Concert: Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the SECC, Glasgow, UK [11.10.2008] [QueenConcerts]

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Artist	Queen + Paul Rodgers
Date	11.10.2008
Venue	SECC
City	Glasgow
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 (Danny + 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	12500
Audio recording	Length: 137:58 Quality: VG+ [a very enjoyable recording] No download link available
Video - information	A couple songs exist in a very nice quality.
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)

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Ticket stub - Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the SECC, Glasgow, UK [11.10.2008]

ticket stub
(from my own collection)

ticket stub
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concert program
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concert poster
(from my own collection)

setlist
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Queen + Paul Rodgers in the UK in October 2008

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Photos supplied by: David, Sarah Watkin

Concert photo: Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the SECC, Glasgow, UK [11.10.2008]

Fan stories

Written by Alison Sesi

I entered early - right when the doors opened, even though I was in a seated area - a favourable spot in the front row with a front-on view. I was able to watch the standing ticket-holders rush to get the best spots by the stage at the start, and saw the place filling up bit by bit, with people milling in, some with refreshments. I also noticed that I was fairly close to the mixing desk.

It was probably soon after eight when the lights went out and the show started - the Cosmos Rockin' introduction making way this time not to Surf's Up, School's Out. but to the surprise (to me) opener, a snippet of Hammer to Fall. This was a highlight of the traditional medley, as it has now become, culminating in Paul's beautiful bluesy ending to I Want To Break Free. After C-lebrity and Surf's Up, School's Out, Paul remained to perform his solo acoustic ballad, Seagull, when you could tell that the crowd had really warmed to him. He joked that he'd been taken by surprise by Surf's Up...School's Out as he had expected to be singing Seagull – "but let's sing it now!"

After Brian's rendition of Love of my Life, which dedicated to mothers, having mentioned that his own mother (Ruth) had been born in nearby Pitlochry, came '39, for which Roger entered down the catwalk, beaming broadly. He and Brian were joined halfway through by "U3", - "One up on U2" - namely, Jamie, Spike and Danny. Later on, I witnessed for the first time Roger singing A Kind of Magic behind the drums and realised how well that worked. With a front-on view, I could also see how effective Paul's entrance was at the end of Say It's Not True.

There followed Brian's guitar solo which came crashing down like a megalith collapsing in a landslide at the end. After this came Bijou: Brian, still playing the guitar, knelt down in front of the video screen showing Freddie, so that his poise of veneration was silhouetted against this backdrop.

Paul showed great presence and determination in his performance of The Show Must Go On, for which he has really come into his own, bringing his distinctive hallmark as with the other songs. From here on in, it went from strength to strength - up, up and away, with the encore absolutely taking the roof off the evening, although I was the only person in my vicinity dancing along to Cosmos Rockin'. Also, during We Will Rock You, when the crowd was going quite crazy, I smiled across at Trip Khalaf, the Chief Sound Engineer, behind the mixing desk. He returned a rueful smile which made it hard to tell what he was thinking. But the audience was loving it, so he could look back on yet another successful show.

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Fan stories

Written by Alison Sesi