6.13.16 QAL Rocks the Isle of Wight Festival, Reviews
Jun 13, 2016 1:11:58 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Jun 13, 2016 1:11:58 GMT -5
A few words about Orlando
6.13.16 by Q3
Early Sunday morning, a coward – a troubled, weak man with powerful weapons lashed out at a group of people at Latin Night in a gay nightclub (Pulse) in Orlando, Florida.
A message posted to Pulse's Facebook page around 2 a.m. said, "Everyone get out of pulse and keep running."
A few hours later, the scale of this massacre became clear. As the sun rose, the story started to be told.
Orlando, Florida (CNN) An American-born man who'd pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 50 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation's worst terror attack since 9/11, authorities said.
I do not know anyone who was killed or wounded, but my heart is broken.
I know that many of us would like to move on. I have decided that will not do this time. I refuse to be complacent and do nothing. Because if I don't do anything, who will?
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I watched President Obama’s speech about this act of terror and hate – his words just washed over me.
Today, as Americans, we grieve the brutal murder -- a horrific massacre -- of dozens of innocent people. We pray for their families, who are grasping for answers with broken hearts. We stand with the people of Orlando, who have endured a terrible attack on their city. Although it’s still early in the investigation, we know enough to say that this was an act of terror and an act of hate. And as Americans, we are united in grief, in outrage, and in resolve to defend our people.
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This is an especially heartbreaking day for all our friends -- our fellow Americans -- who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing, and to live. The place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub -- it is a place of solidarity and empowerment where people have come together to raise awareness, to speak their minds, and to advocate for their civil rights.
So this is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American -- regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation -- is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.
Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history. The shooter was apparently armed with a handgun and a powerful assault rifle. This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.
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This is an especially heartbreaking day for all our friends -- our fellow Americans -- who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing, and to live. The place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub -- it is a place of solidarity and empowerment where people have come together to raise awareness, to speak their minds, and to advocate for their civil rights.
So this is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American -- regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation -- is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.
Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history. The shooter was apparently armed with a handgun and a powerful assault rifle. This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.
President Barrack Obama
My life went on. I watched the news, read a few articles online.
Lots of politician made statements. Mostly what they said was useless. Some pandered to specific voting blocks.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the act.
We condemn this monstrous attack and offer our heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of all those killed or injured. The Muslim community joins our fellow Americans in repudiating anyone or any group that would claim to justify or excuse such an appalling act of violence.
CAIR-Florida's Orlando Regional Coordinator Rasha Mubarak
CAIR-Florida's Orlando Regional Coordinator Rasha Mubarak
The terrible massacre that has taken place in Orlando, with its dreadfully high number of innocent victims, has caused in Pope Francis, and in all of us, the deepest feelings of horror and condemnation, of pain and turmoil before this new manifestation of homicidal folly and senseless hatred.
We all hope that ways may be found, as soon as possible, to effectively identify and contrast the causes of such terrible and absurd violence which so deeply upsets the desire for peace of the American people and of the whole of humanity.
In Paris, representative of the LGBT community stood lit candles and held vigils as they stood in solidarity with Orlando.
In Orlando, the community pulled together, thousands lined up to donate blood, people held prayer vigils and left flowers and messages at the club. Families and friends tried to get information. Churches and LGBT organizations worked together to provide grief counseling.
In NY, hundreds of people swarmed Christopher Street around 6 p.m. for a vigil. They held aloft rainbow banners, draped their arms around one another’s shoulders and offered chant after chant of “No hate!” Watching over them was a team of officers in counterterrorism gear. Christopher Street is the site of the Stonewall Inn - where a clash between gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender patrons and the New York City police in June 1969 led to a wave of demonstrations demanding equal rights.
In LA a man was arrested before he could attack the Pride Parade in West Hollywood. Yes, there must be a god.t
In Washington DC, as Pride weekend came to a close, hundreds came out to the White House and the U.S. Capitol last night to mourn the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history.
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Across the country, the LGBT community stood strong and proud.
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In the UK, Queen closed the Isle of Wight Festival. Adam Lambert sang “Who Wants To Live Forever” and dedicated it to the victims of the senseless violence.
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I have seen and heard Adam perform this song a lot, but it never sounded like this. Was it because Adam sang it differently, or because I heard it in a different way, or both?
In New York, the 2016 Tonys started with James Corden honoring the victims of the gay nightclub shooting in Orlando which killed at least 50 people early Sunday.
Hate will never win. Together, we have to make sure of that. Tonight’s show stands as a symbol and celebration of that principle.
James Corden
“Hamilton” star Lin-Manuel Miranda replaced his Tony acceptance speech with a tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting Sunday night at the 70th Tony Awards with an emotional speech that brought Broadway to tears.
When senseless acts of tragedy reminds us that nothing here is promised. Not one day,” he said in reference to the Orlando massacre.
This show is proof that history remembers, we live through times when hate and fear seem stronger,
Love is love is love is love is love, and love cannot be killed or swept aside.
Fill the world with music love and pride.
This show is proof that history remembers, we live through times when hate and fear seem stronger,
Love is love is love is love is love, and love cannot be killed or swept aside.
Fill the world with music love and pride.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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I cannot sing with emotion and heart like Adam.
I do not have the skill with words and crafting a verse like Lin-Manuel Miranda.
But I am not with some skills that can be used to battle hate. And this is a war against hate.
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This tragedy should not be minimized. This is not something that happens “all the time.” This is not something that has ever happened before.
This was the worst and largest mass shooting in US history.
This is the largest attack on the LGBT community in US history.
This was the biggest terrorist attack in the US since 9/11/2001.
Yesterday, 50 people were killed, 53 people seriously wounded by a coward. This coward used a gun, and while he could have used a bomb or poison, he used a gun – a military weapon. This tragedy happened in Orlando but it could have been anywhere.
This was about hate and about ignorance. But it was also about complacency.
I can do nothing to combat hate -- it is insidious. It lives hidden is dark corners. But I can do something about ignorance. I can work so that this tragedy does not become minimized.
I will no longer be complacent because I finally realize that doing nothing is a choice and one I am not willing to make now.
A makeshift memorial on the ground near the Pulse gay nightclub where a mass shooting took place, in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 12, 2016
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Adam Lambert talks fronting Queen at the Isle of Wight Festival 2016
Published by Absolute Radio
Published on Jun 12, 2016
Fresh from flying in via helicopter, Adam Lambert sat down with Sarah Champion to talk about fronting Queen, and finding the balance between solo work and touring with the band.
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Queen and Adam Lambert, Isle of Wight Festival 2016, review: not quite the real deal, but closest we'll ever get to seeing the band in their pomp
4/5 stars
Adam Lambert and Brian May Credit: AP
by James Hall
13 June 2016 • 1:02am
Hours after one Queen finished a damp party on The Mall, another Queen was starting one down on the Solent. Despite forming 46 years ago, Queen — the band — were making their UK festival debut as the final headliners of the Isle of Wight Festival.
Of course, it’s not really Queen. It’s guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. With Freddie Mercury dead for 25 years, singing duties were carried out by former American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, now a successful solo artist in his own right.
There were therefore two ways to look at this show. On the one hand, it was occasionally like very good karaoke. With Lambert in a series of bonkers outfits, it was at times more like watching Queen’s West End musical We Will Rock You than seeing the Live Aid-slaying, Wembley Stadium-filling Queen of the mid 1980s. You half expected an interval and perhaps a nice chat with some Spanish students over for the summer to improve their English.
On the other hand, Freddie’s dead and this was the closest we will ever get to seeing the band in their pomp.
It was this second view that won the evening. The sheer quality and enduring appeal of the songs trounced all cynicism. And in Lambert they have a charismatic and unique frontman who, to his credit, acknowledged early on that there is only one Freddie Mercury (“You’re all thinking it,” he said).
They opened with One Vision. Although grey of locks, May can still crunch those riffs out. Lambert, looking like Faith-era George Michael, preened and prowled. You’d suspect Mercury would approve of him: he was refreshingly arch and theatrical. After Fat Bottomed Girls, he looked into the crowd and spat: “All those fat arsed bitches out there, get on your bikes and ride.”
There wasn’t really a song that couldn’t be labelled classic. You were reminded of Queen’s scope: the metal of Stone Cold Crazy, the disco of Another One Bites The Dust, and the pure pop of I Want To Break Free. And then there were the anomalies. Don’t Stop Me Now is a Queen song that was once derided but has grown in popularity over the years. Youngsters in the crowd lapped it up, shouting every word.
Roger Taylor — supplemented on drums by his son Rufus Tiger — sang vocals on A Kind of Magic. He made a good fist of it but it was clear why he’s a drummer. Lambert dedicated Who Wants To Live Forever? to those killed in Orlando.
Mercury appeared on screen twice: once to duet with May on Love Of My Life, and again to sing the second verse of Bohemian Rhapsody (“I don’t want to die”). Credit must be given to the band for not over-egging things. The balance was tasteful.
After a finale of We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, gold confetti burst over the crowd to the National Anthem, which closes every Queen show. I bet they didn’t get that on The Mall.
Link: www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/queen-and-adam-lambert-isle-of-wight-festival-2016-review-not-qu/
Queen dedicate Isle of Wight Festival set to Orlando shooting victims
Queen and Adam Lambert have paid tribute to the Orlando shooting victims and Freddie Mercury during an emotional Isle of Wight Festival headline show.
Original members Brian May and Roger Taylor were accompanied by the American Idol star for the two-hour set which brought to an end the first major music festival of the summer.
May, 68, said he wanted to "immortalise the moment" by taking a video selfie of himself with the crowd of tens of thousands before leading the audience in a poignant rendition of Love Of My Life with a video of Mercury finishing the song.
For Bohemian Rhapsody, a video of Mercury, who died in 1991, was also used for him to join with the band. Taylor, 66, led the singing for It's A Kjnd Of Magic.
The band sang Who Wants To Live Forever as a tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting.
Lambert, 34, said: "This song is dedicated to those who lost their lives in Orlando, Florida, and anyone who has been a victim of senseless violence or hatred."
Lambert wore several outfits including a visor and a studded jacket, a crown, and a black feather-style jacket with high-heeled boots.
He said: "Thank you to the rock-n-roll royalty that I get to share a stage with, Brian May and Roger Taylor. This is one of the biggest honours in my life, there will always be, for all time, one Freddie."
Other hits included Killer Queen, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, and Under Pressure, the song Queen jointly created with David Bowie.
The show ended with We Are The Champions with a massive burst of confetti followed by the band joining in the National Anthem and a firework display.
Earlier, Genesis co-founder Mike Rutherford said "never say never" to a reunion of the classic rock band.
The 65-year-old told the Press Association: "There are no plans to reform but never say never, we are all alive, we are all healthy."
Rutherford, originally from Portsmouth, Hampshire, performing as Mike and the Mechanics, played several Genesis tracks including I Can't Dance and Land Of Confusion.
Glasgow band Twin Atlantic entertained the main stage crowd on Sunday afternoon when lead singer Sam McTrusty climbed into the crowd during their song No Sleep, with girls in the audience trying to grab the chance to take a selfie with him.
As well as the established bands, up-and-coming acts such as East London four-piece Paves have been showcased on the Jack Rocks This Feeling stage which last year featured Bang Bang Romeo, who graduated to the Big Top this year.
The festival got fully under way on Friday night with a joint headline slot by Stereophonics followed by Faithless.
The Who played a greatest hit set showing they could wow the crowd like they did when they started 50 years ago.
Since the Isle of Wight Festival relaunched at Seaclose Park, Newport, in 2002, it has featured headline acts from some of the world's biggest stars including David Bowie, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Sir Paul McCartney, Blur and the Foo Fighters.
Link: www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/14551864.Queen_dedicate_Isle_of_Wight_Festival_set_to_Orlando_shooting_victims/?ref=twtrec
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Queen + Adam Lambert Summer Festival Tour
Sunday, May 22, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona, Spain
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Stadion Linz Linz, Austria
Friday, May 27, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Rhein Energie Stadion Cologne, Germany
Sunday, May 29, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Jelling Music Festival Jelling, Denmark
Friday, June 3, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Kaisaniemi Park Helsinki, Finland
Sunday, June 5, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Tallinna Lauluväljak Tallinn, Estonia
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Palais 12 Brussels, Belgium
Friday, June 17, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Rock The Ring Hinwil, Switzerland
Sunday, June 19, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Life Festival Oświęcim 2016, MOSiR Stadium in Oświęcim, Poland
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Bucharest Constitutiei Square Bucharest, Romania
Thursday, June 23, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Georgi Asparuhov Stadium Sofia, Bulgaria
Saturday, June 25, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Anfiteatro Camerini Piazzola Sul Brenta, Italy
More QAL Dates?
Unconfirmed: September 12, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert, Tel Aviv, Israel
September 17, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert, Grand Prix, Singapore
Unconfirmed: September-October, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert Asia mini-tour, Japan seems likely
Rumored: Moscow
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