Marc Martel performing with Brian & Roger at the Freddie for a Day benefit

[QUOTE] [b]winterspelt wrote:[/b]
Im usually happy when the Brian and Roger play with another people, but I kind of feel very wrong that they will play with a Freddie imitator...
While I do accept the fact that Martel can sing (I saw QE live) I hope that Martel stop pretending to be Freddie Mercury and act like Marc Martel.[/QUOTE]

A Freddie sound-a-like is a new low. I frickin' hate Roger & Brian anyway.

[QUOTE] [b]YAFF wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]winterspelt wrote:[/b]
Im usually happy when the Brian and Roger play with another people, but I kind of feel very wrong that they will play with a Freddie imitator...
While I do accept the fact that Martel can sing (I saw QE live) I hope that Martel stop pretending to be Freddie Mercury and act like Marc Martel.[/QUOTE]
A Freddie sound-a-like is a new low. I frickin' hate Roger & Brian anyway.
[/QUOTE]


Mini-tour with faaaabulous pop reality show star wasn't the new low then? Okay. It's not Queen anyways, it's Queen+ (read: Brian & Roger's Legacy Band).

Better than Adam Lambert
Still... no Paul Rodgers.

YESSS!!! Shouldn't at least some other members of the Queen Extravaganza join too?!

This will be fantastic compared with Adam Lambert. He was shockingly bad!

Will this concert have a good stage set-up?

[QUOTE] [b]Another Roger (re) wrote:[/b]
This will be fantastic compared with Adam Lambert. He was shockingly bad!
Will this concert have a good stage set-up?[/QUOTE]


I'm now more concerned about this event not being shot on video properly. I'd like to see at least some footage published online, especially if it's one-time thing with Q+ and MM (which it probably is, for obvious reasons stated by posters above). Still very interested.

I can't believe it isn't a 'test run' for something later down the line. Otherwise why go to the expense and effort of flying him over to the uk for a short set when there's plenty of others more easily available?

Maybe you're right about the test run however, they have the money to fly him there for a short set and in all the WORLD he is the obvious choice. Even Brian said it was as though he was sent from above...also, Roger saying it took him back ...the sound...as though Freddie were in the room.

Pictures please. Thank you.

Oh I am so thankful that this is happening!!!

They could also have flown him over as some kind of advance promo for QE if they plan on taking QE to Europe next year.

I did ask Marc what his plans for 2013 are and he said he didn't know yet other than doing some work on a solo album. (Of his other band members, one already got a new job and the other two haven't yet decided what kind of work they want to do.) He did put out a solo single in April on Amazon/iTunes then pulled it in July because there's nothing going on with it right now, he said.

I did a quickie search for any footage from last year's FFAD benefit at the Savoy. There's no concert footage at all. There are some still pictures but very few of the actual concert; most are of the celebs arriving at the venue. So unfortunately, I think it's unlikely we'll get any amateur footage of the concert, and unlikely QPL will release any footage if they film the concert themselves. Hope I'm wrong though. :-(

Here's info on last year's concert:
http://www.queenconcerts.com/detail/live/1950/brian-may-roger-taylor-live-05-09-2011-the-savoy-london-uk-freddie-for-a-day-freddies-65th-birthday-party.html

Filming the event, or even streaming the event on their website might be another way for them to raise money for FFaD, people could donate a certain amount for access to the video stream or for a DVD package of the show's highlights.

I remember seeing on QOL that they actually considered streaming one of the Q+AL Hammersmith concerts and charging for access, but nothing came of it. Since the $$$ they could have made from AL fans wasn't enough impetus to do it, I can't see them having any motivation to do it for this. :-(

We have to forgive Marc for singing that telepathic surrendering and sucking up to an imaginary friend music. After all, we forgave Freddie for Delilah. It's only fair.

It never hurts to write to Brian or Roger and do a request. It's a great idea to video the Savoy or at least highlights and offer the dvd to fans and of course for a price with proceeds going to the cause. Someone write and ask! Would you write on Brians website? I can do it.

"I hope that Martel stop pretending to be Freddie Mercury and act like Marc Martel"

This is a joke, right?

He didn't run around in a yellow jacket, he didn't do the mic stand thing - I swear to Christ, some people on this forum must be drinking fuckin' ethanol or something. I've never seen such a case of someone being punished for being too good at his job, hahaha.