was a blitz of a song. Soldier Of Fortune and Mistreated showed he still has ability to play these songs fantastically.
You'd have also heard RR managing to do something that NO Rainbow/Purple vocalist ever did: He performed songs by SIX different vocalists (if you include Hughes), not only that, but Child In Time, All Night Long, Stargazer, Burn, Spotlight Kid, Mistreated, SYBG and Soldier of Fortune were (IMO) as good as any of the original vocalists managed live. I speak as someone who (before those two gigs) had seen Rainbow live back in 80 and 81, and the reformed Purple in 85 (Knebworth).

I suggest you listen to them BEFORE making rubbishing uninformed comments. Or better still someone comment who has actually heard of any Dio song other than Long Live Rock n Roll, or even listened to other singers at all. Never heard of Delp? Singer of one of the most well-know rock anthems of all time.....fucking idiot.

Brenski lately you seemed to be on the mend but you come across as the usual dickhead again so i cannot take you seriously.

Dio: Name me ONE song from Sabbath/Rainbow and Dio that sounds like a QUeen song - you cannot find any

Brad Delp is still called Delp not DELPH - so before you call someone idiot you fucking asshole learn about some rock history first before you become the laughing stock you already are.

Funny comment about Dio - I have the complete DIO back catalogue in my collection and DIO was the first band I ever saw in 1986 - so again you are a fucking ignorant crack smoking asshat trying to tell me I do not know
anything about Dio/Sabbath/Rainbow & Company. I do - obviously way more than you.

Rainbow: The "vehicle" Blackmore calls Rainbow these days is in the same style as QAL - with the exception that Romero is really a good vocalist. He is in too many bands though. He just joined Vandenberg and is in a Gotthard spinoff band called CoreLeoni. Bands you ignorant twat probably haven't heard about in your whole sad life.

From what I saw and heard of this sad money grabbing incarnation of Rainbow it must have been pretty awful. Just click on the youtube videos and the comments there. Blackmore cannot play rock anymore after his 3 decades of playing lame castle music. His playing is as bad as his wig. And yes I play guitar as well and I surely can hear if someone can play or not. So again you stand there like the fool you are.

To sum it up don't try to tell me about Rock history. It is safe to say that you do not play in my league in that department you sad twat.

You should go back and learn something about those bands and singers , which you obviously do not know as you would not have written "DELPH" FOUR TIMES you idiot. It still is BRAD DELP, the singer from Boston you muppet.

If you at least know those singers and bands you were trying to write about and miserably failing, you can return and try again. Until then fuck off....

Young Music Fan wrote:

I think part of the reason why they probably don't play many post-1986 songs is because of Freddie. A lot of the songs were recorded when he was incredibly ill so playing these songs live may make Brian and Roger emotional remembering about the circumstances they were in - especially with Innuendo and Made In Heaven songs.

Another possible reason is that a lot of the songs are very synthesiser driven or in other words complicated - so they probably won't work well in a live environment. Remember, the later albums they made had more technology on offer so they were able to do what ever they wanted without any limits. So, if they were to play these songs live, some would sound very basic due to it being stripped back. This would lead to some people complaining that it sounds too different to the record version and that it's an insult to Queen's legacy. It's a no win situation!

I hope Q+AL never touches most of the later songs. Roger sang DOOL beautifully, but I still have misgivings about AL singing TSMGO.