Artist | Queen + Paul Rodgers |
---|---|
Date | 28.10.2008 |
Venue | Arena |
City | Budapest |
Country | Hungary |
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. Tavaszi Sz?l Vizet ?raszt 13. Love Of My Life (Brian on vocals) 14. '39 (Brian on vocals) 15. Bass solo (Danny + Roger) 16. Drum Solo 17. I'm In Love With My Car (Roger on vocals) 18. A Kind Of Magic (Roger on vocals) 19. Say It's Not True (Roger, Brian and Paul on vocals) 20. Bad Company 21. We Believe 22. Guitar Solo 23. Bijou (Freddie's studio vocals) 24. Last Horizon 25. Radio Ga Ga 26. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 27. The Show Must Go On 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 | 12000 |
Audio recording | Length: 138:53 Quality: VG [an average audience recording] No download link available |
Video - information | An incomplete recoding (34 min.) is available. |
Bits and pieces | Paul almost fell down from the B-stage during Fat Bottomed Girls and he looked really terrified for the rest of the song. |
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) |
Photos supplied by: Mr.Scully, Sarah Watkin, Stefan Frixeni
Once Champions, Always Champions!
On 27 July 1986, Queen wrote music history once again; in the Nepstadion, Budapest, they played the very first open-air concert in the eastern bloc in front of 70,000 fans. Musically speaking, the fall of the Wall - and the last great appearance of the legendary Freddie Mercury. On Tuesday night they appeared again with new singer Paul Rodgers at the "place of emotional triumph" (to quote Brian May) and once again cheered the Hungarian spirit.
Tavaszi Szel, a children's song in the format of Hänschen Klein (a 19th century German folk/children's song) spontaneously extemporised by Mercury in 1986, was also the highlight of a terrific show in the Budapest Arena - a Brian May solo performed on the B-stage within the fans, the folk song was even more captivating than the bombastic presentation of the 30-song strong Greatest Hits review.
And there was the absolutely legendary to beat - With the new album The Cosmos Rocks up their sleeve, in front of 10 000 enthusiastic fans they did not present a complacent 'We are losing ourselves in rarities'-show, but only the global hits. From the opener Hammer To Fall to the grand finale with We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions there was 140 minutes of participatory rock, carried by anthems like Radio Ga Ga, Another One Bites The Dust (with a bizarre wild west video) and I Want To Break Free. Unlike 2005, when Rodgers was still an odd man out, tripping across the stage with leanings towards karaoke on these Queen Classics, they have now grown together into a stadium rock band. That was displayed most notably with classics like I Want It All or Tie Your Mother Down and in particular with the few excursions into Roger's past. The new hard rock arrangement of Bad Company was a surprise, and even the well-worn All Right Now came across amazingly fresh with an epic guitar section.
A spectacular highlight was a ludicrous 'Drum-Gag' where the drum was built around Roger Taylor whilst playing his the solo. Freddie Mercury was also 'live' in Budapest. On Bijou and Bohemian Rhapsody, he sang in video clips - as he will do this Saturday at the ÖSTERREICH concert in the Stadthalle.