Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 29 March 2013 Issue 1168 | starobserver.
com.
au
HasLaborlost
politicalwill?
page03
Meetthe
BoganQueen
page14
Bangarra’s
LeonardMickelo
page17
Easterwhat’s
onspecial
page20
Spicing up ChristArts
Nick Bond...
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Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 29 March 2013 Issue 1168 | starobserver.
com.
au
HasLaborlost
politicalwill?
page03
Meetthe
BoganQueen
page14
Bangarra’s
LeonardMickelo
page17
Easterwhat’s
onspecial
page20
Spicing up ChristArts
Nick Bond
Their show-stopping performance at the
London Olympics confirmed that, 17 years
after they burst onto the scene with debut
single Wannabe, there’s still an insatiable
public interest in the Spice Girls as a
fivesome.
Away from the group, though, their
fortuneshavebeenmixed.
Tellingly,‘Sporty
Spice’MelanieCistheonlySpiceGirlwho’s
released any new solo music in the past
seven years.
The past 18 months have been
the most prolific of her career: first came a
stellar pop-rock album of original material,
TheSea,thenasurprisedanceEPrecorded
incollaborationwithLondondragDJJodie
Harsh, and finally a covers album, Stages.
She’s also broadened her horizons of late
to include a childhood dream, performing
in musical theatre.
A 2009 stint in
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