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Toronto is SPICE CITY (Spice Girls are coming!)

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Posh Sings Like A Bird: Irritatingly

The Spice Girl flubs her signature hit in front of the only two people who matter -- yes, Ashton and Demi!

14/08/2007
by Ryan Porter

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Thanks to our international network of spies, we got our hands on U.K. tabloid First. In between the stories on Jordan and Shilpa Shetty was the heart-wrenching tale of how Victoria Beckham humiliated herself in front of revered American socialites Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. The shame!

According to First magazine, Victoria was glad-handing her way around her Welcome-to-L.A. party last month when Demi and Ashton asked if she was ready for the Spice Girls reunion tour. Without so much as a mi-mi-mi-mi, Posh began belting out "Wannabe." But rather than that glorious vocal performance of "zig-a-zig-ow" that we've all come to adore, the tune that passed over Posh's perma-pouting lips was -- gasp! -- flat!

"She was oblivious to the open-mouthed crowd," a partygoer told the magazine. "Eventually, David had to come over and tell her that her sister Louise wanted to talk to her. What a hideous moment -- thankfully everybody tried their best to carry on as normal." How brave! No doubt Demi's forced smile broke at some point and she collapsed into tears, Katie Holmes quietly rearranged her hair until it no longer looked exactly like Victoria's and David was forced to fall on his knees and beg Ashton to maintain his friendship with the couple.

As if the revelation that Victoria couldn't carry a tune in an oversized Hermes bag wasn't a faux enough pas, stern Project Runway judge Heidi Klum told Jay Leno on the Tonight Show that Beckham-mania has turned her quiet Beverly Hills neighbourhood into a photographers' parking lot. "There is a paparazzi festival down the street from us now," Heidi said. "You couldn't even drive by because they were hanging out, waiting for them to leave their house. It's kind of a pain. It's rough -- but it's rougher for them than it is for us."

Heidi may be a little behind on her municipal politics. Posh petitioned the city to turn her street into permit-only parking, online gossip oracle Janet Charlton reports. The City refused, but Posh, unburdened by, you know, work or anything, appealed the decision. The street was redesignated and -- voila! -- Posh can now take out the garbage in peace.
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Tickets went on sale this morning for the show on Sunday, Feb. 3rd. They sold out in seconds, as a second show for Monday, Feb. 4th was subsequently added...

and i got two tickets. sweet. now to go or to sell? some guy on Craigslist is selling a pair in the row behind me for $550. I bought 'em for $200 off ticketmaster.
 
It seems that they didn't put very many tickets on sale - sell them quickly before they release the rest to the general public and the price on Craig goes down.
 
i don't see how they would have added a second show if the first show didn't really sell out. they had to, at minimum, have put the first show's capacity on sale. now that the second show is also "sold out", we'll see if they add a third... considering they now have 18 shows in London alone.
 
The tickets that went on sale today were those reserved for the people who registered on the website. They haven't released the rest to the general public. It's only those sections that are sold out.
 
Buying tickets with the mere thought of selling them has got to be one of the lamest things anyone can do. Just my opinion. It's really not cool at all.
 
2nd Toronto concert added to Spice Girls tour
Last Updated: Monday, October 22, 2007 | 4:55 PM ET
CBC News
The Spice Girls have added a second concert in Toronto after the first concert sold out in minutes on Monday.

The British "girl power" group had promised a concert in Toronto after local fans voted overwhelmingly to have the Spice Girls make a stop on their world tour.

The 2007 Spice Girls, top from left, are Victoria Beckham, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton and Melanie Brown. Bottom, from left, in their heyday, are Chisholm, Bunton, Brown, Beckham and Halliwell.
(Associated Press)
Toronto outvoted cities around the world to be named Spice City.

On Sunday evening, fans who had registered to get tickets learned the first Toronto concert would be Feb. 3.

But all 19,800 seats at the Air Canada Centre sold out in the first two minutes. A second concert has been scheduled for Feb. 4.

The Spice Girls' comeback tour kicks off in Vancouver on Dec. 2.

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The group played Toronto at the height of its popularity, with a concert at the Molson Amphitheatre in July 1998.

In June, the Spice Girls — Melanie Brown (Scary), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty), Geri Halliwell (Ginger), Emma Bunton (Baby) and Victoria Beckham (Posh) — announced their reunion and world tour.

Their greatest hits, including Wannabe, Say You'll be There and Mama, are being rereleased in a Spice Girls Greatest Hits album due out in November.

On Tuesday, they released two new singles, Headlines and Voodoo, in the U.K.

New shows had to be added in London and Manchester after selling out almost immediately.
 
Spice Girls put on an entertaining spectacle
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The Spice Girls, from left, Melanie Chisholm, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell and Melanie Brown, played the ACC last night.


British pop group puts on tighest spectacle since Madonna came to town
Feb 04, 2008 04:30 AM
Ben Rayner
Pop Music Critic

It's a lonely and rather emasculating sensation as it is, being a guy with no real interest in American football on Super Bowl Sunday.
Being one of the few males in the crowd of 20,000 that witnessed the Spice Girls' rip-roaring return to Toronto at the Air Canada Centre last night, then, did no favours for one's besieged manhood. The show's confluence with the NFL's biggest night, in fact, transformed what was already fated to be a riotous celebration of "Girl Power" into a fairly close approximation of the ultimate ladies' night out. And to make matters worse, it offered a stupid amount of fun that even a straight male could love.
The reunited Spices – Geri "Ginger" Halliwell, Melanie "Sporty" Chisholm, Emma "Baby" Bunton, Melanie "Scary" Brown and resident celebrity non-contributor Victoria "Posh" Beckham – have been touting Toronto as "Spice City" since their first tour in nearly a decade began in Vancouver on Dec. 2. Indeed, demand for the Girls in this town has been sufficient to justify four shows at the ACC this month (another tonight, two more on Feb. 25 and 26) where some other North American cities have come up a bit short attendance-wise. That might explain why the group recently announced that it would cut the tour short after its final two Toronto dates. Clearly, the Spice Girls would prefer to say farewell again, even if just temporarily, in a locale – "the second home of the Spice Girls," according to Geri – where they can be confident of going out on a high note.
They should have that pretty much locked up, by the way, since last night's garish, technically mesmerizing Vegas sprawl was easily the tightest and most entertaining spectacle of its kind to pass through these parts since the last Madonna tour came to town. Really.
Essentially, it was a multi-million-dollar drag show, as the Spice Girls' remarkably durable roster of pop hits, from the Latin-flavoured whoosh of "Spice Up Your Life" to gangbusters closer "Wannabe," was merely one ingredient in a performance of endless costume changes, athletic dance numbers and state-of-the-art video projections. They spilled from an ever-morphing sci-fi set rigged with trapdoors, catwalks and moving chambers onto a runway extending halfway back to the floor seats.
The onstage movements of the Girls and their many, deferential male dancers – several were led around on all fours on glittering dog leashes for "Holler" – flowed with such choreographic precision through the technical gimmickry that the show didn't really need music to dazzle.
Luckily, the frantic, dance-party pace only waned after obligatory nods to each Spice's solo career (Posh strode down the runway in black lingerie without singing) gave way to an unnecessary disco-covers medley and two ballads too many on the way to "Wannabe." And the Spice Girls catalogue is one of pop music's more respectable phenomena, as once-ubiquitous hits such as the Motown romp "Stop," the breezy "Say You'll Be There" and even mildly tawdry bedroom ballad "2 Become 1" sounded endurably fresh and welcome all these years later. Still the guiltiest of pleasures.
 

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