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Article: Pop: All this and retail therapy too Spice Girls Evening News Arena, Manchester
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 12, 1999
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Billed as the "Christmas in Spiceworld" tour, the Spice Girls
concerts in Manchester last week had clearly caught the seasonal
audience for pantomime. Even in the echoing corridors which surround
the entrances to the arena itself, industrial quantities of Spice
merchandising were obviously catching the Christmas stocking trade.
Apprehensive mums and dads, fumbling for fivers, were suddenly faced
with the fervour of thousands of nine-year-old girls baying for Girl
Power. Like some diminutive army, supercharged on the additives in
fizzy drinks and wearing their insignia of silver tinsel antennae,
the Spice Girls' principal audience remains largely prepubescent.
Which, if nothing else, is a ...