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By Kate Watkins, MCP Contributor
HAMLIN TWP – Killer Queen, A Tribute to Queen will be performing at Stix Bar, 1963 N. Lakeshore Dr., on Tuesday, July 8.
The Queen tribute band is made up of Simon Small (guitar), Jon Howells (drums), Gordon Davis (bass) and Patrick Myers, who portrays Queen’s legendary frontman, Freddie Mercury.
While living in London and attending London University during the 1990s, Myers said he was a big Queen fan and it was a way to meet other people on campus.
“We all liked Queen and Bowie,” he said. “It was a way of getting to know people. I was going to university right at the time when Freddie died and I always tried doing impressions of the singers I liked and I could sound like Freddie and then thought I could look like him as well.”
Myers said he started playing around with looking like Mercury and realized that he had a lot of similarities in his wardrobe. After he messed around with his mother’s makeup a bit and colored his beard, he and some other friends decided to have a show while still going to university.
“I missed getting to see Queen live and so did a lot of people,” Myers said. “Our first show ever was a concert where the main headliner backed out due to losing the entertainment license, so we asked if they wanted a tribute band. We became the headliner because we were a student act and we didn’t need a license. I had a good friend who did our costumes and we performed at London University, right in the center of town. There were posters advertising the concert all over town.”
After playing their first show together, the band started to get booked more and more and Myers hasn’t looked back since.
“Our careers really launched that night,” he said. “We were basically playing in and around the same places Queen did when they were first coming up and a year after that first concert, we were offered to play in London’s West End and then we started being offered arena shows.”
The band, who is still based in England, has toured all over the world and will be completing a two-part American tour this summer and fall. Myers stated that he is very excited to be coming to Ludington to perform this July.
“I love making the audiences happy through Queen’s music,” Myers said. “Music is the closest thing to magic and it really harnesses and unites an audience.”
Myers said he loves how the music of Queen is so diverse and how it touches so many different people. He said some of his favorite things to see while he is performing is watching families come together to enjoy a night of music, without a need for technology.
“Seeing families just being together, loving the songs, it’s so beautiful and moving,” Myers said. “One of the great things about Queen’s music is that it’s all so different, not the same sound over and over again. There is just so much to enjoy during the show.”
Promising a lot of surprises, Myers said that Killer Queen’s shows are always changing and that could mean anything from costumes to set design to playlists.
As for a favorite song to perform, Myers said that it changes daily because he could never just pick one song that he loves most by Queen.
“It changes all the time,” he said. “I could never limit it to one song. They are just such a great band. I can see why so many people fell in love with them and still love them.”
Tickets for the show can be purchased through the Stix Bar Facebook page. Prices range from $28 and up. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
“The audience should plan on around 90 minutes of music,” Myers said. “I really love an outdoor show on a lovely summer evening. The audience in the U.S. is very passionate and we always look forward to them.”
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