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Why this 12-year-old wishes she鈥檇 swerved a Spice Girls concert

22 July 2019

One Saturday in early June, Shiona took her 12-year-old daughter out for a very special treat.

Spice Girls | Top Of The Pops, 1998

People were so drunk they were spilling their alcohol everywhere.

They, and over 50,000 other fans, descended on Edinburgh’s Murrayfield stadium to watch the Spice Girls as part of their 2019 tour.

The day out, however, did not go according to plan. “The whole event was ruined for us”, Shiona told 大象传媒 Radio Scotland’s Mornings Calum Macdonald.

But it wasn’t the “fantastic” Spice Girls that were the problem. Instead it was the behaviour of their fellow concert-goers.

“[It was] mainly because of the people and their approach to alcohol.”

For this tweenager, what she ‘really really’ wanted was for the raucous adult drinkers around her to ‘Stop Right Now’.

“There were so many drunk people on the trams down ... there was somebody patting my daughter’s face ... someone else dropped their can of alcohol all over her shoes.”

And as if that wasn’t enough, “There was someone sitting behind us who was so drunk she was sick all over the back of our seats and we had to move seats.”

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Shiona contacted the radio show during a segment about how health officials in Scotland are calling for a ban on selling alcohol at family events over concerns that children are being exposed to harmful drinking.

Her daughter later confessed that she’d wished her mum had taken one of her own (adult) friends to the concert instead.