They say Britain is a nation of devoted queuers. If so, it’s just had a bonanza, segueing neatly from a stampede for tickets to hear Michelle Obama in conversation at London’s Royal Festival Hall to a full-on meltdown in pursuit of a chance to see four-fifths of the Spice Girls in venues across the land next summer. Clearly, the lack of Posh – busy designing those frocks in which you can imagine an elegant Tory wife expressing support for her faithless husband while planning to take him to the cleaners, or indeed the morgue – is no barrier to adulation; Sporty, Scary, Ginger and Baby will do just fine on their own.
Following the example of Take That sans Robbie Williams, rather than Fleetwood Mac with Crowded House’s Neil Finn subbed in for Lindsey Buckingham (who, in time-honoured fashion, is busy suing the band), the Spice Quartet are heading out to meet fans old and new. That demand has immediately prompted them to add dates to the tour suggests their business instincts, or at least those of their manager, Simon Fuller, have not been dimmed by the passage of time.
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