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Twenty-one years on the road, and Queen Forever still treat every show like the first one — which is exactly the problem, because nobody in this band can be trusted to behave.On Saturday 3 April 2027, the Greatest Hits Tour: Don’t Stop Us Now rolls into the Astor Theatre on Beaufort Street, Mt Lawley — Perth’s art-deco landmark, where the room itself feels made for a night like this. Fronted by Gareth Hill’s uncanny turn as Freddie Mercury, alongside Scott Bastian on guitar as Brian May, Darryn McLaughlin on bass as John Deacon, Brad Hodge on drums as Roger Taylor, and Danny Oakhill on keys and backing vocals, the band recreates Queen’s biggest anthems — Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions, Somebody to Love, Radio Ga Ga, Don’t Stop Me Now, Killer Queen — with a level of obsessive accuracy most tribute shows don’t bother chasing. Every harmony, every guitar tone, every note is matched to the original recordings.
But accuracy is where the seriousness ends. Once the lights come up at the Astor, all bets are off. Dancing is compulsory — there’s no sitting this one out. Audience members get pulled up on stage at various points through the night. And because nobody’s following a script that tight, the truth is nobody — band included — quite knows what’s going to happen next. That unpredictability, paired with a show that treats its audience as genuine participants rather than spectators, is what fans consistently say sets a Queen Forever night apart from every other tribute out there.
For 2027, that chaos hits Perth — same pinpoint musicianship, same refusal to take any of it too seriously, same instruction running through the whole night: Don’t Stop Us Now.
Get your tickets before the room fills up.
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Astor Theatre Perth, 659 Beaufort St, Mount Lawley WA 6050, Australia, Perth
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