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The Garage, Glasgow Bounding across the stage, the former Spice Girl delivers punchy pop and past hits to an adoring crowd on the first night of her tour
Hopping on stage in a cropped grey hoodie and baggy blue sweatpants, Melanie C arrives at the first night of her solo UK tour like she’s entering the ring. Bouncing from foot to foot, the pop star best remembered as Sporty Spice launches with fierce intensity into Who I Am, the disco-inflected opener from her 2020 self-titled album.
At 48, Melanie C retains the energy that bestowed her her 90s band nickname. Flanked by drums and keys, she pounces across the stage, adding flourishes of fist pumps, shimmies and jumping jacks to her high-energy tracks about self-love. “It’s a going out album, not a sitting in album,” she chides. It’s not long before her hoodie is flung off – as well as her shoes – and she takes an adoring audience back in time with a rendition of her 2000 No 1 hit, Never Be the Same Again.
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