On the heels of their North American tour announcement, Queen + Adam Lambert have revealed that the band will return to Europe later this year for 24 arena dates, including an exclusive show at the Galaxie in Amnéville on 12 November, produced in cooperation with Den Atelier. 

Queen drummer and co-founder Roger Taylor insists the 2017 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,” he said. 

Guitarist Brian May confirms Queen’s 2017 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.” 

Tickets will go on sale on Friday 21 April 2017 at 10:00 from: www.atelier.lu and www.le-galaxie.fr.

Members of both Queen and Adam Lambert's fan clubs will be able to purchase tickets before the general public on-sale on Wednesday 19 April 2017 via a hidden link on www.atelier.lu.