So it looks like the S Club revival is really happening...

- Jo looked FANTASTIC compared to what I expected, and sounded brilliant on the live bits. Gold star for her.
- I still fancied Paul but I can't say I needed a drawn-out acoustic reading of Reach with a guitar. Srsly.
- Tina did not get the Cheryl/Posh-esque cheers I had hoped for :(
- The solos were Stronger (Tina), Uptown Funk (Bradley), Hello Friend (Jo & Jon), Straight Up :bruised: (Hannah), Reach Acoustic Ugh (Paul) and Some Girls/Sweet Dreams My LA Ex (Rachel).
- It was a properly good show. They almost seemed like a viable pop act in 2015.
- Bradley had a 'DJing' moment which was a showcase for the dancers but which featured snippets of some of their best album tracks (eg Dance Dance Dance and Do It Til We Drop)
- I wouldn't have opened with Bring The House Down myself.
- Viva La Fiesta was an unexpected HIGH POINT for everyone it seemed. :disco:
- I loved it.
 
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There is absolutely no way these dates will go ahead.
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Well let's face it, it's the only way Frankie and Rochelle are ever going to be able to perform to a full arena venue!
 
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Jo, Tina and one of the others have "reformed" to release some cheap shite for charity, I assume Tina was behind the sprinkling of EDM.

 
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SC3 are scheduled to appear on ITV’s “Loose Women” this Monday December 18 to continue their promotional rounds for their brand new single “Family”, which is charting all around the world on iTunes.

The trio now consisting of Jo, Bradley, and Tina continue to fly the S Club flag 14 years after the original breakup of the band.

The show airs Monday between 12:30 – 1:30 on ITV. Be sure to download a copy of SC3’s new single “Family”, available only on iTunes!
 
I saw them on some crap daytime tv show today miming (badly) to 'Never Had A Dream Come True' earlier. What a load of old SHIT.
 
This is ALRIGHT but cheap as FUCK, but I do love the fact OUR TEEN wails her way through the Middle 8. SORRY HEN, you'r no LSL.
 
LSL may be in another league but Tina is pretty much the closest S Club have got.
 
In FAIRNESS that new song wouldn’t have sounded out of place on their second album.
 
If you speed read this thread it makes it seem like they've launched a thousand failed comebacks in about 5 years. Which I suppose is the truth.

I find it truly delicious that Steps seem to be looked back on more favourably now and retained enough loons to keep them afloat when it mattered. They always had a distinct sound and "brand". S Club was just faceless TAT by and large.

It's like justice for all those years of not being played on radio for being deeply uncool when apparently the likes of "Reach" were fine :manson:

Makes you wonder how much MORE Steps could have sold at the time with actual airplay.
 
I think it was only around ‘Don’t Stop Movin’ that S Club 7 became “cool” - and in fairness that and ‘Never Had A Dream Come True’ were the two songs that they ever really traded on in that regard.

I suppose for a manufactured pop act, S Club 7 achieved a lot more mainstream recognition in terms of Record Of The Year and Brit nominations, but on the whole it was a very narrow window that they eventually squandered anyway.

If a pop act now achieved that same sort of breakthrough having come from the same background, there’s no way they would continue to make a kids TV show and then release a ropey movie.
 
S Club squandered any interest, and any "media story" in a comeback by trying to do it 20 times previously, all half-heartedly and with only ever with 3 members at any one time. Had they waited until such a point that all 7 were interested and capable of professional performances, then it could have worked. But once everyone had seen Jo, Bradley and Paul flopping and stumbling about half-drunkenly on Lorraine...

Certainly a greater proportion of S Club's discography would be dubiously regarded as "pop classics" by the general public today. Don't Stop Movin and Reach are fondly remembered, and Bring It All Back and S Club Party would be popular picks for any tacky party Spotify playlist. Whereas Steps really have a cover of Tragedy and that's it. As well received as Steps have been, the nostalgia seems to largely be for the band themselves rather than the music. I'm not sure many outside of the loons would really recall their past hits - even the ones that hit the top 3 at the time.
 
In other S Club news...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/12/s-club-7-brit-award-ebay-paul-cattermole

Paul Cattermole, a former member of the chart-topping pop band S Club 7, is auctioning off his Brit award on eBay, citing “bills to pay”. After being put on the auction site for an initial £650, the item has at the time of writing attracted bids of £66,000, with three days still to go.

S Club 7, who scored 10 top three hits in the UK including four No 1s, won the best British newcomer award at the 2000 ceremony. Cattermole describes the award as having “signs of age”, and offers a meet and greet with whoever wins the auction, including photos, “distance depending”. “It’s time to let the past be the past,” he adds.
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66k for THAT? That looks as if there have been some troll bids on the auction.
 
Really interesting interview with Paul ahead of his appearance on First Dates Hotel tomorrow night

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/10/s-club-7-paul-cattermole-interview?CMP=share_btn_tw

Paul Cattermole is explaining what it’s like to be famous. “I’ve been on stage and seen a bra swirling in the air, coming to land on my head,” he says. “I tended to duck out of the way.” He chuckles at the memory – surreal now, 20 years later, as he sits, untroubled by undergarments. “I’m not saying it happens all the time, because it doesn’t. But it has happened.”

At the turn of the millennium, Cattermole, 42, was one-seventh of a famous whole. S Club 7 were presented to the world by impresario Simon Fuller – looking to repeat his success with the Spice Girls – as a fully formed pop package: four girls, three boys, singing, dancing, acting. (The “S” is rumoured to stand for “Simon”.)

The public got to know Jo O’Meara, Bradley McIntosh, Hannah Spearritt, Jon Lee, Tina Barrett, Rachel Stevens and Cattermole playing versions of themselves on their CBBC series, Miami 7, about a British pop group trying to break America. “The Monkees for the next generation” was one comparison.

When the show’s bouncy theme song, Bring It All Back, was released at the end of the season, it shot to No 1 in the UK. Between 1998 and 2002, the group scored three more No 1s – as well as hits in Europe, Australasia and the US – and recorded four albums. There were four more TV series and, in 2001, a spin-off group: S Club Juniors.

Promotional press introduced the seven members, aged from 16 to 21: their roles, traits, favourite colours and foods. Bradley was cheeky; Hannah, hyper. Jon was the joker. Jo: raucous. Rachel: fiery. Tina: chatty. Cattermole? “Enthusiastic.” (And liked guacamole.) They were central to what was being bought and sold – often quite literally, as Hasbro dolls or in lyrics namechecking various brands. You might remember the G-funk jam S Club Party, my personal favourite, in which – as Tina did her dance and Jon looked for romance – Paul was getting down on the floor while Hannah screamed out for more.

Though O’Meara and McIntosh shouldered most of the singing, and Stevens seemed to have the most commercial potential, no one member was a standout star – their success was symbiotic, dependent on being a gang anyone could join.

I was seven in 1998, and there really was no party like an S Club Party. “The style and energy that was portrayed was coming from us, entirely,” Cattermole says. “There was no management in that. The actual thing that people were buying into came from us. And to see people get hundreds of millions of pounds, and all the credit – no. We created that sort of fun energy on our own, despite the pressure they put on us.”

Cattermole had very nearly not joined S Club 7. “I honestly was very unsure,” he says. “I’ve been asked so many times, ‘Were you sitting by the phone, just waiting?’ But when they did phone me up and offer it to me – ‘Hi, we’re so pleased to …’ – I remember putting the phone down and going: ‘I don’t know if I want to do that.’ I turned to my friends and said: ‘If I do this, my life is never going to be the same again.’”

As a teenager in St Albans, Hertfordshire, he had dreams of making it with his rock covers band or as a character actor. Performing came naturally, he says.

Other members of S Club 7 had been chosen from thousands of applicants at “cattle calls”, what we think of today as X Factor-style; Cattermole never even auditioned. Once in the group, he never had to sing. “That got me down.”

He was told it would be at odds with “the alchemy”, he says sarcastically, imitating a showbiz suit: “‘We have picked certain people to do certain roles.’ I can only assume that mine was to answer questions in interviews. I was never asked to show, in the audition process, my singing, my ability to dance – my ability for anything, other than talking.”

And not much talking, at that. “Top of the Pops magazine, Smash Hits, all this sort of stuff was massive: ‘So Paul, what’s your favourite colour?’” He puts his face in his hands in mock desperation. “Please! Ask me about the theory of relativity!” (Those bios from 1998 did say that his favourite subject at school was physics.)

Cattermole paints pop stardom as a boring, thankless existence: a lot of “schmoozing at parties” and being driven around in the back of Chryslers, looking at magazines. “I’m as down for flicking through Heat magazine as the next one: ‘Ooh, yeah, look at those shoes.’ But not day after day, hour after hour.”

The perks of plush restaurants and hotels wore off “immediately” – not that there was much of that. “We did everything ourselves, as far as I can remember, from laundry to food preparation.”

And mostly to make other people money. Cattermole says that Fuller was signed to Polydor as S Club 7, while he and the other six were just affiliates: “the worst situation to be in.” He remembers being unable to afford a £100 bottle of wine even as he was in “one of the world’s biggest pop groups”, and seizes on my mention of the Hasbro dolls: “We got a pittance for that.”

But they had each other. Cattermole says he got on with McIntosh (his closest friend) and Lee and Spearritt (“the nucleus” of the group) in particular. “We were closer than many pop groups – people that used to work with us said: ‘Wow, you guys actually speak, you actually stay in the same room.’ Most of them don’t.”

In March 2002, Cattermole announced that he was leaving S Club 7, ostensibly to pursue his old band, now named Skua and doing nu-metal. “It had got to the point where things were being handled so badly, I had to go.”
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