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Well, I'm into the sixth year of Elle's Queen Page and it's still going strong. After revamping many areas of the site (including the Profiles, Multimedia, Photos and a brand new analysis and much much more), I decided to update you on WHY the suddenly did this.
It could be one of many things, maybe I owed it to my fans (pfft I hear you sigh), I got interested again or maybe even Queen were getting into some interesting projects. All of these are partially true but I guess the essence of it is that I wanted to see if I was proud or ashamed of what I did with this site. On the whole, I can't believe EQP is so massive - and I didn't spend much time on it at all. As for content, I still find it pretty funny, I don't know if others see it the same way though. These new improvements however, don't completely disregard the way it was, just the way it would be had I worked at it.
Otherwise, on the Queen front, the guys have been up to a lot lately.. The Melbourne production of WE WILL ROCK YOU is closing on Monday night & I know a few people who are checking out the final performance. I saw it a few nights ago and it was honestly a great production. It was so laden with Queen references even though the musical wasn't directly about the band itself. Each character was out of a Queen song, almost each line in the play was some ironic phrase coined by one of the guys. One thing I didn't like about it was that it was in fact a musical, so the vocal lines was SO hammed up you wondered how it beared any kind of resemblance to the original. Not that their voices weren't utterly amazing, it was just a musical. HMMM.. Also, I managed to buy very cute "Guaranteed to blow your mind" underwear. :D
There's also news of a Pepsi commercial (with Pink, Beyonky and Britney) being aired in the UK using the WWRY as a hiphop anthem. Bri & Rog can even be spotted in the crowds too. It hasn't been aired in Australia yet, but the whole thing is anticipated yada yada yada. I wonder who's gonna cover it next? For other news, check out Brian's site . Makes for v interesting reading...
Keep yourself alive ladies and gentlemen, this is El signing off on March 4 2004!
Fear not, Elle is back. It is 2003 and I am finally legal (18 years old, you hear that gentlemen?). Still love my music (including Queen, yes). Musical tastes have broadened out a little, love everything british, everything 80's, everything new wave and slightly depressing. Not much has changed, except I'm outta school. Loving uni, doin my dream course (law: it's totally not dead boring, quite my thing). Got my own radio show @ SUBFM , two hours every Monday. Actually thinking about doing a Queen special, so I'll keep you guys posted so all can listen online.
There has been so much going on in the Queen world, even for a defunct band. Recently went to the VIP launch party for Queen's new musical, WE WILL ROCK YOU in Melbourne. Completely surreal going to party with Brian May & Roger Taylor. I was completely determined to meet the guys, but I guess I was too gobsmacked to accost them. Wanted to audition to play violin in the orchestra, but then got turned away with a blatantly obvious realisation that a rock music isn't going to need a violin. Hmmph. Anyway, the musical is opening in Melbourne's Regent Theatre August 7. Try and catch it, looks like a goodie.
Anyway, here are some of the things which have happened without my fabulous narrative:
=>numerous DVD releases, including the Greatest Hits Collection, Freddie's Tribute Concert, A Knights Tale, Highlander and A Night At the Opera (for some reason...)
=>many a fantastic concert by Jase & Luke's coverband Fat Bottomed Girls . Check em out. They're local & they're incredible.
=>Brian & Roger coming to Australia *cue hysterical screaming*
=>Travis, Robbie, Vanguard, Five and the rest of the rock world covering a Queen song. What's new?
=>The bizarre uncovering of incredible tracks such as Freddie's tracks with Michael Jackson & Cliff Richard, Queen I demos and other things I can't think of now. Man, the existence of these tracks were just speculation when I was a true fan!
Well, quite a bit has been going on this month, some good, some bad and some indifferent. So here's the lowdown.... Last week I went to the 7th Australian Queen Convention here in Melbourne and I had a really good time. I'll eventually write up a thing about it, but just to cut a long story short, it was a lot of fun :) .. Some bad news I have is my stupid fudged up computer, which has chosen to forget its identity and DELETE EVERYTHING ON DRIVES D:\, E:\, F:\, G:\ AND H:\. And let me tell you, that is a hell of alot of Queen pictures (about 30 meg worth). I am so freaked about it, all my stories, HTMLS, about 900 MP3s, images, e-mails; I don't know how I'll recover! Nooo! So, guys, I'll see what I can do; I doubt very much ;-( In a week or to, I'm getting my wisdom teeth taken out and jaw surgery which is going to be considerably painful. I hope to do my overanalysis about the convention after that but no promises! So what else? Of course many of you will know about the stunning (and expensive, tres expensive) Freddie Mercury Box Set which has recently been released. It has 10, very rare and beautiful, CDs, 2 DVDs and a couple of books. It's gorgeous. It's also about $345 (Australian, my dear god..). Also, Brian is honeymooning with Anita in Rome after their Kensington wedding two weeks ago. C'est bon.
D'accord mes enfants, a bientot! Elle x
Hi Everyone!
Well, it's been a while since I've updated my page. I've actually decided to make my page more comprehensible rather than adding more things to it. It has become rather difficult to fix some of the problems (considering the lovely work the screwed up Frontpage Express has done to it) so it could take a while. Some of the things I am doing are, fixing the messy backgrounds, fixing my spelling mistakes, correcting misinformed information and taking away the "Agate Normal" font. I realised after a few mere months of this great font that it only works on about 2% of computers viewing my page. Hopefully this will make my page more user friendly.
Well, what now? Recently, Five and Queen have staged a comeback with We Will Rock You... Most of my friends have asked me what I think about it, and to tell you the truth I haven't really decided about my stance. I could've imagined myself, 12 months ago with this news, being absolutely furious about it, but I don't know. The guys seem to be happy with the tacky remake. I wouldn't be proud of it but what are you going to do? Both of them are certainly into for the pocket so I don't see any great passion in it.
In Australia, the convention is coming up in Melbourne. It's on the 25/11 at Attwood somewhere. I'm still deciding whether to go with some friends, so I'll keep you guys posted on it.
Oh yes! Forgot to tell you guys! I have finally got my hands on a copy of Hyde Park, Hammersmith Odeon, Tokyo 75, Madrid 79, Brian May instruction video and a few other tidbits. Been doing alot of happy watching. Thank you again, Tina! Thanks a bunch :-)
Just to wrap things up, I'll apologize for my lacking passion fowarded at Queen this month. I'm currently directing my passion at something else, if you know what I mean...
That's it for me!
Love, Elle??? (14/9/2000)
