Melanie C says Spice Girls playing Glastonbury would be “the pinnacle” as she reflects on the group’s enduring chemistry.
Sporty Spice has doubled down on the girl group’s long-rumoured Glastonbury ambitions, insisting they still want to take on the Pyramid Stage and that she’s “manifesting” it into reality.
Speaking to former Spice Girls publicist Nicki Chapman for her Pop Idols series for Magic Radio, the singer — who is gearing up to release her new solo album Sweat — looked back on the highs, pressure and chaos of life inside the world’s biggest girl group, as well as the challenges of carving out a solo identity in the years that followed.
She said the group’s chemistry remains unchanged: “There’s something about the dynamic of the Spice Girls — when we’re in a room together it’s electric. It still happens to this day… there is something magical about those five personalities.”
The 52-year-old singer – whose bandmates include Emma Bunton (Baby), Geri Horner (Ginger), Mel B (Scary) and Lady Victoria Beckham (Posh) – also reflected on the scrutiny they faced in the 90s and early 00s, saying the culture at the time was “really hard for anyone in the public eye” and that the treatment they received “would never happen now.”
She admitted she once tried to distance herself from her Sporty Spice persona, changing her look and style in an attempt to be seen as an individual.
Melanie said: “Everything you do is semi-apologetic because everybody wants the Spice Girls.”
It wasn’t until their 2019 tour – sans Posh – that she fully embraced being “all these things”.
She also touched on her DJ career, which she says has opened up “a whole new world” and changed the way she experiences music.
But it was Glastonbury that she described as the ultimate goal: “Glastonbury would be the pinnacle, it’s a bucket list. Spice Girls, Pyramid Stage — I like to think that will happen at some point. I’m very strongly manifesting that it will happen.”
