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Walkers Crisps flavours coming soon:

 

“A deal with Walkers crisps has resulted in the four performing Spice Girls having their own flavour. Emma Bunton is on 'Roast Chick-Em', Melanie Chisholm is 'Mel C-Salt and Vinegar', Geri is 'Ginger and Chilli' and Mel B is 'Mel BBQ Beef'.”

 

Where did this come from is it a joke?

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Ha! I love it :lol:

 

It’s already had over a million views on Twitter :wub:

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Already on 700,000+ views just 5 hours after it was uploaded to YouTube :o
It’s performing better than Spicy lol.
There’s an article on the official charts page as I’m sure it’ll be the same quotes

The article on officialcharts.com is just a tiny portion of the original one.

http://www.musicweek.com/live/read/viva-fo...-uk-tour/076361

 

Can anyone access the full article? I would love to read Simon's plans for the group.

 

Spice Girls co-manager Simon Fuller has hailed the Spice Girls reunion as “the perfect tour at the perfect time” as the Spice World 2019 dates fill stadia across the UK and Ireland.

 

XIX Entertainment founder Fuller – who has partnered with Modest! Management on the reformed band – flew in from his Los Angeles base to see the first show at Dublin’s Croke Park and said the dates had re-established the group as a pop phenomenon.

 

“Girl Power doesn’t go away, it just gets stronger,” Fuller told Music Week. “With the need for it this year, just as a planet and certainly from a British point of view, it felt like the perfect tour at the perfect time.

 

“I was talking with Blackpink and they were saying what a big influence the Spice Girls were for them. It’s about a global phenomenon, a moment in time; three crazy years when everyone was swept away by Girl Power – and those moments last for generations.”

 

SJM MD Simon Moran, the UK tour promoter, told Music Week that the audience at the shows suggested the group can reach a new generation.

 

“Mums were there with their daughters, so it crosses all boundaries,” he said. “There’s a good number of people [attending the tour]who weren’t born when the Spice Girls came out, so they’ve got new fans there.”

 

The 13 stadium dates, which conclude with three sold-out shows at London’s Wembley Stadium on June 13-15, broke Ticketmaster records.

 

Moran, who co-promoted the Spice Girls tour with Live Nation and Solo, said the vast majority of tickets were sold on the first weekend on sale, with further dates then added.

 

“We were very optimistic but it exceeded my initial expectations,” he said. “Demand for tickets has been massive.”

 

Fuller said a decision would be made “soon” on whether “the tour extends to other parts of the world”.

 

“That is really down to the Girls,” he said. “We can kick into gear at 24 hours’ notice. It was important to them to get back together and tour Britain, because there’s such a connection. I’d say it’s 50-50; if it happens, great, if it doesn’t, then it’s all been good.”

 

Moran highlighted the “cutting-edge” production but insisted that ticket prices were “affordable”. He also downplayed reports of sound problems in Dublin and Cardiff (“I was there – it sounded good”).

 

“It’s a tremendous production – it’s been a lot of effort and finance but it’s really creative,” he said. “It’s paying homage to the legacy but it’s really of the moment as well; technically and creatively, it’s cutting-edge as well as having a degree of nostalgia.”

 

Moran said that the absence of Victoria Beckham from the reunion did not deter his ambitions for the scale of the UK tour.

 

“People were just so eager for it, I was pretty confident it would work – which obviously it has,” he said. “The phenomenal Spice Girls brand has just grown stronger.”

 

The Spice Girls have added over one million monthly listeners on Spotify since their reunion announcement (they now have 7.4 million).

 

Deezer revealed that there was a 242% increase in streams when comparing the daily total on May 27 – the first night of the UK tour at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff – with the 24-hour figure at the beginning of the month. Wannabe, Stop and Say You’ll Be There are driving the streaming boom.

 

“It really highlights how the fans are reconnecting with the Spice Girls’ music,” Junior Foster, Deezer’s senior artist marketing manager, told Music Week.

 

“Dublin experienced a large amount of streams and was the second most streamed location in the days following the show. Given that’s where they kicked off their tour, it’s great to directly see the correlation between live tours and streaming.”

 

Foster suggested that the reunion would benefit from new songs.

 

“It could definitely help with promotion, especially when paired with live shows or a country-wide tour,” he said. “New material can energise fans with excitement of something fresh and, in turn, drive streams back to the old catalogue once again.”

 

Fuller said there was no particular catalogue push on streaming (“If this was a full-on reinvention, then we would be looking at all of those things. But it isn’t, it’s a cultural moment in time”) and that new music remains unlikely “unless there was a good reason”. One catalyst for that could be the animated Spice Girls movie that Fuller is working on.

 

“That will be a complete new beginning,” he said. “That would open up a whole different range of opportunities so in that context, [new music is] quite possible. But as things stand in the context of the Spice Girls we know now, probably not.”

 

However, despite the success of Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, and the Spice Girls’ previously successful foray into the movies with 1997’s Spice World, Fuller ruled out a biopic about the band – for now.

 

“I love Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman,” he said. “When you have real life stories that are brilliant, no one can write that stuff. So maybe one day. But we’re more focused on the animated side of things; it’s going to be a lot more fun and youthful, and not a biopic by any means.

 

“But it’s a phenomenal, inspiring story, I’ll tell you that! One of the things that came over [on tour] was the Girls reflecting on their humble beginnings and there they are, in Dublin in front of nearly 80,000 people. It’s mind-blowing and very humbling for them.”

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Thanks for the posting the article, Liam! I really hope they strongly consider taking the show worldwide!

 

The Walkers advert is already Walker's second most viewed video on their account :o It has just under 1.7m views!

You know, I liked it at first cos I thoght it was a cute take on the track, but it is already grown old on me. The lack of a chorus is quite a let down, I think... But it is nice that it has happened, I think. Wonder how well or not it is doing lol

Dont know whether its got a stadium to cope... but Blackpool would be a great venue for

 

2 or 3 l Gigs and a chance for the Spices to chill out on the beach during the day .....

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