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Si Mann

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About Me

I've been playing bass for about 18 years now, my biggest 3 influences being Billy Sheehan, Steve 'Arry Harris and, on top of the pile, the incredible John Deacon.
After my first few bands I moved up to London to join semi-pro outfit Alchemy with whom I stayed for about 7 years before moving to sunny Shropshire (to be closer to my wife's family) where I formed HMV.
I'm currently working on two projects - Engines Of Creation , a rock/metal band with drummer Steve Eastment (HMV), guitarist Ian White (Tantrum) and vocalist Steve Taylor (Tai Shan).
The second is a world first "Virtual Tribute Band" - vQp, in honour of Queen, with singer Matthew Harffy from Wiltshire, and guitarist Mac, from Washington DC. Our first songs are now available through our website or check out the player over to the left.
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Member Since: 5/20/2006
Band Website: virtualqueenproject.com
Band Members:
Influences: Queen, Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen, Mr Big, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Aerosmith.
Sounds Like: A cross between John Deacon and Billy Sheehan.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Alchemy Re-union

So, an Alchemy re-union? How could I consider even thinking about contemplating perusing the idea of saying no? I couldn't. I was there in a heartbeat.I joined Alchemy in 1993 whilst living in Lond...
Posted by Si Mann on Wed, 09 May 2007 01:44:00 PST

GCRejects Weekend

Well, where do I start?  Around the time we set up vQp, another group of people were getting together through the QOL message board to set up a similar project, except in their case the songs are...
Posted by Si Mann on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:16:00 PST

Long Time No Blog

Update time! W've got one last thing to alter on the vQp site and we'll be ready to re-launch with the release of You Take My Breath Away.  We're removing a photo of Freddie that's on there and a...
Posted by Si Mann on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:35:00 PST

EOC Debut Gig

A week after the event, finally a chance to sit down and give some thoughts on last week's debut gig for EOC.   Generally we felt the set went well  there were a couple of points where we didn...
Posted by Si Mann on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:58:00 PST

Virtual Queen Diary 11 - vQp

New Year, new start.  Having written to Queen with the premise of our tribute band, we're having to alter a few things so once Mac was back off holiday and we'd finished discussing how we were go...
Posted by Si Mann on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:40:00 PST

Band Updates

Well, end of the year and things are looking good with both VQ and EOC. We wrote to Queen with details of the VQ Project and recently had a reply which has enabled us to discuss what we can and can't ...
Posted by Si Mann on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:25:00 PST

Music

Well, it's time for a little update on my various musical projects.   The biggie at the moment is Virtual Queen.  We've now released the first two songs  We Will Rock You and Tie Your Mothe...
Posted by Si Mann on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:28:00 PST

Virtual Queen Diary 10

Well, the first 2 songs are now available for download and, at 5:25 on day 1 we are at No 2 in the Indiestore Download Charts!!!  I can feel my first number 1 coming! Matthew has put together a v...
Posted by Si Mann on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:34:00 PST

Virtual Queen Diary 9

The Virtual Queen Project website (www.virtualqueenproject.com) is now live!  There you can find out all about the project, the members of the band, how we record and the equipment we use. You ca...
Posted by Si Mann on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:44:00 PST

Virtual Queen Diary 8

Well, we've decided to open the MySpace account and Message Board (link to MySpace on my front page and the message board from there). Let's see what kind of feedback we get and soon (I hope!) we'll g...
Posted by Si Mann on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:37:00 PST