"I went in with a whole kit of SKM935s," explains Madden, "and wanted to carry a front of house rack and a wireless monitor system with us. We set the whole thing up, but then found it wouldn't fit on the private plane we were touring in, because we had really strict weight demands. So we had to use what was already at all the festivals."
For the second leg of the tour that began at the end of September, Madden was able to bring his own choice of microphones.
"At the start of the production rehearsals for the second leg I swapped to 935s," he continues. "There are 10 of them on stage in total. None of them are wired. We put Joe's in the stand at the beginning of the show and he never touches it. He just sings into it. There's no point of having a wireless version of it. It's one less thing to worry about. We plug them in and we know they're going to work."
(Jim Evans)
