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Speaker 1: I'm sure as tonight as the Queen Tribute Show takes

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Speaker 1: to the stage at the Ansputn Events Center, somebody who

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Speaker 1: takes on the persona of Freddy Mercury is Warren Vernon Driscoll,

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Speaker 1: who I caught up with and began by saying, when

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Speaker 1: I think Queen, I instantly go back to that nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty five Live Aige show at Wembley where Freddy had

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Speaker 1: over seventy thousand fans eating out of the palm of

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Speaker 1: his hand and decided halfway through the set to have

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Speaker 1: a bit of fun with the vocal warm ups. To

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Speaker 1: this day remains incredible scenes and I love to have

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Speaker 1: we sing along when that comes on myself too. So

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Speaker 1: is that going to be part of the show tonight, Warren?

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Speaker 2: Definitely? Yeah, all right?

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Speaker 1: Is that how you begin each night?

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Speaker 2: No, that's not how we begin. I won't give away

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Speaker 2: how we begin. What we've done, though, is we've used

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Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty six Wembley show, not the Live a

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Speaker 2: but his the Wembley Show in nineteen eighty six, and

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Speaker 2: we've used it as a blueprint for the show in

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Speaker 2: order to get kind of a flow off the concert

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Speaker 2: listen't a musical. It's a rock and roll show. We

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Speaker 2: want you to go there and believe that you add

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Speaker 2: a concert, And over the years we've kind of adapted

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Speaker 2: the set list and added some songs that Queen never

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Speaker 2: got to perform live with Freddy just because you know,

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Speaker 2: time didn't allow it. So we've kind of got this

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Speaker 2: unique mix between a nineteen eighty six live show that

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Speaker 2: was influenced everything, but then we throw in songs like

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Speaker 2: the Show Must Go On, which Freddie never sang live,

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Speaker 2: and we get to perform live, so it's really special.

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Speaker 1: What's the hardest part about that about stepping into pretty

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Speaker 1: shoes not out tonight?

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Speaker 2: I just think it's it's the energy behind everything. Because

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Speaker 2: Freddy Mercury is a larger than live figure.

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Speaker 1: He only hit one seating and that was on So you.

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Speaker 2: Have to translate that within the music and deliver that

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Speaker 2: to the audiences in a believable manner.

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Speaker 1: The older I get, the more terrified I am with

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Speaker 1: all these reminders of just how quickly the scenes of

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Speaker 1: time are flowing. And here's one of them, the fact

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Speaker 1: that we are celebrating fifty years, half a century of

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Speaker 1: Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's a wild one. Yeah, but I mean

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Speaker 2: the song was definitely always destined to stand the test

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Speaker 2: of time, was it in.

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Speaker 1: The sense that when it was first introduced, well, if

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Speaker 1: that movie with Rami Mallick is to be believed, when

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Speaker 1: it was first presented to the record producers, they went, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: it's too weird, it's too long.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, mainly from the aspects of it be too long,

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Speaker 2: because I think they were the first They were the

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Speaker 2: first band to have a six minutes or seven minutes

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Speaker 2: perst single out that played the full length on radio.

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Speaker 1: You know what I reckon. One of the quiet measures

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Speaker 1: of success for that song was the fact that a

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Speaker 1: radio DJ and the morning could sipers coffee and then

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Speaker 1: go oh, here's the call of nature and check bohemian

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Speaker 1: rpsody on. He's got all the time in the world

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Speaker 1: to take care of things.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, we're not lunch break.

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Speaker 1: Shoot down and drop the kids off to school and

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Speaker 1: get back in time to catch the nes horse break.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's brilliant. Hey, so what are we going to

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Speaker 1: experience from the show? What are you saying?

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Speaker 2: Like I've said before, it's a it's a rock and

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Speaker 2: roll show, so don't expect a story or or you know,

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Speaker 2: some kind of narrative. It's going to be a straight

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Speaker 2: up rock and rolling and we want people to come

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Speaker 2: prepared for that. We want to make them. We want

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Speaker 2: them to make a lot of noise. We barely want

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Speaker 2: to be able to hear ourselves performed. We want people

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Speaker 2: to dress up and get involved in the in the

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Speaker 2: in the evening. We've got all the outlandish costumes, the

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Speaker 2: crazy lighting. We've got replicas of Brian May's guitar, so

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Speaker 2: we ready to take attention to detail and trying to

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Speaker 2: recreate Queen.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be an awesome night