Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, UK [13.05.2005]
Basic information
Artist
Queen + Paul Rodgers
Date
13.05.2005
Venue
Odyssey Arena
City
Belfast
Country
UK
Setlist
01. Intro: It's A Beautiful Day Ross Robertson / DJ Koma 2005 techno mix [tape]
02. Intro: Lose Yourself [tape - Eminem]
03. Intro: Reachin' Out (Paul on vocals + Spike keyboards only)
04. Tie Your Mother Down (Paul on vocals)
05. I Want To Break Free (Paul on vocals)
06. Fat Bottomed Girls (Paul on vocals)
07. Wishing Well (Paul on vocals)
08. Another One Bites The Dust (Paul on vocals)
09. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Paul on vocals + guitar)
10. Under Pressure (Roger on vocals and drums!)
11. Say It's Not True (Roger on vocals)
12. '39 (Brian on vocals & guitar)
13. Love Of My Life (Brian on vocals & guitar)
14. Hammer To Fall slow/fast (Brian and Paul on vocals)
15. Feel Like Makin' Love (Paul on vocals)
16. Fire And Water (Paul on vocals)
17. Let There Be Drums
18. I'm In Love With My Car (Roger on vocals and drums!)
19. Guitar solo
20. Last Horizon
21. These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Roger on vocals)
22. Radio Ga Ga (Roger and Paul on vocals)
23. Can't Get Enough (Paul on vocals)
24. A Kind Of Magic (Paul on vocals)
25. I Want It All (Paul on vocals)
26. Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie and Paul on vocals)
27. The Show Must Go On (Paul on vocals)
28. All Right Now (Paul on vocals)
29. We Will Rock You (Paul on vocals)
30. We Are The Champions (Paul on vocals)
Support band
none or unknown
Attendance
8000
Audio recording
Length: 120:19 Quality: VG+[a very enjoyable recording] No download link available
Video - information
Only ~7 videos from photo camera are available.
Line-up
Paul Rodgers (lead vocals, acoustic guitar)
Brian May (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lead/backing vocals)
Roger Taylor (drums, congas, lead/backing vocals)
Jamie Moses (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals)
Danny Miranda (bass guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals)
Spike Edney (keyboards, backing vocals)
Memorabilia
ticket stub (from my own collection)
concert program (from my own collection)
backstage pass (from my own collection)
backstage pass (from my own collection)
flyer/ad (from my own collection)
Fan stories
Written by Arthur Ross
I had seen Queen on that last tour, when they played Slane almost 20 years earlier. My good buddy, who plays in a Queen tribute band had organised my ticket; actually he had organised 3. "Well, you will want to bring your kids with you, won't you?". Silly me - of course.
A fantastic show and, unlike that previous gig, we were able to appreciate the phenomenal light show. The way it was stage managed was awesome. This could so easily have become maudlin. To Brian and Roger's credit, the balance was just about perfect. We will never forget Freddie, he is and always will be a part of Queen but we have to move on and it is the music that matters. Those songs will still be played long after we are all gone. Paul Rodgers was superb. He didn't try to mimic; he just performed................... and what a performance. And how great to see and hear Roger upfront with the mike.
Haven't you walked out of a concert, adrenaline rushing through your veins wishing you could re-live it all again? So did we. The next night they were playing in Dublin. "We should try and get tickets for that as well". Of course, usually the next morning emotions have subsided and you just don't bother. Hey, it had been nearly 20 years. Who wants to wait longer than absolutely necessary? So the next day we are all squeezing into a car and heading to The Point Theatre, Dublin.
Was it as good the second time round.? You better believe it!!!
Written by Steve Smith
It was Friday the 13th - unlucky for some - but not for me going to see my very first Queen concert with Paul Rodgers! They played all the classics and Paul Rodgers did brilliantly trying to fill Freddie's shoes! Really got the crowd going!
Throught the show we saw Paul Rodgers is very skilled with a mic stand - spinning it above his head and throwing the stand 20 ft in the air and catching it again! Very impessive!
I now have a new favourite song - although not a Queen one it was amazing as an encore and haven't been able to stop singing it - It has to be 'Alright Now'!
Very effective as part of the encore set list and really got the crowd going!
Written by Neil McKay, Belfast Telegraph
Why they're still the Champions
Of course it wasn't really Queen on stage - how could it be without Freddie Mercury? - but in every other sense this was a true royal command performance.
It was triumphant vindication for Brian May and Roger Taylor's decision to go back on the road and play their music . . . and for their wisdom in doing it with Rodgers.
The former Free and Bad Company singer brought his own formidable gifts to the table, and wisely steered clear of trying to emulate Mercury in any way.
Rodgers is of the old school of frontmen, a blues belter to Mercury's prancing show-off, and while his voice may have lost some of the power and command of his heyday, he more than got the job done.
Not surprisingly he was most comfortable on his own songs including a rousing encore of All Right Now, a very welcome first tour inclusion for the Free classic Fire And Water, and a superb Can't Get Enough.
But this tour is really all about May and Taylor's attempt to do justice to their legacy. And what a legacy, for as last night proved, nobody before or since has straddled pop and rock with the flair and tunes of Queen.
The set, a stamina-sapping 25 songs and almost two and a half hours long, was stuffed with anthems and wall to wall hits.
Tie Your Mother Down, I Want To Break Free, Fat Bottomed Girls, Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and Under Pressure . . . and they were straight off the reel from the start of the show.
May and Taylor both had acoustic interludes and their own instrumental solo spots, and there was even a rare outing for Taylor's I'm In Love With My Car. He took the mic again for Radio Ga Ga, the sign for mass synchronised crowd clapping (as in the original video), and a breathless run to the finish with A Kind Of Magic, I Want It All and a truly exultant Bohemian Rhapsody, with Mercury on the giant screen leading the band through the opening piano section before Rodgers took over for the finale.
They couldn't possibly top that, but encores of The Show Must Go On, All Right Now, We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions came close.
Not Queen then, but for last night at least May, Taylor and Rodgers were kings of all they surveyed.