Do Go On - 15 - The Spice Girls

Episode Date: February 3, 2016

I tell you what I want what I really really want? An hour of Spice Girls trivia, that's what! This week, Jess takes us on a trip down memory lane with some 90s nostalgia about the most successful female pop group of all time! She also sings a lot in this one and is very sorry. Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Now is the time, mycomputercareer.edu. you. Hello and welcome to do go on a show where we like to talk about something and we is me Dave Warnke and I'm here with the other Two thirds of the we with match to it. I'm one third of the way the other third of the way is Just Perkins third way you are the third way. No, I save some save the best we It's like you like just before bed week. Or the morning after week. Or the one after, you're out the shops and you're walking home after the train station has been ages since you've seen a toilet.

And you're like, oh, I need a weasel. Oh, guys. And then you have that moment of, oh. I've got a weasel story. Yeah. I think I, um, go on. So I was doing my silly little world record show at the Falls Festival of a New Year's Eve and in the show I mean a couple other

comedian gays like to break made up world records but the only record I feel I actually broke for the whole festival was when you because it's a camping festival and they don't didn't have have any toilets there so you had to use portals and it had this situation where every time you pee it was onto a paddle and then it would get to a certain weight and then it would dip and it would just keep dipping and everyone was counting how many dips they were getting everyone was like yeah five six and I'm like I got 11 11 dip and then the other guys in my camp and these people that we made friends with in the camp, didn't really believe me, and I was a bit drunk,

and I'm like, that's it, so I drank a couple of beers and I yelled onto the last possible second. And I'm like, that's it, we're going to the bottle of it, and I ran it up like seven people. And they watched you pay. Just left the door open, and then they just can't it out, try it out for me every time I did the dip.

One, two, I got 14 dips. So it's more impressive if you realize that you are only doing six or seven. So I don't know, it's probably a medical issue. And I got so disappointed I was there. That's right in my alley. I would have found that so entertaining. It was really fun. I reckon I could have done more. Jekin? Yeah. Well, we'll find out. Well, let's get a portaloo. Let's get all building work, like, work sites. OK.

Let's do it. We'll pause this now. Yeah. We'll be back. You guys go, I'll just do the report. You guys go do that. Just talk to no one. Yeah.

It's probably more fun that way for me. Oh, all right. Matt, let's get out of here. Let's get out of here. It's really for a piss on a paddle. The paddle pisses. Yeah, it's a paddle piss boy. It's unfair that pregnant women get to do all the paddle pissing.

What about our chance? You piss on a paddle to find out if you're pregnant. Oh, that's what you mean by paddle. OK, and with you. It's a stick, but right now. Shall we? Shall we? Well, what we, the paddle the paddle piss club as we have, I mean...

No, I like paddle piss boys and I make a thing with one of the boys. All right, paddle piss boys. Sounds like a crime fighting, too. What we do on this show is we are, right a report about something. Can it be where you were related? It might not be at all, who knows. And it is Jess's turn to report to Matt and I on something we don't know what you're going to talk about. Jess, you ready? I'm ready. I'm ready to go. And we always start with a question. That's is right. So my question this week to you, Lads, is who would you say is the biggest pop act of, I was going to say of the nineties but it branched into two thousand as well

Madonna no so not match okay not not britney michael jackson was still having some hits in the nineties in the eighties and okay it's a group all back stress no uh... that's what's going on Oh, backstreet ball. No. Backstreet ball. Spice girls. Spice girls. Spice girls. I love them.

We are talking about the Spice Girls. Yes. Whoa. That's working at the car wash when I'm talking about it. I think before you go too far in the set, everyone has to say who their favorite Spice girl is. Of course. It's pretty hard to say.

No, I've definitely got a favorite. Yeah. Me, Melcy, Sporty Spice for Life. Mm-hmm. Scary Spice man over here. Yeah, but it's scary. Oh, Mel B. Mel B.

See, I was on the fence. I can't actually do you know what? I wanted to be Sporty Spice because I was a Sporty kid, believe it or not. I'm sorry. And I still am. A Sporty kid. You ate two kilos.

Tennis record is heavy for you. Oh, well. Table tennis is a challenge. I'll take the criticism on board. Well, they're really well. I think I told myself I like sporty spice, but definitely a baby spice girl. A baby.

Definitely, baby. Yep. I hope you think woodwinded a fire to the death. Scary. She's scary, but sporty. Have you seen her do those back flips? Yeah, but, and it's a fun fact from later. Oh, great.

No, don't ruin your fun facts now. Please, we'll call back to it. Oh, man, now I'm hanging out for fun facts already. Man, so were you big into the Spice Girls, Jess? Well, that's the thing. So they started in the early 90s, and I was born in 90. So when they first started, I was kind of a bit too young for them. They started in the early 90s and I was born in 90s. So when they first started, I was kind of a bit too young for them.

They started in the early nine. I didn't know that when that far back. What on a B's they're first single? Was that 95? 96, yeah. So I was 60's old. Yeah. So you could still appreciate them.

Oh, for sure. And I definitely liked them, but I wasn't fanatic. I wasn't huge on them. And I think what's kind of interesting about this, a lot of the topics that we do is like things that I know about, but I don't know how much I don't know. Yeah. I mean so it's been kind of nice like look at how they started and everything like that so that's what we're going to do now. Oh man I'm excited I

really do enjoy the music of the Spars girls. You know there are different kinds of knowledge there's there's known names, things you know you know there are there is like a this is an ink like a George Bush era Report the came out about the war about the weapons of master suction in Iraq as there are known known things We know we know there are unknown Things we know we don't know and then there's unknown unknown things we don't know we don't know. Okay, well as I go. And that is the scariest part of this report.

As I go through this, you can tell me what level of known it is. Yeah. How about that? It's what we're was push hiding that weapon of master structure. It's what I want to know. That's what we all want. That's a big question. And will we get to it by the end of the show? No.

Find out on this episode of Do Go On. Oh, Bob. Okay, so I'll start with their formation, it seems like a logical place to start. So in the mid-90s there was this management team made up of Bob Herbert, Chris Herbert and Lindsay Kasben. And they said about creating a girl group to compete with all the popular boy bands that were really dominating the music scene at the time. So you've got bands like Take That, East 17, big, big groups that were really dominating. All right, all right, everything's gonna be all right. All right, all right. It's gonna be all right.

Saturday 17. You better bloody hope, so. Me too. So in February of 94, Heart Management, which was these three, plus they got a financier whose name was chick Murphy, great name. So February 94, they placed an ad in the stage, which is a trade magazine. Ask him, this is what the ad said. It said, wanted. Are you, and that's literally letter R, letter U.

Saving money, they paid per letter. Smart. 18 to 23 with the ability to slink, slush dance slash dance oh there was up until a couple of years ago you still you street wise outgoing ambitious and dedicated yes hard management are a widely successful music industry management consortium hello currently forming a choreographed singing dancing all, all female pop-act for a recording deal, open audition. Wow, and did it say, but it did say female, did it? It's an all-female group, yes.

Damn it. And I've got the songs that the girl sang at their auditions. Oh wow. Yeah, so... What was the brief you had to bring in the song, do a dance? You had to bring either sheet music so that you could be accompanied on a piano or a backing cassette. I wouldn't brought a cassette because I am new school. Yeah, you're not messing around. But then again, maybe some of that old school, you know, anyway.

Victoria Adams, as she was known, Adams, not Beckham. She's saying mine her, which is like a well-known cabaret song. Mine her, it sounds like a Nancy song. Mine count. Oh that's not me. What's my, how do you saw mine? Emme Iain. Alright. Mel B, scary spot. She's saying greatest love of all. Mel C, saying I'm so excited. I'm so excited. So what's Mel B stand for? Brown. Brown, isn't she? And Mel and Echism, that's right, very good. Now, so patronizing, I'm sorry, very good.

Which is my favorite, I should do it last night. You have, you have, like, did you get, I've got a younger sister who's about Jess's age. And she was, and she was all, she was all about spice. Last year, so I have us as who's three years older, so she sort of ate when the first song comes out and that says perfect, yeah. Perfect, yeah. So you were probably exposed to it a lot more. See, I have a brother who's seven years older than me, so I would have been at that age trying to be like him. I was, that's when I was

really idolizing him, so I did everything he did. So I probably didn't listen to the spy skills as much. You were more of an E17 kind of boy. Yeah, like Metallica, what he was really into at the time. Okay, so I'm so excited, that's Mel C. Jerry Halleywell saw the ad but went skiing in Spain and missed the audition because their face was sunburnt, she didn't want to go to the audition with the sunburnt face. Oh. So she originally didn't even audition. Okay. Yeah, she sort of want to go to the audition with the sunburned face. Oh. So she originally didn't even audition.

Okay. Yeah, she sort of came in later in the process. So they go through this big process. I think they had something like 400 people turn up at the audition. Oh, doesn't even feel like that many though, does it? 400? 400. It's a lot of people to whittle it down to five.

If you're an ad in a paper, but if you think about Australian art or they have thousands of people. But that goes up on social media that's you know and and TV So that's what I'm saying this is Obviously it's a bit small scale, but if you if you did a search now you'd get thousands of people. Yeah But for a newspaper ad it wouldn't be good Also these days they'd send a YouTube link and you'd be like next Next you 400 people they can't just walk in and you go, like they probably instantly know who they don't want, but they can't.

And it's an open audition. They can't say, don't bother singing your song mate. You don't have to get your agent to book the audition for you, it's an open audition, anybody turns up on the stream. So it's basically, it is pretty much what a Australian idol or ex-factualist, but without the TV cameras, but I think it's hard to be a band formed on one of those shows and still be big because you're sort of saying as a joke band from the start.

Yeah, that's right. Whereas these... Although, isn't that huge boy band now? One direction. They came from one of those shows I believe. Yes, they did. Well, they didn't win. Didn't they? No, I think I came third. Oh, okay, and then they've made more money than all of those acts

So anyway, and so have we get talked about baby swice a song? No because she She did audition, but she was too young Emma Bunton, so she actually was a bit how old was she 18? The others are like 19 20. Oh, well to to be fair they did say 18 to 23. I know I sorry but I don't think she made it through or was offered it and wasn't sure something like that. Okay so have other people been chosen then? Yes so they would let down in. Yeah that's right. Well there is a Stuart Sutcliffe kind of person so this is the final final five by the time they've

with little down. So you've got the two males, male trees and male brown. You got Victoria Adams, Jerry Halleywell, and Michelle Stevenson. Have you heard of Michelle Stevenson? No one has. Oh, no. Well, she, what kind of spice is she going to be?

I don't know. Average spice. Average spice. Average spice. Do you know what they were originally called? Ah, I read this recently. No, I don't know. It's a great name. They were called touch.

Oh, that's gross. So creepy, right? And they moved into this big house together. I thought, but they were going to be like, we're all different types of touch. I'm sensual touch. Well, that's it. I'm creepy touch. I'm of touch. I'm sensual touch. Well that's a creepy touch. I'm unwanted touch.

I'm Uncle Jeff touch. Sorry Uncle Jeff. Do you have an Uncle Jeff? Oh I do know. Did you get on to where the spice names came from? Yes, I'll get to that. I don't think it was the band themselves that came up with them. It wasn't. Those names were sort of given to them and they just stuck. I'm not surprised at all.

Yeah, so it's pretty interesting. So yeah, those are five. Michelle Stevenson's number five. Michelle Stevenson, they move into a house. For the spring and summer, they were rehearsing all the time. I think the house was owned by one of the management people. So they've all moved in together. Now it sounds like a Jordi Shore or something.

It's confined to all these reality shows with that camera. It's so strange. So the Mel's shared a room too. The two Mel's, scary spice and spice. And the others had their own rooms. Victoria Beckham and Michelle Stephenson shared a room. Jerry Halley will have a little room to herself. So how did she get in if she didn't audition? She did it. Michelle? No. Jerry

eventually. So she missed the original auditions and then I think at like second or third level she she contacted them again and was like can I please come and audition and she did and did really well. Look I'm not sunburned anymore. I've been skiing. Yeah I'm I've traveled. I'm well well traveled right so they're all well traveled well traveled Miamo Jerry Heli well So it's so big I'm a parent that Michelle Simonson did not have the drive and belief that the rest of the group did That's how they worded it didn't have the drive and believe she just wasn't fitting in she wasn't jelling with the rest of the group It's posh bullying her. This is so brutal. You'll love this so

That loves brutal so Bob Herbert so one of the managers he said she just wasn't jelling with the rest of the group. Was posh bullying her? This is so brutal, you'll love this. So, um, that loves brutalism. So Bob Herbert, so one of the managers, he said, she just wasn't fitting in, she'd never have jelled with it and I had to let her go. However, Michelle has turned around later and stated that it was her decision to leave the group. She's like, no, it was my decision to go because of the illness of her mother,

who was diagnosed with breast cancer, which is a perfectly reasonable excuse to leave. But then Victoria Adams, Beckham, later dismissed that claim saying she just couldn't be asked to put in the work. Oh, slammed her. Oh, imagine if the story about the cancer is true. Yes. That's what she said, but it's just a scary story. You can believe some woman called Michelle Stephenson or Pottspice. Oh, that's what she said. She just is going to believe some woman called Michelle Stevenson or Potts spice. That's a good point.

Yeah, come on. So, Potts just wanted to room to her herself. No, fair enough. So Michelle, Stevenson is the first Stuart Sutcliffe and there's another Stuart Sutcliffe in the Spice Girls history because Michelle Sutcliffe is his granddaughter. Is this a Pete Best, maybe? This is a Pete Best. These are all Beatles people if you haven't heard our episode about the Beatles. This is all the Beatles. I have a thing for British bands obviously. So the management team, the Herbits, they search for a replacement and first came across

Abigail Kiss, who's saying a soul song to the management and two days later she was selected. They're like, you're great, you're going to fit in wonderfully. But she decided not to join the band, here we go, because she was too young and didn't want to have problems with her boyfriend having to live with the girls for a month. One month? Do we know how things worked out with her

and their boyfriend? I hope it ended badly, like two weeks later. Wow. Or I hope they got married and then the spice girls did really well and then it just sort of slowly ate away at her own fault being- I hope she lives a great life and she's really well-adjusted and she had this- No, fuck it, fuck you Abigail.

Abigail. She had her first wedding dance to a Sparskills song. Whatcha want or something? To become one. To become one. Whatcha want? Whatcha want? Oh, day one, oh one, that's one of me.? What do you want? That's one of me want to be

I don't fuck you up. Well like Abigail kiss millions of pounds good by grow a pair Tell your boyfriend to fuck off if he's not gonna let you follow your dreams for a month Oh the boyfriend stopped there. Well, she well that's sort of the reason she's like I don't want to have problems with my boyfriend. Oh, that's not good Get a better less possess a creepy boyfriend You listen to want to be if you want to be my lover. You got to get with my friends. Oh, that's not good. Well, get a better, less possessive, creepy boyfriend. You listen to, want to be, if you want to be my lover, you've got to get with my friends. Oh, boy. Yeah. He was not into that at all. He was not into that at all. So, she goes, no, thank you. So then the herbots were then led to 18. So why did you audition her?

I don't think Emma Bunton did audition. I'm sorry. I think I got that wrong before. When I was thinking of two young, I think I was thinking of Abigail because They were led to Emma Bunton at the suggestion of a vocal coach whose name was Peppy Lemmer. Great name So she was she instantly impressed the the herbits and she came and met the rest of the group in July of 1994 Who apparently just welcomed her with open arms? Absolutely loved her. I like her. Jerry Halley well said straight away I knew she was the one and that nice And you she was one knew she was the one. Isn't that nice? And the issue was one of the five. The one of the five.

Right, so that's in July of 94, so then they're all rehearsing, you know, working on all sorts of things and then in March of 95. I've just got a note, is Emma Bunted in the same room as Posh? I don't know. I don't think they were living to, I think they were. How much has had their lives been shaken up about the passing of Michelle Stevenson? I don't think they have had to live together forever. Great. So the kickin' it large now. There's the five, the Fab Five.

So we get to 1995 and they start to get a bit frustrated with the management and their unwillingness to listen to their visions and ideas. So this management group has created them and then the Spice Girls turn on the management group and they're like, we want more control over. And then they're all like, wow, we should've got Michelle Stephenson. She wouldn't have got together this revolution. She was lazy. She was too lazy. She was too lazy to rebel. She would have done what we said. So they they parted ways with them. They they bailed. Go rid of the management. Go rid of them management and to ensure they kept control of their own work

The group allegedly stole the master recordings of their desography from the management offices When did it so when this before they before they they didn't even have a record label they didn't have Anything they were just kind of working on stuff. Well, I imagine that that management group working on stuff. Well, I imagine that that management group sued later on and got a lot of cash, right? No. Oh my God. All right. And that same day that they stole those and bailed on the on the heart management, they tracked down Sheffield based producer, Elliott Kennedy, who'd been, they'd had this showcase earlier in the years, I think towards the end. And it's just like a shitty

shopping center or something. They, I don't know, they've invited a whole bunch of producers and stuff like that down. So this guy, Elliot, had been at their showcase and they persuaded him to work with them. As a producer. As a producer. Yeah, go with that. So Elliot, Kennedy, that's kind of cool.

So then I think we all remember where we were on the 7th of July, 1996, when the Spice Girls released their debut single, Wanna Be in the UK. Oh wait, so they obviously got a record label? Yeah, yeah. So they went from there. So 96, Wanna Be comes out and it was an instant hit, was aired up to 70 times a week at its peak.

That's 10 times a day. Oh, aired on TV. On TV. On one, on one station. Oh, on one station Well, that's presuming you're talking about worldwide because worldwide that's not okay. That's it's doing you okay How many music sessions I have there? They have like a hundred there, and that's not that many times per day I think she's talking about film clip though not radio not like BBC radio

Yeah, I'm saying that if they go like MTV one okay, but it's like 96. Yeah. There were less options. You're being a shithead. I know what, like, yeah, that's, is that not clear? Ha ha ha. You've got V, V2. They didn't have Foxtail in 96, it's okay. Right. They got Sky.

Anyway. Music. The song entered the charts at number three. Before moving up to number one, the the following week and staying there for seven weeks I want to be sad at number one for seven weeks Pretty good map for a debut single prove to be a global hit hitting number one in 37 countries Whoa becoming not only the biggest selling debut single by an all female group But also the biggest selling single by an all female group of all time

So want to be is the biggest selling big a selling by an all female group of all time. So, one of these. The biggest selling. Biggest selling by an all female group of all time. Cop that banana Rama. Don't you cop that banana Rama. No, I cop that. Cop it. So, writing the wave of the publicity in hype, there's just so much happening around

them at the time. They released their next singles in the UK and Europe, so in October, say you'll be there was released, topping the charts at number one for two weeks, and in December two become one was released, becoming their first Christmas number one. I need somebody like I'm never near love before. Want to meet love to your baby. I had a little love. Oh my god, I had a little love. Oh my god, I had a little.

Oh my god, I'm gonna make. So we promised this was no singing on this episode. Make your spirit free. Set your spirit free. It's the only way to be. I really didn't think I was going that far. But I reckon I have a lot of spot skills in my brain. That's impressive.

That's very good. Are you going to do two become one? When two become one, I need some love and love. All right, here we go. I want her. Wait, is it if I'm mad at another song? I want to say that two become ones. I was obviously quite a sexual song. Yes. But when they're like put it on, put it on, talking about a condom. That's what someone once told me. Is that true? I think so. They didn't write the songs. Have you ever thought that? That blew my mind. I thought it was about like some sort of like one of those crazy, you know mad scientists sewing to humans together kind of scenarios. And they're just saying put it on here, talking about like the head onto the body. On to the corpse.

Yeah. No, but not a corpse, it's another living human. Just without a head. But the head is dead, it's off a dead corpse, they're able to keep the brain going by putting it on the shoulder of the... That's probably more that they met, yeah. Tonight is the night. Tonight, tonight.

For Frankenstein. I love it, that's very good. Okay. So, to become one, becomes their first Christmas number one. It's sold 430,000 copies in its first week. This is before Apple downloads. That's, yeah, people physical CDs. Yeah, making it the fastest selling single of the year. And those two tracks continued the group's remarkable sales

by topping the charts in over 53 countries. One thing. And cementing the group's reputation as one of the biggest pop-ups in the world. That's pretty crazy. It's just amazing how quickly, like, so this is still only in... 99.6. Yeah, 99.6. And how old are there, a lot of early 20s? Early 20s.

And Emma Bunton's what, like, sevens. She's no, she's like a year or two, but... Oh, she actually got that young. She started out literally as a baby. Yeah, baby spice. She came in as an infant. Uh-huh. Not an infant or baby, I just said baby. Is an infant or a baby the same thing? Yes. Good. You have a baby, you should know that.

That's body semantics, isn't it? Baby Barbie, potato potato. In November 96, the Spice Girls released their debut album which was called Spice. Spice. Yes. Very good. So that was released in Europe in 96. And it had a cover, it was all white and it had a ring on it? Maybe? No.

I think the Spice. I think the Spice. I think the Spice with it, they're inside the letters, SPI-C-E, is it? Oh, they're inside the letters. Why are you winking at me when you say that? Stop it. So they were hugely successful. And people drew a lot of comparisons to Beetlemania,

which we sort of spoke about on the Beetle episode. I feel like every time a band becomes big in the UK, they're like, it's the new Beetle. There are a lot of ways. There are a lot of ties. Yeah, people compare the Beetles to the Spice Girls quite a lot. And there's a few little things where it comes up. So in seven weeks, Spice had sold 1.8 million copies

in Britain alone, making the Spice Girls a faster selling British act since the Beatles. OK, fair comparisons. In total, the album sold over 3 million copies in Britain. The biggest selling album of all time in the UK by a female group, and it went ten times platinum. That's crazy. So they could have two platinum records each on their wall.

Yeah, that's quite nice, isn't it? Two each, but you probably give one to Elliot Kennedy, the producer. Whatever, Elliot Kennedy. So that probably sent one to Michelle Stevenson, just like that. But like a big one like one to Abigail as well Yeah, I guess my platinum radical. I'd be dickhead boyfriend's dead Alrighty, there it is So in that same month, so this is like November this is just to give you an idea of how

Quickly their star power had grown They were invited to switch on the Christmas lights in Oxford Street. Oh my god. That is big. Yeah, that drew a crowd of 500,000 people. That's big. That's a lot of people. That's half a million people, John. How many Olympics will you pull? Full of people. How many MCGs is that? That's five full MCGs. There you go. That's a lot of people, Matt. Yeah, that's pretty good. They so turn it to like a sweet.

I know, so why would you turn up for that but okay? That's kind of ridiculous. Right, so they're getting pretty... It must be in like actually awful to become popular that quickly. So far. It would be very hard to deal with it. It'd be so overwhelming and you're still figuring out what you're doing and, oh, it's crazy. It would also, you'd be so aware how unjustified it was as well. So like, I've, I've certainly worked hard for

this. I deserve this. You'd be like, yeah, a massive fraud. I just turned up to an audition. I incident and then when they went too good, left them and they're gonna find me out eventually. Yeah, you would feel like that but they just and it just kept going. So in January of 97, they released one of the United States and that sort of proved to be like the catalyst in helping the Sparskills break into the US market, which was notoriously difficult. Debuted on the Hot 100 chart at number 11 in this US, which is pretty good.

At the time, that was the highest ever debut by a non-American act, beating the previous record held by Hoody Reckon. Who'd in the blowfish? They Canadian? No, they're American. Probably the Beatles. The Beatles, I want to hold your hand. Who?

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I reckon, you're saying so many million, but I reckon we can be specific here. You go one better, I'd say, that's seven good. I reckon you could fill a limbic swimming pool with that many CDs Tricking I wonder how many seven million depends how big the case is the deluxe editions etc Yeah, no true and if there's like a box set that comes with a poster or something Imagine a nightmare logistically to fill that pool. Yeah, it's just and you know what wasteful Have to empty the pool put in all their CDs Come on. We got better things to do come pool. Yeah, it's just and you know what wasteful. Have to empty the pool, put in all their CDs. Come on, we've got better things to do.

Come on, we've got lights to turn on. So spice the album in total sold 28 million copies worldwide. That's just too many. Becoming the biggest selling album of all time by an all-female group. 28 million copies. Yeah, That keeps sounding so good. Well, not just all-female, but all-female group. So there's more, there's female solosings with more... Yeah, like some live playing. ...with some female, some male, like, step club seven.

How many albums have you sold, Matt? S Club Seven would not have outsold swastikals. Well, they could have though, because that doesn't... How many albums of you sold Matt? S Club 7 would not have outsold Swiss Gills. Well they could have though, because that doesn't... It sold party like S Club party! But that, an all-girl group means not necessarily. They would have, but not necessarily.

So I think a mixture is probably like Fleetwood Mac I reckon may have sold more. First one the camera mom was Steps Club 7, so that's not my phone. And are you calling them Step Club 7 step club service because it's desk clubs. Steps steps is a different band. Can I go on? Please do go on. All right so they're they're just some shitty popular all female group and later that month so this is just in a feb.

How long how long? Sorry it's only been seven months. Feb of 97. And they released the first one in the album in the UK in July 96. And they only made the, when was the first song 96 as well, wasn't it? Yeah, July 7, 1996, he said, so seven months later, they've, wow, it's insane how popular they come.

It's crazy. Right, so they won two Brit Awards for Best British Video for Say You'll Be There and Brush the Best British Single for Wanna Be. Say You'll Be There, I need somebody that I can never need love. Is that two songs together? That's definitely two songs together. And it was at the 97 Brit Awards that Jerry Hellywell wore that famous Union Jack mini dress. Every time I imagine she's wearing that, but does she wear that in the other time?

She's worn it a few extra times because it was so popular that time. It became one of pop history's most famed outfits. And actually people start wearing it on the street like as an outfit. I don't know, I think it's sort of made you inject stuff a bit cool. I had a dress, a music dress up birthday party. I guess I'm using a music dress. And some friends came as the Sparskills and yet, this is the new injector. Well, it might have been-

Well, the way you dressed as I want to know Matt. I wasn't, I wasn't. One of the Sparskills, who would have been ginger-wise? Sorry, I was there as a Bruce Spring thing. Oh, that is awesome. That's very cool What other people dressing up as so I'm literally intrigued by these little kids dressing up Andy Matthews came as Annie Lenox. Oh, how long ago was this? Like a year and a half? Oh No, he said I had a birthday and I imagine you

I thought I said a couple years ago Yeah, no, I think you got in your head that it was a kids' path. I thought you were 90 years old, that's what I imagined. And then you started to start out. And you know people that I know. Bruce brings field off. That's what I meant. I think it was a 9 year old, that would be pretty cool. That would be so bad at us.

Alright, please do go on. Well, if your friend who came as ginger spice was wearing the original dress. Oh, it's worth a lot of money, isn't it? A lot of money, it became. So one of the most prominent symbols of 90s pop culture and the dress was sold at a cherry auction to Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas for a record amount which gave Halliwell the Guinness World record for the most expensive piece

of pop star clothing ever sold. Do you want to have a crack at how much it's sold for? It's in pound. Okay, let me think about this because I know that the most expensive dress ever sold was worn by Audrey Hepburn in breakfast at Tiffany's. Oh, it's a good dress. And how much was that? And I think that that is close to $1 million US, which is about $500,000 a pound. So I'd say probably $300,000 pounds.

Oh, I'm gonna say, because I was thinking, I'm just gonna go crazy. I'm gonna go over the over your head here. I'm gonna say because I was thinking I'm just gonna go crazy. I'm gonna go over the over your head here. I'm gonna say 2 million pounds I were really disappointed it was 41,000 320 Yeah, what I said was Blue unfortunate on a shitty dress man. What are you doing? You're not a good investor?

I'm not a good at it. I don't auction. I get a rush of blood I'm putting my hand up for everything. Yep. Also two million pounds Oh fuck it's a lot of it. That's a lot of the dress. Pounds are worth more than Australian dollars on they're not less So she's a little subcategory so that's just for the pop pop star colliding of a soul. It's still pretty good Still pretty good. She didn't get that money obviously. 41,000 pounds is a lot of money. I don't. For some reason I'm just like, oh, expensive. It's gonna be crazy. Yeah.

Why would Jess bring it up if it was only like 40,000? She wouldn't. It's gonna be ridiculous. Jess wouldn't waste our time. And that's $40,000. Millions of pounds. And it wouldn't be the Guinness World Record for 41,000 pounds.

I mean, anyone can buy a Guinness World Record. I'm gonna bloody buy Matt's T-Shirt off your 50,000 pounds, pop culture, anyone can buy Guinness World Record. I'm going to bloody buy Matt's t-shirt off of your 50,000 pounds pop culture history bank World Record Holder. Podcast history, most expensive item of podcast star. If you paid five dollars for a t-shirt to be the most expensive podcasting t-shirt. Yeah, you'd definitely have 500. Okay, so moving on, so we're now into March of 97. So it's still, so what, what have you written down there, David? What was July 96? Is that the album or the first thing? First single.

Okay, yes. So they're only in March. They've been around for eight months. Yeah. The double side of Mama and who do you think you are? Was released in Europe? Mama, I'm not familiar with that. Mama, I love you.

It's really... Oh, yes, slow. That was released, which once again saw them at number one. I love you. It's really... Oh yes, slow. That was released, which once again saw them at number one, making the Spice Girls the first group in history since the Jackson 5 to have four consecutive number one hits. Boom, is that in America or in... Well, that's in Europe, that was released in Europe. Right. So then they released a book later that month. Seriously, they've been

around eight months of book. I remember the thing to have when I was in primary school was a Sparskyl's pencil case. And inside was a Sparskyl's rubber, Sparskyl's pencil, and Sparskyl's sharpener. Did you have that? I did not, but actually I had like a pencil tin. Heaps of girls in my class had that. It was white pen, It looked like the M. Yep. I've got fun facts about some of the merchandise as well that they had. Nice but now they've already got a book. What's the book about? I've got a book. It's called Girl Power. It's the Spice Girls First book and Manifesto. I don't know why you need a Manifesto. Oh wow. Usually you manifestos for mass murderers. Well it was launched and it sold 200,000 copies within a day was eventually translated into more than 20 languages

Matt how many languages do you speak I was keeping pressing map with this Hey Matt one and a bit. I just think in what about the bit what about Wayne's manifesto He was no serial killer. That's not gonna say on the topic It's a kid show from probably before your time. Oh, it's gonna say I don't know what that is Manifesto. He was no serial killer. That's all I'm going to say on the topic. So kid show from probably before your time. Oh, it's going to say I don't know what that is. What's the bit? The bit I did four years of Italian. I did two years of Indonesian.

And I did two years of Mandarin. So you've put all those together as a bit. That's a bit. Yeah, I do. I wouldn't say I speak any of those at all. But I in some way in my brain, like if I remember, uh, giving you everything, uh, now in Indonesia. If I remember that, in my brain, for some reason, I've got to remember Salamat Pagi or something in Indonesia. Salamat Pagi? Yes, good, good. I don't know what, what does that mean? I think it's like, hello. Okay. Oh, good morning. It's a greeting. In Indonesia? Yes. Right. Let's go to say it because I don't recognize that. Oh, okay. How many languages do you speak, Dave?

45. Wow. I'd listen them all, but it will take too long. Please do go on. Hahaha. Are you working way too hard for way too little? There's never been a better time to consider a career in IT. You could enjoy a recession-res resistant career in a rewarding field, with plenty of growth opportunities and often flexible work environments. Go to mycomputercareer.edu

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No. Because it wasn't there at home where the Beatles had like the top five. They're not for free I think. No five. Which was five. Was my podcast. Alright. It might have been 4 or 5, you might be right there. There's something stupid. So I imagine the. Alright. I don't know. It might have been yeah four or five. You might be right there. There's something stupid. So I imagine the

Beals probably did stuff of that before. Yeah. And so then they went on a bit of a tour. Their first live major concert. They... So they didn't do concerts for the first album? I think they kind of had, but it was this is sort of in touring, like, leaving the UK. They hadn't really done that yet. So they went to Turkey, naturally, performed for 40,000 fans. What, they must have just looked at where the albums were selling well. And off we go, we're going to Turkey.

It's a growing economy, we'll cash in on that. This is one of my favorite things that I read. Later, the girls traveled to South Africa and they got to meet Nelson Mandela, who announced, these are my heroes. Ha ha ha ha! they got to meet Nelson Mandela who announced these are my heroes. Nelson Mandela said the spice girls were his hero. Well he would never lie.

He would never use hyperbole. In what way? What do you say? I don't know. What? These are my heroes. These are my heroes. Does he love pop music?

He's a massive pink fan. Well, who isn't into Girl Power? It's a good point. Okay, November, they released their second album, which was Spice World. So they've released a couple of... And is there a movie time yet? Coming. Oh yeah. Oh, I can feel it.

My waters. So even this album Spice World again, just a global best seller. So it's a new record for the fastest selling album when it shipped seven million copies over the course of two weeks. Got heaps of really good reviews. The album went on to sell over 10 million copies in Europe, Canada and the US, and 20 million copies worldwide. Doesn't make sense, doesn't it?

Yeah. Come on. 10 million in those combined, yep. It was kind of, it was actually quite criticized, though, in the United States. They were criticized for releasing the album just nine months after their debut in the States, because they'd kind of released their album

obviously earlier in the UK. And people were like, and then, we hate, we stop giving the fans more music. Well, that's the thing, they were kind of, what's the problem? The thing was like, well, they were getting that sort of backlash, like, well, you've only just arrived here and you've already got another album, like, settled down.

And they were suffering a little bit of overexposure at home. Like, there was just too much spy skills. So they began to experience quite a bit of media backlash. And they were really criticized for the number of sponsorships deals they signed for, which was like over 20 in total, for all sorts of different brands and companies and stuff like that. They were like, they were not afraid to sell out. They would put their name on anything. They were a manufactured girl band.

Like, what are they selling out? Got them. Or their legitimacy. Well, they are nonsensical heroes, that's not good. Exactly. So, you know, if they're going to sell some Pepsi so be it. And those boy bands and girl bands never have a long shelf life. Not in the modern like the modern style. So just cash in while you can. No one's judging you. Unless it's like fuck stuff. I imagine I would. No, nothing, nothing fucked. There's some funny ones, and I'll mention those later as well.

Had a fun fact. But then again, this comes to a date that we all remember. Obviously, the 31st of May 1998. When... The ginger left? Yeah. Oh, that's the dead. The dairy left, hold on.

The day the music died. The dead music died Jerry howly well announced her departure from the spasas wait 98 Fucking hell so it all happened in Jesus. That's not it. That's less than two years after the first single They've blown up so quickly. I had no idea So that's less than two so let's just do a timeline so July 1996 wannabe comes out Fast forward to May 98 Jerry's got Jerry's gone. She's out and she's announced and they let her sleep in her own bedroom and everything I know they did everything. I'm still imagining that they're still sharing bedrooms even though they've become multi

I imagine them living on the spot bus. They're all in like they're just like cramped together like guys my bank balance is 15 million pounds can we not buy a half of my own? yeah no and but no Jerry staying that tiny little room what I liked is that she announced it through her solicitor oh well she stated sadly I would like to confirm that I have left the spy skills this is some serious problems this is because of differences between us I'm sure the group will continue to be successful and I wish them all the best.

Did she say any differences? Some of the differences are, I think of myself as a ginger spice, which is very different, say a sporty or a scary spice. I'm surprised that we could continue to a podcast knowing that we have such different opinions on who the best spice girl is.

Look, I asked the question then I just said one, oh look, I should really commit to that should know, Melby is the best. Because she has, um, great attitude, coming out the wazoo. And I think some of the other, we need to talk about her wazoo. Some of the other guys, you know, they're a little bit.

Sit backish. A little bit posh for you. Yeah, a little posh or a little bit baby for me. A little bit young or a little bit sporty or a little bit. English. English. Sure. Well, we're going to talk about the names later. Yes. Okay, Chris. I was going to say, because gingers always. Yeah, that is weird. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. So Ginger's gone. She's gone. And so she claimed she was exhausted, wanted to take a break.

It shocked fans, obviously. People were pretty devastated about it. I can imagine, did you cry, Jess? Be honest. There's 98. A lot of people dig, I'm sure that you can find footage of people crying. Sure. Like when a dictator dies. Sure. Same thing. Joe Halley-Welb, dick data. Honestly Dave, though, there are bigger issues in the world. Oh, I've got to keep reminding ourselves of that. Of course. There were rumors that she was fighting with Mel B.

See that, Matt? You always caught the problems. That's a lot of work. But the thing is, who leaving the band was, it was major news. Like, it was covered by media all around the world. It was in the covers of magazines. So it should be. Newspapers.

It was huge. And then she went on to do her solo career. I am going to go into what each of them has done. Post-spice skills as well. Including Mel C's duet with Brian Adams. That's, yeah, of course. So they released a new song Goodbye before Christmas of 98 and the song was seen as a tribute to Jerry Halleywell. Oh I thought that that might be like it. So she's two things. And Jerry Halleywell's not in Goodbye. She's not in it. No she's gone.

How does Goodbye go? What I don't know. I don't think I know goodbye. So they pretty much just fell off the face of the earth after Jerry Halleywell. Kind of like well they saw this., no, I think this is a third album coming. There is, but so when they released Goodbye, it topped the UK singles charts, became their third consecutive Christmas number one, equaling the record previously set by- Very white, I mean the Beatles. The Beatles, so they just keep bloody catching up to them Beatles. So this sort of skips ahead a little bit. That was sort of

Christmas of 98. I'm not sure what they were doing for 99. Probably just traveling and stuff. In November of 2000. It just took a gap year. Working at a coffee shop. They had a lot of stuff on. They released Forever. The final album, Forever. Spawning a new EGIA R&B sound. The album received lukewarm responses. It was not too edgy. In title forever, achieved only a fraction of the success of its two best-selling predecessors. Here's a fact, I don't know, to my own horny, but I was once in a band that recorded a song with a guy that worked on forever. Get out.

Yeah. That's pretty cool. Pitcho's just like an engineer type person on the record, but still. Too late, too late. Too late, too late. Too late, too late. Too late, too late. Too late, too late. That's pretty cool. It's just like an engineer type person on the record But still good Tutan very good. So we'd only sold 5 million copies only what a poultry poultry album. Yeah As what Matt if you're only selling 5 million like when when this show only gets 4 million downloads I pretty much will delete it from our tunes because I will kill myself The point is I'm against 4 million. I don't even delete it from our chains because I will kill myself if this only gets

5 million I don't even know what I do I will kill everyone So please tell your friends Or you're all gonna You want that you want that own your conscience? By not signing up 5 million friends to subscribe could you do you have done? You could have saved the world. Oh my god. In December 2000 guys, this is when the day... Oh the day the...

The music really died. The music really died. Like before it was dead, now it's dead. So the album... what was the third album called? Forever. And that didn't have any songs that anyone would know now. Oh I'm sure it would, but I don't have a list of them. I don't think there was any of their really good months.

So it came out in November and in December, they sort of unofficially announced that they were beginning an indefinite hiatus. It becomes training on their own solo stuff, but they were like, we're not splitting up. It kind of sounds like parents splitting up. Like we still love you, and it's not gonna change anything. Please keep buying the sweet version, Tyce.

We just need a little bit of time and space. Okay. So 2000, the music died and our lives have been meaningless ever since. End of podcast. Well, that was great. Nah jokes, I've got more. So, what a twist. Now we skip ahead a little bit.

To 2007, where they held a press conference revealing their intention to reunite. 2007. Seven years later reunite. There'd been rumors along rumors floating around for ages speculating that they were going to get together but they finally confirmed it and they embarked upon a worldwide concert tour starting in Vancouver. I don't remember that happening at all, do you? Yeah it happened. So did they come to Australia? I think so.

I believe. Hey Spice Girls, just promise you'll always be there. Forever. Ticket sales, here we go, this is a fun fact, is an early fun fact for you. Okay. Ticket sales for the first London date of the return of the Spice Girls World Tour Sold out how long how long? How long do I can it took them to sell out? Oh, 20 weeks

Right in a half weeks. It's really not probably 45 minutes It's under a minute. Are you serious? 38 seconds to sell out how much to sell out their first London show Yeah, it was O2 arena. It's like 15 20,000 tickets or something in 38 seconds Come on Matt, that's impressive. Yeah, look. It's pretty good. I'm not arguing with you If you did that your comedy festival show you'd never have to work again. Mm-hmm and also I Think around that time they they they teamed up with Simon Fuller, Judy Kramer and Jennifer Saunders of French and Saunders fame. Yes. To develop a Spice Girls musical

entitled Viva Forever. Now the group weren't in the musical obviously but they influenced the show. And was there five Spice Girls in the musical? No I think it the show. And was there five spice girls in the musical? No, I think it's more to do, it's a jukebox musical. Oh, they're the worst kind. So that is a stage or film musical that uses previously released popular songs as its musical. So they try and write the movie around like a Green Day Elm or something? Exactly, so it's not the story of the Spice Girls. It's just a story that the music is all Spice Girls music. So that's kind of cool. It was written by Jennifer Saunders. That's nice. So when was this Duke Box musical? That was at the end of 2012.

Okay. Is it still going? No. Sadly, no. I don't know exactly what happened but there was I looked on the website for the musical and there was a note that like Despite Rave reviews and standing ovation's most nights were just unable to go on So they they stopped it and if and there was a little note down the bottom like if you've purchased tickets for this particular date You need to contact with number because you weren't gonna be able to go. Oh They just had to they just stopped it And it was ironically called Viva forever. And it did not last forever at all.

It lasted not long at all. Right. Also in August 2012, after much speculation, probably one of the best things that's ever happened to me in my life, the group performed a medley of, want to be in spice up your life at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London London London was but did posh perform they were all there did posh perform they were all there at the London I thought that she given it so what about all of the other thing like well they all they all they all disbanded and what about the

2007 tour was posh there yes she said rich he just doesn't like the others probably need the money a lot more cheaters but it's like Jerry the one left Jerry left but then they were they were given awards and stuff like that and then only sort of one or two of them would show up it was sort of rare that they were all together but they were all together for the Olympics and because they were united just for that event but this is what's interesting their performance received huge response from the audience became the most tweeted moment of the Olympics with over 116,000 tweets on Twitter per minute. Whoa

Isn't that insane just people going people going nuts for the spice girls So that's pretty cool. Is that still thing like every minute? Is it still 116,000 tweets about that moment? Probably. All from me. Three and a half years on this, people are still tweeting at that rate. It's still good. So yeah, so they only released three albums. So we're kind of done with their timeline up to now. This isn't really that anything they're doing now. So Spice in 96, Spice World in 97 and forever in 2000, that's it. Has there been rumors of them doing another world tour? Yeah, there's been rumors, I don't think. I thought they might be teaming up with someone.

I'm not the one I'm aware of. I could be wrong. I don't know about that. Do I remember that? You asked before about the nicknames. Yes, I'm just wondering. So in the summer of 96, this is back when they first started. They had a lunch meeting with the editor of Top of the Pop's magazine, his name was Peter Lorraine. Lorraine! And he sort of inadvertently led the spy skills to adopt these nicknames because

at sort of how he referred to them as a in the article that he wrote. So he said, in the magazine, we used silly language and came up with nicknames all the time. So it came naturally to give them names that would be used by the magazine and its readers. It was never meant to be adopted globally. That's cool. So the magazine actually published it saying,

and then there's the one who looks real scary. Yeah. Yeah, that's brutal. Oh, the Aby's. What are you posh? Oh, okay, yeah. So Victoria that's the reason why she... Oh, okay, yeah. So Victoria Beckham or Adam's as she was in, she was called posh spice because of her more upper middle class background, her choppy brunette bob hair style and refined attitude,

form fitting designer outfits, and her love of high-heeled footwear. I'm pretty posh, yeah, I don't know. That's not how she would talk, she's actually... No, I, um, she's got a... She doesn't have a posh accent, does she? She should be more posh than her. Hello. His next Melanie Brown. Oh, come on, please.

She's a bit rough. Come on, she's a scary. She's just giving the name scary spiced because of her outrageous, in your face attitude. Loud, leased accent. Can you do a leased accent? Um, I'm from about halfway up England. Very good.

Throty laugh, that seems hurtful. Why would that be scary? Her manner of dress, which was often consisted of leopard print outfit. She's often dressed like a vampire, quite scary. And her crazy afro hairstyle. Oh, african hairstyle, scary, is it? Why don't they call it crazy spice? Oh yeah, good gosh, you've been crazy spice.

She's more crazy than scary. Mental illness, awareness and stuff like that. I think crazy is, I don't know if it was back then but it's the same with you. I know no. You can't call someone crazy. Well that is just crazy. Well baby, you said that. And you know what you are Matt?

You're crazy. Crazy. Scary? No, that's offensive, please. Emma Bunton, my favorite Emma was called baby spiced because she was the youngest member of the group. She wore her long blonde hair and pigtails, wore baby doll dresses and had an innocent smile and a girly girl personality. I don't know what a girly girl personality is but girl anyway. I feel like she's the one that it's hardest to keep up being a baby when you're now in your mid-fourth I don't know like I see Dicey Angus is still wearing his schoolboy Yeah, and he is a worldwide joke. How dare you? How dare you worldwide joke all the way to the buddy bank?

Yeah, he's doing a okay. Thanks Dave. Nice T-shirt-shirt over there you dickhead. I have a much better fashion sense than Angus Young and I'm gonna put that on record. Okay well you're off the podcast. Next up Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm. And I would pull off a ball ball boy and school boy outfit better than you ever would. Can we take that out of context? I would pull off a ballboy. Well, well now you've just said out of context. Oh no. Just say it. Got ya. No, I'm not doing it.

I'm not doing it. All right, who is that? It's Sporty Spice. All right guys, move over. It's time for my favor. She used a word, Treksuit, a long dark hair and a ponytail, and sported a tough girl attitude as well as tattoos on both of her arms.

Ooh, tattoos. That's very sporty. She also possessed true athletic abilities. Yeah. Her signature being able to perform backhand springs. She was always doing high kicks in their photos. She was doing stuff. Track suit pants like she was ready to run.

But it cropped up as well because she's cool. Exactly, and she needs support. Exactly. Terry Halliwell was called Ginger Spice because of her liveliness, zest and flaming red hair. Would we say Ginger is lively and zesty? Ginger, um, how do you say that? It adds a bit of zest to a dish.

She often wore outrageous stage outfits as like the iconic Union Jack dress. I don't know if I'd call Ginger lively though. I mean it's a root, if you see him. It's just a, it's like a beige looking When did you like how is ginger got anything with red hair either? Zanda Alan has a joke about that because Yeah, he talks about how it's how people with mousey brown hair the real ones we should be teasing and what colors ginger? Mousey brown fact. Yeah, so you're not even the first one to think of that shut your beautiful hair.

You don't think I've thought about that before? No. Look at my face. Look at my face and tell me how I've been thought about the word ginger before. Look at my face. Look at my face. OK.

I'm not looking at your face. Match and dice. We mentioned merchandise before. Yeah, pencil cases and the pencil. So there was all sorts of crazy stuff. I picked out a few that I thought were quite interesting or a little bit funny. So there was one for Walker crisps. Oh, I love them.

They're really good chips. Right, and there's a promotion with over. Those things equivalent. Oh yeah, like, yeah. Yeah, they're not crinkled, yeah. They made over 51 different packaging designs So 10 for each member they had their own 10 different designs plus a group package So it was the 51 they had a Polaroid camera

It was a regular Polaroid instant camera that had pink and purple shell and a spice girls badging And it came along with like a disposable Pollard camera and a flashlight and stuff. They had their own camera. That's awesome. That's pretty cool. Impulse, you know, like sprays. Impulse. Not so good. Deodorant. Launched a fragrance known as impulse spice. Ooh. There's that shower gels and stuff like that. These aren't particularly like these are fairly standard for, um, like, girly products aimed at young girls. But then they also had a PlayStation game, there's a video game.

Oh, what can you do? Spice world. As computer animated cartoon of the girls, it was developed in like 98. Pretty cool. I bet it holds up real well. Oh, it'd be really cool now. Um, a prilias scooters, there were five different scooters, each promoting a spice girl, and they were created and marketed as the Spice Sonic effect.

What kind of crossover market would there be in Spice Girls fans and adults who can try up scooters, right? I don't think it's like a Vespa, I think we're like the little push toy scooters. I was all so imagining Vespa. Maybe, I don't think so, but maybe. The favorite one though, my favorite, is Domino Sugar. The girl's promoted sugar as part of one of their sponsors for the North American tour. Sugar. I imagine you're just a bag of sugar with a spice girl. Yeah, like a 2 kilo bag of sugar.

That's amazing. That's very strange. This tour bought to you by the sweet taste of sugar. Yeah, but like who are you marketing the spice girls at? Young people, you want young people eating your sugar. Yeah, what? Yeah, kids don't buy bags, they eat things with sugar in it. Not just bags. That's not the problem. I want to finish up with where are they now and then a few fun facts, yeah. Are you gonna talk about the movie at all? Yes. Great. Have you got it? No, I was just I was just wondering because I I was so about Richard A Grant doing it. I mean because he's like a legit actor. Yeah, yeah. And I think he only he only did it because he was for his kids. So when you know that there's a few little

Yeah, fun tidbits about the movie. But, so I wanted to go with where are they now? What happened to them after the Spice Girls? So, Mel C. Sporty Spice, she's now 41 years old. Oh my God. This is really interesting. She's not that much older, like a ghost. I was thinking they'd be older,

but I was really just reacting like, that's where she is now. You know, I was meant to be a joke, but I did not. Anyway, cool. And again. So Mel C Sporty Spice, she currently, this is kind of interesting, she currently is the female artist with the second most number one singles in the United Kingdom. And also the only female to reach number one spot as part of a quintet, quartet, duo and solo. So she's hit number one in all of those categories. So Sparskills for four and five.

And then a duo with Brasa and Solo by herself. What was their solo hit? She's had a few songs. Never be the same again. Oh yeah. So good. It's not a secret anymore. No, I's by skills. No, I think never. Oh cool. Never be the same. Gosh, she's my favorite. So she has had six albums, six, two, four, six,

yep, six albums. Wow, what was the last one come out though? 2012 was her most recent one. Wow, good old man. She's still kicking. She's still kind of going. She's the one who's kind of got on to do the most music stuff. Like she just really went. She always seemed like the one that could sing, right? Well, I don't like her voice. Okay. Wow.

I don't like it. There it is. There, I said it. You put that on record. Are you worried about the backlash about that? No. She's the one that could sing, though. Like she was the one, you could hear her singing and everyone else was like

Dulled in the mix, right? I don't like her voice It's because she's the only voice you could hear if you don't like it voice. You don't like the spice girls I don't like the spice girls. All right, fair enough She was in a relationship with property developer Thomas star and on February February 22nd 2009 gave birth to her daughter Scarlett. So she's got a long girl. Mel B, she turned more to TV. She did a lot of reality shows like whether she was judging on panel shows, talent shows, that sort of thing. She also had her own her own reality series. Mel B, it's a scary world. Oh wow, she also did those

Jennie Craig ads. Jennie Craig ads.'s not a lot of radio and TV here in Australia She had her own video game get fit with Mel B Pretty sick and in 2006 She became the subject of tabloid stories because of her relationship with Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy who Denied denied denied that he was a father of her unborn second child denied denied denied that he was a father of her unborn second child but paternity tests suggested otherwise so her second child angel is the child of Eddie Murphy just kind of cool I mean it's hard to blame him he does party all the time you're never gonna remember all the sure all the babies you've had. Sure. Party of the time. All their babies.

Emma Bunton. Remember his hit song? No, I didn't get the reference. Sorry. His song. Yeah, the hit song, Party of the time. Emma Bunton had three solo albums. A girl like me in 2001, free me in 2004, and life in mono in 2006.

Oh, so she's been off the charts for a while. Yeah, she hasn't done as much. She's married or engaged, engaged to or married, they're probably married by now. She's married to... I'm still waiting for the wedding in verse, so... She's married to singer Jade Jones and they have two sons together.

Again, she's done a lot of TV work, other appearing as a celebrity in TV shows or hosting or judging that sort of thing. Here we go. This would be the prime Emma Bunton TV appearance, is when she appeared as a small cameo role on the Australian soap series, neighbors. Oh. In an episode called, What's a Spice Girl like you dot, dot, dot question mark? Oh really? So she was playing herself. Yeah, I looked it up on YouTube. Carl and Susan are in London.

And Carl's lost a ring. And he's sitting on the street looking all sad and Emma finds it and saves the day. Good advice herself. Good advice, herself. Yeah, as herself. Wow, she's still got it. It's so lame. When we release this, I've got a tweet that link to that video. Oh, okay. It's fantastic. It's so good.

So that's what Emma's been up to. Jerry Halleywell had three solo albums between 1999 and 2005. In 1999, she wrote a biography called, an autobiography called, if only, in which she describes her life as a biography called, an autobiography called, if only in which she describes her life as a spice girl, having only just left the year before. If only. If only.

If only she hadn't joined. This all that mean. I don't know. And in 2006 she gave birth to her daughter, Blue Bell Madonna. The father was a screenwriter, Sasha Javasi, who she dated for six weeks in 2005, and Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunter, another god, and others of her daughter, Blue Bell.

Ah, and that cute? That's nice. That's nice. Now... So I would have probably chosen Sporty. But... Yeah, well, maybe they don't get along that way. Was it a name or was it Godpain? It was both. Yeah. Good decision on both counts. Sporty Blue Bell. Spotty Blue Bell. Spotty Blue Bell. Spotty Blue Bell, Hollywood.

Cut out thing. Oh, that works really well. Spotty Blue Bell, Hollywood. That's nice. So its name is Blue Bell, Hollywood. Oh, boy. But it did much, isn't it? Bit much.

That brings us to Victoria Beckham. I left her to last because I feel like she's had the most illustrious post-spice girl's career. What has she done since? Well, she's got a fashion line. I'm only kidding. I was like... It was well sold, wasn't it?

It was. I was like, what the fuck? She only had one solo album. This even have one. Yeah, it was called Victoria Beckham. Because she's the one who can't sing the most. Yeah, she can't sing. Out of all of them that can't sing, she's the one... She wasn't an episode of ugly Betty, though, so she's doing okay.

Yeah. No, but she's like with millions She wasn't an episode of Ugly Betty though, so she's doing okay. Yeah. No, but she's like worth millions and millions. Yeah, married to David Beckham. I didn't know she was in her professional. I wasn't like that. She was very successful. I think she's actually quite a business-sevy woman. Yeah, no, she's, she's, no, I didn't.

Quite talented, yeah. She's like, she pulls in as much as he does. Oh yeah, there are talented women. Well, he probably doesn't even do anything anymore, does he? No, I don't know. In the last year, he's made more money since retiring than he's ever had before. How's he really? Just because he signed these new deals.

So, something like $75 million for the year? I wonder if did he make any money out of Bender there? Rebecca? That's not what it's called. Bender, over. That's the porn version of Bender. No, I've found it. Bender, he wasn't...

He wasn't... At the end, they pretend. No, I've found it. He wasn't... He wasn't... At the end, they pretend that he's doing a cameo. I watched it like two months ago, and um, but someone looks like him. So no, I don't think he probably made all that much money or anything from that. Really, yeah. So you can just call a movie. So someone could make a movie called...

...Suck it like Stuart or move it like... ...Suck it like Stuart? Well, that was not video. That was not an ideal for this thing. Suck it like Stuart, I'm gonna make it, I'll fire a chef up at his line. See, sure. Anyway, so Victoria Beckham, I've got a couple of interesting,

Sink it like Stuart and it's a thing about like a Billion's competition. Sink it like Stuart,, what do you do? What do you do? What do you do? Or a plumbing competition. Are they installing sinks? He's installing sinks.

It's very good. Yeah. Mine's called a Willet, like Warnocky, and it's about a lawyer that works in last-will and testaments. Mine's called preparing with Perkins. It's just about time management. Preparing with Perkins. That's good.

You should actually make that and become a corporate face. I'm terrible at time management. Hence, I was up to 3 a.m. doing this God damn report. That's good time management, because otherwise you would have just been sleeping, wasted time. What a waste. You've squeezed more into your day. You're right, you're right. But please do go on with these Victoria Beckham Buffets. You've squeezed more into your day.

You're right, you're right. But please do go on with these Victoria Beckham products. I can get more into my day. So in January of 2000, there was a tip off to Scotland Yard, protectives exposing a plot to kidnap Victoria and Brooklyn Beckham, their first child, and hold them at a house in Habstead in London.

This is the plot for the Sparskills movie, isn't it? But it was after the movie. No, it's serious. There was a plot to kidnap her. So they moved to a secret location. And then later, in March of 2000, she received a death threat prior to performing at the Brutal Awards with the Sparskills. And in the show's rehearsal, a red laser light appeared on her chest and she was rushed off stage and they found that like like a gun site a fire door had been

lodged open so somebody got in. How scary is that? I didn't know any of that. How scary spice is that? Oh yes, it was definitely scary. She wanted bacon for herself. Yeah, so that's a bit scary isn't it? Wow, that's full on why like wanting to kill Like unless she's personally slaughtered you then fair enough kill away It was just some sort of a weird fan thing. I think I think that it's Abigail kissing Michelle Stevenson teaming up against their old nemesis. That could make sense. That's fair game, fair enough.

Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough, she forced him out of the spice girls. And posh said that thing about her mom not being sick. Oh, that's so brutal. Oh, there's motive. Motive. So Victoria Beckham has participated in five official documentaries. I'm moving on from you.

Five official documentaries. Yeah, and reality shows about her, including being Victoria Beckham. The real Beckham's and Victoria Beckham coming to America. Not to be confused with the Eddie Murphy. I was about to say Eddie Murphy, that's where he met Melcy. Ah, I'm here. To party other time, party other time. Is that Eddie Murphy's song?

Yeah, it was a hit song. It was written and recorded by Rick James. Wow, cool. Obviously we can talk about Beckham, married to David Beckham. From the film, Beckham. They have four children, Brooklyn cruise and Harper Brooklyn Bronx Queens and Staten Alrighty and as a sub-temper You're missing one from the

To the top of Manhattan Asian Middle East Something in Latin black white New York you make it happen How much editing do you want me to do so we don't plan I'd leave that in for sure BC boys from the five boroughs that's right so I remember but that's not the name is the children of what are the names what are the names Brooklyn Brown no no no that's not their name Brooklyn Brooklyn Bronx no Brooklyn yes

Bluebird no Brooklyn Jeremy no Brooklyn yes Gary Junior You don't yes Are you done? Yes. So they've got the four children, Brooklyn Bronx anyway. As of September 2015, the couple's joint wealth is estimated at £508 million.

Wow, that's a billion Aussie dollars. They've got a lot of money. That's a lot of money. Okay. Now I do have a few fun facts a lot of them or there's only a couple that aren't About the movie I've touched on the movie a little bit They produced a total of nine number one singles in the UK. So they tied with Abba

Who also had nine they were behind take that who had eleven the shadows who had twelve Madonna with thirteen West life with 14, Cliff Richards with 14, the Beatles with 17 and Elvis Presley with 21. So that means... There are amongst some pretty big names there. That means they're ahead of the Rolling Stones. Yeah. That's cool.

That's pretty cool. Fucking hell. Soccer dick, stones, bands, Beatles are boys. Victoria's the only one. We're in the fun steins, fans, beetles, a boi. Victoria's the only one, we're in the fun facts by the way. I feel like I didn't. Oh fun fact, fun fact. I didn't talk that up enough before. Look, the thing about fun facts is you know,

you don't need someone to tell you. You just know. Thank you, that's right. Victoria was the only member of the band who didn't have a number one hit in the UK as a solo artist Really they all had number one hit that's crazy baby spice at a number one solo hit sure did But she also recorded a song for the Pokemon movie, so you know It's a round of emma all right emma

So don't catch a mile the want to be music video was shot in one take. It's one take. It's really cool if you watch it one take Which one? video was shot in one take it's one take it's really cool if you watch it one take which one one would be the first one it was really cold and that hotel yeah and the director wanted to do it again and they're like not doing it again and they go on the bus at the end so by the by the time he's head like said stop they're already home so they've already made a cuppa that's worth me some length of it. I have to call them one by one. Yeah, on their landline. Hey guys, can we do it again?

And Cosh is like, I've just made a cup. I've taken my shoes off. Nah, I'm in for the night. So we were talking before about Mel C. This is a sizzle right at the beginning of the program. Mel C was kind of spotty spires because of her active image. But Emma Bunton was actually the spotty one. She had a blue belt in Karate and often would teach the girls how to kick her mama. I think it was a karate instructor. She's blue belt. You think

her mama's a karate instructor? Is she the one who had a kick called blue belt? No, there was no child called blue belt. It's blue belt. Jerry Halleywell had blue belt. Maybe after Emma Bunsen's birthday. That would have been pretty great if they named their child after a belt. Now I've got two facts about the film and I think you had others as well. I don't know. Or just, okay cool. I was just, I just remember because I'm a bit of a Richard E. Grant fan. I know he was in that movie. He was, yeah. And I do remember reading something about him but I didn't note it down. I think the thing was that it, because he's in great movies, I with Mal and I,

and stuff like that, and then he did take this part, because I think his kids, he's like, this one's for my kids. That's nice. When they see with Mal and I, they're not into it. They're not impressed by me, but if I say I'm in the Spice Girls movie, they'll be pretty stoked.

They're stoked, yeah, so I think that's kind of fun reason. Now Gary Glitter filmed a 4 Minute cameo appearance. There's heaps of cameos in the... Oh no, no. Well yeah, so there's heaps and heaps of famous people cameoing in the movie and Gary Glitter filmed a 4 Minute cameo. But shortly before the film was to be released, he was arrested on child porn offences.

And the Spice Girls and the production team agreed that his cameo should be deleted from the final print. Probably a good decision. Does the film not make sense now, though? No, I think it's still, I think the film ever made sense. Gary Glitter arrives with the secret wand we've been waiting for. And now it's just, oh, we've just got it, so now.

You do not want to see Gary Glitter's secret wand. But he'll show you. He will show anyone. Woof! And finally my final fun fact. Oh here we go, this better be good. Meatloaf, is that right meatloaf, isn't it? Yeah and that's my final fun fact.

But he plays their bus driver, right? And there's heaps of in jokes throughout the film. At one point he's asked to fix the toilets and he says he'd do anything for the girls, but he won't do that. I would do it. I'm not sure. Is that also more horrible? I don't know. But I won't do that.

No, I won't. Clean a toilet. And that concludes No, oh clean a toilet and That concludes Brief summary of the Spice Girls for ever. Spice up your life forever forever I normally give a standing ovation for a podcast Well, I've done occasionally a couple of WTFs that really went off from the president You just started clapping at the end just started clapping, but this one Jess Perkins, my word.

You've outdone yourself. All time. All right, well, let's just finish. Can we finish? First thing, if you were a spice, what would you be? Paprika. Perkins, per-preka spice, that's good. I'm the oregano.

Yeah, you would. Would you be, Dave? I think I would be, um, it's not a spice plate, but basil. That's not really answering the question, is it? Yeah, you ask the question, and then you don't even answer it properly. Well, none of their spices are fucking spices, are they? Yeah, but we answered under the impression that we were allowed to be only a spice. If I was just allowed to be anything I fucking wanted to be. And I'm sort of done.

And I'm a fat paprika. I'm pepper wanted to be sort of done. I'm Pepper. I'm Pepper. You dickhead. Pepper. Pepper, that is such a vanilla spice. Yeah, good one. I think that makes sense for me. It does, you're pretty plain.

A vanilla boy. You're playing little vanilla boys. So thank you for listening to my rant about the spice girls. Thank you. I reckon you had a great time looking into that one. Which is always fun. We're looking for something that you're a fan of. Thank you very much, have you enjoyed?

I know a lot of that stuff. Yeah, that's what I mean. I fan it a bit. I fan it a bit, but not scary about how much of the lyrics is still in my brain. What a waste of space, but still. And I thought that you were quite sporting about the way you chose to.

Thank you, baby. Thank you, baby. No worries. Ginger beer. All right, well, um. All right, Taylor, let's go down for a cup of tea. Posh. Cup of tea. Yeah, so I was going to go there as well.

Thank you so much for that. That's so gross. Could we just edit out? Not leaving it all there. But if you're the worst. Don't forget, you can always tweet us at dogo on podos. If you review the show, man, genuinely, it warms your heart, doesn't it,

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Bye! Bye! Hey guys, Jess here again, just a quick little note that the Perth Fringe Festival is on at the moment. And Dave's on his way over there in the next couple of days to perform his show FactiFact versus the audience. If you like Dave's trivia on this podcast, you will very much enjoy this show. I've seen it before, it's fantastic, it's so good. So make sure you go along. It's on at Noodle Palace in Northbridge and he's also doing a few shows at the Midland Junction Art Centre and they're running from Feb 4th to 13th. Tickets and info are at fringeweld.com.au and just search Fact Effect and you'll find them that way.

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