#queen concerts
Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the Arena in Cardiff, UK - October 14, 2008
Photos supplied by: Zbigniew Kaminski
Danny was hospitalised and Neil Murray stepped in for this gig. The bass solo (with Roger) was performed by Jamie. We Believe was replaced by Feel Like Makin’ Love. Neil says: “I had heard the new album a couple of times but I hadn’t studied the songs. I listened to them during the afternoon and we rehearsed 3 out of 4 new songs - I said that I would be likely to make mistakes in We Believe so in Cardiff we played Feel Like Making Love instead.”
Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the O2 Arena in London, UK - October 13, 2008
Photos supplied by: Sarah Watkin, Maciej Bogusz
Al Murray guested in Cosmos Rockin’. Roger’s mum was in the audience.
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Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the SECC in Glasgow, UK - October 11, 2008]
Photos supplied by: David, Sarah Watkin
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Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the Arena in Sheffield, UK - October 19, 2008
Photos supplied by: Bart
Fan Stories
“I still remember Queen + Paul Rodgers at Sheffield from the Rock The Cosmos Tour. Every single second of that night is burned into my memory, I have never been able to recall any other night as vividly as that. In the weeks preceding Q+PR at Sheffield, I’d been pleading with my parents to buy a ticket to see them (there were two left), and I even said to get me the ticket instead of any birthday gifts. One day I came home, and my mum and dad were on a seating plan of Sheffield Arena, talking to me about a seat they’d found; C21. Yes, I still remember the seat. They asked if it was okay, I was a bit disappointed there was nothing closer or in the standing area, but then it was my mum who said “Well guess what, we’ve booked it. You’re going”. My reaction was a complete stunned silence, then I went totally ballistic with excitement. On the night, my aunt my grandad and my mum came drove me up to Sheffield; I couldn’t sit still for the whole journey. Along the way we listened to my copy of The Cosmos Rocks, and even then there was something unique about the night, just listening to that amazing sound of Queen + Paul Rodgers on the way there. When I got to the arena, I shuffled through the sea of people, and then I went inside. THE STAGE!!!! That’s one sight I will never forget, when I saw the drumkit I was like, holy crap thats Roger Taylor’s kit!! When I got into the arena, it turned out C21 didnt exist in the arena. So I went to the box office, and they re-assigned my ticket to B16. So I ended up being closer than I originally was going to be! I remember waiting patiently for the introduction, at about 7:45, some of the lights in the Arena went down, and the whole place erupted into a cheer. Then at around 8:00pm, all of the lights went down. The screen burst into life; and then came on the intro from Cosmos Rockin’ played over the tannoy. Then, a massive riff from Brian’s guitar, Roger smashing at the cymbals on his kit and the concert roared into life, with Hammer To Fall being the intro song. For the entire duration of the gig, I could not believe what I was seeing. Everytime I looked at one of the band members, I was awestruck and thinking “OH MY GOD THATS ROGER!!!” or “OH MY GOD THATS PAUL!!!”. For weeks afterwards, I could not believe I had actually seen the gods of rock live. The feeling and tension throughout every song was a feeling I don’t think I will ever forget, or a feeling I can ever describe. Following the acoustic set, we had a nice surprise; Roger Taylor singing A Kind of Magic while on drums! Then we had the big hits, Bad Company was very well performed, however one of the sights I will never forget is during the encore songs. The sight of 13,000 people clapping in unison to Radio Ga Ga was ……. I don’t even know how to describe seeing that. Everyone got up, seated or not to All Right Now, and then We Will Rock You came, one hell of a performance. One sight I will never forget. I remember how me and a load of others around us were almost in tears at the sight of Freddie singing Bohemian Rhapsody. He was there in that arena with us! When I came out of the Arena, I remember telling my aunt and everyone else how I felt, and rang my grandma as I had promised, telling her how i felt. I remember how when I got home that night, I went straight on the laptop, uploaded all of the pictures and videos and made 3 - 4 backups of the folder, just incase one was lost.
Queen + Paul Rodgers, 19/11/08, will always hold fantastic memories for me, and I am thoroughly proud to say, Queen + Paul Rodgers was my first ever major concert. Just seeing them live gave me an enormous drive to pursue my own career interests into the music industry, the unbelievable and indescribable feeling I had there will never leave me, when I think back to that night, I still have that feeling, and I almost burst into tears, the emotion from the gig is that strong. After hearing about a possible Queen tour in 2010, I’ll make sure I get in early, maybe to even two gigs this time. But I doubt anything will beat that night; the SOUND, the LIGHTS, the STAGE, and just the incredibility of seeing Queen and Paul Rodgers, just unbelievable!” - Paul Johnson
Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, UK - October 18, 2008
Photos supplied by: Sarah Watkin
Brian played a brief riff from ‘I Feel Fine’ towards the start of his guitar solo.
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Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the NIA in Birmingham, UK - October 16, 2008
Photos supplied by: Peter Williams, James Starbucks, Sarah Watkin
Roger lost one of his drumsticks during the drum solo. When Nigel finally handed him a spare one, Roger stopped drumming for a while and ostentatiously licked his hand, probably to show that it shouldn’t happen again :-) Neil Murray says: “I had to play We Believe in Birmingham so I wrote out a rough chart of the chords but I wasn’t totally perfect on it! With Q+PR I used my own Fender Precision but with Danny’s Fender (not Ampeg) amplifier setup.”
Fan Stories
“I’ll remember the 2008 concert at the Birmingham NIA forever. It was simply the best night of my life! Back in march(ish) I’d heard that queen+paul were going to tour again, and so proceeded to beg my dad for tickets, to which he answered “we’ll see”. Then a few days later, he asked me to check his emails for him on the computer. There was an email from the ticket factory, which he asked me to open. It was order confirmation for the tickets!! I was over the moon, and was just hoping the next months would fly by, which they did! On the day of the gig i actually had a cold, which dampened the mood slightly, but i was still bouncing around school i was that excited! When i got home, i ate dinner and got ready, a few hours too fast - we had seating tickets. When me, my parents, and my two brothers got in the car, i literally couldn’t believe what was happening. When we arrived at the arena and there were so many queen fans, it blew my mind! Even my dad, who isn’t much of a queen fan, was beaming, and at one point me and another young queen fan (a girl ;D) looked at each other and we must have been feeling the same thing, pure excitement and wonder! It’s a shame i didn’t pluck up the courage to go and talk to her! Then came the moment when we went up the steps into the actual hall. The moment i saw the stage for the first time was incredible, i was thinking “bloody hell that’s roger’s kit! And brian’s amps!!!!!!!!!” I got a glimpse of pete malandrone carrying one of brian’s guitars back, we were on brian’s side of the stage fairly close. The lights went down. Can’t describe in words that feeling, its the same at any concert, but at queen it was just even better! The fact that i had a cold was way in the back of my mind, as the cosmos rocks intro came on (I remember it being very loud!) The surf’s up schools out section came on to ecstatic cheers from everyone, even my mom! Then, the band came on stage. Anyone who has experienced that moment knows what i mean when i say how incredible it was!! First guitar solo of the night - hammer to fall. i still remember the cheer that went up, and my amazement, that killer tone was there, in front of my eyes, completely live. I hadn’t seen a concert for about 7 years (when i was about 7) and i was now 14, so to me it felt like my first concert. And my life what a concert!! When Brian was doing his guitar noodling just before Fat Bottomed Girls, i looked at my mom and said “Mom, he’s actually there!” It was something i just couldn’t get my head around! Then brian broke a string on FBGs! I was thinking “whats he gonna do to get out of that!?” He managed, just with some improv that managed to fit the song somehow, he really is a genius. Instead of describing every second to you, i’ll put the highlights of the show for you! -Hammer to Fall - not particularly good starter in hindsight, but overshadowed by seeing them for the first time! -Tie your mother down - one of my favourite songs of all time! -I Want It All - the solo is incredible, and the way they went into it was quite cool i thought. - Love of My life - simply amazing, i loved that moment. -‘39 - the “ancient midlands folk song” as brian called it. - Bass/drum solo - cool how they built it up around rog. - A kind of magic - brian’s solo was on fire!!
- Say its not true - my favourite song of the album at the time. - Guitar solo/bijou/last horizon - brian’s my favourite guitarist so these were obviously highlights, particularly the part where brian goes to the end of the b-stage in LH, and does the really high bit. - Crazy little thing called love - the intro with the drums was really cool then jamie played the opening chords, unexpected. - Bohemian rhapsody - doesn’t need an explanation, the best 5 minutes of my life. No question. - Cosmos rockin’ - really cool , the old people behind us were dancing around! In fact, every single song was a highlight! simply amazing night. Blasting the Cosmos Rocks album in the car on the way home was cool, but for some reason i felt slightly weird, probably because i didn’t think i’d ever see a better concert, which in truth, i probably won’t.” - Joe Maisey
“I was working on the Queen and Paul Rogders Cosmos tour as a truck driver and in my line of work I come across a lot of famous people but this was the first time I was star struck. In catering one day I asked him possibly the most stupid question I have ever asked anyone: “Are you a gifted guitarist or did you have lessons?” Fair play to him he smiled and told me his dad bought him a ukulele when he was 7 and it went from there. A footnote is on this tour for some reasons there was a lot of birthdays and Roger always joined in with the happy birthday’s.” - Simon
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Queen + Adam Lambert live at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles, CA, USA (iHeartRadio Music Festival) - June 16, 2014
Promo gig shortly before the American tour. The event was broadcasted live on radio stations and some websites.
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Queen + Adam Lambert live at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV, USA (iHeartRadio Music Festival) - September 20, 2013
Technically the performance was probably shortly after midnight - in the morning of September 21. Several of the songs were shortened (BoRhap, WWTLF). The American indie pop band Fun. joined Queen for two songs.
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Queen + Adam Lambert live at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, UK (MTV EMA Awards) - November 6, 2011
Brian and Roger accepted the Global Icon Award at the MTV EMAs. The band then closed the show performing a Queen medley with Adam Lambert on vocals.
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Queen + Adam Lambert live at the CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA, USA (James Corden Show) - February 1, 2017
The performance is meant to be a “battle” between James Corden and Adam Lambert to show who’s the better singer. The songs were played in a shortened form and Adam and James shared vocals.
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Queen + Adam Lambert live at the Velodrom in Berlin, Germany (Helene Fischer Show) - December 25, 2014
The show was filmed on December 12 and the songs were actually played in reverse order that day. Udo Jürgens sang before Queen - and it was his final performance before his death on December 21.
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☁️ Seventhmoon’s DRAW THIS IN YOUR STYLE! ☁️
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So hello angelcakes, I never made something like this, it’s 2022 and I wanted to kick in the new year with a DTIYS challenge!! It’s my very first one, I hope many of you will join it!!
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Anyone who knows it knows I believe in/love angels in general and that I’m very fond of their aesthetic, so I tried with an Angel!AU for my beloved Queen boys! ☁️ ⚪️
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If you scroll you can see some details about their designs!
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You can draw all of them or just one! If you do, TAG ME and use the hashtag #seventhmoondtiys ☁️
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Let me also know who’s your fave one!
Tw: rant .
I remade THE VERY FIRST BRI-ART PIECE I’VE EVER MADE in 2019. Originally he was painted in digital, in two versions: one with normal hair and one with nebula-ish hair
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I decided to re-make it in traditional and to fuse the two elements together i decided to push myself further and I tried to paint a galaxy as a background, with pencils only!!
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Why is this drawing so important to me?
I’ve always loved Queen, but Brian always had that special something to me. Something that made me feel closer to his as a person, more than as a musician/artist (consider we’re both artists in a way lol), and since I started making serious fanarts of him, I felt home. I felt home because actually, in my life, I’ve never been that much appreciated as an artist online. I struggled, trying to make friends and I struggled while trying to making people feel something while looking at my art.
Because that’s what I do: i communicate through art. The pencil is my voice. Art was my safe place when everything in my real life was making me suffer: bullying, school, dyscalculia, bdd, depression.
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Thanks to Queen and especially to this adorable man I found a family. I made a lot of friends, some of them are more precious than gold and silver, I started loving myself a bit more, I started feeling like I was doing the right thing. I decided to get more and more into astronomy despite my learning disorder (i still don’t know how to count money at work without a calculator), I decided to learn guitar by myself, I felt loved
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Obviously there have been ups and downs. I’ve been suffering from trauma this summer, a traumatic event that led me to a heavy depressive episode. I had thoughts of a certain kind too. But i am PROUD of myself for being still here, ALIVE, sharing my art and life with you.
All the trauma led me to hair loss. I got diagnosed with seborrheic dermatitis. Yay.
So yes, now I’m undergoing treatment and I hope I’ll recover soon <3
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Losing friends left and right but i send them love and light. Some of them stopped supporting me for no reason (i still wonder why), some of them need to take a bit of empathy lessons and some of them decided to spread false rumours about me.
BUT!! Again, I’m thanking each one of you who decided to stick around, who supported me, who cared for me, who left me loving messages and who gave me strength. And thanks again to the lovely Brian, that once again, showed he’s a wonderful person. He’s my most precious friend, and if I ever see someone else showering him with hate, I won’t be kind anymore. I’ll always stand by you Bri. For life, and whatever comes after.
