Queen + Paul Rodgers Rock The Cosmos 2008 Concert Tour
Queen Tour is scheduled to cover the UK, Northern Eurasia, Central, Southern and Eastern Europe. With highly anticipated return to Latin America expected to follow. Tour heralds in first new
Queen studio album in 13 Years With a new album in the pipeline – the first new studio album to carry the
Queen name since the Freddie Mercury sessions –
Queen is heading back on the road for a four-month tour, once again in the company of musician/singer/songwriter Paul Rodgers who joined the band for the highly successful 2005/2006 world tour, the European leg of which ended with the band’s spectacular London Hyde Park open air concert before going on to play the US and Japan. In all, the band’s tour was attended by more than a million people. Together Brian May, Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers have recorded their first album’s worth of material, jointly written and produced. With the title yet to be disclosed, the album is being readied for release September 1, two weeks ahead of the start of the tour. The
Queen + Paul Rodgers 28-date arena tour will take in 14 countries in just seven weeks, and take the band to Northern Eurasia, Central and Southern Europe, and the UK, and is expected to wind up at the end of the year with the band’s highly anticipated return to South America, the setting of some of its most historic tours in the early 80’s.
The 2008 tour kicks off mid-September in Russia with two dates at Moscow’s SCO Olympic Arena, moves on into Poland for a massive free concert at the historic Gdansk Shipyard, and then follows a path through Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands before arriving in the UK early October for 6 dates including London’s 02 Arena on October 13.
The UK dates see the band additionally play Nottingham, Glasgow, Cardiff and Birmingham with a final UK date at Liverpool Arena on October 18 before continuing on to Spain, Hungary, Serbia, Czech Republic and Austria for seven further dates. Tracks on the new
Queen + Paul Rodgers album will include ‘Say It’s Not True’, previously released at the end of last year by
Queen + Paul Rodgers as a special World Aids Day download for Nelson Mandela’s 46664 HIV AIDS charity , plus a ‘first’ for a
Queen album – a cover version. The remaining tracks are all newly written by May, Taylor and Rodgers during the late 2007/early 2008 recording sessions.
Paul Rodgers’ voice is one of rock’s platinum assets and as a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter as front man of Free and Bad Company and as a solo artist he has written, produced and recorded some of radios biggest hits. Between them,
Queen and Paul Rodgers have released more than 50 albums during their long careers and sold in excess of a staggering 300 million records.
A Phil McIntyre Entertainment Tour.
The Cosmos Tour 2008
EUROPE LEG 1:
September 2008
Fri 12th - Kharkov Freedom Square
Mon 15th - Moscow SCO Olympic Arena
Tue 16th - Moscow SCO Olympic Arena
Fri 19th - Arena Riga
Sun 21st - Berlin Velodrom
Tue 23rd - Antwerp Sportspaleis
Wed 24th - Paris Bercy
Fri 26th - Rome Palalottomatica
Sun 28th - Milan Forum
Mon 29th - Zurich Hallenstadion
October 2008
Wed 1st - Munich Olympiahalle
Thu 2nd - Mannheim SAP Arena
Sat 4th - Hannover TUI Arena
Sun 5th - Hamburg Color Line Arena
Tue 7th - Rotterdam Ahoy
Wed 8th - Rockhal, Luxembourg
Fri 10th - Nottingham Trent FM Arena
Sat 11th - Glasgow SE&CC
Mon 13th - London O2
Tue 14th - Cardiff Arena
Thu 16th - Birmingham NIA
Sat 18th - Liverpool Arena
Sun 19th - Sheffield Arena
Wed 22nd - Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi
Fri 24th - Murcia Estadio Municipal
Sat 25th - Madrid Palacio de Deportes
Tue 28th - Budapest Superarena
Wed 29th - Belgrade Arena
Fri 31st - Prague O2 Arena
November 2008
Sat 1st - Vienna Stadthalle
Tue 4th - Newcastle Arena
Wed 5th - Manchester Arena
Fri 7th - London O2
Sat 8th - Wembley Arena
Fri 14th - Festival City, Dubai