Melanie C has updated her site with a new sign-up section.

By signing up you will be given the chance to buy tickets to her upcoming tour a full 24 hrs before tickets go onsale to the general public.

Melanie C has also updated the tours dates (Ipswich, Oxford, Bristol and Norwich have had date changes).

Please visit MelanieC.net for up to date tour dates and to register as a fan. I'm assuming more goodies are to come.

If you're a Melanie fan and live in Germany, Melanie will be on the MTV Select (14:00) with her clip "Here It Comes Again". It appears that the video will be premiering at this hour.

Mel's competition is heating up, though the Justin/Nelly duet has been pushed back to a later release dates (in fear of the girls), Melanie C and X-tina are ready to battle it out in true form come Feb 24th.

Melanie's new song has already been listed in Radio 1 but it got a b-listing where X-tina is A listed and all other competition is c-listed....that includes DJ Sammy!

Melanie is currently at the 67th spot on the UK Airplay Chart while X-tina is at the 55th spot and DJ Sammy at the 66th spot.

If you want to help Melanie C out and belong to the den den forums, please contact Dee and purchase the cd, it will only count on the charts if it's sold in the UK and not bought online even from a UK online cd store.

Capital FM has reviewed HICA and called it a much more hard-edged song than some of her previous releases. "With it's grungy pulsing guitars, teamed with Melanie's familiar powerful voice, this is much more hard-edged than some of her previous hits, but it's a tune that thumps you right between the eyes and leaves you reeling. Sounds like this Northern Star really means business this time- and we can't wait to hear the album".

Read our local copy of the News Of The World Interview right here.

Also visit Joel and James site to get a chance at getting your personal message delivered to the lady herself. Joel and James will be at Melanie's next webchat and accoustic gig and will make sure to give Melanie a book compiled of fan letters. Check it out

MelanieC.net has uploaded the tracklisting for "Reason", they've also uploaded the tour dates, as listed below. Check them out officially at

1.Here It Comes Again
2.Reason
3.Lose Myself In You
4.On The Horizon
5.Positively Somewhere
6.Melt
7.Do I
8.Soul Boy
9.Water
10.Home
11.Let's Love
12.Yeh Yeh Yeh
*13.Wonderland*

*Japanese Version only*

Dennis has typed this up for us. It is what Melanie C said about each track played to the press at the press release last week.

Here It Comes Again:
"I wrote this with Marius de Vries, who also produced it, and Robert Howard - Dr. Robert of the Blow Monkey - who also sings on the track. It has this incessant, captivating beat. Not aggressive, but very strong. And yet it's a love song, with a lyric that's very sweet. I love the middle eight, where things go a little bit weird, a little bit I Am The Walrus. It's an absolute bugger to sing though, I might add. There's no respite. You've just got to fill your lungs and go for it."

On The Horizon:
"Written with Rick Nowels and Gregg Alexander, and produced by them, this is just a great, straight-ahead, feel good song. I'll admit that it took me a little while to get over the potential cheese factor, but now it makes me smile every time I put it on. Very emotive. Highly commercial. And we all need a bit of that from time to time, don't we?"

Reason:
"Written with and produced by a lovely Scottish man, Peter Vettese. The title track, obviously, and I fucking love it. Reason is such a positive word, one that it's difficult to take a negative connotation from. And the thing is that, however arsey it might sound, music is my reason. When I came back from touring and wasn't working, I was just a shell. I had no reason or purpose whatsoever. I had to get into the studio again and start writing. This is my reason. It's me. It's what I do. Simple as that."

Lose Myself In You:
"I Wrote this with Matt Rowe and his little mate Stefan Skarbek. Matt's one of the first people we worked with as the Spice Girls -he co-wrote Wannabe- and is a really good friend now, as well as a collaborator. It's a sweet, mid-tempo song, quite quirky, that really pulls the whole album together. Some people have said they think it has quite a Marvin Gaye-type feel. Damian Le Gassick produced it here in London, and you can hear straight away it's him. It has his trademark simple, crisp but, again, quirky sound. I really like this track."

Let's Love:
"This is me writing with Phil Thornalley and Dave Munday - we did Be The One together on the last record - and with Pat McCarthy producing. They played me this kind of Stones-ish riff, a bit too Brown Sugar to my tastes. But when they put a disco beat behind it, I got really excited. Lyrically, it's not too deep. There's no real significant meaning here. But there's some great playing on it, and just as a track it's a lot of fun."

Home:
"I wrote this with David Arnold. People kept saying to me, 'God, you're going to be working with David!' and I began to get a big freaked out. Be he was so cool, laid-back and nice that it was a joy. He works out of Air Studios, which is a five minute walk from my house, so that helped! He was very insistent that he wanted the lyric to be totally honest, without one unnecessary word left in, and what we've ended up with is something quite poignant, about the whole 'This is what's happened to me' type of thing. The track itself started out sounding almost classical, with a big orchestration. Damian Le Gassick's production has actually made it into something quite funky though."

Soul Boy:
"The only track on the album that I didn't co-write, this is the work of Paul Buchanan, of Glasgow's Blue Nile. As soon as I heard it, I knew it was the most beautiful song. Paul's interpretation on the demo was so unique though, that I wondered what I could bring to it myself. This was quite a big deal for me - the first cover version that I've recorded. 'But no,' I thought to myself. 'Don't be scared.' And I just went for it. Another Scotsman, Gary Clark, produced it, and people seem very excited by the result."

Do I:
"Me writing with Phil Thornally and Dave Munday again, and with Damien Le Gassick and Pat McCarthy producing. It's just a very sweet, very simple song, and one that will be a gift to perform acoustically, when we do radio tours and stuff like that. It reminds me a bit of Be The One, from Northern Star. A fairy-tale lyric, one that's not especially relevant to my own life. Lovely, though, and intimate. A very pretty song."

Water:
"I did this with Tore Johansson, who produced it with Pat McCarthy. Tore's best known for his work with The Cardigans and, as a Swede, is the first non native English-speaker I've written with. I thought that might be a handicap in the creative process, but it all turned out just fine. He's a big Pro Tools man, and has all these reacks and racks of tracks. We tried quite a few of them, and this was just a quirky, fun thing that everybody seemed to like."

Positively Somewhere:
"Phil Thornalley and me writing together again, this time with Colin Campsie. I loved the idea of the song itself from the start, but it took a while to get the lyrics right. I loved the positivity aspect, but again I was afraid it could get a bit cheesy. Anyway, I gave the track to Damnien Le Gassick, who did some production work on the last album, and said, 'See what you can do with this, mate.' And he's taken it to a whole different place. It's great. A fantastic, driving-down-the-road type of song. And not cheesy at all."

Wonderland:
"Written with two young guy, Martin Slattery and Scott Shields, who work in Joe Strummer's band. We met after they produced a track of mine, Independence Day, which didn't make it on Northern Star, but which we gave to the Bend It Like Beckham soundtrack. They did such a good job on that, and it was just great to work with them on this. It's the perfect end-of-the-album song, kind of trying it all together. And from the start, it had 'Production by Marius de Vries' written all over it."

Visit SoloSpicenews.com to see and hear Melanie C at CD:UK this past week.

According to gaffa.dk Melanie C will perform at the Danish Music Awards 2003 held in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 1st.

Visit the-raft.com to win an opportunity to catch Melanie C live and for FREE!

Rumoured tour dates:

24/04/03 Middlesborough, UK, Town Hall
25/04/03 Glasgow, UK, Academy
26/04/03 Liverpool, UK, Royal Court
28/04/03 Manchester, UK, Academy
29/04/03 York, UK, Barbican
30/04/03 Nottingham, UK, Royal Centre
02/05/03 Oxford, UK, Apollo
03/05/03 Ipswich, UK, Regent
04/05/03 Norwich, UK, UEA
06/05/03 Bristol, UK, Bristol
07/05/03 Southampton, UK, Guildhall
08/05/03 London, UK, Shepherds Bush Empire
11/05/03 Belfast, UK, Waterfront
12/05/03 Dublin, Ireland, Olympia

*The previous Glasgow Academy Friday April 25th date is no longer availble on ticketmaster.co.uk

Anne earlier mentioned the article from Bravo Magazine from Germany, here is the translation from the article:

"The secluded Vasquez Canyon not far from LA. Normally just foxes say goodnight* to each other, but today there is a sound of Dancefloor music in the air.

It's "Reason" the comeback of Melanie C. After derailments of the last few months, "Sporty Spice" is noticeably back in shape again, and dances in a cool leather-suit around a tree."

* German saying equivalent to: at the back of beyond; out in the sticks

Reason is a 12 track album according to JohnnoM from dot music who was at the playback party on Wednessday.

JohnnoM said that the album had loads of potential new songs for singles, atleast six. He also said the album is much more cohesive.

JohnnoM is a journalist, and he was one of the few that were invited to hear the album before it's release.

A Virgin spokeswoman at the event was quoted by saying: "this will be the record that will crack the US market and rival the Avril Lavigne's of the world."

The spokeswoman also explained: "Although all the recording etc has been completed, the CD hasn't been pressed yet. According to a woman from Virgin I spoke to, there are six versions of the album which all the relevant record company people have. They listend to it at home, in their cars etc and decide on which one flows the best. That decision will be made in the next few days before the initial batch of CDs are produced."

Melanie C was obviously at the event, and was quoted by some tabloids. Some "mis-quoted" Miss Chisholm trying to make her sound a bit...need we say catty?

This is what "The Sun" and "The Mirror" quoted...although apparently adding a few words here or there...or removing at times:

"I wouldn't join the Spice Girls again unless I'm really skint. I'd only do a reunion if it was all five of us. I'm enjoying being a solo artist. I don't keep in touch with the others but there's no big feud. If we bumped into each other, it would be like: "All right mate?"

"I'm dead proud of it(the album). I've been working on it for two years and I'm dead chuffed with the finished result."

When asked about her recent "snub" at Geri...apparently she said Geri didn't have the qualities necessary to judge Pop Idol, Melanie was quoted explaining:

"That was taken out of context. Good luck to her! Geri's made a little talent fo a long way."

Visit Solospicenews.com to hear Melanie's Capital FM Interview.

Here It Comes Again tracklisting is available

CD:

1. Here It Comes Again (radio edit)
(Melanie Chisholm/Marius De Vries, Robert Howard)
Produced by Marius De Vries
Mixed by Pat McCarthy

2. Love To You
(Melanie Chisholm, Gary Clark)
Produced and Mixed by Gary Clark

3. Like That
(Melanie Chisholm, Martin Slattery, Scott Shields)
Produced and Mixed by Martin Slattery and Scott Shields

DVD:

1. Here It Comes Again
2. Love To You
3. Living Without You
Written by Melanie Chisholm, Julian Gallagher, Richard Stannard and Simon Hale
Produced by Julian Gallagher and Richard Stannard

Read the Melanie C interview on the Times Magazine.

View The Performance by clicking on the image above. You'll catch a glimpse of Melanie's new band which she will be touring with starting April!

T@mir has confirmed that Melanie will play Glasgow Academy on Friday the 25th of Arpil. tickets go on sale 31st of January.

It's rumoured that a remix video and track will be available by the time of the release of "Here It Comes Again" on February 24th.

The formats for the cd at the moment are as follows:

A DVD and CD single will be available with both including two previously not released tracks. Further details are yet not available.

Visit Melanie-C.org to see Melanie C's performance in Sweden.

Melanie C was on CD:UK and these are some pictures of her arriving to record the show.

Melanie has just updated her official site with news that she will be at the Annual Athletes Awards in Sweden on Monday the 20th of January. She'll be performing live and the show starts at 8pm on TV4.

A new competition to win a signed poster has just been open aswell. Good luck

Visit MelanieC.net

According to some fans, Melanie C's "Here It Comes Again" is causing a huge commotion in places like England where the song is on constant rotation on music channels.

It is rumoured that by Feb 24th there will be a remix video and a remix of the song available. But this rumour has as of yet not been confirmed.

The song has been such a hit apparently that some tabloids are having a go at it's credibility. The Sun reports today that the song was originally intended to be sung by Appleton. According to the report Marius sent Nic and Nat the track and they felt it was too eclectic for them. Melanie then took the song and re-wrote the lyrics and in such took writing credit.

Now I'm not too sure if the Sun is correct. According to Paul from Melanie C 2k, Marius is known to shop around his songs to people he really likes BUT according to Appleton he sends the music but not the lyrics. Additional changes to the music are done in order to make the song work with the lyrics written by the artist.

I don't really know if the matter of whether Melanie C wrote the song are not is relavant. The point is that the song was a good choice, it's sung very well, and just the point that the song was chosen by Melanie shows a sign of maturity. Besides, I don't think Melanie C has anything to worry about, why should she lie? She wrote all of Northern Star, she's written music for Emma and for Holly Valance, she's admitted she's including a cover on the new album....so why should she lie about this one song? She's already creditable...and I don't think Virgin Records would put their reputation on the line over a song either.

I believe the Sun had nothing better to do. It's obvious that they like the song since at no moment do they diss the song, BUT they sure go low and try to question whether Melanie C did or didn't write it...but at no point do they say she didn't do that track great justice. As far as I'm concerned it's just another way the tabloid tries to make money by making up stories.

I feel for Melanie. Some people have criticed that she over-reacted...BUT if anyone was to grab my girlfriend(in her case her boyfriend) and kick her out(in Melanie's case him) out of a club without any reason and it was at my own party I myself would get very pissed and I would have knocked a few heads. YET, I think Melanie behaved very chilled by what I can see, and her reaction of giving the finger is justified cause she knew the paparazzi and press would have fun putting this on all the covers...and it's happen.

I understand her reaction and stand by her all the way on this. More power to her for telling the club and the people who were making an even bigger deal about this what she thought about the whole situation. It is a rather f***ed up situation, I'd sue the club for doing what they did.

Now rumour has it that the reasoning to kick him out was because he looked through a womans handbag which was not Melanie's...but mistakes happen and he might have thought it was Melanie's handbag...and I know I've looked through my ex-girlfriend's bag cause I tend to throw in some personal items of my own...like chapstick.

None-the-less I'm on Thomas and Melanie's side...the club should have reacted a bit more human.

Mel C gives the finger as she storms off from her own 29th birthday party after bouncers booted out her boyfriend.

The doormen had ordered building boss Thomas Starr to leave the Circle Club in Manchester as the celebrations went on to 4am.

A witness said:"They just turfed Thomas into the street. No one knows why. Mel shouted at the door staff but they were not having any of it. She went berserk."

The German Magazine, Bravo magazine no. 2/2003 p.79 , has a short article about Melanie C.

Mel C - WŸstes Video
Der abgeschiedene Vasquez Canyon unweit von L.A. Normalerweise sagen sich hier blo§ die FŸchse gute Nacht, doch heute erschallt feinste Dancefloormusik durch die Steppe: "Reason", das Comeback von Mel C. Nach den Entgleisungen der letzten Monate ist "Sporty Spice" dafŸr wieder deutlich erschlankt und rankt sich im coolen Lederdress um einen alten Baum.

Under a picture was written: Mel C drehte in der WŸste. Die CD "Reason" kommt im MŠrz.

* Anne says that in the article they talk about dancefloor music....hmmm*

Happy Birthday to Melanie C who turns 29 today January 12th! It's not the 12th here in the USA, but it's def. there in Europe...so let's celebrate!

Melanie, if you read this, I'd like to thank you for being such a great role-model, such an admirable and talented musicians, so loving to your fans, so down to earth and so aware of how the media affects the youth. Thank you for using your talent to cheer up our days and for brining awareness to critical issues that would otherwise not be as strong an issue to the youth and people not affected.

Have a great day today Melanie, and may this year and those to follow be filled with great joy for you and those you love.

To catch a glimpse of Melanie C's new video, (incase you have Mac OS X on your system you won't be able to view it on the official site using that system) visit this great site about all the Here it Comes Again promo: Melanie-C.org.

The Here It Comes Again MP3 will be up for another 24 hours starting from right now, I recomend you download it if you haven't yet.

Here are Melanie-C-News.com we want to assure Melanie the credit she deserves for her work, therefore most audio files are in real media, but since HICA hasn't been released officially, I don't feel it's correct to have the full mp3 up online yet. It'll reappear in the near future for all to enjoy. For the meantime I'd like to help assure Melanie a good chart entering, and we all know some people download but don't purchase the cds...therefore here at Melanie-C-News.com we'll help to increase the probability of Melanie entering the charts well.

Thanks for understanding.

Melanie C will be at ITV1's CD:UK January 18th from 11:30-12:30 performing her new single, "Here It Comes Again" live!

Please check the tv listings in the above section in order to make sure you get a chance to see Melanie C's upcoming events.

Well, now you've all got a chance to hear the new Melanie C song...I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do, she's one talented lady.

Thanks to rockgurljr for encoding Melanie C on CD:UK today. Here is a video of the tv show:Melly On Telly

To catch more of Melanie C in the press, magazines and tv shows, please check throught to her new fab site MelanieC.net

You can also read the whole transcript and catch a peak at the new video, aswell as download the song, if you own Northern Star (just make sure you are running Windows or Mac OS 9.1 only), and fans who own Northern Star can also view the whole video as they download.

Visit MelanieC.net today.

Hey don't you worry
Everything's all right you know
We're gonna be just fine
If the rain crashes down over you
I will love you dry

There is nobody in this world
could ever take me away from you
I am always by your side
If you need someone to guide you dear
I'd like to try

Don't give up on something
You've never had before
[Never thought that we would together]
I promise you this
You're the one I adore

Here it comes again
Filling Soul
Never want to let go
Here it comes again
Be at one with your love
As below so above
Here it comes again

My love is flowing
Freer than a waterfall
Beyond edge of time
Surrender to the emotion
Now we can fly, we can fly
And you know there's a reason
That we are who we are[who we are]
I can not resist, You're the one I adore

Here it comes again
Filling my soul
Never want to let go
Here it comes again
Be at one with your love
As below so above
Here it comes again

Just like there's always gonna be a place
For you and me
A ship that we can sail on
Just like if one and one were three
And evertyhing was free at the end of some rainbow
Just like a needle and a gun
a suckle in the sun
or knock upon a hidden door
It is you I adore

Here it comes again
Filling my soul
Never want to let go

Here it comes again
Be at one with your love
As below so above
Feel it comming again
Filling my soul
Never want to let go
Here it comes again
Be at one with your love
As below so above
Yeah Yeahhh

Note: There are the correct lyrics. Out of respect for Melanie C and her gift to us fans, I will not post the mp3 on this site until after her webchat...although it is available at the time being at other sites. Please, if you download the track from other sources *psst* before the webchat, don't forget to support Melanie. It's a very nice sweet deal she's worked so her fans could have the download to begin with, it's a gesture not all artists do.

Support artists and buy their original work...don't just copy mp3's and not give them credit...they deserve the credit and fruits from their labor(not to mention creativity).

Melanie C has been featured in the latest Hello magazine and has been mentioned in the 3am column.

The Hello magazine contains pictures of Thomas and Melanie C at Barbados, and mentions the release of "Reason". No new information provided. The 3am column mentioned how Melanie was spotted running with her personal trainer.

Hear a Minute and 50 Seconds of HICA!
Gaga has uploaded the track from his promotional copy.

"Here It Comes Again"
(Chisholm/Howard/De Vries)
Produced by Marius De Vries
Mixed by Pat McCarthy

Hey don't you worry
Everything's all right
You know
We're gonna be just fine
If the rain crashes down over you
I will love you dry, oh ohhhh
There is nobody in this world who could ever take me away from you
I am always by you're side
If you need someone to guide you deep, I'd like to try, oh ohhhh

(Chorus)
Don't give up on something
You've never had before
[Never thought that we would together]
I promise you this
You're the one I adore
Here It Comes Again
Filling my soul
Never want to let go
Here It Comes Again
Be at one with your love
As below's so above
Here It Comes Again

My love is flowing
Freer than a waterfall
The only edge of time
Surrender to the emotion
Now we can fly, we can fly

And you know there's a reason
That we are who we are[who we are]
I cannot resist,
You're the one I adore
Here It Comes Again
Filling my sould
Never want to let go
Here It Comes Again
Be at one with your love
As below's so above
Here It Comes Again

(bridge)
Just like there's always gonna be a place
For you and me a ship that we can sail along
Just like we fall in a warmer dream
And everything is free at the end of some rainbow
Just like a need and it's gonna suck a little sun or knock above the hidden above the hidden door
It is you I adore

(Chorus)
Here It Comes Again
Filling my soul
Never want to let go
Here It Comes Again
Be at one with your love
As below's so above
Feel it coming again
Filling my soul
Never want to let go
Here It Comes Again
Be at one with your love
As below's so above

Yeah yeahhhhh

Don't give up on something
You've never had before
Never thought, that we would end up together
I promise you this
You're the one I adore
Here It Comes Again

Filling my soul
Never want to let go
Here It Comes Again
Be at one with your love
As we love so above
Here It Comes Again

Melanie's fab new site is up and running...at least in a temporary fashion starting at 6 pm GMT of the 6th of January.

Due to slight complications, according to manager Nancy technical things, Melanie C will not be webchatting with fans today. Instead they will wait until the 10th of January for the webchat, as at that time the full new version of the site will be up...apparently they couldn't get some "critical" stuff done over the holiday season. Melanie will be webchatting with fans on the 10th of January when the site will be officially launched..fully. For the mean-time previews of the new single will be available at MelanieC.net.

As a special bonus to her fans Melanie C has arranged it, so that you can download a whole full length preview of her brand new single, all you need is your Northern Star album at hand when you visit her site January 10th, when the lady herself will be webchatting with us, her fans. Visit MelanieC.net

Check it all out at Melanie C's official site...as she lets us preview her new material online! That's right her video and song will be up and available starting Jan 6th 2003! Hope you all enjoy it.

Enjoy the audio clips and video- Visit Northern-star.co.uk

I'v just recently changed my computer and am working on a Mac...I've made the switch and I need to re-adapt in order to keep you all up to date...mac's don't use WS_Ftp which is what I was using. I'll try to figure out an easy way to update the site...as I will be updating a lot as Melanie C comes back with full force. Viva Melanie C!

"I promise you this...you're the one I adore...here it comes again,filling my soul, never want to let go...here it comes again", Melanie C sings on her latest single "Here It Comes Again"

For right now you can download 26 seconds of a phone rip Pebbs uploaded and Dennis "remastered"...thank you both very much.

I'll continue to update from now on daily as my vacations have come to an end. Don't forget, Jan 6th Melanie C will be webchatting at her site, Northern-Star.co.uk and I expect MelanieC.net will be forwarding people to the new revamped page at that given time.

Enjoy the audio clip- "Here It Comes Again" mp3