City:	Hayle, England
Venue:	Rugby Club
Date:	July 19, 1971

The four members of Queen embarked on their first mini-tour, of the county of Cornwall. John Deacon recalled the experience in a 1974 interview with Music Star: "We had one great time a few years back when we all went down to Cornwall for a holiday. We were still in college and used to stick all the equipment into one van and sail off. Roger, who comes from there, said he'd get us some gigs locally so we took a cottage for a fortnight and stayed together. It was good because it wasn't long after I joined and we got to know each other really well and it settled us as a group. Roger did manage to find us half a dozen or so gigs as well, so we broke even." The ad for this first show doesn't specify a date (they played the same venue two weeks later), but this ad for the Status Quo show from a few days earlier (taken from a Status Quo website) confirms the date. Queen apparently opened for Caravan (a Caravan website insists they were on the gig, but they aren't mentioned in the newspaper ad seen above). The "LP soon for release" mentioned in the ad was far from ready to release. The band hadn't even recorded a demo yet.

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