Come Together acts 'Queen fora day'

Fri 11th Jun, 2010 in Local News

With the Come Together festival set to rock Sydney’s Luna Park this Queen’s Birthday long weekend FasterLouder wondered what some of the acts would get up to if they were given the chance to be Queen for a day.

With answers covering everything from Scott Baio and time-travel; to Wembley stadium performances and porn films it’s clear the Come Together bands are an eclectic lot… hopefully they’ll all get on back stage.

Snowdroppers:
Sit around on the throne waving or drinking or something, whatever The Queen’s meant to do.

Am I literally Queen Elizabeth, or somehow just given her political power for a day, or am I in fact the band Queen?

Either way, there’s not much one can do in a day is there? I only get up around lunchtime on the best of days, probably have more of a lie in if I had a royal butler to make me toast and chips and stuff. Watch a bit of Neighbours on telly, a few beers and the day would pretty much be over. Actually, being the Queen seems a lot like being on the dole. Which is great.

The Butterfly Effect:
Slap Prince Phillip!!

The Loved Ones:
If I were Queen for the day, I’d want to play a show at Wembley Stadium in London and play A Night at the Opera in it’s entirety. Then after the show I’d hang out with Freddie Mercury and party.

Grinspoon
I`d abdicate and make Charles in Charge, just like in that awesome sitcom starring Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Jersey , who worked as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board.

Gyroscope:
Go back in time and make sure the First Fleet didn’t arrive in Australia and destroy the lives of the Aboriginal people.

Frenzal Rhomb:
Steal Brian May’s awesome guitar and make him cut his hair. Then re-record Bohemian Rhapsody without the fruity middle bit, coz it scared me as a child.

Twleve Foot Ninja:
Probably hire a bus and drive it through the desert draped in long flowing veils.

If you meant ‘THE’ Queen; I’d probably hire a bus and drive it through the desert draped in long flowing veils. I’d also film myself doing one of those royal monologues whilst slowly undressing and send the footage to my real self to pimp out to the tabloids for a ludicrous amount of money. I’d use that money to hire a bus and drive through the desert draped in long flowing veils.

House Vs Hurricane:
Make a porno with Paris Hilton.

In other Come Together news – Sydney post hardcore/punk band Hira Hira will open the Saturday show while the surfrock/post-punk delights of Step Panther will kick off the party for the Sunday lineup.

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