Queen + Adam Lambert To Thwart Ticket Scalpers With Next Leg Of Rhapsody Tour

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Queen + Adam Lambert will be hitting the road this fall as the band continues its Rhapsody tour. As Variety reports, the 14-date North American leg of the tour will begin Oct.

4 and run through Nov. 11; the sole Canadian date is Oct. 8 at Toronto’s Scotiabank Centre. “Every time I get the call we’re going to do another [tour], Whoo!

I get excited!,” Lambert told Variety. “Our audiences are unbelievable. They keep getting younger, with multi generations at the show, which is amazing.” READ MORE: Queen Guitarist Brian May ‘Thrilled’ To Become ‘Sir Bri’ After King Charles’ First New Year Honours List Revealed Guitarist Brian May — a.k.a Sir Bri, in light of his impending knighthood from King Charles — is promising an epic series of shows. “The entire production evolves around the songs,” May told USA Today. “We have a lot of hits, but there’s a lot of deeper stuff that people would love to hear…We put [different songs] in to stimulate ourselves and it’s also nice for the audience.

We’re never playing to click tracks or backing tracks. It’s just us and the three great musicians with us. It’s all very free, very dangerous and very live.” When the group returns to the stage, it will be with a new plan to prevent ticket scalpers from gouging fans. “We get pissed off at the fact that fans get ripped off by people scalping and buying tickets purely for resale,” May explained, admitting the plan is something of an “experiment.” “We hope the fans feel that we’re trying to take care of them in that way,” he added. READ MORE: Queen + Adam Lambert Release ‘Somebody To Love’ Performance Video During an appearance with Mark Goodman on Sirius XM’s Classic Rewind channel, the band shared more details about how they hoped to