A half month of excitement ahead with Adam actively performing. As with bamafan...my first looks on the thread...yes ... scrolling fast through pages for wardrobe picture! 😄😄😄 Now back to vids and the thread.
With the new revelations of a management company listed, the anticipation of what this means for Adam...🤞🤞🤞⚡️🔥⚡️Has to be hopeful.
Scroll or read: While trying to find out the roles of the three names listed, I came across this article ( 2014) on the Queen Extravaganza site which must have cross-overs to Queen in settng up a tour as Julieete Slater is also the Queen Tour Director. If posted before...sorry ...scroll on by.
***How a tour gets put together. The secrets are divulged!***
by Paul Bond (Queen Extravaganza Tour Manager)
We get many messages from fans around the world saying Come to Brazil, Come to Spain, Come to Mexico! These are all really appreciated, but it isn’t me or the band that decides where we play. To explain how things work in our world, here is how a tour gets put together.
First off, our Management team - that is
Juliette Slater (
Tour Director for Queen and Queen Extravaganza) in conjunction with Jim Beach (Queen and Queen Extravaganza’s Manager) sit down with our agents across the world and discuss which promoters in various countries have expressed a wish to host Queen Extravaganza. From there they decide which areas of interest make sense, both time wise and financially.
The next step, once a tour has been decided it to make sure the band are available and once we discover they are the project is turned over to me.
Firstly Trucks and Busses need to be sourced and booked. Next up is flights and hotels, no easy feat when you consider how many cities a tour visits. On our last European tour we visited 15 cities in 10 countries. From here I start to prepare the itinerary which details every day of the time away from home for all band and crew, this document includes every piece of information that will be useful to all concerned whist on tour.
At the same time I start to email / talk to all promoters and venues as to our technical requirements and flag up any potential challenges.
Whilst that is being done, elsewhere the Management Team are discussing set lists with Roger Taylor and and Spike Edney and any new video footage from the Queen archives we may wish to use.
The time frame for the above is usually 3 - 4 months of pretty much solid work before a tour starts.
The magical day comes and we go into rehearsals to work on new additions to the set list and ensure our technical side is ready to hit the road.
Perhaps now you can understand why when we get requests to go here and there we can’t respond immediately? Tours take a long time to put together and are over and finished all too soon.
Whilst writing, we a a couple of days away from the start of the UK Queen Extravaganza tour and we are all really excited to be back in the UK and making more new friends as well renewing some already established ones from earlier tours!
See you down the road!
Paul Bond
twitter.com/PaulcbondThe Queen Extravaganza UK Tour starts on September 5th in Reading - Ticket for all shows @
www.queenextravaganza.com/tour-and-tickets(Photo: Stephanie Turcotte)
