Jason Hyne Powers Queen Extravaganza's Bohemian Rhapsody 50th Anniversary Celebration with ChamSys

	Since video played such a critical role in this tour (historic footage of Queen accented the set design throughout the concert), the seamless interface of this ChamSys console with Resolume was appreciated by Hyne.

Queen Extravaganza, the "official" Queen tribute band, the only one organized and endorsed by Freddie Mercury's surviving bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor, this group of six gifted musicians puts on a show that is truly extravagant.

This year's tour by the band took on even more meaning, as they celebrated the 50th anniversary of Queen's seminal "Bohemian Rhapsody." Providing an appropriately lavish setting for this celebratory tour was brilliant production created by Rick Lipson of Stu Fish, who designed the set, and lighting designer Rob Sinclair.

Ensuring that the concert production continued to deliver dynamic and colorful looks on a consistent basis as the tour made its way from one sold out venue to the next was Jason Hyne, who ran the one-track time-coded show (with some cue stacks), on his own ChamSys MagicQ MQ250M Stadium Console. The flexibility of that console was invaluable in helping him scale the show to different venues.

"We worked at a lot of different sized venues on the tour, which is always a challenge, but it keeps it interesting when you need to make the show fit in bigger and smaller spaces," says Hyne. "Every show is definitely not the same, but the band is lovely to work with -- they have been playing together for a few years, so things click well."

Making life easier for Hyne on the tour, were not only the affable band, but also the talents of his collaborators, such as Steve McCracken of Mac Events who ran in the show at Cardiff, and the powerful, flexibility of his MQ250M.

"The MQ250M is the perfect size for many of the smaller booths we encountered on this tour, yet it has the capacity to handle a show of this size," Hyne says of the console, which can control up to 128 universes without any additional processing equipment. "It's a solid console that works extremely well for many of my tours. Its ten backlit playback encoders with executors, it gives you plenty of programming options."

Since video played such a critical role in this tour (historic footage of Queen accented the set design throughout the concert), the seamless interface of this ChamSys console with Resolume was appreciated by Hyne.

"We easily triggered Resolume with the MQ250M," he says. "The simplicity and user-friendly programming make it quite simple to integrate video. The use of the video added production value on this tour. We featured quite a few nostalgic photos of the band and visuals thrown in, playing back original music video content."

Matching the intensity of his client's music note-for-note, Hyne utilizes a "par can look" three-by-three grid behind the screen to transform the stage with strong, saturated colors. He also relied on ample amounts of back lighting and silhouetting to accent the dramatic dimensions of the show, while keeping the focus on the key member of the band.

His MagicQ MQ250M, which does things like support a wide variety of different fader modes enabling the playback section to be used in a range of applications, was instrumental in helping him run the show.