And S Club 7's Tina Barrett revealed in an interview with OK! this week that the band "are all talking, so it may happen."

Tina is due to release her solo single Fire (May 28), and said: "I wanted to release something I'm proud of."

She also chatted men, and on Mark Wright revealed: "I like trashy TV, but he's a bit flashy for me. I like someone more sensible and creative."

We joined Tina Barrett at her home in London, read the full interview in this week's OK! Magazine.

You can see the amaing scans over at S Club Zone.

Source > OK.co.uk

One look at the roster of artists touring Australia this year and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d set the DeLorean back to 1998: late-’90s cheddar-heavy pop acts like Vengaboys, Aqua, Hanson and N-Trance are all visiting our shores in 2012.

If the success of those who’ve already come is any indication, audiences are excited, invariably inebriated and eager to relive the music of their not-too-distant youth.

Add to that list of visiting acts S Club 7, the post-Spice Girls puppets of music mastermind Simon Fuller, who enjoyed a steady five years of fame from 1999 – 2003 with hits like Bring It All Back, Don’t Stop Movin' and S Club Party.

There’s an undeniable budget feel to the upcoming S Club tour — from the dodgy Photoshopping of the tour’s sole publicity image to the fact that UK R&B also-rans Big Brovaz are the support act. But perhaps the biggest thing keen S Club fans will have to adjust to is that, for an act whose very name signposted their surplus of members, they’re operating on less than half their previous capacity.

Australian fans are getting S Club 3, to be exact: Jo O’Meara, Bradley McIntosh, and Paul Cattermole. Fear not, though — powerhouse singer that she is, O’Meara always did the vocal heavy lifting for the group, while McIntosh provided occasional raps.

The other five? Well, they were very nice dancers.

“It happened as a bit of an accident, to be fair,” McIntosh told the Star Observer of this reunion of 42.85 percent of the group (we did the maths so you don’t have to).

“After the band finished I started doing a few nights DJing here and there in different clubs. One day I decided to bring Paul with me. I’d always put an S Club song in the set, and that I night I brought Paul up on stage to dance to it. We ended up doing a couple of songs and having a really good time.”

Minus their lead vocalist, that just sounds suspiciously like two blokes old enough to know better leaping about to S Club songs on stage, so the next step was to approach O’Meara — whose broad Cockney accent took this writer by surprise as she spoke to us from her home in Essex.

“After I ’ad me baby, Bradley just said to me, ‘Ow’d ya fancy doin’ it,’ and I thought, yeah, why not,” O’Meara said.

“I thought it’d be fun and get me out of the house and stop me bein’ a mum for a few hours. That was four years ago.”

There has been talk of a full reunion in recent months, after all seven were snapped at the opening of a show (some tabloids unfairly remarking on how they’ve aged in the past decade — not all pop stars have access to Madonna’s anti-ageing stockpile of stem cells and shark cartilage, you know).

“All of us are good friends, and we’ve met up a few times, but it’s just friends catching up,” McIntosh said.

“But because we all get on, if the timing was right, we’d definitely do it. To all be on stage together one last time would be fun.”

The idea of a full reunion must surely be looking more viable now that Steps have successfully tested the water. A laughing stock even in their ’90s heyday, the group made S Club sound like Metallica and yet have somehow managed to pull off the most unlikely of comebacks in their native Britain.

“There’s not really any cheese music out there at the moment, is there? It’s all really cool stuff — hip-hop beats and dance beats,” McIntosh offered by way of explanation.

“Our music was for everyone, really, and I couldn’t name one band or artist who’s doing that sort of fun, cheesy music at the moment.”

He’s right — just look at what dominates our radio waves: Rihanna crooning creepy bedroom duets with the ex-boyfriend who beat her half to death is a million miles away from the sugary, escapist pop S Club offered up.

But McIntosh and O’Meara admitted that some of the group’s songs were too saccharine even for them.

“None of us liked [2000’s half-million selling single] Reach at all at first. We wanted to be cool, and we had what we considered to be quite a cool track lined up as the single, then Simon played us Reach. We were just like ‘Really? Just when we thought we were starting to get cool, you give us this song?’”

With a chorus that includes choice couplets like ‘Reach for the stars/ Climb every mountain high! And when that rainbow’s shinin’ over you/ That’s when your dreams’ll all come true,’ the song is indeed pitched exactly halfway between a Pride march and a Bible camp.

“To be fair, it’s our signature song. We always leave it till last in our set, because it’s one of those songs that everyone responds to,” McIntosh said.

One common misconception about the pop star’s lot is that a brief run on the charts will set you up financially for life. Obviously that’s not true — just ask the ex-Scandal’us member who served you your coffee this morning — but there were rumours S Club members got a particularly raw deal out of their time on the charts, under the management of ruthless svengali Fuller, and with wages cut seven ways.

There’s no real way to put this delicately, but … are they OK for cash?

“I don’t think we was exploited. We were very young when we started and we all felt very blessed to be given the opportunities we did,” O’Meara said.

“We all managed to buy a car and buy a house at 20 years old. We wasn’t multimillionaires, but we didn’t do too badly. We wasn’t hard done by. We’re all very lucky to say we were part of S Club 7 and live a comfortable life because of it.”

But more than the means to live a comfortable life, O’Meara said her proudest achievement with S Club 7 was being responsible for a handful of stone-cold pure pop classics. She admitted that, to this day, she gets a thrill out of hearing some of their biggest hits.

“D’y’know, the other day I was on the way to pick my little boy up from school, and Don’t Stop Moving came on the radio. I must’ve looked quite sad but I turned it up loud and I was bopping along to it in the car. But do you know what? It is a really good song. I love it! That’s quite shameful, isn’t it?”

Never.
Source > StarOnline.com.au

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British rapper Mike Skinner has finally spoken out about the mystery drug-taking pop star he once romanced – silencing long-running rumours it was squeaky-clean singer Rachel Stevens. Skinner sent gossips into a frenzy in 2006 when his band The Streets released its single When You Wasn’t Famous, in which Skinner details his fiery fling with an unnamed celebrity. In the track, Skinner references smoking crack cocaine with the singer and laughing as she punches a man in a hotel lobby, but despite the frenzied speculation the rapper repeatedly refused to name the woman concerned.
Several identities were suggested by gossips, with child-friendly S Club 7 star Stevens on the list – but Skinner has now confirmed she is not the celebrity he wrote the track about. In an excerpt from his upcoming memoirs, published in The Observer Magazine, Skinner writes, “I would like to take this opportunity to discuss the identity of the mystery crack-taking pop star who makes a cameo appearance in When You Wasn’t Famous. Now that a few years have passed, I feel a point has been reached where there would be no indiscretion involved in revealing that it was not Rachel Stevens.”
Source > Contact Music

S Club's been in the mouth of almost every pop fan the recent days, they've become Trending Topic Worlwide on Twitter one more time and their reunion rumours (which the SClubbers haven't talked clearly about yet) have been the most popular entries on every media website around the net. SClubility made its own entry about the matter and the site has achieved a new visits record thanks to all of you. On March 21 we had 218 Unique visitors with 425 Hits according to our Flag Counter Account. Our previous record was registered on March 24, 2009 with 83 Unique Visitors and 207 Hits. We've updated the History and Discography sections, don't leave before checking them out.

S Club 7 have reportedly secured a seven-figure deal to reunite later this year. The 'Reach' group are said to be planning a series of UK gigs in the summer, as well as the possibility of releasing two albums, including a new Greatest Hits collection. The group consisting of Hannah Spearritt, Paul Cattermole, Jo O'Meara, Rachel Stevens, Tina Barrett, Jon Lee and Bradley McIntosh have reportedly decided to reunite to coincide with landmarks events in the UK this summer, such as the Olympics and Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.

"The guys have been inundated with approaches and offers over the past three years, but always said no," a source told The Mirror. "But following a series of talks and meetings, they decided to go for it. What with the Olympics coming up and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert, there's a real British feel-good factor at the moment."

The insider added: "The band figured it was a case of now or never. And if the gigs go well there is the option to release a new album, plus a Greatest Hits.

S Club 7 were rumoured to be planning a comeback - including a new TV show - late last year. Digital Spy users voted S Club 7 as their most wanted group to reform following other high-profile acts on the comeback trail. Steps made their own comeback last year to great success - including a number one album and announcement of a UK tour. S Club 7 achieved four UK number one singles, a number one album and over 17 million record sales worldwide during their five-year stint.

Source > DigitalSpy.co.uk

After five months without updating, we're back with a brand new layout and a brand new logo to celebrate 2012 and the third year online of SClubility.