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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2020 22:11:16 GMT
Steps are finally back with new music, and it’s safe to say the fandom is obsessed already as the band are set to unveil their new song What The Future Holds. The new track, which is written by none other than the legend that is Sia, comes three years after the band’s comeback following a five-year break. Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer, Lee Latchford-Evans and Ian ‘H’ Watkins will premiere their new single on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show on Wednesday. Fans couldn’t contain their excitement at prospect of the new track, particularly when they found out the band had enlisted Sia to write it. They tweeted: ‘So your (sic) telling me… Sia wrote a song for Steps and it’s What the Future Holds? (And also is a huge fan of theirs too?) Already ‘Buzz’ing for this new album.’ As well as the new single, Steps have announced an album with the same name will be released on November 27, and fans will also get to see them on tour from November 2021 too. The band will kick off their What The Future Holds 2021 tour in Sheffield on November 2, 2021 with tickets going on general sale from Friday, September 18 and to carry on the nostalgia, their special guest will be Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2020 2:42:08 GMT
When Steps recently announced they were returning with new music and planning a tour for next year, it's fair to say their fans were more than a little excited. The group, who rose to fame in the 1990s and are best known for chart anthems including Tragedy and 5,6,7,8, released their last album more than three years ago, but it seems appetite for their brand of upbeat disco-pop hasn't waned since then. Lee Latchford-Evans from the band tells Sky News that despite the success of 2017's Tears On The Dancefloor, they were still a little apprehensive ahead of their recent comeback - and it was a relief when the announcement earlier this month was so well received. "We were seeing, like, 'Steps have saved 2020' and things like this," he says. "I wouldn't quite go that far but it's nice to be appreciated. "It's nice to have people be very positive towards us again. And I think, you know, we are living in very strange times right now; we don't really know what's around the corner, but we're doing our best to get there." Steps were due to announce the new music and tour back in the spring, but like so many the group had to put their plans on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic. Latchford-Evans says the first single, called What the Future Holds (from the forthcoming album of the same name, and written by Australian popstar Sia), has been a long time coming. "We filmed the video for What The Future Holds actually almost a year ago and the single was first dropped on to our manager's desk almost three years ago," he says. "It was back when we were finishing off our last tour, the Tears On The Dancefloor tour, and we were deciding, should we carry on? Would we look at new music? "What The Future Holds landed, it was obviously a very different version with Sia on it, and we sort of loved it as soon as we heard it."
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2020 20:36:25 GMT
Steps are making an official comeback – with a new single that was gifted to them by Sia.
The band, who are made up of Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian “H” Watkins, are set to release “What the Future Holds” on their new record.
The dance song is the lead single on the band’s forthcoming sixth studio album of the same name, which comes out on 27 November.
Richards told The Sun: “Sia wrote the track for herself but realised it wasn’t really for her and gave it to us.”
She added: “It’s not like it was in the bottom of a drawer somewhere. It was her who said, ‘We should give this to Steps because it would really suit them.’”
Scott-Lee said the “Chandelier” hitmaker “is a Steps fan” and has Steps on her playlists.
Steps were originally popular in the late Nineties with hits such as “Heartbeat”, “Stomp” and their cover of the Bee Gees’ classic “Tragedy”.
They announced their comeback on Twitter on Monday (7 September), writing: “We couldn't keep it a secret any longer!!”
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2020 5:52:21 GMT
Claire Richards swapped city living for the rolling hills of Surrey ten years ago when she moved there with her family. The Steps star has set up a fabulous home filled with quirky decor that shows off her fun personality including an epic photo wall full of gold vintage photo frames. Mum of two Claire shares her incredible home with her husband Reece Hill and their two children, Charlie, 11, and Daisy, eight, which also has a sprawling back garden and space for a climbing frame, hot tub and trampoline. Claire Richards lives in a home in Surrey with quirky decor (Image: Instagram / Claire Richards) Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK's daily newsletter . You can sign up at the top of the page. Claire, 43, has shared glimpses of her stunning home on social media revealing her talent for interior decor with some seriously stylish touches. It seems the pop singer has a love of a feature wall and has a collection of mirrors underneath her staircase that she arranged in a mismatched collection. She revealed it took them a few months to collect before placing them artfully, and Claire did the same for her epic photo wall in their living room. http://instagram.com/p/CAFi7gjhUAr
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2020 23:07:53 GMT
Taylor Swift may have been hounded for staying silent before the 2016 presidential election; Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Little Mix, and every leading pop star on the planet are now racing to spread their political allegiances to millions of followers, but don’t expect Steps to follow suit. It’s been 23 years since their debut single 5,6,7,8 exploded through school discos, gradually swooping up an unbeatably loyal fan base, but the five-piece – made up of Lisa Scott-Lee, Claire Richards, Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Lee Latchford Evans and Faye Tozer – remain one of the most popular bands in the country. Just the news of their aptly titled new single What The Future Holds spurred on more than 130,000 tweets in a matter of hours without a beat even touching an eardrum. It’s a safe bet that when critics, the industry, and even some of their fans first heard ‘My bootscootin’ baby is driving me crazy’ few expected Steps would surpass almost all their Smash Hits peers, continue to sell out UK arenas and, to be a millennial about it, ‘break the internet’ with a new track. Top articles by Metro Ex‑WWE star Ryback says ‘world will be better place’ when Vince McMahon dies READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE ‘We sometimes pinch ourselves because we can’t believe it’s gone from 5,6,7,8 and now we’ve got this longevity and that’s all thanks to the fan base who have been so incredibly loyal,’ Lisa tells Metro.co.uk. ‘When you start off in this business, all you can ever hope is that you’ll still be doing it in 23 years’ time,’ adds Claire. ‘But you can never predict it. I know we had a 10-year break in the middle but to be able to bridge that gap and still bring out new music the audiences we were performing to even back then, you just can’t predict it.’ However Steps managed to pave out a career spanning across four decades, they didn’t get here through courting controversy. Any true Steps fan will know, it’s down to their own unapologetic pop hit factory that is still producing the goods. For reference: listen to Love’s Got A Hold Of My Heart immediately. While reigning pop kings and queens can only be commended for using their platform for the greater good, back when S Club parties were all the rage, chart-toppers weren’t backing or blasting Blair. Far from it. They were actively urged to stay well clear of it. ‘There wasn’t really the platform to do that back then, it’s such a different beast today,’ says Ian – aka ‘H’. ‘It was a very different world,’ adds Claire. ‘I don’t want to say we were puppets but you just go out and do your job and that’s it, it wasn’t really or place to comment on politics.’ And that’s not going to change. Faye explains: ‘Steps is a safe space so we don’t put opinions out there. I think individually we can be allies, we can speak our minds, and we can have opinions but Steps as a band is escapism for people. ‘It’s somewhere they can come to. It’s a happy place, somewhere they can let their hair down. We’re not here to influence anybody. It’s just for everybody to fall into the music and create their own stories.’ ‘Why talk about anything we don’t know things about? We’re not trying to run the country – we’re just trying to have a good time,’ stresses Lee.
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