Posted on 31/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

KT Tunstall on the Spice Girls' concert:
Scottish singer KT Tunstall attended one of the Spice Girls' recent concerts, by invitation of Melanie C. Tunstall said in her blog: "The lovely Sporty Spice asked if I'd like to go to one of their shows, and of course I said too right I do, and sorry to disappoint any dissenters out there, but it was ACE!"

Rumours: Cancellation of concerts:
The rumours are that the Spice Girls will cancel the shows in Australia, China, Argentina, and South Africa after Mel B's interview on Al Murray's Happy Hour TV show, in which she stated that the tour will end on March 18th, with more dates for America.

Meeting the Spice Girls:
The winner of the Spice Girls' official site competition, Adam from Birmingham and his guest Simon, met the girls on the backstage of the girls' final concert in London. He said: “It was one of the best experiences of my life, thank you. Emma was absolutely lovely, she grabbed me straight away and gave me a kiss and then I had a chat with Melanie C. (...) It was brilliant seeing the show after meeting them too. We had seats right by the stage and Mel B blew Simon a kiss from the stage while Melanie C gave me a nod and a smile."

Spice Girls on Watchdog:
The Spice Girls featured on this weeks' episode of the TV show Watchdog, reporting a website that sold tickets for the tour but never sent the anything to their clients nor refund them. Download it HERE.

Technical problems at Boston concert:
During the performance of Spice Up Your Life (Reprise) at the Spice Girls' concert in Boston, yesterday, the audio was cut off but the girls kept performing with the low sound. Watch it HERE and HERE.

Credits: Spice News/Alfa86

Posted on 29/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Click below to view the arts showed on the big screens during the performance of Holler on The Return Of The Spice Girls tour. The arts feature Melanie C, Victoria, Emma and Mel B fighting:
      

Credits: mcmike

Posted on 29/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

From Hello Magazine:

"The only Spice not to have had children, Mel C confessed recently that seeing her bandmates with their kids on the reunion tour has left her feeling broody. 'I'd love to be a mother and at my age, the clock is ticking so I don't want to leave it too long,' the singer, who turned 34 last month, said in December. 'I do a lot of live shows and festivals, which is a lifestyle that won't suit a child, so I think I need to seriously consider taking time out.'
And once the mega-successful Spice tour comes to an end, it seems the perfect opportunity to make that change.
Last March, Mel revealed her dream vision for the future: raising a family with her long-term boyfriend Thomas Starr - who she calls 'my one forever' - at the house they share in the Monmouthshire village of Catbrook. 'I'm really excited about this next phase of my life,' she said. 'I daydream about living in Wales permanently and taking the kids to school.'
However, she recently admitted that she was worried the eating disorder she suffered in the early days of the Spice Girls may have hampered her chance of conceiving. 'I got so thin when I wasn't eating, my periods stopped and my bones became so fragile, I may have done permanent damage. I hope I'm still in with a chance.'
Her baby plans could get in the way of her musical aspirations, though. Mel, who set up her own record label, Red Girl, in 2004, will be focusing on revitalising her solo career. 'The tour has given her a huge boost, confidence wise,' explained a source.
Las month, during a two-day break from the tour, she played an acoustic set at The Mint in LA and has a gig in New York lined up for next week."  

Credits: L.Lady

Posted on 29/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Click below to view pictures of Melanie leaving Heathrow airport, in London, to United States of America:

      

Posted on 26/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Click below to view pictures of Melanie shopping in Manchester, on January 25th:

       

Credits: Dennis (mcrulesme)

Posted on 25/01/2008 by Anna Marina

I had the opportunity to attend 2 Spice Girls' gigs, on Januay 12th and 16th! The videos from the 16th are now available for download in our hotsite The Return Of The Spice Girls Tour (the videos from the12th will be up in a few days with the review). And the pics are now in our gallery, don't forget to check them by clicking below:

      

Posted on 25/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Interviews in Manchester:
With the shows in Manchester, the Spice Girls gave some interviews to Manchester Evening News and Yorkshire Evening Post, check out Melanie C's bits:
Will the Spice Girls make new music together?
"This is something we were asked when it came to the time of putting the Greatest Hits together. We did work on a couple of new tracks which are on the greatest hits. But this tour was to celebrate all our past successes. We have no intentions to continue as a group. We're big fans of Take That and they are really deserving of all the new success they are having. But we really don't want to follow that path. The whole show is about nostalgia. Also, we've seen our fans grow up and have their own children and there's a whole new generation of Spice Girls fans out there. Plus we've had the chance to appreciate it much more. Everything happened so quickly, so all-at-once first time around and we never thought about it ending. But now we know it can't last forever, so we enjoy every second of it."
About Manchester's campaign to have 3 dates on the tour:
"We actually have to say a massive thank you for that. I told the girls all about it, Mel B was over in LA and I actually woke her up because we were so overwhelmed by all the emails we received trying to get us here."

Listen to the interviews:
You can listen to the Spice Girls' interviews for Manchester Evening News, Yorkshire Evening Post and Radio Key 103 by clicking HERE, HERE and HERE.

Good Morning America:
The girls gave an interview via satellite for the American TV show Good Morning America but unfortunately they didn't answer any of the questions sent by fans. Click HERE to watch it on You Tube or HERE to download it.

Manchester - Pictures:
Click below to view pictures of the Spice Girls' first show in Manchester, on January 23rd:

Credits: lynzi/Vomiting Porpoise/Depp27/Irish_Eyes

Posted on 24/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Download some "new" radio audios from last year:

Forth Radio - Mel promotes This Time on March 28th, 2007 and tells the storyline behind the I Want Candy music video!

Jammin' On Radio 2 - Melanie took part of the comedy show singing bits of many songs on 20th July 2007.

Credits: Anna Marina/Marcelo

Posted on 23/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Click below to check HQ pictures of Mel's photoshoot at São Jorge castle in Lisbon, last year, when she was promoting This Time:

      

Credits: Dennis (mcrulesme)

Posted on 23/01/2008 by Anna Marina

Spice Girls to appear on American show:
The Spice Girls will appear tomorrow on Good Morning America, via satellite link-up from Manchester. You can send your question and it may be selected to be asked to the girls. You can send it through e-mail or a video, check this link for the instructions.

Headlines video on American DVD:
It seems that the America version of the Greatest Hits DVD features the video of Headlines (Friendhsip Never Ends) check HERE and HERE.

Spice Girls to sign with L'Oreal:
According to E-Canada News, the Spice Girls are about to sign a deal with L'Oreal, to be the stars for the brand's new campaign for hair care. A source said, "They are back in a big, big way, and they're not going to stop at a tour. They are in talks to sign with L'Oreal, and have a lot of other things in the pipeline."

Royal treatment for the Spice Girls:
According to Manchester Evening News, the Spice Girls will get thrones in order to rest backstage at MEN Arena, where the shows will take place starting from today. Designed by Halo, each throne will be personalized. Melanie C's will bring the emblem for Liverpool FC, the football club she supports. After the gigs in Manchester, the thrones will be auctioned on eBay and the money will be donated to charity.

New videos on the official site:
Two videos are now up on TheSpiceGirls.com. The first one shows the Spice Girls moments before entering the stage, doing their make-up, and the other features small interviews with the girls from Capital Children's Choir, that sung Mama with the Spice Girls at the London gigs.

Credits: pop_rocks/RLJNunez/Gspice

Posted on 21/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Melanie wrote an article for the tabloid The Sun about Liverpool being the European City of Culture. The article features her views and memories of her home city. To celebrate the city's new honour, there will be 350 events over the year and Melanie also expressed her desire to get involved in this big party. Click HERE to read the article.

Posted on 21/01/2008 by Anna Marina

Jammin' broadcast:
Radio 2 is finally broadcasting the radio show Jammin', that Melanie recorded on July 21st last year. It's a comedy show and Mel is the musical act, performing many songs such as This Time, I Wish and Like a Prayer. You can listen to it on this link, Tuesday the 24th, at 11:30pm (GMT).

Result of Hello Magazine poll:
On the online poll, at Hello's website, Melanie ended up at the third position on the Most Attractive Female category, check HERE.

Mel's New Year's Resolution, for 2008:
From Daily Record: "My resolution is to like myself. Once you get over the fact that you have imperfections and accept yourself for who you are, it changes things. I mean, I never thought I would like myself, but now I think I'm all right."

Credits: K82-84

Posted on 20/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Check some more updates on Portal Melanie C:

Hotsite - Collaborations: Learn more about Melanie's musical collaborations in this new hotsite!

Reason & Greatest Hits 'Thank Yous': Read the 'thank yous' from Reason and Greatest Hits albums.

Video of the Week - Performances: Melanie and Bryan Adams performing When You're Gone at Royal Variety 1998.

Posted on 19/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Click below to view pictures of Mel and Tom at the Asian restaurant Dim T, in London today:

      

Posted on 18/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Tickets for the New York gig:
You can pre-order tickets for the acoustic gig in New York through Live Nation's website, click HERE. Melanie's official site also sent newsletter to the registered fans with a special link to buy the tickets 24 hours early. Tickets go on sale Saturday, January 19th at 10am (New York time).

Support act for the New York gig:
The support act for Melanie's gig in New York is Hayley Sales from Canada, check her official site and listen to her music on MySpace.

This Time official t-shirts on sale:
Melanie's official online store released four new This Time t-shirts, check them HERE.

Credits: the m/kimie/Simone

Posted on 18/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

The Moderator of Melanie's official forum replied my topic about yesterday's pictures (leaving Life Works, centre which treats eating disorders) for the relief of the fans:

"Just to reassure everyone that Melanie is in the best of health. Yesterday's visit was for general wellbeing rather than any specific condition. Thanks for your concern." 

Thanks Moderator!

Posted on 17/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

A new category for The Return Of The Spice Girls tour was created in our gallery for the 2008 concerts. Click below to view pictures from this year's concerts (thanks everyone who contributed with pictures - all credits are on the infobox below each picture):

      

The pictures from last year's concerts are in the "2007 - The Return Of The Spice Girls" category, click HERE.

New HQs of the Spice Girls at Roberto Cavalli's fashion show are available now, click below:

Posted on 17/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Click below to view pictures of Melanie leaving Life Works, centre which treats all kinds of disorders, compulsive behaviours, mental health and addictions. We hope everything's ok.

      

Posted on 16/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Videos - Spice Girls and Roberto Cavalli:
Click below to watch two videos of the Spice Girls at Roberto Cavalli's fashion show:
ITN Report
Corriere TV

More dates:
The Spice Girls' official website announced two more dates on The Return Of The Spice Girls tour:
February 22nd - Civic Center, Hartford, USA
February 24th - Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada

Mark from Westlife in the audience:
According to the Spice Girls' official website, Mark from Westlife went to the concert in London on January 12th and even joined in the special birthday moment that the girls secretly organised for Melanie C, singing Happy Birthday with the crowd.

Madonna in the audience:
Madonna and her family watched the Spice Girls' concert in London today (January 16th). It’s not the first time Madonna has seen the girls in concert, the queen of pop attended to one of the Spice Girls' concerts in the USA, in 1998.

Perez Hilton loves Melanie C:
The celebrity columnist Perez Hilton is always updating his blog with the latest about the Spice Girls' tour. But he also made a special entry to wish Melanie C happy birthday and another one to announce her solo acoustic gig in New York! Check out HERE and HERE.

Winner of "Meet the Spice Girls" competition:
The winner of the "Meet The Spice Girls" competition on TheSpiceGirls.com is Adam from Acocks Green in the United Kingdom.
Adam will get the chance of a lifetime on Friday evening when he will meet the girls before the show. Then he and his guest will take their seats at the O2 Arena to enjoy The Return Of The Spice Girls concert.

Credits: Alfa86/Paul

Posted on 15/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

From MelanieC.net:

"There has been some speculation about whether Melanie would do another acoustic gig on a Spice day off. Well, we are now happy to confirm the details.

Date: Saturday 9th February
Venue: The Grand Ballroom, Manhattan Center, 311 West 34th St, NY 10001
Ticket Price: $35 in adv ($40 on door)
Capacity: 1200
Melanie C on stage: 9.15pm

Melanie and the full band will perform an acoustic set.
There will be a local support act.

Tickets will be available via Ticketmaster and Live Nation from 10am (New Yourk Time) on Friday 18th January.

We will provide a link tomorrow."

Posted on 15/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

From TheSpiceGirls.com:

"The Spice Girls launched Sport Relief today by modelling this year’s t-shirt. Our fab five took time out from their sell-out, 17-night run at London's O2 Arena to pose for this picture, and Melanie C even found an ingenious way to show off the official socks… on her hands!

Melanie C told us: 'Signing up to do a mile for Sport Relief is such an easy thing to do especially after the post Christmas excesses.'
       
The girls added: 'Whether you're young or old, fit or unfit, most people can do a mile in one way or another and help poor and vulnerable people in the process.'"

Posted on 14/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Click below to view pictures of the Spice Girls today at Roberto Cavalli's Autumn/Winter collection show in Milan:

       

Posted on 13/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

We already have the winners of the Birthday Competition! Our two lucky winners sent all the 12 correct answers very fast and soon they'll receive the prizes. Congratulations!
Click below to check their names and also a top 20 of the first ones to send the highest number of correct answers.
I've read some comments saying that the questions were hard, but come on guys, did you forget our Search engine here in the home page? As you will see on the link below, all the answers were in our sections!
Thanks so much everyone and stay tuned for more competitions this year!

Posted on 12/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

From TheSpiceGirls.com:

"Birthday girl Melanie C got a surprise on stage at London’s O2 Arena this evening when, just after they had finished singing Mama, the girls were joined on stage by the Spice dancers and asked the entire audience to sing Happy Birthday.

Meanwhile, a huge chocolate cake came up through the stage floor, bearing the message “Happy Birthday Melanie” in icing and topped with a trademark pair of Sporty trainers.

Melanie was thrilled to share the special night with her family, including her mum and dad, who were in the audience at The O2 to watch The Return Of The Spice Girls show. It has truly been a Spice birthday to remember."

Posted on 12/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

So let's start the competition (now - January 12th, 17:00 GMT)! Check the instructions:

1) Answer the quiz (12 questions, each one with 4 options and only one correct answer for each question).

2) Send the answers to pmcpromo@gmail.com with your name and full address.

3) You can find all the answers in our sections, even the ones related to videos, if the videos or audios aren't here for download, there's at least a mention about it somewhere here on Portal.

4) The prizes are: an official fans' calendar 2008 (limited edition - number 54) for the first winner. A This Time vinyl (limited edition - number 1289) for the second winner.

5) The first winner will be the first e-mail we'll receive with the highest number of correct answers. The second winner will be the second e-mail we'll receive with the highest number of correct answers.

6) We need to receive the e-mail, so we don't take responsability if your connection is slow, or if you answered everything but had problems to send it. The e-mail is pmcpromo@gmail.com (working, already checked by us) and please add your full name and address, otherwise we'll not consider your e-mail.

7) The winners will be announced on Sunday (January 13th) also at 17:00 GMT. And we'll also post all the correct answers for you to check them tomorrow!

8) We'll not receive any more e-mails after the announcement of the winners tomorrow.

Good luck!

Posted on 11/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

It's Melanie's birthday and although we wish her the best every single day, today is the day to make a list of all these wishes: health, happiness, success, peace, love, friendship and many years of a wonderful life. Without her, this site would never exist because in our "stage" she's always the main artist! We love you, Mel!

Posted on 11/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

As we already posted, tomorrow (12/01) we'll have something special to celebrate Melanie's birthday here on Portal!
We're going to give away two prizes in a competition and you'll need to be very fast, so take a look at our first instructions:

1) Our sections will help you a lot, take some time to read about Melanie!

2) The competition will start at 17:00 GMT, check your time here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

We'll post the prizes and the full instructions tomorrow at 17:00 GMT, so don't miss it! 

Posted on 10/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Video from EMI Japanese:
The Spice Girls recorded a video last year for the EMI Japanese, speaking some words in Japanese, watch it HERE or download it HERE.

New official competition:
The Spice Girls official website has a new competition to meet the Spice Girls backstage at their London show on Friday, January 18th. Transportation is not included in the prize.
To enter the contest, send in your name, age, address, phone number, and the middle names of all the Spice Girls to
competitions@thespicegirls.com by January 16th.

Spice Girls at Cavalli show in Milan:
According to the website WWD, the Spice Girls will attend Roberto Cavalli's men's wear show in Milan, this Monday. The girls will be in Italy just for the event.

Credits: masahiro/Spice News/mel2vicem

Posted on 10/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Attention 1: We're gonna have something special here on the website for Melanie's birthday, soon we'll post the first instructions of how to participate!

Attention 2: If you're going to the Spice Girls' concert in London this Saturday, on Mel's birthday, please read this topic in the official board.

Posted on 09/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Dean Piper (from Closer Magazine) kindly informed Portal Melanie C about some unseen bits of his latest interview with Mel posted now on his website: http://www.deanpiper.com
Melanie talks among other things about Red Girl Records, the "competition" with the other Spice Girls, fame, plastic surgery, Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears.

Posted on 06/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

From TheSpiceGirls.com:

"Woo hoo!! 2008, Happy New Year everybody, it's going to be a good one.

Myself and all the Spiceys had a great Christmas. We caught up with our families, ate lots of mince pies and got some well-needed sleep!

We got together for a New Year’s Eve dinner at Gordon Ramsay's fabulous restaurant in Claridges. We got dressed up and had a great night. It was really lovely to see in the New Year with all the girls. We celebrated all the fun times from 2007 and raised a glass (or seven) to the ones to come and to the people who make them possible… especially you guys. THANK YOU!

Although we all really needed some rest we couldn't wait to get back on stage. The first show back was quite scary after not performing for a few days, but it was a blinder! In fact, the show has got even more exciting, we are having a ball and our audiences seem to be getting better and better.

It's lovely to be at home, even though it's freezing! I'm really looking forward to the show on the 12th because it's my birthday and I've never performed on my birthday before and I can't think of a better way to spend the evening. We're of to Manchester in a couple of weeks and we're really excited to take the show up north… so it's happy days in Spiceworld.

Hope you're all well and are avoiding that miserable flu. See you soon.

Lots of love...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!

Melanie C"

Posted on 04/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

New album?
Rumours are that the record label EMI is looking to get the Spice Girls to replace Robbie Williams as one of their main sources of income. A record company insider says that a new Spice Girls album is just around the corner.

New songs registered:
The BMI Repertoire database published two new registered Spice songs: Spice Is Back and Angels. Spice Is Back was written by the Spice Girls and Greg Hatwell, Mel's guitarist and co-writer of her solo songs Don't Need This and Fragile.

The Sun's Best Comeback Award:
The Spice Girls won The Sun's Best Comeback award. They receive the award at the backstage of Strictly Come Dancing, click HERE to see the picture.

Spice Girls offered £10 million to tour Australia:
According to The Sun, the Spice Girls were offered £2million each to tour Australia. A source said: “The girls have a massive fan base in Australia and a huge amount of cash is being thrown at them to get them to perform there. Everyone in Oz has been reading about the show and now they want a piece of the action.”

Credits: Spice News/Nuket/bananas/Mi Chico Latino

Posted on 04/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Radio Zet Commercial:
The commecial for the Polish Radio Zet featuring Melanie and other artists, filmed in 2006, is finally being aired! Watch it in this You Tube link.

Hello magazine's Most Attractive Female 2007:
You can vote for the Grand Finale of the Hello magazine's Most Attractive Female poll, click HERE. At the moment Melanie is just behind Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera! The voting ends on January 17th and you can vote every 15 minutes.

Life Music Chart:
This Time is in number 1 on the Russian Life Music chart, you can vote for the song HERE (choose 10 songs and click "vote").

Credits: Hunter/Manoline/Juliano Nicoliello

Posted on 03/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Check below another list of sections with new information:

Charity Works 2007:
New information about the charities Melanie helped in 2007, click HERE.

Filmography - Friday Night Project 2007:
Some information about Melanie's participation on the Friday Night Project 2007, click HERE.

Tour curiosities:
More curiosities were added to the hotsite The Return Of The Spice Girls Tour.

More pictures from the New Year's Eve:
Click below to view more pictures of Melanie on the new year's eve (some of them were replaced with HQs):

Posted on 01/01/2008 by Luisa Damulakis

Melanie spent the New Year's Eve with the Spice Girls at the Claridges Hotel, in London. Click below to view pictures:

      

And our photo albums of the tour were updated with more pictures, click below to view (click on "last uploads" or check the date of the last updated albums):