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Adam Lambert Talks Touring With Queen, New Song 'Two Fux' | EXTENDED
ET Canada
Published on Jul 18, 2017
Adam Lambert is in Toronto where he tells ET Canada's Roz Weston about his eighth year touring with rock icons Queen, being single and his new song "Two Fux".
Adam Lambert loving life on the road with Queen mates Brian May and Roger Taylor
By Jane Stevenson, Postmedia Network
Queen and Adam Lambert perform onstage during the North American Tour
kickoff at Gila River Arena on June 23, 2017 in Glendale, Arizona.
(Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Miracle Productions LLP)
Hold onto your sequined hats, Glamberts.
Your one and only Season 8 American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, currently touring North America with British rockers Queen, is returning to a glam rock sound on the follow up to his darker, colder-sounding third solo album, 2015’s The Original High.
In fact, the vocally-blessed singer has already whetted our appetites with his cheeky Pride-celebrating new single, Two Fux – as in “I really don’t give ...,” – which he’s performing on stage every night with Queen.
“It’s funny ‘cause someone said, ‘So, you don’t care?’", said Lambert, 35, in an exclusive Canadian print interview with Postmedia Network.
“And I’m like, ‘No, no, no. If YOU have a problem with ME, I don’t care about what you think.’ I care about a lot of things. That’s what I like about it. It’s sort of owning being different, being weird, being left of centre and kind of celebrating it.”
We caught up with the San Diego native down the line from a Queen tour stop in Montreal before they played Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on Tuesday night.
Why did Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor agree to play Two Fux on this current tour? (Note Queen fans: it’s Two Fux producer Big Taste playing the guitar solo on the recorded version and not May.)
I played some of [my new] stuff for the guys and Brian was like, ‘I can’t get Two Fux out of my head. It’s like I heard it once and it’s stuck in there.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s a good thing.’ And he said, ‘Exactly.’ And the rest of the music isn’t coming out for a bit, so I kind of jumped ahead and said, ‘Well, if you like it, let’s put it in the show. And I’ll put it out because it’ll be really fun to have something new in there.’ And they were into it.
When do we get to hear your new album, which you’ve been working on for six months already?
New music is coming this year. That’s all I can say.
How would you describe the sound?
It’s kind of a full circle thing for me sonically. I’m sort of leaning back towards the glam rock sensibilities that I kind of started off with. I think in many ways it’s coming back to my strengths so I’m excited for people to hear it. And that doesn’t necessarily mean it sounds exactly like 1974, but I think just the spirit of it. I love that.
Do you see yourself making a new album ever with Queen or is it just a touring live relationship?
So far it’s just a touring live relationship. I don’t think anybody has ever said like, ‘No. I don’t want to do that.’ We’re all sort of open to it. It has to be the right thing at the right time and for the right reason. I think to me doing a whole new album with Brian and Roger, I don’t even know if I would call that Queen. Is that Queen? Or is that some other incarnation?
What do you think about the casting of Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in the long-awaited Queen biopic?
I think he’s going to be great. I have not met him, but I know of him. I think he’s a great actor, and I can imagine him in the role.
You just came off being a judge on Australia’s X-Factor. Any chance you’ve been approached to do that on the rebooted American Idol on ABC in 2018?
No I have not. I have a feeling they’re not going to go with past Idols. I think that’s the media rumour that loves to perpetuate itself. Every time the Idol judging is about to be announced, I’m always in the mix.
What do you think about it being brought back?
I think it should be exciting to see what they end up doing with it. It’s not been very long since they took it off the air [on Fox in 2016].
And what do you think of Katy Perry as a new Idol judge?
I think she’ll be great. She’s honest. She has a lot of history with the show. She’s kind of been a guest on it about a dozen times. She was actually a guest on it my season as a matter of fact. So, yeah, I think she’ll fit in nicely. And, yeah, this shows some new blood.
Any more acting gigs since you played Eddie on the TV reboot of The Rocky Horror picture show?
That was so fun. We’ll see if something comes up in the future. Yeah, it was funny actually Meat Loaf [who played Eddie in the 1978 screen version] came to the Queen show two weeks ago in Vancouver, he was there shooting a TV show, and it was so fun to see him backstage. He was like, ‘Ah, I really liked what you did. But I’m still number one.’ And I was like, ‘Yes, you are sir.’ (Laughs).
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QAL 2017 Tour Schedule
North American Tour
June 24th Las Vegas, NV - T-Mobile Arena
June 26th Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
June 27th Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
June 29th San Jose, CA - SAP Center
July 1st Seattle, WA - Key Arena
July 2nd Vancouver, BC - Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
July 4th Edmonton, AB - Rogers Place
July 9th Kansas City, MO - Sprint Centre
July 20th Detroit, MI - The Palace of Auburn Hills
July 21st Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
July 23rd Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
July 25th Boston, MA - TD Garden
July 26th Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
July 28th New York, NY - Barclays Center
July 30th Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
July 31st Washington D.C. - Verizon Center
August 2nd Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
August 4th Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
August 5th Houston, TX - Toyota Center
European and UK Tour
November 1st - Prague, Czech Republic, O2 Arena
November 2nd - Munich, Germany, Olympiahalle
November 4th - Budapest, Hungary, Sportarena
November 6th - Lodz, Poland, Atlas Arena
November 8th - Vienna, Austria, Stadhalle
November 10th - Bologna, Italy, Unipol Arena
November 12th - Luxembourg, Amneville Galaxie
November 13th - Amsterdam, Netherlands, Ziggo Dome
November 17th - Kaunas, Lithuania, Zalgiris Arena
November 19th - Hartwell Arena, Helsinki, Finland
November 21st - Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
November 22nd - Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
November 25th - Dublin, 3 Arena
November 26th - Belfast, SSE Arena- BUY TICKETS
November 28th - Liverpool, Echo Arena
November 30th - Birmingham, Barclaycard Arena
December 1st - Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena
December 3rd - Glasgow, The SSE Hydro
December 5th - Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
December 6th - Leeds, First Direct Arena
December 8th - Sheffield Arena
December 9th - Manchester, Arena
December 12th - London, 02 Arena
December 13th - London, 02 Arena
December 15th - London, The SSE Arena, Wembley
December 16th - Birmingham, Barclaycard Arena