It was such a huge disappointment earlier this year when persistent rumours that the Spice Girls were playing Glastonbury were quashed. Melanie C was as disappointed as any of us, as she told the Guardian in January. But she still made it to the festival to play a banging set on Saturday, her deep catalogue of solo disco-worthy songs capped off with a couple of Spice Girls hits. Interviewed by the Guardian’s Laura Snapes on Sunday morning in the Cabaret tent at the festival, she seems totally thrilled by the experience, chatting away with characteristic ebullience. “I didn’t expect the amount of people that came!” she says. Why on earth not? Any Spice Girl would draw a Glasto crowd, but Melanie Chisholm has more musical material to draw from than any of the rest of them.
It seems ridiculous that the Spice Girls have never played this festival – but as Mel points out, things were different in the 90s. “Back in the day you wouldn’t have seen a band like the Spice Girls at a festival,” she says. “But things have changed over the years.”
