As a diehard Spice Girls fan, this is news that should send me dizzy with excitement. I should be setting up a pre-emptive WhatsApp group with my mates to co-ordinate tickets and 90s inspired outfits. I should be digging through my loft, wondering where on Earth my hair crimpers had got to. But hearing that the girl band who soundtracked my youth were once again reuniting only initiated one reaction: a disgruntled shrug.
Victoria Beckham didn’t join her bandmates for their 2019 tour (Photo: Andrew Timms/PA Wire)
The next time Spice Girls were wheeled out – literally – was at the 2012 London Olympics Closing Ceremony. The appearance cemented the band’s place as British icons, as they stood atop a convoy of five black cabs, and performed alongside the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen and The Who. It would be another seven years before they went out on another tour – this time, without Posh Spice, Victoria Beckham. It was a fine tour, enjoyable even, but there was something missing. The spark of seeing something rare had dissipated – it wasn’t special.
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Since leaving the band, Posh has leaned into her Spice-y nickname and become a fashion industry superstar. She is an A-lister, completely inaccessible to the general public, appearing only in slick Netflix documentaries about her husband’s career. Her bandmates, however, are much more available: Mel B is a regular on my TV, most recently appearing in Bear Grylls’s survival competition and The Masked Singer in France; I can text Emma Bunton on Sunday nights when she presents her Heart radio show.
The Spice Girls’ performance at the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony was a pop cultural moment (Photo: AMA/Corbis via Getty Images)
Take Oasis, who will be performing their first shows with both Gallagher brothers in the band for the first time in 16 years. Tickets are like gold dust and the band are predicted to make an eye-watering £50 million each (the Spice Girls’ 2019 tour earned them £12 million each).
In theory, I’m all up for a Spice Girls world tour… in a few more years’ time and with Easy V fully signed up. Concerts are growing more and more expensive, and music fans are having to be more selective about who they give their money to.
I’m afraid that if the Spice Girls wannabe in my pockets, they’ve gotta give me a better reason than a convenient 30th anniversary.
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