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Jason Hyne powers Queen Extravaganza’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” 50th anniversary celebration with ChamSys

With this year’s tour, Queen Extravaganza, the “official” Queen tribute band (the only one organized and endorsed by Freddy Mercury’s surviving bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor), celebrated the 50th anniversary of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Providing an appropriately lavish setting for this celebratory tour was production created by Ric Lipson of Stufish Entertainment Architects, who designed the set, and lighting designer Rob Sinclair.

Ensuring that the concert production continued to deliver dynamic and colourful 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. That console also helped 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.”

Since video played a critical role in this tour (historic footage of Queen accented the set design throughout the concert), the seamless interface of the ChamSys console with Resolume was appreciated by Hyne. “We easily triggered Resolume with the MQ250M”, he says. “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.”

Hyne utilized a “par can look” 3x3 grid behind the screen to transform the stage with strong, saturated colours. 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.

(Photos: ChamSys/Stufish)

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