The Spice Girls Thread

[Milky Tears]

GMTV and Richard & Judy were spurting all over the Spice reunion story today. Richard's pants were moist. There's an announcement next Thursday:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/..._id=1003602520

http://www.itv.com/news/entertainmen...d7947d49b.html

[davethesailor]

Where can I book my ticket?

[Simon R]

Chiz was a bundle of fun on the Friday Night Project. It really is an awful programme but just like David Tennant a few months ago she gave it her all and did really well with it. I moaned with pleasure when she dressed up as Sporty Spice even if she did look a bit old.

The forthcoming announcement has a lot to live up to but even a greatest hits and documentary will be better than nothing.

[P-Bal]

The Nemesis... She arrives!

[Milky Tears]

I can smell it coming!


They're even getting excited Down Under:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21981635-2,00.html



Some more guff from Digital Spy:

Spice Girls to enhance voices?

What time is that Press Conference tomorrow?

[Simon R]

I'm sure that rumour about the "Live voices" did the rounds back in 1998.

The press conference is mid-day I think.

Mel B had better have her proper hair.

[Si Hunt]

That digital spy report makes me so angry because it epitomises what ignorant, pathetic liars our press are. Look at the way the report is structured:

First paragraph states something as fact (the reader absorbs it)

Second paragraph reveals it's a claim by the Daily Mail (reader is dubious but still believing)

Third paragraph reveals it's been confirmed as utter myth by the band

I really, really loathe the gutter press.

Si.

[Matthew T]

[SiHart]

Good grief! What is Geri wearing?

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

I'm refreshing the news page every minute!!!

Si.

[Milky Tears]

Are they waxworks? Don't think much of that one with the grapefruit baps!

Emma and Geri are looking good.

Sky News report announcement within next half hour.

[Matthew T]

http://www.thespicegirls.com/en/index.html

[Milky Tears]

Sky News are still reporting an announcement within the next half hour. At least they had Nick Ferrari on to spout some pish in the meantime.

[Milky Tears]

It's finally here.

I think my gran knows more about the girls than those Sky reporters.

[Si Hunt]

Has it finished? What about the Greatest Hits/new material? Surely they wouldn't tour without releasing a GH??

Si.

[Matthew T]

It's a tour, greatest hits CD, and a wart-and-all TV documentary, according to Radio 1.

[Milky Tears]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6246448.stm

Spice Girls announce reunion tour

The Spice Girls have confirmed they will reform for a 12-date world tour to begin in December.

The annoucement was made at a press conference at London's O2 arena which all five members attended.

The full line-up has not performed together since Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell quit in May 1998.

"I think for us it was about celebrating the past, enjoying each other and it's about our fans. It was the right time," said Halliwell.

The group will kick off their tour in Las Angeles in December, and will go on to perform in Las Vegas, New York, London, Koln, Madrid, Beijing, Hong Kong, Sydney, Cape Town and Beunos Aires.

Earlier this month Mel Chisholm, also known as Sporty Spice, told the BBC that any reunion would be for "a very short space of time... a final goodbye".

The singer added that she had resisted reforming the band in the past because "it was amazing, it was magical. We could never recreate it".

When asked at the conference why she had gone back on her word she said:

"A girl is allowed to change her mind and also this is something that we have only seriously started this year really. "I think really all of us have had our fears and doubts but we feel that the time is right."

All five women laughed and joked constantly with photographers and reporters, even jokingly booing one journalist.

Future plans

The tour is being put together by Simon Fuller, whose 19 company masterminded the group's global success more than a decade ago.

Under his guidance, the five-piece notched up a string of hits - including Wannabe and 2 Become 1 - while also capitalising on their fame with a stream of sponsorship deals.

Nicknames

Emma Bunton, Mel Brown, Mel Chisholm, Victoria Adams and Geri Halliwell quickly became household names - although they were better known as Baby, Scary, Sporty, Posh and Ginger.

They sold more than 55 million records around the world, and even starred in a film, Spice World.

Halliwell quit in 1998 citing "differences", leaving them to complete a sold-out world tour as a foursome.

The group achieved their third consecutive Christmas number one later that year, and released a third album, Forever, in 2000.

Each member has since pursued solo careers with varying degrees of success, while Posh Spice has become better known as fashion icon Victoria Beckham.

[Pip Madeley]

Victoria looks quite old/painfully thin in that photo.

[Milky Tears]

That digital spy report makes me so angry because it epitomises what ignorant, pathetic liars our press are. Look at the way the report is structured:

First paragraph states something as fact (the reader absorbs it)

Second paragraph reveals it's a claim by the Daily Mail (reader is dubious but still believing)

Third paragraph reveals it's been confirmed as utter myth by the band

I really, really loathe the gutter press.

Si.

Potty-mouthed Mel C ripped into the Daily Mail reporter at the press conference. Well, she said their story was a load of...

There was a clip on Richard & Judy.

NME article (with tour dates):

The Spice Girls confirm reunion tour

[P-Bal]

My pants are like porridge.

Do you think Geri missed the call where they all agreed to wear black?

[Dave Tudor]

I notice they're jumping on the Doctor Who bandwagon by being photographed in front of the Torchwood Tower, and by having an Auton replica of Victoria.

(Sorry, Vic.)



Bless 'em, it's good to see them back.

[Pip Madeley]

So is this December's PS meet taking place at the Spice Girls concert?

[Si Hunt]

God, I'd forgotton about the PS meet. Guys, we can't do Spice!

Si.

[Pip Madeley]

Aww, I would've gone to the Spice Girls gig, Wayne and Jonno would've loved it.

[P-Bal]

I'm never going to wash this pen again.