The World's Premier Virtual Band
Take a bunch of musicians who are fans of the classic rock band Queen, give them the internet to play with and a few hours to spare, and what do you get?
The world's premier virtual band, that's what!
Following a couple of successful and fun years, vQp has decided to take a break from the project. Unfortunately, the band members' current work commitments are proving too great to allow enough free time to record. However, we are optimistic that this will change in time.
We have completed five songs to date, plus a sixth which was recorded as a special commission. We have several further ideas sitting in the pot (including an acoustic treatment of Queen's greatest hard rocker – "It's Late") and have just contributed the proceeds from our first year of sales - £147.13 - to the Mercury Phoenix Trust for distribution to AIDS charities.
If you'd like to hear the tracks, check out our MySpace page.
Special thanks to all the people who have supported the project by buying the songs, making donations or giving up their time.
We'd like to take this opportunity to offer our heartfelt thanks to those who have helped us this far, particularly Steve Eastment, Inma Villarrubia, the GC Rejects crew (Ian Appleton, Steve Nisbet, Neil Burrows) and Tom Walker for their musical talents, time and inspiration. Special thanks also to Gareth Jones who coded our mailing list database software.
Matthew Harffy, Simon Mann, Paul McCluskey
The goal of the band is to produce great cover versions of songs to raise money to help fight AIDS, the terrible disease that took the life of Queen's amazing frontman, Freddie Mercury.
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