No Quarter: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience

The Pub’s bar-top stage will be a Stairway to Heaven for No Quarter, a tribute to the legacy of Led Zeppelin performing as the Airlie Beach Hotel’s first ever show by an internationally touring band.

The American group coming straight from Seattle are bringing their live concert to the little coastal town, smashing out famous riffs from Heartbreaker, Immigrant Song, Kashmir, and more for Whitsunday audiences.

Potentially the greatest band of all time will be recreated in painstaking detail by No Quarter in two afternoon shows at everyone’s favourite local on July 16 and 17.

Led Zeppelin IV

The word has spread; this Rock and Roll band from Over the Hill and Far Away have captured the characters of John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and infamous leading man Robert Plant.

They’re the real deal.

No Quarter are their own Led Zeppelin IV – they recapture the vigour and bring it back to fore as if the hard rock band were within touching distance, live on stage in their absolute prime.

Die Hard Zeppelin Fans and even the rockstars they’ve shared the stage with have sworn they were watching the real group live. Their show is a pounding, haunting experience where history comes alive, as if the original band have returned for once last gig.

Bryan Christiansen founded No Quarter back in 1998 – cementing a lifelong love affair with the band – and acts as the stand-in for Zeppelin’s stalwart guitarist, Jimmy Page.

On touching down in Australia, landing in Sydney, he was “dying to see the Great Barrier Reef” and the iconic landscapes in Australia that are “absolutely breathtaking”.

Born in the United Kingdom, Christiansen moved stateside to live in Tacoma, Washington, and fell in love with Led Zeppelin from the first time he listened to When The Levee Breaks.

“When I was a kid, my brother played Led Zeppelin albums and I didn’t know who they were. I heard the drums on When The Levee Breaks and it wasn’t until years later that I even connected that was Zeppelin,” he said.

“I picked up the guitar and started fiddling around and I was learning all the styles as a kid; there wasn’t a better idol to have than Jimmy Page growing up as a young guitarist. He’s always consistently in the top three greatest of all time.”

Christiansen has been a lifelong musician since those days, and eventually realised he wanted to continue the legacy for a band that has brought him so much joy. He formed No Quarter to create a real-to-life experience that only a Led Zeppelin show can provide.

It led him on a career to perform alongside incredible artists, strumming Stratocaster guitars last played by Jimmy Hendrix at Woodstock, and keeping Zeppelin alive in the best way possible: through their music.

“It’s hard to put into words. There’s a musical force, an energy that gets thrown out when you play like them. The audience throws back their own energy and you see in their eyes that they’re feeling what Led Zeppelin were like; that they’re right in front of them,” he said.

“We throw the energy back at them until the roof’s ready to blow up. There’s a magic to the music.”

In their performance at Airlie Beach Hotel, Christiansen said the show will be a special one for fans and for himself. The band will perform a first-ever, taking the audience through the entire iconic Led Zeppelin IV album from start to finish, just as Zeppelin played it, and just as he listened to it as a kid all those years ago.

“That extra set will be so special. We’re going to be stretched a little and I’m so excited for it – that album is mind-blowing – Stairway to Heaven, Levee Breaks, Black Dog – I can’t wait,” he said.

Christiansen ended the interview with an anecdote: Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones was signing autographs when he was approached by Chad McMurray, who plays the role of Jones for No Quarter.

McMurray presented Jones with a concert photo – an image from one of No Quarter’s legacy performances.

“That’s scary,” Jones said as he signed the concert photo and looked across the faces and likeness of each character: “As long as you’re doing it, means we don’t have to.”

Gonna Make You Sweat, Gonna Make You Groove

For over 15 years they’ve performed as No Quarter, pounding the Hammer of the Gods to Led Zeppelin fans across the US as well as internationally. Now, they’re arriving on the golden sands of the Whitsundays to bring the ocean of true Led Zeppelin fans a Whole Lotta Love.

The Black Dog barks in this authentic reproduction that goes far beyond any covering the legendary British supergroups tunes.

It’s no wonder they’ve performed alongside legendary artists like Peter Frampton, Foreigner, Molly Hatchet, Kansas, Steppenwolf, Nazareth, Tesla, Warrant, Jefferson Starship, Eric Burden and the Animals, Eddie Money, and many others.

They’re eerily close to watching one of rocks all-time great quartets in their glory days, and they’ll be arriving at the Airlie Beach Hotel for two free shows on Saturday July 16 and 17, from 2.00pm to 5.30pm both days.

Airlie Beach Hotel’s first ever internationally touring act is No Quarter, the real deal Led Zeppelin Legacy Band

They’ve performed for over 24 years, keeping the spirit of Zeppelin alive

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