Girl Power! Live in Istanbul
| Girl Power! Live In Istanbul | ||||
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| Tour by Spice Girls | ||||
| Associated album | Spice Spiceworld |
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| Shows | 2 | |||
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Girl Power! Live In Istanbul was the first set of major concerts held by British pop girl group, the Spice Girls. The concerts, organized by Pepsi as part of the group's sponsorship deal, were performed at the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey on October 12 and 13, 1997.
Following the concert, a VHS of the concert was released but did not include all of the songs on the set list, omitting "Something Kinda Funny", "Saturday Night Divas", "Stop", "Too Much", "Love Thing" and "Mama". The VHS, however, includes interviews with the girls and backstage footage. Although the original concert was completely live, studio vocals were dubbed into several songs for the video version of the performance.
A DVD of the concert was made available in the UK on December 10, 2007 to coincide with the release of the Greatest Hits album and their reunion Return of the Spice Girls tour. It features the "Girl Talk" documentary, a countdown to the concert, and the 9-song concert, as previously available on VHS.[1]
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[edit] The Show
The Show was split up into 5 parts with a costume change at each one. The stage consisted of a ramp leading down to the main stage. There were two staircases at the far right and left of the stage that lead to smaller platform stages. There was a small runway at the centre of the main stage. The band was located at the bottom right and left of the ramp. There was a grid with the letters S-P-I-C-E on the left of the stage. There was also a large screen at the back of the stage that would rise and lower. It was used at the start of show. The Girls would enter the stage as it rose.
[edit] Set list
Act 1
- "If U Can't Dance"
- "Who Do You Think You Are" (Intro contains samples of "Diva" by Club 69)
- "Something Kinda Funny"
- "Saturday Night Divas"
- "Say You'll Be There"
- "Step to Me"
Act 2
- "Naked" (Intro contains excerpts from the motion picture "Batman Forever")
Act 3
- "2 Become 1"
- "Stop"
- "Too Much"
Act 4
- "Spice Up Your Life"
- "Love Thing"
- "Mama"
Encore
[edit] Tour dates
| Date | City | Country | Venue | ||
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| October 12, 1997 | Istanbul | Turkey | Abdi İpekçi Arena | ||
| October 13, 1997 | |||||
[edit] Broadcast
The full concert was first aired on January 17, 1998 at 9 p.m. (E.T.) on Showtime Channel in a pay-per-view event.[2] The broadcast was titled Spice Girls In Concert Wild!
The concert was also aired on Fox Family Channel on Sunday, August 16, 1998 at 6:00 PM.[3] The broadcast was titled Spice Girls—Wild! in Concert[4] and featured trivia before and after commercials and backstage footage in addition to the set list. The show was two hours in length with advertisements and managed to receive a 1.8 Household rating when it aired despite being up against a four hour MTV special and a Spice Girls concert airing the same weekend.[3] All songs from the set list except for "Naked" were aired during the broadcast.
[edit] References
- ^ "Woolworths DVD sale page". http://www.woolworths.co.uk/web/jsp/product/index.jsp?pid=50960513.
- ^ "News - Articles - 1434499". Mtv.com. 1997-12-03. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1434499/19971203/spice_girls.jhtml. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
- ^ a b Katz, Richard (August 19, 1998). "Fox Family debuts well". The New York Times. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117479636.html?categoryid=14&cs=1.
- ^ Sterngold, James (August 9, 1998). "COVER STORY; A Family Channel Welcomes Black Sheep". Variety. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05EFDF1F3BF93AA3575BC0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
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