Spice Girls - SpiceWorld 2019 Tour Thread

I swear she said that V was, but was Mel saying she was sad that V wasn’t there? I hate phone interviews. She’s not clear enough for me to distinguish what she’s saying exactly.
 
If an analysis by several industry experts is not going to change your mind, what chance to I have?

I don't like get in stupid fights in (or out) a forum but it seems to me that some people in here have some negative attitude and like to take down other members just for the sake of it, so here we go..
Change my mind on what exactly?

My point:

I feel that the sound issues that I personally experience could have been solved if they hired a good sound engineer because:
  1. it's his/her job to make thing works.
  2. it was the last date of the tour and the last date in Wembley (so they had 12 or 2 dates to spot the issue and solve the problem).
What do the article says? Here some pieces:

Sound quality may not have been the top priority for the Spice Girls, says Robb Allan

"So even though we design speaker systems by computer - if we can't put our speakers in the right place because of video screens, or because of walkways, or the stage, it makes it harder."

Allan, who's also a live sound specialist for technology company AVID, points out that the Spice Girls have a particular problem because they spend a large proportion of the show on walkways in the middle of the crowd - putting them in front of the speakers.

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"They're not ideal on many levels, never mind sonically."

The problems with playing music in sports stadiums are well known, agrees Scott Willsallen, an Emmy Award-winning sound designer who has worked on multiple Olympic and Commonwealth Games ceremonies.

"In an auditorium that's built for amplified sound, most of the surfaces are pretty soft and fluffy, so any sound that's fired at them is absorbed; whereas a stadium is meant to reflect those sounds to make it more exciting for the crowd.

"The reverberation that helps make a sporting event really exciting makes a mess of the intelligibility of a concert."

There are ways around it, says Willsallen, who has even gone to the expense of hanging drapes around stadiums to absorb echoes and reverberations.

"It's an exercise that can be done - but in that touring world, where it's such a quick turnaround between venues, I imagine that's a tricky bit of economics."


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However, Allan says modern speaker systems - which are distributed across the stadium, rather than being placed at one end of the pitch - have largely eradicated that problem.

"Now we can point the audio into every little corner of the stadium, and predict it with great accuracy. We can change the way the speakers respond to humidity and the temperature. It's all computer-controlled and incredibly sophisticated. So issues are rare."

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"I'm certain that the next shows are only going to improve because people will be asking the right questions to figure out what the root of the problem is and solve that."

So the article is basically saying that Stadiums are not the best place to have a concert but if you know how to place speakers and how to use some tricks here and there, you can have a good sound quality.

So it's saying that if you're a good sound engineer you can avoid sound issues.

Again, what do I have to change my mind about?
 
I'm just working out what I've spent on merch and Spice related things so far:

Spiceworld baseball cap x2 (in case one fades in the sun)
Ginger Spice t-shirt
Spice ring necklace
Tour programme
Spiceworld drawstring bag
Spice logo pin badge
Spice Up Your Life pin badge
Blue lanyard
Goodie bag ticket bundle: water bottle / postcards / Girl Power pin badge / lanyard
Buffalo boots

I need more.

I'm at...

Purple Spiceworld hoodie
White group shot t-shirt
Ring t-shirt
Tour programme
White 4-square itinerary t-shirt
Spice ring necklace

I'm thinking about ordering a Little Miss Ginger mug and I'm still gutted they sold out of the long sleeve pink itinerary shirt.
 
he/him
I'm hoping they might have a clearance on the website at some point now we're post-tour. I got two programmes (one for my friend) and I bought the black t-shirt with the large logo and the 4-panel photograph for my friend. I actually liked it more than I thought I would in person (I was tempted to keep it for myself...).
 
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