Majesty Takes Queen’s Greatest Hits Across Denmark: Our First 10-Date Danish Tour
- Majesty Queen Tribute
- Jun 1, 2025
- 8 min read
In spring 2025, Majesty packed the costumes, instruments and everything else required to recreate the music of Queen and headed across the North Sea for something completely new: our first ever tour of Denmark.
Presented by Art & Music Scandinavia, The Greatest Hits Tour took our British Queen tribute show through ten Danish venues in just twelve days, beginning in Nykøbing Falster on 29 April and ending in Haderslev on 10 May.
It was our first opportunity to take Majesty on an extended tour across Denmark — and from the very first night, one thing quickly became obvious:
Danish Queen fans know how to make some noise.
The tour took us through theatres, concert halls, cultural venues and some rather unusual spaces, with shows in Nykøbing F, Slagelse, Skælskør, Gribskov, Ishøj, Grindsted, Thisted, Holbæk, Svendborg and Haderslev.
It also gave us the chance to properly experience Denmark — travelling together, exploring the towns, meeting audiences after the shows and, on one particularly memorable afternoon, receiving a private tour of one of Denmark’s historic breweries.
But more on that later.
Ten Queen Shows Across Denmark
Our full Danish tour was:
29 April — Nykøbing F Hallen, Nykøbing F
30 April — Slagelse Teater, Slagelse
1 May — Borreby Gods, Skælskør
2 May — Gribskov Kultursal, Gribskov
3 May — Musikteatret Ishøj, Ishøj
Two days to recover…
6 May — MAGION, Grindsted
7 May — Thisted Musikteater, Thisted
8 May — Holbæk Sportsby, Holbæk
9 May — Svendborg Teater, Svendborg
10 May — Harmonien, Haderslev
That meant five performances in five nights, two days off, then another five performances in five nights.
For a touring band, that creates its own rhythm pretty quickly: travel, load in, soundcheck, eat, costume, perform, pack down, hotel… then get up and do it again somewhere completely different.
And we loved it.
Night One: Nykøbing F — Denmark, Meet Majesty
There is always something slightly different about walking onto a stage in a country you’ve never performed in before.
You can know that people have bought tickets. You can know Queen’s music crosses every language barrier imaginable. You can have performed the show hundreds of times.
But until that first audience responds, you don’t really know.
Nykøbing answered that question rather quickly.
Our first Danish audience threw themselves into the show and gave the tour exactly the start we had hoped for.
Afterwards, Karina Allen, who had been at the Nykøbing performance, summed it up simply:
“You guys rock! Loved your performance @ Nykøbing F.”
Not a bad first night in a new country.
Queen’s catalogue gives a tribute show something very special when travelling internationally. Songs such as Radio Ga Ga, Somebody to Love, Don’t Stop Me Now, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions and of course Bohemian Rhapsody already belong to the audience before you’ve played a note.
Our job is to give them a reason to sing them with us.
And Denmark did.
Slagelse — Night Two and Straight Back Into It
Twenty-four hours later, Majesty arrived at Slagelse Teater.
There wasn’t much time for reflecting on night one. One of the joys — and occasionally the madness — of touring is that as soon as one show finishes, the next venue starts becoming the focus.
By night two, however, that initial question of how a Danish crowd might respond was already disappearing.
The pictures we were taking from the stage began telling their own story: hands in the air, people singing, audiences staying with us right through the end of the show.
That became a recurring sight over the next ten days.
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Borreby Gods — Queen in a Rather Different Setting
Night three brought us to Borreby Gods in Skælskør.
This was one of those touring days that reminds you how different every venue can be.
Borreby is a historic Danish manor estate, with its theatre created inside one of the estate’s old agricultural buildings. The venue’s origins make it an unusually atmospheric place to bring a full Queen rock show. Current venue information describes Borreby as Denmark’s only manor-house theatre.
Queen music in a historic Danish estate?
We’ll take that.
These contrasts are one of the reasons international touring is so enjoyable. One night you’re loading into a conventional theatre, the next you’re walking through somewhere with centuries of history before putting on red trousers and playing Another One Bites The Dust.
Gribskov — Four Shows Down
From Skælskør we travelled on to Gribskov Kultursal for show number four.
By this stage the tour was properly moving.
Costumes had acquired their designated corners of the vehicles. Everyone knew exactly where their bags were going. Load-ins became quicker. The show settled.
More importantly, the connection with the Danish audiences continued.
One thing we noticed throughout the tour was how willing people were to get involved. Majesty has always been an interactive Queen tribute show — we’re not particularly interested in standing on stage and politely playing songs at an audience.
Queen concerts were communal.
Freddie Mercury wanted the room involved.
That’s what we want too.
And the Danish crowds increasingly seemed very happy to oblige.
Ishøj — Five Shows in Five Nights
Musikteatret Ishøj marked the end of the first half of the run.
Five Queen shows.
Five venues.
Five consecutive nights.
At that point, we’d earned a couple of days without hearing the words “soundcheck in twenty minutes”.
Probably.
Back on the Road — Grindsted
After the short break, we headed to MAGION in Grindsted on 6 May.
This wasn't one of the biggest crowds of the tour — and actually that made it memorable for a different reason.
It became a much more intimate Queen show, with the people who were there really throwing themselves into it.
Audience member Hanne Lund wrote afterwards:
“Me, my daughter and husband are here enjoying the great performance and lovely music... Thank you for a great evening.”
And Christine Dalsgård Christensen left one of our favourite comments from the entire tour:
“Thank you for an amazing night! You got the soul of Queen spot on! Even in a little town in Denmark.”
That means a lot to us.
There are plenty of ways of playing Queen songs.
What Majesty has always tried to recreate is not simply the notes — it's the spirit, theatre, humour, audience interaction and energy that made Queen such an extraordinary live band.
So “you got the soul of Queen spot on” is about as good a compliment as a Queen tribute band can receive.
“You got the soul of Queen spot on!”— Audience member, Grindsted
Thisted — Queen, Touring... and Beer
The following day brought us to Thisted.
And this is where the tour diary temporarily stops being about Queen.
Because before the evening's concert, we were invited for a private tour of Thisted Bryghus.
It would have been rude to refuse.
Very rude.
Thisted Bryghus has been an independent brewery in the town since 1902, and its visitor tours include the brewery, bottling and warehouse areas alongside tastings of its specialist beers.
Among its best-known beers is Limfjordsporter, a dark Danish porter nicknamed Øllets Gentleman — “the gentleman of beers”. The brewery traces the Limfjordsporter tradition back more than a century, with the modern Thisted version developed by brewer Peter Klemensen and launched in 1989.
Naturally, some research was required.
Strictly professional research.
Holbæk — “You Were Amazing”
On 8 May we arrived at Holbæk Sportsby.
By this stage the finishing line was approaching, but the audiences certainly weren't running out of energy.
After the Holbæk performance, Hanne Juel Thøgersen wrote:
“Thanks for a great evening. You were amazing.”
Simple. Lovely. Job done.
One of the things these Danish shows reinforced for us was just how universal Queen remains.
Different venue.
Different town.
Different country.
Same reaction when the opening beat of Radio Ga Ga begins.
Same hands in the air for We Will Rock You.
Same moment when several hundred people suddenly become the backing choir for Somebody to Love.
That is why this music continues to travel so well.
Svendborg — One of the Nights of the Tour
By Svendborg on 9 May, we were nine concerts into the run.
And Svendborg gave us another fantastic night.
The reaction afterwards was particularly strong.
Sus Duijn wrote:
“What a gig it was! … Loved every minute of it.”
Another audience member, Jeanette Lie-Olesen, simply wrote:
“Thank you for a fantastic concert.”
And Elliot Rasmussen called it:
“a fantastic night.”
When you're nine performances into a tour, comments like that give everybody another gear.
Svendborg Rocking
Haderslev — Ten Shows. Tour Complete.
And then suddenly it was show ten.
Harmonien, Haderslev — 10 May 2025.
Ten Queen concerts across Denmark in twelve days.
What started in Nykøbing as Majesty walking into a completely new market finished with us having travelled across the country, met hundreds — ultimately thousands — of Danish Queen fans and established a relationship with an audience we'd never had the opportunity to play to before.
One Danish ticket promotion covering the closing Svendborg and Haderslev dates ultimately showed its ticket allocation as sold out, another encouraging sign around the latter part of the run. We wouldn't describe that as proof that every seat at both venues sold unless confirmed by the box-office figures, but it adds to the picture of a tour that built real momentum.
And looking back through the photographs, perhaps the best summary isn't a ticket number anyway.
It's this:
people standing up.
Hands in the air.
People singing.
People laughing.
The band taking photographs from the stage because we wanted to remember the audiences as much as the audiences wanted to remember the show.
More Than Just Ten Concerts
International touring isn't only the two hours spent on stage.
It's hundreds of miles on the road.
It's wandering around Danish towns on days off.
It's discovering that Danish road signs can provide several minutes of entertainment to British musicians.
It's brewery tours.
It's local food and local beer.
It's five people spending an amount of time together that would test most marriages.
And then every evening, whatever happened during the day disappears when the lights go down and the first Queen song starts.
That's the bit we never get tired of.
What Danish Queen Fans Said About Majesty
One of the nicest things after returning home was reading the comments left by people who had seen the tour.
Across different venues, the same themes appeared repeatedly:
the atmosphere, the performance, the music and — most importantly to us — the feeling of Queen.
From Nykøbing:
“You guys rock!”
From Grindsted:
“You got the soul of Queen spot on!”
From Holbæk:
“You were amazing.”
From Svendborg:
“Loved every minute of it.”
And after the final show, tour promoter Henrik Willi Völcker added:
“It was a pleasure touring with you guys.”
Right back at you, Henrik.
Denmark — We’ll Be Back
Perhaps the best indication of how the first Denmark tour went is that it wasn't the end of the story.
Majesty is now scheduled to return to Denmark for another run of shows from 11–20 November 2026, with new and returning Danish venues already advertising the band.
So what began as Majesty's first ten-date Danish Queen tribute tour has become another international chapter for the show.
For more than a decade we've taken the music of Queen around the UK and increasingly around the world.
Denmark is now very much part of that story.
To everyone who bought a ticket, sang with us, stood up, clapped, shouted, took photographs, left comments or came over to say hello after a show:
Tak, Danmark.
We'll see you again.
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