| Artist | Queen + Paul Rodgers |
| Date | 16.10.2008 |
| Venue | NIA |
| City | Birmingham |
| Country | UK |
| Setlist | 01. Intro: Cosmos Rockin' [tape] 02. Surf's Up... School's Out [intro tape only] 03. Hammer To Fall (fast version) 04. Tie Your Mother Down 05. Fat Bottomed Girls 06. Another One Bites The Dust 07. I Want It All 08. I Want To Break Free 09. C-lebrity 10. Surf's Up... School's Out 11. Seagull 12. Love Of My Life (Brian on vocals) 13. '39 (Brian on vocals) 14. Bass solo (Jamie + Roger) 15. Drum Solo 16. I'm In Love With My Car (Roger on vocals) 17. A Kind Of Magic (Roger on vocals) 18. Say It's Not True (Roger, Brian and Paul on vocals) 19. Bad Company 20. We Believe 21. Guitar Solo 22. Bijou (Freddie's studio vocals) 23. Last Horizon 24. Radio Ga Ga 25. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 26. The Show Must Go On 27. Bohemian Rhapsody 28. Cosmos Rockin' 29. All Right Now 30. We Will Rock You 31. We Are The Champions 32. God Save The Queen |
| Support band | none or unknown |
| Attendance | 13000 |
| Audio recording | 142:02 min. | very good quality [+ 1 more] |
| Video recording | no info available |
| Downloads | Audio (FLAC): Recorded by The D@Z (megashares/zshare) : -- NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE -- http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1152052/announce-queen-and-paul-rodgers-birmingham-nia-16-10-2008-flac.aspx Audio (FLAC): Recorded by The D@Z, remastered (torrent) : http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1152469/no-subject.aspx |
| Bits and pieces | 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." |
| Story | 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... [read more] |
| 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) Neil Murray (bass guitar) Spike Edney (keyboards, backing vocals) |
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| Ticket stub | ![]() (the ticket is resized and might look strange - but if you save it to your harddisk, it will look fine :-) |
| Ticket in my collection? | NO - if you have it for sale or trade, please contact me |
| Photos |
Photos supplied by: Peter Williams, James Starbucks, Sarah Watkin |