Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the Freedom Square, Kharkiv, Ukraine [12.09.2008]
Basic information
Artist
Queen + Paul Rodgers
Date
12.09.2008
Venue
Freedom Square
City
Kharkiv
Country
Ukraine
Setlist
01. Intro: Cosmos Rockin' [tape]
02. One Vision
03. Tie Your Mother Down
04. The Show Must Go On
05. Fat Bottomed Girls
06. Another One Bites The Dust
07. Hammer To Fall
08. I Want It All
09. I Want To Break Free
10. A Kind Of Magic
11. Seagull
12. Love Of My Life (Brian on vocals)
13. '39 (Brian on vocals)
14. Bass solo (Danny + Roger)
15. Drum Solo
16. I'm In Love With My Car (Roger on vocals)
17. Say It's Not True (Roger, Brian and Paul on vocals)
18. Wishing Well
19. Shooting Star
20. Bad Company
21. Guitar Solo
22. Bijou (Freddie's studio vocals)
23. Last Horizon
24. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
25. C-lebrity
26. Feel Like Makin' Love
27. Radio Ga Ga
28. Bohemian Rhapsody
29. Cosmos Rockin'
30. All Right Now
31. We Will Rock You
32. We Are The Champions
33. God Save The Queen
Support band
none or unknown
Attendance
350000
Audio recording
Length: 145:57 Quality: VG[an average audience recording] No download link available
Video - information
147 minutes, broadcasted on TV.
Bits and pieces
Over 350000 fans have witnessed the start of the tour (it was a free concert).
Line-up
Paul Rodgers (lead vocals, acoustic guitar)
Brian May (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lead/backing vocals)
Roger Taylor (drums, lead/backing vocals)
Jamie Moses (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals)
Danny Miranda (bass guitar, backing vocals)
Spike Edney (keyboards, backing vocals)
Memorabilia
ticket stub (WANTED)
concert program (from my own collection)
Photos
Fan stories
Written by Dennis
Hello, friends!!!
This story is about the Ukrainian gig Queen an Paul did in cold September of 2008. How to describe the feelings of mine when I learned Queen were about to deliver this show in my country ? Impossible - years of adoration and there you go!!! A free concert of Queen beside you - happiness).
Me, sister of mine and my friends took a train to Kharkov on the 11th of September at 14:45 and spent a sleepless night in the train intoxicating with beer preparing for the show. At 00:04 we arrived to the city of students as we call it. We were lucky to stay at the train station till the morning but we never slept. At six o'clock in the morning we were standing in front of the stage with a few maniacs like us - the stage equipment had been set up already - everything as I had seen in the videos - AC-30s of Bri, the gigantic stage with a fabulous screen. My first thought was - this is not the Queen stage - I could bet the Wembley stage was bigger or at least more impressive. Two words about the Freedom Square - it's the biggest square in Europe and I say it is!!! Then we went to see the wonderful city - it's terrific!!! Very European-like - but the central part only!!!
I had personally applied for the fan zone tickets via e-mail one month before the gig - we went to the Kharkov Queen Fan Club located in a dirty planetarium (!) and received them - there were lots of people waiting for a special bus to deliver them to the Square but we decided to go on feet - good decision we made! We were there much more earlier than those people and we enjoyed the sound check. Roger was the first one who appeared - we were standing left toward the stage - and no-one of the three hundred people noticed it was him!!! He started to play on the B-stage and then I yelled - THAT'S ROGER!!! He was white in his hair and a bit fat. And then all the people saw Bri and his Red Special!!!
It was a wonderful experience - what more can I say ?
The concert was tremendous - the sound was so tight and fat that my stomach was vibrating every time Roger hit the bass drum. In the end he threw his sticks and one of them was caught by me!!! It was Vic Firth RT - fabulous thing to possess :)