The band will play their only show in Dublin at 3Arena on Saturday 25th November. The tour continues across Europe and the UK until mid-December with the final show at London’s Wembley SSE Arena on December 15.
Tickets for 3Arena priced from €87 including booking and facility fees will be on sale from 9am Friday 21 April via Ticketmaster.ie, with venue pre-sales earlier from Wednesday at 9am, so make sure you get up bright and early to avoid disappointment.
VIP Packages will be available from €356 which include on-stage seating.
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 says, “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 magnificent 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.
When Queen + Adam Lambert played their first North American tour in 2014 they were crowned Band of the Year at the 10th annual Classic Rock Roll of Honor awards and Best Live Band of the Year in Ultimate Classic Rock’s reader’s poll. This critically acclaimed tour was followed in 2014 by massive summer festivals in South Korea and Japan, and a sold out arena tour of Australia and New Zealand.
2015 proved a logistically challenging year for the band with 24 more sold-out dates in 10 countries right across Europe, a return visit for Queen, this time with Adam, to Brazil and Argentina, to headline Brazil’s Rock in Rio’s, and shows in Argentina and Chile. Summer 2016 saw Q + AL headline 15 more European festival shows beginning with Portugal’s Rock in Rio-Lisbon, where they played to 74,000 people on opening night, later followed by an extensive arena tour across Asia including three nights at Tokyo’s famed Budokan.
A full listing of the Queen + Adam Lambert Europe dates can be found at www.queenonline.com
Queen + Adam Lambert Europe 2017.
UK & IRELAND
Sat 25 November Dublin, 3 Arena
Sun 26 November Belfast, SSE Arena
Tue 28 November Liverpool, Echo Arena
Thu 30 November Birmingham, Barclaycard Arena
Fri 1 December Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
Sun 3 December Glasgow, The SSE Hydro
Tue 5 December Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
Tue 6 December Leeds, First Direct Arena
Fri 8 December Sheffield, Motorpoint Arena
Sat 9 December Manchester, Arena
Tues 12 December London, 02 Arena
Fri 15 December London, Wembley SSE Arena
