Music

Footage From The Spice Girls Reunion Has Landed, And It’s A Lot

Girl Power!

by Joseph Earp  27 May 2019
The Spice Girls Reunion show photo

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A lot of things have changed in seven years. Streaming has revolutionised the music world, Donald Trump is the President now, we’re all even more sure that we’re going to die in a climate apocalypse, and Lee Harding is back in the public consciousness. But what hasn’t changed at all is the world’s collective Spice Girls fever.

After all, the message of girl power is still just as relevant as it was back in 2012 when the five-piece pop group banded together for a supposedly final reunion performance during the premiere of a Spice Girls musical called Viva Forever!

Enter Spice Girls (or at least, most of them) from stage right. After their seven-year hiatus, the group are currently making their way through Europe and the UK on a massive reunion tour that it wouldn’t be too foolish to hope might eventually make its way Down Under.

Yep, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell are back, baby, and ready to trot out a host of the classics that made them one of the most important and beloved bands of the British pop invasion in the ’90s.

But, by all accounts, this isn’t one of those stale and uninspired reunion tours — one of those lazy cash-grabs designed to treat fans like walking wallets only valuable when pilfered. Nope, footage from the tour seems to guarantee that this is a big, no-holds bar party, a celebration of everything that has kept the Spice Girls in the public consciousness for literal decades.

Let’s all keep our fingers exceedingly crossed and hope that this show makes its way down to us pretty soon, hey.