THE mercury will be rising at Clacton’s West Cliff Theatre when tribute band Supreme Queen pay homage to one of the world’s most theatrical rock groups.

Frontman Scott Maley has the look, stage persona and voice to play an uncannily realistic “Freddie”.

Radio 2 DJ Janice Long said: “I got the fright of my life when I saw ‘Freddie’ backstage – he looked just like the real thing.”

The band includes guitarist Nathan Mathers, who has all the fretboard trickery needed to play a very convincing Brian May.

The band’s attention to detail is so impressive that they even use the same equipment used by Queen on stage in their heyday.

The group formed in the early 1990s as rock covers band Kid Gluvz.

Their live set finale was a 30-minute Queen medley which was so popular that audiences started demanding the songs in their entirety.

They decided to recreate the Queen “live experience”, with accurate costumes, instruments and by performing concert versions of the songs.

The band was renamed Killer Queen and hit the public for the first time in 1995.

Now under another new name, the band have gone from strength to strength and performed throughout the UK, Europe and Asia.

Supreme Queen are at Clacton’s West Cliff Theatre on Saturday at 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £10 (£17.50 over-60s) on 01255 433344.