The Return of the Spice Girls Tour
March 18th, 2008 admin Posted in News |
It was intended to be a big thank you and a fitting farewell to their fans, but in June 2007 when the Spice Girls announced their plans for ‘The Return of the Spice Girls’ Tour, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Victoria Beckham could have had little idea what a huge success their tour would turn out to be. Now the five girls can look back on 47 sell-out shows ¯ a success backed up by Sennheiser technology.
As usual, the Spice Girls’ series of concerts broke all records: in London they filled the O2 Arena 17 times, and they gave six concerts in the New York area, including a sold-out show at the legendary Madison Square Garden arena. Their farewell tour took the five girls across North America and Europe, in the company of Sennheiser’s wireless technology.
The Spice Girls sang using very special microphones: their SKM 935s were lavishly adorned with rhinestones; even the earpieces on their evolution wireless monitor receivers were decorated. The band used (much plainer) evolution wireless guitar systems and all the microphones were used with EM 550 twin receivers.
“For the Spice Girls tour we needed great sounding vocal mics with rock-solid radio performance,” explains Ray Furze, the tour’s FOH engineer. “The 935 capsule proved to be an excellent choice. We had no radio drop outs on the whole tour and I found they were highly resistant to feedback, even with all five mics 20 metres in front of the PA.”
Monitor technician Matt Napier adds: “After Ray Furze and I reviewed all the radio systems that were available for the Spice Girls tour, it quickly became obvious that Sennheiser was the logical choice. With five girls, lots of quick changes and a huge set, not only would we need equipment that sounded good, but something that was durable and had rock-solid RF.”
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