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"We don't know where this will lead but I swear I'm not coming home", pledges singer Guillaume "Dick" Boivin on "Forever", one of the leading tracks off of "Make It Happen...", STILL MY QUEEN's debut album. This promise, the Quebec City pop-punk outfit will hold it against all odds. Convinced they have what it takes to be the first band out of the province of Quebec's capital to make it on the international music scene, Boivin and bandmates Stéphane Valois (guitar), Pierre-Luc "Pluke" Thibault (guitar), Simon Dorval (bass) and Jay P. Rusk (drums) got together three years ago on the assumption they would one day rule the pop world. "The chance of a band from (French-speaking) Quebec City succeeding in the English world is pretty thin though", point out Valois, Boivin and Rusk. True enough. But STILL MY QUEEN could still be your new favorite band. Mixing heart, hard work, streaming sweat and catchy anthems, the five musicians give the best they got every night to deliver unforgettable live performances. In 2006 only, the quintet put their word where their mouth was in more than one occasion, giving passionate performances in prestigious events like the Quebec City International Summer Festival, alongside fellow pop-punksters The All-American Rejects and punk-rock gods MxPx, or Woodstock en Beauce, where they shared the bill with their Simple Plan friends. Those two invitations followed the release, in February 2006, of "Make It Happen...", a collection of 10 solid rock songs co