At the time, singer Olly Alexander joked to the press that he'd quit music if he wasn't on the guest list.

In many ways, I've only pursued a pop career just so that I could come into contact with the Spice Girls.

The gig was amazing, of course.

I actually think I was there the night Cherry apologised.

Maybe she did that every night.

But she apologised to the girls and to the audience, saying, I'm sorry I left, you know.

I think she said, I'm sorry I was a brat, but it's great to be back with the girls.

I remember it was a Friday and we met them at a restaurant in Portobello Road in London.

We heard like a

For kids like Oli Alexander, Wannabe changed

everything.

Just remember the Wannabe video being like a seismic event.

in my life the next day we were all talking about it at school we were all asking each other if we'd seen this video this wannabe video in the Spice Girls my brother was into football Oasis was really big and so I was kind of into Oasis but as soon as the Spice Girls came along I immediately changed track and pledged my allegiance to the Spice Girls forever