QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT TO ROCK NEW ZEALAND IN FEBRUARY 2018 WITH NEW STATE-OF-THE ART SHOW
Saturday 17 February - Spark Arena - Auckland
Tickets On Sale Friday 23rd June
TEG-DAINTY announced today that Queen + Adam Lambert are returning to Auckland’s Spark Arena on Saturday 17 February 2018. The concert will showcase a spectacular new stage production and a set-list that the band hints will provide some
surprises.
Queen + Adam Lambert’s show date is:
AUCKLAND – Saturday 17 February 2018 at Spark Arena, www.ticketmaster.co.nz
Tickets go on sale on Friday 23rd June at 10am.
Queen + Adam Lambert toured Australasia in 2014 to sold out arena shows and stunning accolades from fans and critics.
For their 2018 tour, the band will unveil a brand new show including a specially designed state-of-the-art production.
The choice of performance material will no doubt acknowledge this year’s 40th anniversary of Queen’s biggest-selling
studio album to date, News of the World from 1977, which yielded the immortal anthems “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions”.
Paul Dainty, President and CEO of TEG-DAINTY commented “Queen + Adam Lambert’s sold out tour of 2014 was one of the highlights of my career as a concert promoter, to see those iconic songs come to
life was incredible. I am very much looking forward to bringing the band back to New Zealand and Australia in 2018 with
this brand new show.”
Queen drummer and co-founder Roger Taylor insists the 2018 tour “will look entirely different to the show we took around
before. Production has really changed a lot, the things you can do now, you have a much broader palette, the technology
has really come along. But we don’t use it all. We don’t play to click track. It’s 100% live. We're planning on doing
stuff we either haven't done before or haven't done for a long time. We started as an albums band, that's what we were.
The fact that we had hits was just a byproduct.”
Guitarist Brian May confirms Queen’s 2018 shows will have a more ambitious musical agenda. “The general public knows the
hits, so you've got to cater for that,” he says, “but we can chuck in a few things that people really don't expect.
We’ll do quite a bit more of that this time around. There are so many dimensions to Adam, which of course fits with our
music. He can get down and do the rock stuff really dirty, and you have all those dimensions, and we can explore that
even more.”
Adam Lambert welcomes the challenge of digging deeper into the band’s canon of classics. “What people should know if
they came to the shows a couple of years back, is obviously we will still be playing the big hit songs you know and love
from Queen, but we thought it would be good to challenge ourselves a bit,” he explains. “Change it up a little bit,
change the visuals, change all the technology, change the set list to some degree. We will probably be pulling some
other songs out of the Queen catalogue which we haven’t done before, which I am very excited about.”
Queen + Adam Lambert’s magnificent 2018 touring show has been custom tailored for the band by some of the world’s most
cutting-edge creative talents. Responsible for design and production is Ric Lipson from Entertainment Architects Stufish
Productions, renowned worldwide for their innovative work with artists such as Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, and U2,
as well the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Making use of over 300 moving lights during the show is the highly acclaimed lighting designer Rob Sinclair, who has
illuminated tours for major artists including Adele, Peter Gabriel and Kylie Minogue. The production’s genuinely
eye-popping laser elements are the work of ER Productions, behind both the opening and closing ceremonies of the London
2012 Olympics and seen by over 900 million people worldwide. On the musical side, the Queen + Adam Lambert touring band
also features Spike Edney on keyboards, Neil Fairclough on bass, and Tyler Warren on percussion.
Since first sharing the stage for the American Idol final in May 2009, Queen + Adam Lambert have proved to be a hugely
successful global partnership, having now played more than 90 shows in every corner of the world. In summer 2012 they
played their first full live shows across Europe, making their spectacular official debut in front of half a million
people in Kiev.
When Queen + Adam Lambert played their first North American tour in 2014 they were crowned Band of the Year at the 10th annual Classic Rock Roll of Honor awards and Best Live Band of the Year in Ultimate Classic Rock’s reader’s poll. This critically acclaimed tour was followed in 2014 with massive summer
festivals in South Korea and Japan, and a sold out arena tour of Australia and New Zealand.
2015 proved a logistically challenging year for the band with 24 more sold-out dates in 10 countries right across
Europe, a return visit for Queen, this time with Adam, to South America, to headline Brazil’s Rock in Rio, and again
perform in Argentina, as well playing Chile. Summer 2016 saw Queen + Adam Lambert headline 15 more European festival
shows beginning with Portugal’s Rock in Rio Lisbon, where they played to 74,000 people on opening night, followed by an
extensive arena tour across Asia including three nights at Tokyo’s famed Budokan.
Queen + Adam Lambert’s 25-city North American arena tour kicks off on June 23 followed by Europe and the UK tour
commencingNovember 1.
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT NEW ZEALAND 2018
AUCKLAND – Saturday 17 February 2018 at Spark Arena, www.ticketmaster.co.nz
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday 23rd June at 10am.
Do not buy from unauthorised resale scalper websites. You risk buying invalid or fraudulent tickets. Ticketmaster is the
only authorised seller of Queen and Adam Lambert tickets.