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Chocolate Starfish to bring Queen tribute to Mildura

WHEN Adam Thompson and Chocolate Starfish hit the Mildura stage next year, they ask you to go in with an open mind.

The band is currently taking their Bohemian Rhapsody tribute tour through Australia's capital cities, and will begin hitting regional centres in February, 2020.

The show will play at Mildura Arts Centre on Friday, March 13, and according to lead singer Adam Thompson, it will not disappoint.

"I want to tell people to come in with an open mind and an open heart," he said.

"Don't come in expecting me to look like Freddie Mercury because there are enough tribute bands out there doing that.

"Come in expecting Adam Thompson to put on his normal flamboyant self and smash out those songs like a great rock and roll band should do them."

The tour was originally planned as a one-off show in Melbourne, but sold out in minutes and had fans demanding more dates.

Thompson said he wasn't intimidated to take on the Freddie Mercury and Queen's classic numbers, because it fit his performing style.

"Freddie Mercury has always been my number one go to and it's amazing that as a young performer I always looked up to him," he said.

"I thought 'I love that flamboyancy, I love the theatre, the songs' -- I want to do that."

The show will feature fan favourites from the 2018 biopic, as well as classics including Love Of My Life, Another One Bites the Dust and Radio Gaga.

"My most favourite would be Love Of My Life because we have all had a heart break, we all think we have lost the one every once and a while," he said.

"The Love Of My Life is my go to when I want to have a glass of red wine and sook to myself; I would play that on repeat."

Chocolate Starfish is currently recording an EP, and will be releasing a modified version of their hit cover of You're So Vain in the next fortnight.

Sunraysia Daily

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