“Show-Room” Concert
Place – Virgin Megastore, Champs-Élysées
Time – 10th Dec, 20:00
As you all know, I have far too much free time on my hands and a particular sensitivity towards music. So I quickly found out that the Spice Girls would be in Paris this week.
If you have seen MTV and their number one hits “Wannabe” and “Say You’ll Be There,” you will realise that they are quite a team. Five fully active ladies, each with a completely different style.
To add more “fun” in this post, guess where they actually emerged onto the stage.
The Virgin Megastore is three storeys high. Knowing that for this kind of big event you need to get there really early (I still remember the day when we spent 10 hours standing before the Bon Jovi concert began, just to get into the first ten rows), I packed up quickly after work and rushed to the Champs-Élysées.
I arrived at 7:00 pm and managed to secure a standing spot on the stairs. After waiting for one hour, the Spice Girls were already 40 minutes late.
There were at least 1,000 people inside the Virgin store — fully packed. Believe me, I had more than enough time to do the headcount. Behind me was a group of lunatic young girls shouting “Girl Power!” all the time, screaming out of their ***king minds.
And then they appeared — descending in the see-through elevator.
Everybody went into complete ecstasy!
Believe me, they are great women. I could actually see their faces clearly. The first song was, of course, “Wannabe.” Then we had five more songs, and the last song was indeed “Wannabe” again.
They were great stage performers. The French girls behind me knew every single line of the songs. Unbelievable!
Come to think of it, we had the super-popular Take That (history already), East 17, and nowadays 3T, and so on. All guys’ teams. The last lady group (with more than four members) I can think of is The Bangles, which is a U.S. group. (I think the Spice Girls are from the UK — someone check that for me.)
So perhaps it is finally time for the ladies’ turn.
A total of 30 minutes of ultra entertainment, after one hour and forty minutes of waiting. Definitely worth it.
If you have some spare cash (say S$20 or HKD$100), go and get yourself that album. They are great singers as well.
And if you have never heard of the Spice Girls…
where were YOU in the last three months?
Wilf @ Paris.