Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah convention tomorrow! I am looking forward to this! It has been a year and a half since the last one!!!

Queen convention photos so you can get in the mood!!

I love this quote taken from VH1:

Roger Taylor “I remember thinking, ‘Jesus, this singer is like, not only does he sing amazingly well, he does all these things with a mic stand and he moves like a snake, like a sort of cobra.’ And of course then, they had a lot of hits, some great records. We used to spend a lot of time listening to Free.”

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The CD is released today! Listen out for the condom incident at the end of ‘Say it’s not true’:

‘Thank you, thanks very much. Now you know that condoms are the fashion, anybody got any? Alright, ha ha, (US SCREAMING) ok (ROGER!- Gavin I think) This is where I tell you that he actually wearning (4- Sarah) normally 2 but actually 3 tonight. At the moment, at the moment this guy has just got the one on (From Leipzig- Sarah) From Brooklyn USA Danny Miranda………………………………….’

Started the morning with breakfast with Jed and Rose then we went to the spa along with Duds and James! Dan, James etc went off to get ready for the wedding so I had a swim then met Jed and went in to town to get him a suit! Met Damo who was also buying a suit! My contact lenses had gone all funny so went to Specsavers and they gave me a new pair- never got round to outting them in though! Went back to the hotel and got ready then walked over to the chruch with Jed. Everyone looked wonderful and the cermony was lovely!

They played Star Trek on the organ while they were signing the marriage certificate and everyone was giggling! Threw lots of confetti outside and then went back to the Southgate for the recption! Had a few drinks (Pimms and lemonade!) before the meal started- we were on the noisy table!!! There were little R and J bits of confetti stuff on the table plus over shapes and Christel and I ended up with them stuck al over our faces!!! Had a great evening dancing- thanks to Roz for getting the band to play some Queen!!!!! I also managed to catch the bouqet! Dan didn’t look happy!!!

You can see all the photos here : http://gallery.jamesoff.net/v/wedding/

Dan and I travelled down on the Friday afternoon with Makie and E-cat from America! They had been staying at our house for a few days and visiting things around England! We met lots of the people going to the wedding in the Wetherspoons for dinner after checking into the Southgate Hotel! Very posh! Dan went off for the rehearsal with Roz and James and we all went back to the hotel to wait for them! When they got back, we all had drinks in the bar (but not too many of course)!!

We met Brian on the way in to the cinema. He came up to me and gave me a kiss on the cheek and we spoke briefly about Michelle. Roger arrived AGES after looking very good I must say and managed to get my ticket signed. We talked with Jim Beach for a while and he gave two young guys two free tickets and they swapped with us and they could see how much we wanted to see the show so we were 4th row in the centre. The people behind us were not fans so we told them all about Queen and Paul Rodgers.

Roger walked in with Serena and took a seat maybe in row k (ish) and we all cheered. Brian then came down to the front and said ‘I have been waiting to do this for ages (or something like that)’ and then played the nokia tune from his mobile into the mic and asked us to switch off our phones. He did a speech (and Roger didn’t) then we watched the 1 hour edit! Jamie Moses and his girlfriend were sitting next to us so we also talked to them a bit.

Ups and downs- it was great seeing all my friends on screen (Sam- you are the star of the show girl!!) but they cut out Say it’s not true in this edit :( We cried during Last Horizon after seeing Michelle on the screen and laughed when we saw ourselves doing silly things.

They showed:

Reaching Out
Tie Your Mother Down
I Want to Break Free
Fat Bottomed Girls
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Love of My Life
Hammer to Fall
Feel Like Making Love
Last Horizon (Michelle having a blast…)
These are the Days of Our Lives
Radio Ga Ga
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love
A Kind of Magic
I Want it All
Bohemian Rhapsody
Show Must Go On
All Right Now
We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
God Save the Queen

After the show, Serena turned round to me and Jamie and said ‘You were on it!!’ and we were like YEAH!!!

After that, we all went and got very drunk and stayed up until 4.30am!!

Tonight is the DVD screening in Leicester Square! I have no idea what to wear!!!

Also, I rediscovered this photo recently- how cool!!!

LOL! Here we are at Hyde Park on the big screen!

You can download it from www.queenzone.com

Caught the train down to Maiden Newton straight from Bristol on Friday night- it is the most boring train journey as it stops at loads of little stations! We ended up stuck in Yeovil for ages and got in 20 mins late!

Mum and I drank lots of wine and had a Bruce Springsteen singalong and went to bed at midnight!

Had to get up early to get a lift into Dorchester with mum- it was pouring with rain and I only had flip flops with me- could hardly walk and nearly fell over a few times! I walked round Dorchester town centre on the hunt for clothes to wear to my friends wedding next weekend. Spent an hour and a half walking up and down the high street hoping for insipiration but it wasn’t happening! Tried nearly every clothes in town- New look, Dotty P, QS, M&S, Peacocks, Monsoon and 2 charity shops. Found nice dress in charity shop but it was the wrong size. Found a nice dress in Monsoon but it was £160! Decided to give up and went to visit my grandparents who fed me breakfast and lunch! Mum picked me up and we drove to Weymouth to get my car off my brother. It was filled with rubbish so he emptied all that- started the car and the petrol was under the red line! Forced David to drive it to the petrol station in case it broke down! Went tback to mum’s where I had sweet potato for dinner! Yummy!!! More wine but an early night! Got a drunken phone call from Dan and James who were out on the stag do!!!

Today I got up very late after being attacked by the dog at 5.30am!! Grrrrr!! Had some lovely cheese and pepper bread for lunch then came back home. Decided to go and check out Sainsburys on the hunt for clothes for the wedding and found a lovely top and also got a cardigan and skirt for work!! :)

EMI confirm:

ROTC VINYL:

Return of the Champions will come out on vinyl on 24 October (same date as the DVD). It is a triple vinyl. Again, it is up to the territories if they choose to release this format or not.

There is a very small demand for the LP these days.

EUROSINGLE:

EMI Germany have not released the single commercially. This is not uncommon. The commercial singles market has dwindled beyond recognition over recent years. Germany will have made the single available digitally and have used commercial single stock in radio promotion.

The only countries that have released the single to stores are:
Austria
Belgium
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Sweden
Switzerland

UK and Ireland have released digitally not physically. It will be the same in some other countries also. It seems this is the future!

From brianmay.com