HARRY DRAPER

My musical Journey began in about 2007 when a neighbour said he was learning to play guitar, so I joined him with a local teacher. He taught me the first 4 bars to ‘Tie Your Mother Down’- I felt like a proper rockstar 

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8 Years later (through a couple of original bands in my early teens), I was asked to play guitar for a production of ‘We Will Rock You’. The band included some of the best pit musicians I have ever had the pleasure of working with, and I was hooked on performing the great music of Queen. However, this was still only on a guitar!  

 

This is when I put my guitar down for 2 years at University, whilst training to teach.  

Teaching being my ‘real job’ has allowed me the stability to keep a roof over my head. I was again contacted to do some pit work with the local Am Dram society, and fell back in love with music. 

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In 2018, I was on a night out and saw an advert ‘Guitarist Needed’, I applied and got a call to go to a rehearsal. Here I met James and played on occasional shows with him for the following couple of years until Covid hit. This put a halt to all my musical ventures (obviously).  

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Fast forward through to 2021, and I was struggling with my job, wanting to make a living of music, and looking for a way to move down to Northampton to live with my partner. This is when I sent James a photo of a bass amp asking if he needed a dep- 2 days later I got a call for a practise with Supersonic Queen  

 

 

​Frankly, I was shocking. I played a bass like a guitarist would, but the guys were so patient, pointing out the little Deacon nuances I should add to make me a better player. Rob Norman, our Spike, has a great ear for John Deacon parts and has literally taught me new sections before we walk onstage for a show. 

 

8 months later August came… we flew to Ireland and played the best show of my life to date (and I don’t remember a thing of it!). This band has allowed me to put my part to the legacy of Queen and their music whilst fulfilling a dream of being a ‘professional’ musician- and they are some of the nicest blokes I have had the pleasure of playing music with. It is a privilege to do what we do, and even more so to have such fun doing it!