Check out the gallery for the latest picture of Melanie C, it's the Q cover!

With the Q magazine interview, we can now start make a list of the possible album tracks. The list looks like this:

• Going Down
• Ga Ga
• Closer
• Follow co-written by Bryan Adams

Melanei C is on the cover and is the main story of the latest issue of UK magazine Q Review.

Read the full, highly insightful, interview in our artcles section.

Melanie C ditches the "indie" and the "pop" look and takes on a punk look for her latest video, and her first solo single.

The video was shot in LA, she wears very short spiky blonde hair, plaid skorts, boots, a black top. Check the pictures out in the photo gallery.

Melanie's fave band has won her to the James Bond theme song. Garbage will sing the theme for "The World Is Not Enough".

EMI will soon purchase a music publishing company which owns the rights to some of the hit songs of the Spice Girls. The deal is worth $200 million.

The Wedding Book based on Posh and Beck's wedding is on sale now in the UK. There are some pictures of Melanie C inside. Check out the photo gallery for latest pictures of Melanie C.

The first ever solo Spice Girl, current member only, album has been finished. Melanie C's "Northern Star" was recorded in Los Angeles over the past few months. The album is due October with the first single entitled "Goin'Down" (not "Ga Ga" as previoulsy assumed) will be out slightly before. The single will feature bonus tracks and other album track, "Ga Ga".

Northern Star was produced mainly by Rick Rubin with William Orbit producing just a handful of the songs.

Check out the latest pictures of Melanie C taken from the OK! Magazine with pictures of Posh and Beck's wedding.

In what may seem an odd debut, Melanie C has been officially announced as a performer for this years rock-fest V99.

The festival takes place August 21st and 22nd at Hylands Park, Clemsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire. Many tabloids have jumped at the report since no "pop" musician has ever performed at the event. Only "indie", "garage" and "rock" musicians have played the gigs.

The album is claimed to be modern rock. Tracks such as "Ga Ga" have brought comparisons to Garbage's music.

The event will help promote her first solo single, "Goin'Down", which will be releaed September via Virgin Records.

The latest issue of TOTP incudes an interview with the Spice Girs:

TOTP: Do you think the Spice Girls are a better group without Geri?
Mel G: I think it's stronger vocally with just the four of us.
Victoria: I think also we're happier. Well, maybe not happier but we are really happy as a four piece.
Emma: It's comfortable.
Mel C: I think it was quite strange...you know, when Geri decided to leave. It was quite a tough time for us, it was just at the end of our European tour and we didn't have long to get things together but we did it and I think it's made us stronger. It always felt really comfortable just the four of us and it's quite strange now, it's hard to actually imagine her ever being part of the band.

TOTP: Do u still get upset when you read the "Spice Girls To Split!" stories in the press?
Mel G: When you get back from doing a tour, you hear this story and that story, it's quite mad.
Victoria: Yeah, exactly. I wish they would just stop all this "you haven't done anything for two days, so you've broke up then". Do you know what I mean?
Emma: It's happened so many times. Everything we do makes someone say "They're breaking up!" You just give up explaining it and get on with what you're doing.

A live accoustic recording of "When You're Gone" from the January 5th TFI Friday is included in Bryan Adam's latest single "Cloud #9"

It is unknown why, but William Orbit has been called in to produce some tracks off Melanie C's debut solo album.

William Orbit and Melanie C are in the US working on the solo album.

It has been announced that Melanie C is possibly to perform at the V99 music festival which will take place on August 21st and 22nd at Hylands Parks in Chelmsford, Essex, and at Weston Park.

Melanie C wished Zoe Ball her best on her wedding, since Melanie won't be able to make the wedding due to the event.

A RHCP fan asked:

Is emit remmus about sporty spice?? (it's my fave tune on the album, great tension and intensity build up!! ) thx for your time and lookin forward to seeing you guys live (with my fave funky monk, john!) rock out.

I started writing the lyrics for emit remmus before I ever met sporty, but I finished them after I'd known her a bit, you figure it out. - AK

Lyrics to Emit Remmus

The California animal is a bear
Angeleno but the devil may care
Summer time to talk and swear
Later maybe we could share some air
I'll take you to the movies there
We could walk through Leicester Square
What could be wetter than
An English girl American man

Chorus:
London in the summer time
Call me now use the satellite
London in the summer time
Cuss me out and it'll feel all right

Hesitate but don't refuse
The choice was yours but you said choose
The look she used was green and sharp
Stabbed that boy all in his heart
Come what may the cosmos will
Take me up and down on Primrose Hill
What could be wetter than
An English girl American man

Chorus

Cuss me out and it'll feel all right
It's all right now
Call me now use the satellite
It's all right
It's all right

Down and out and it'll sound all right
It's all right now
It's all right

The California flower is poppy child
Felony sends me all the gold in your smile
Drift away from anyone you can
Nothing ever goes according to plan
Though I know that every river bends
Time to say hello to snow on the Thames
What could be wetter than
An English girl American man

Chorus

Melanie C has cut her hair again. She shortly showed off shoulder-length blonde tresses now it looks different.

Check out the photo gallery for a picture taken Jan 3rd in Dublin.

From 8am to 10 pm on July 24th & 25th you can watch everything Spice on MTV Europe.

July 1st 1996, Wannabe hits the airwaves! Here is an update that the girls made on their official homepage:

What were you up to on July 1 1996--bet you can't remember... but we do!!

That date means everything in the world to us cos that was the day when our very first single--Wannabe!!!--was released in the UK... and you'll never guess what, but that day is now officially GIrl Power Day!!

The whole idea, as well as getting the boys in your life to be your slave for the day, is to show the world what Girl Power actually means... so step to it girls, be a Spice Girl for the day and be as kind and cool to your loved ones and the world in general as you possibly can and show everyone you know why girls rule!!!

Have a fantastic day and if you wanna take some pix to show us what you got up to send them to: the c3 gang, 553 Harrow Rd, London W10 and we'll post the best and maddest ones up on the site.

love, peace and girl power!!!!

emma, mel g, victoria and mel c

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

TOTP recently ask Mel G about Mel C's new look she unveiled at the premiere of Austin Power. Here is what she had to say:

Melanie G: "I know, we were both giggling our heads off, she was like, "I've never worn a skirt before!" and I was like, "You look fantastic! Go girlfriend!" Her hair looks wicked, it really does, very LA!"

In an MTV news brief Melanie C was asked what she thought of Geri Halliwell's solo material. She answered:

"It's good I like it, it's not my cup of tea though, but the video is brilliant she looks great."