THE WAIT IS OVER! QUEEN MAKE LONG AWAITED RETURN TO AUSTRALIA IN AUGUST:
THE ‘ONCE IN A LIFETIME’ TOUR
Legendary superstar band QUEEN have just announced their ONCE IN A LIFETIME TOUR will
tour Australia. "Let's ROCK those beautiful arenas JUST ONE MORE TIME!” said Brian May.
The tour takes its title from a quote from Adam Lambert when asked at the New York tour launch
press conference his view up the opportunity to join Queen for their 24 date US tour which kicks off
in June. Lambert replied: “I think the thing that’s special about this is that it is a limited thing. It’s this
special engagement. It’s not like, “Now we’re to the grind.” It’s a once-in-a-lifetime tour.”
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT will tour Australia in August and Fan Club tickets and Official
Packages will be on sale on Thursday 22nd May noon local time. Tickets to the general public will go
on sale on Wednesday 28th May. All tour details, tickets and official package information can be
found at http://www.daintygroup.com/tour/queenadamlambert/.
This is the first QUEEN tour of Australia since 1985.
THE ONCE IN A LIFETIME TOUR will kick off in Perth on Friday 22nd August at Perth Arena,
then travel to Sydney on Tuesday 26 August at Allphones Arena, Melbourne on Friday 29 August at
Rod Laver Arena with the grand finale at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Monday 1 September.
Queen + Adam Lambert received glowing reviews for their performance together at the iHeartRadio
Music Festival in Las Vegas last September, triggering a conversation between Adam, Roger and
Brian to take the show on the road. Rolling Stone said, “Lambert astounded the audience on songs
like ‘We Will Rock You’ and the closing ‘We Are The Champions’ and ‘Crazy Little Thing Called
Love’. It was the most anticipated act of the night.” Billboard claimed, “…Queen effectively stole
the show, with timeless songs that music fans of all genres can sing along to” and the Hollywood
Reporter exclaimed, “Adam Lambert, Queen bring down the iHeart house. With the perfect mix of
rock attitude mixed with style, theatricality, sex appeal and impressive vocal gymnastics, [Lambert]
took the band’s music to new heights.”
The threesome first shared the stage during American Idol in May 2009 for a performance of “We
Are The Champions”. They teamed up again in 2011 at the MTV European Music Awards in Belfast,
Ireland for an electrifying eight-minute finale of “The Show Must Go On”, “We Will Rock You” and
“We Are The Champions” and in the summer of 2012, Lambert performed a series of shows with
Queen across Europe as well as dates in Russia, Ukraine and Poland. They also performed three
sold-out gigs at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.
Promoter Paul Dainty said of this momentous tour “Since I have started promoting and producing
concert tours, one of my biggest dreams has been to bring Queen back to Australia and now this
dream is a reality. This will be a long awaited chance for Australian fans to see one of the greatest
rock bands in history and, as Rolling Stone recently said ‘’Adam Lambert fronting Queen will
astound audiences.”
“I'm completely in awe of the Queen phenomenon,” added Lambert. “The thought of sharing the
stage for a full set in Australia is so beautifully surreal. I'm honoured to be able to pay my respects to
Freddie's memory; he's a personal hero of mine, and I am deeply grateful for the chance to sing such
powerful music for fans of this legendary band. I know this tour will be a huge milestone for me, and
with the support of Brian, Roger and the rest of the band, I feel like magic will be on display.”
In a career spanning over 40 years Queen has amassed a staggering list of sales, awards, and hall of
fame inductions that is second to none. Record sales in the hundreds of millions of units, including an unprecedented string of
number one albums and top-charting singles that continue to put Queen
in the top ten of all-time iTunes sales, seven Ivor Novello Awards, an MTV Global Icon Award, two songs
enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame - “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions” – which
also remain the most played songs at sports events and arenas around the world. The statistics show
Queen has the highest selling back catalogue in Australia, outselling even the Beatles. Even with the
tragic loss of their uniquely talented singer Freddie Mercury, Queen remain one of the most revered
bands in rock and pop history, able to claim one of the most enduring song catalogues
of all time. Just think: “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”,
“Radio Ga Ga”, “Killer Queen”, “Fat Bottomed Girls”, “Bicycle Race”, songs that form the backdrop to
the lives of generations of fans across all ages. With their sterling song craft, virtuoso musicality,
and colossal spectacle of their live performances, Queen – Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and John Deacon
- captured hearts and conquered charts like no other band in history, a legacy that
continues to live through the ongoing work and concert performances by May and Taylor.
Their musical We Will Rock You, co-created with writer Ben Elton, is approaching its 12th year on
stage in London’s West End and is currently touring North America.
Adam Lambert’s stunning performances on the eighth season of American Idol are still widely
regarded as some of the most riveting moments in the show’s history. His debut album For Your
Entertainment earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. His
second album, Trespassing, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. The subsequent tour took
Lambert from Australia to South Africa, throughout Asia and Eastern Europe and culminated in a
sold-out arena show in Helsinki, Finland. In 2013, Lambert appeared as a guest star on the hit TV
series, GLEE. He is currently writing and recording for his third album, which will be released this
year.
For Further information visit: www.daintygroup.com
NATIONAL TOUR DATES
PERTH – Friday 22 August – Perth Arena
SYDNEY – Tuesday 26 August – Allphones Arena
MELBOURNE – Friday 29 August – Rod Laver Arena
BRISBANE – Monday 1 September – Brisbane Entertainment Centre
TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 28 MAY FROM TICKETEK.COM.AU OR 132 849
ABOUT DAINTY GROUP
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South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Dainty Group has become a global live entertainment
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Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Hairspray the Musical, The Rocky Horror Show and Barry Humphries’ Eat
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