{"id":555053,"date":"2026-04-28T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:46:08","slug":"spice-girl-melanie-c-church-gig-in-nantwich-really-special-for-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555053\/","title":{"rendered":"Spice Girl Melanie C church gig in Nantwich &#8216;really special&#8217; for town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisers of a gig by a former Spice Girl said it was amazing to be able to bring a world-famous name to a church in their small town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Melanie Chisholm, best known as Mel C, played to an audience of about 350 at St Mary&#8217;s in Nantwich, Cheshire, on Monday night as part of the launch of her new album Sweat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This gig sold out in nine minutes,&#8221; said Dani Cook, from independent record shop Applestump who staged the intimate show, who described the day as &#8220;very unusual and surreal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fans came from far and wide, she said, including one from Italy, and the buzz around the gig had been brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organisers of a gig by a former Spice Girl said it was amazing to be able to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}