With seven musicians on stage (drums, bass, percussion, two guitarists and two keyboard players), sequencer tracks and the five girls plus spares, the show is running around 109 inputs, including VT feeds and talkback mics.
Monitor engineer Matt Napier is using two D5s, one for the band and one for the girls, with both the musicians and Spice Girls using Ultimate ears UE7s with Sennheiser G2 IEMs, plus flown d&b C4 side-fills for the dancers.
"I decided to use two D5s as I wanted to be able to approach the in ear mixes for the girls in a different way to those for the musicians," he says. "The band all have a relatively conventional in ear mix, with minimum EQ and compression. For the girls, on the other hand, I have approached it more like a FOH mix, with a more 'glossy', album-like feel, utilising EQ, compression and effects."
Meanwhile, at front of house, Ray Furze is manning a third D5, mixing the show via a d&b audiotechnik J series rig, with system tech Sid Rogerson. Here the DiGiCo snapshots feature is again at the heart of the show.
For a full review of the Spice Girl's touring production see the February issue of Lighting&Sound Magazine.
(Jim Evans)
