DIVIDE & CONQUER
It’s the sound guy equivalent of winning Powerball. Like hitching your wagon to a bullet train. No one could predict it and nothing could prepare you for it. One minute you’re chugging along on the daily grind, the next minute you’re on a white-knuckle 300kph ride, using all your strength just to hold on.
“I came on board for a two-week run. I was then asked to continue to do some one-off promotional shows. We had some early success over here in Australia which we followed with a couple of shows. Things then started to tick along in the US, so we flew to America. And before you know it we were doing a show at Madison Square Garden! We’ve been touring pretty much constantly ever since.”
That’s FOH engineer, Chris Marsh’s remarkable story; a story he relays from the front of house position in the middle of Etihad Stadium in Melbourne; a stadium Ed Sheeran sold out four nights in a row. I think some bright spark crunched the numbers and estimated about one in every 20 Australian adults saw Ed live. It’s truly phenomenal.
This tour sees Chris and system engineer Charlie
