Metal tribute act playing screaming riffs and pounding double-kicks to the Spice Girls' hits, strictly for over-18s.
Mosh Spice are playing SUB89 on Friday 4 June, bringing their Spice Girls metal tribute to Reading. It's a fairly straightforward premise: they take the pop hits the Spice Girls put out in the 1990s and run them through a metal filter. The set goes from 'Wannabe' to 'Spice Up Your Life', and they describe it as the world's first all-metal Spice Girls tribute, with the songs reframed across every shade of metal.
What that actually looks like is a bit of a departure from the original records. Instead of the pop production, you get screaming riffs, pounding double-kicks and powerful vocals. It's the same songs you know, just played with a lot more distortion and a lot more weight behind them. If you're familiar with the 90s pop, you'll recognise the melodies, but they're delivered as metal songs rather than pop ones.
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It's a night that sits somewhere between nostalgia and a proper metal gig, so it works as well if you're there for the songs as if you're there for the noise. The show is strictly over-18s, so it's an adults-only crowd. It runs from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at SUB89, 110-117 Friar St, Reading RG1 1EP, and tickets are £22.
