WOW, the media is really overplaying this stupid Smash Hits poll that put Spice Girls as the worst group of the year. Looks like the media is back at trying to bring down the Spice Girls... and that can only mean one thing, Spice Girls are back!!! I'm also liking the low Story Leaders count so far this month, meaning that most stories posted are about the Spice Girls as a group, which is great!

• Reformatted links page

• Obtained 1997 News
• Over 100,000 dynamic hits!

And yay, we broke the 100,000 dynamic visitors mark sometime last week! Well, I know a lot of them are actually not dynamic but the same people hitting the page again and again, but still, over 100,000 visitors with only logging the same person once per day. Cool, thanks everyone!

Northern Star album is da bomb of course. I am totally impressed by it's quality alone from my obvious Spice Girls bias. Every single track is great. Everytime I listen to it(which is a lot) I think to myself "Wow, I can't believe how good this album is!" Melanie C is an excellent musical artist on her own and this album proves it.

If anyone is sitting around wanting to make a Spice Girls website but thinking "blahhhhhhhh, there are already a million of them, I can't even think of anything dynamic." Well, here is something that I always wanted to see. I was actually going to do this but I didn't and won't ever have the time to: A website that contains only pictures taken of the Spice Girls by fans. It could be entitled "Snaps From The Public" or something. And it would be totally legal with the pics and everything because they are collected from people who took them themselves, so no worrying about the copyright ever as long as the people send them in to you. You could collect them from people just hitting the site and sending you their pics if they have them. Somebody please make a site like this! It would add so many new pictures of Spice Girls to the internet that have never been seen before by many many people. Speaking of such things...

The Arrival / The Meeting

I got there late, like 2pm, but luckily there were only like 7 other people there so far, including my friend RoSaNne(Running Spice) and Erin from SpiceZone.com Either way we just sat and waited around for a while. After a little bit we decided to go back behind the theater to check out the back entrance where we suspected Mel would be going in from. So we went back there and talked to the security guard for a bit and he made us leave after a few minutes. So we went back out front and did nothing for a while more. Just about an hour later we decided to go and check what was going on in the back. We were pretty much expecting to get kicked out by the security guard right away. I asked him what time Mel got there, since we had already heard some music from inside the theater. He said she hadn't arrived. We were just chattering with him a little bit hoping for something, we really didn't know what. So again after a few minutes of chatter he suddenly said "OK guys i need you to walk back....you need to get out of here." We didn't move at first. Then he was like "Go back" and pointed the way out where we came from. So we all moved to the other side of the wall and really really slowly started making our way back. Then this van started coming up the alley. A white van with tinted windows. Erin noticed it before me and grabbed my arm and said "Oh my god, look!! It's her it's her, it's gotta be her, oh my god..." And excitement started pumping through everyone's veins! The atmosphere of everyone in the alley had changed. The security people got quiet and were probably thinking "oh no, what are we gonna do with these people back here" and some of the assembly crew also got excited. As the van stopped Erin put her face to the back of it and cupped her hands over her eyes to see in. We all knew it was her just by the atmosphere and all bunched up by the door. The adrenaline was pumping. Then the side door opened and three people got out, and then there she was, Melanie C!!!!! We all went crazy. We were all yelling for her to sign our stuff and that we loved her, etc etc. And just as she got out she saw us and said "Helloooo...... I'm late for an interview.." in a really sad tone. But it didn't matter, she knew we were serious fans. So she stopped for us. And we were all over her already anyway and just hugging her and putting our arms around her. It was very very cool because there was only about 7 of us back there in total, the other 20 or so peolpe stayed out front! Almost all of us got our picture with her!! I did! And she signed a lot of stuff. Of course i hadn't brought anything for her to sign. I mean i had my Q Magazine but i left it in the front of the theater in our line because I really didn't expect anything back there. THANK GOD i had my camera. Rosanne got both of her Goin' Down singles signed, and then gave her a small stuffed giraffe(it was funny), and a letter. Then i told her that we really are her biggest fans in the world, which we truly are I mean come on! And she seemed really touched when i said it and said "Awwww, thank you, you're wonderfull." Melanie C is so nice and kind! Ahhhhhhh, it was great. What a great feeling. Melanie C is awesome looking! She was wearnig her white "California" top cut off that is seen in some pics. And you could see her Angel tatoo and everything. She was fabulous. I love her!!! So then we went back to the front and everyone else that didn't go back was hella jealous hehe!

The Show

Then the show came. It was a packed theater. I had front row of course so it was a great view, about 10-12 feet from her. She wore different attire then what she arrived in. She wore a black shirt with a picture of a chinese type dragon on it, and army pants that were rolled up at the top of her shins. She looked like a total rock chick. She came out everyone went crazy. I mean crazy crazy. My hearing was going just from the loudness of the crowd and not only the loud music. The crowd was quite good. Mostly older teens and 20-somethings, and very few little girls. Her performance was excellent. She is an excellent performer and beautiful singer. After she did her first song she said "LA!!!!!!!!!!! Hello!!!!!!!! My second home!!! I love it here!!!!" Everybody went crazy of course. Everybody in the theater loved all her songs. She DID do "Anarchy In The UK" with the dude from the Sex Pistols. I knew what they were doing so i was shouting "Anarchy!!!" when she introduced him and he looked at me and shook his head in a positive like "hell yeah" manner. Melanie was making eye contact with the audience most of the time. If she wasn't making eye contact then she was en captivated in her own songs with her eyes closed. She looked at me from the corner of her eyes a few times when she opened them at chorus parts of Ga Ga. That was awesome. Melanie was brilliant. The crowd was so crazy that she couldn't even believe it. At the end of one of her songs she just like dropped her jaw as she looked at the rest of her band out of amazement of how much we loved her. I mean the loudness at the 8th song in was just as loud as when she first got on stage. She complimented us for being awesome after the first few songs, and then again 5 or so songs later she said "Wow, well, aren't you guys wicked!!!!" or something to that extent. I loved when she would look at me and i would just give her such a look of approval and love, it was great. She knew we loved her!!! I loved and went crazy to her fast songs(Goin' Down, Ga Ga, Anarchy.. etc etc etc) but i also loved at the end when she did accoustic Closer, what a beautiful song. I can go on and on, but i don't know if anyone is even reading this far! Those are all the major details.

I think Melanie C will really be extremely successful as a solo artist and I will never forget October 7th, 1999.

1. I've finally updated my homepage to a presentable state. It has been around since '96, but it also wasn't updated since '96! So I finally redid it. So if you want to know more about Jozzy Spice for some reason then go here to see my homepage!

2. Yes I have tickets for Mel C's LA concert and I'll be there! Can't wait! If you're going as well, holla @ me!

3. My goal for SpiceNews.com was to average 500 hits/day. We are just about there! Coolness! It's gone over 500 a couple times, but it's still leveled out in the mid 400's right now. We are also coming up on 100,000 dynamic hits!

4. I definitely did not expect Melanie C to break the record for most stories by a Spice Girl in one month, but she did it for September! The previous record was Victoria in July with 59 stories(with her wedding and all..), Mel took over the top spot by only 1 story! Thats right, Melanie C had 60 stories last month, thats 10 times as many as the next closest Spice Girl, which was MelG, with 6! Damn, i should've changed the name of the site to SportyNews for September. A solo album/tour will do that I guess. I expect she will dominate the stories for the next few months.

5. I have finished reading the book "Spiced Up" by Muff Fitzgerald. I have to say that this is an extremely good book. It is not for the light Spice Fan. Any non-hardcore fan would get bored reading it after a few chapters. It's not so much a story about the Spice Girls, but rather a story about their PR, Muff Fitzgerald. Well, Muff did write the book, so it's just a biography of his time while being their PR. Which is excellent! Because it is a different point of view on Spice World. This book does go on a bit too much about The Sun and The Mirror, their competitiveness and Muff's never ending battle with each of them. However, that's not his fault, because thats how it was. It's like watching a movie starring Muff Fitzgerald and co-starring Spice Girls. You'd still watch it right!? Either way, this book is extremely informative and has tons of info you never knew about the girls. It takes you through the good times and the bad times. After reading this book I definitely have a new founded respect for PR's. Muff has very warm feelings for the Spice Girls as well, which is really nice. He actually personally cared about them outside of the job. A very good book from a very good man. Hard-Core fans: READ THIS BOOK! If anyone has a means of getting word to him, please tell him thank you for writing this wonderfull & honest book and being a good and real person. He is undoubtedly an intriquate part of the Spice Girls history. Thank You to Muff Fitzgerald.

6. Yeah, the reason the site wasn't updated for a couple days a couple weeks ago was due to a hardware upgrade. aka a new 13GB hard drive for myself. Usually a simple procedure, but my old 5GB hard drive refused to be a slave under it! So i had to work out some crazy ide routing with hard drive's and cdroms until all hardware was happy. Of course i had to buy another ide cable because the one was too short for my new configuration, etc etc etc...

7. For the 1% of the readers who play 3D Shooters: I have to admit that Unreal Tournament is pretty damn good. I didn't expect it to be a serious competitor for Quake 3, but it definitely is. The graphics might not be much better then Quake 2's, but the game is just damn fun! I got a bit worried when i realized i played more UT then Q3 over a 3 day period(me being a quake-loyalle). I'm sure when the retails come out, I'll still play a lot more Q3, but UT will also be there. Hats off to Epic..

8. Oh, and guess what, The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails is the #1 album in the nation right now! I had this album the day it came out of course as I have been waiting a good couple years for it. I have to say that Trent Reznor has pulled it off again. What an awesome album. Consisting of some great heavy tracks, as well as some great solo songs with ingenius piano manipulation on them. And to put out an album like this in this day in age of music is really an accomplishment in itself. Wonderfull job Trent!

• Added Melanie C Tour Dates Page.

• Added a page with comments before giving email addy for submitting news.

• Added Tour Dates Page

• Moved Victoria's Wedding Page to the Archives.

Incase you are wondering what happened to the Goodbye Video download page, i took it off the running stories because i like to have an odd # of stories there all the time because it formats better that way, therefor the Goodbye Video Download page is just a filler that comes in and out. It's still available though, so if you ever need it, come to this page and you'll find it HERE. I thought about putting it in the archives, but it doesn't seem right, i mean it's just a video download link, not an archive of any sort of news or news event.

Just realized that soon it will be a year that Mel G is married, wow does time ever fly.

All four Spice Girls in London at the same time, hasn't happened in quite a while, and it can only mean one thing....THATS RIGHT BABY!! - ALBUM 3!!! As you probably know it's set to start recording this month. And i guess MelC is already starting work on it. Wow does that girl work a lot! I'm glad she's so into doing it, or does she just want to get it out of the way? Either way i hope a lot of good magic happens in that studio for the next one or two months as the album is recorded.

Other comments I'm going to make include one about the Melanie C Q Magazine interview. I love how honest this interview is. I wonder if Virgin Records will be pissed. I'm concerned with whether her changing her look now seemingly purposely for her album launch is fake or not. She's not the type of girl to be fake I know, but her now suddenly liking clothing that she used to hate and changing her look suddenly seems a bit too coincidental. Eh, i don't know, i'll have to actually see an interview with her to check it out! Hopefully she is still the same Mel as far as personality goes. Either way it also kind of concerns me that her attitude towards the music of the Spice Girls is not so positive as it used to be, and that there is such frequent arguments within the group still now. Either way I hope they can continue their radically different solo careers and style of music but always still come together as Spice Girls to make pop music. In theory, since they each are sharpening their individual musical skills by doing solo work, when they get back together to record the music should be even better because they are all successfull solo artists as well, aka any future Spice Girls albums should be da bomb. But who knows, perhaps their individual styles will cause conflict, perhaps not, we will see, hopefully it will only improve Spice Girls music as a whole.

Also have to mention that I purchased the Natalie Imbruglia album FINALLY a few weeks ago after eye-ing it for about a year and have to say that it's pretty good. "Smoke" is my favorite song off the album.

• Declared Additional Mission

1.) I updated the about page yesterday adding "Site Mission" information. When I was doing it I realized that this site can really have another important mission besides only having the latest Spice Girls news. I was recently looking at the archives section and toyed around with the idea of adding 1997 & 1996 news(which was before this site existed), essentially making a complete database of Spice Girls news from the beginning of their existance. This would detail the entire history of the Spice Girls and would probably be the largest archive of Spice Girls news available in the world. It may sound a bit ridiculous as to how I would go back and retrieve a year and a half worth of detailed news. Well it is quite possible if I get assistance from the correct people. In the original first generation of Spice Girls web sites(which are almost all dead by now which is really unfortunate), a few of them had very good news sections. I can think of one in particular that had an outstanding news section and was around from I believe 1996, but ceased to be updated after '97, and now no longer exists whatsoever. I am speaking of "The Spice Station", the original one mind you, before the official US Spice Girls Homepage even existed to use the same name. Either way I am trying to contact the webmaster of that brilliant site to see if he might allow me to use his news. I would of course probably reformat it to fit the SpiceNews.com format, but I would of course credit him for it. I think this is a great idea and it gives me a rush to think that SpiceNews.com could be the largest archive of Spice Girls news in the world! The site would at this point have to exist forever. A search feature is also something that would have to be implemented which I knew I would need a long time ago, but probably won't be implemented anytime soon.

2.) I have a medical problem right now that I need to deal with which may slow down the news flow here, but I will do my best to keep it updated as much as I can.

• Redid the title jpg, should look cleaner now.

• Style Sheeted the entire site to add hover-color for IE browsers.

• Added Goodbye Video Download

• Changed format of multiple stories in one day on Victoria's Wedding Page.

• Fixed font face problem in 4th gen & earlier browsers.
• Fixed #link problem in netscape.

• Spice Tracking Is Now Activated (Please Be Patient While It Loads)
• Added Castle graphic to Victoria's Wedding Page
• Added NoFrames compatability (finally)
• Changed font style for current running news stories
• Changed font style for Story Leaders
• Fixed Spice Tracking browser compatability issue
• Fixed news page graphics for resolutions higher then 1024x768
• Updated Links
• Made misc html optimizations

For all intent purposes i am done expanding this web site. Sure there will be little things here and there, probably some more running stories will develop. But everything i wanted with it i have done. Now we'll just ride on the news! Speaking of the news, i can already feel the Victoria tidal wave of news coming, it already started today actually! The wedding news is going to kick my ass. I can just see a million posts about it!

I like the "Current Story Leaders" feature. It was interesting to watch it last month, and i did not expect the final result to be what it was! Melanie G beat all the other girls by more then 10 stories! I guess thats what happens when you release a single. Thats when all the stories started coming in! She was doing rather bad in that section in the first half of the month if i remember correctly. I thought that Victoria would be on top with wedding news, but she ended up tied for last place! Craziness. My prediction is that this month she will be on top, i can almost guarentee it. It will be interesting in the first few days of July to just see her # of stories multiply. It could get very interesting, like Victoria with over 10 and some Spice Girls with 0? I don't know if it will be that extreme but we'll see. The final results for June's Story leaders are up on the June archived page at the bottom. This is how it will work from now on with the story leader summaries.

I do have to say that i like "Sophisticated Lady" a lot! Oh my god, i think Melanie B is getting wayyy too much heat for "Word Up" only being at #12 in the mid week charts. Who cares! Like #12 is that bad!? I can't believe people and especially the media expects that the first solo singles of the Spice Girls are supposed to enter the charts at #1, wow cut them some slack pah-lease!! "Oh no Word Up might come in at #11, it didn't make the top 10, it's a failiure, a flop, ahaha" - Come on, what a bunch of BS & Malarkey. Well, i think i'm done rambling for now, was that long enough for ya?

Oh, and about that new Melanie C look, i personally prefer the more traditional MelC. This new one looks like she's been in Los Angeles for just a little bit too long if you know what i mean! God, she's been here for 2 months and i have not been able to find & meet her. You ask me "Why!? What is wrong with you, oh my god, what kind of Spice Girls fan are you, she's in the same city as you and you haven't even found her!?!?" Well, first of all the city is ridiculously huge and spread out. Primarily however i haven't really had time to try to locate her because of more important personal matters that require attention, such as housing, employment, school, etc. AKA things that would leave me on the street if i didn't attend to. Maybe in this last month of her presence i will be able to pull something off?

• Added Victoria Wedding Page
• Increased size of sub-story links
• Added Submit News to sub-story links

• Fixed Archives Month Listing so no scrolling
• Added Story Leaders in toolbar

• Added 3 new Banners
• Added site to search engines

• Added 3 new banners

Whew, well it was a long night last night as I camped out for Star Wars Episode 1 tickets(thats why there was no update for those couple of days)! 11 hours in line, it payed off so far though, I got the May 19th, 12:01am showing! Also, Q3Test was released on Monday night. I don't know, I don't think that much of it right now. E3 kicks off tomorrow, what a busy week! New idea for the site that I will be adding along with that wedding page which is overdue by now is a Spice Tracker Page. You know how you once in a while see "MelC Tracker" or something like that as a headline. Well this page will just be a page telling where each Spice Girl is at the moment, and what they are doing.

• Created 5 New Buttons
• Added eXTReMe Tracking

• Moved site to www.spicenews.com
• Added new email accounts
• Created a Banner
• Created a Button
• Created Button & Banner page

Other Misc Ramblings: In other news I purchased the latest Fatboy Slim album entitled "You've Come A Long Way Baby" recently and I must comment that it is pretty good, especially for someone who doesn't normally listen to electronic music! Also, i'm dying for the Q3Test to come out for Win32. I'd have the linux version but there are no linux glide drivers for my Voodoo 3, argh!

• Uploaded Solo Projects Page
• Uploaded Spice Babies Page
• Uploaded FAQ Page
• Made an Email Page
• Made & Uploaded an About Page

I need help in the following fields if at all possible from anybody:

1. The exact release date of the "When You're Gone" single.
2. The exact date when Emma sang "Tonight's The Night" live with Rod Stewart.
3. Perhaps some sort of white tone, newspaper style image that i could use for the site background.
4. If anybody is good at high quality GIF Animation and has extra time on their hands, i need an animated button for the website. I know this is asking a lot for free, but if you do it i'll credit you in the alt tag of the button. The button needs to be standard button size such as the temporary button sized SPICE graphic i have at the top of the toolbar on the left. If anyone is interested please email me before you start doing it because there are a few more details i would like to discuss privately.