That Twitter user made their account in 2009 imagine being a stan for that long and never giving up hope of a proper reunion :cry:

According to someone on PJ, the tour is happening in September and will be announced in February.

 

General tickets £32 - £65, VIP £100, meet and greet £230

Edited January 27, 20232 yr by Slayer

According to someone on PJ, the tour is happening in September and will be announced in February.

 

General tickets £32 - £65, VIP £100, meet and greet £230

 

£230 meet and greet wow, you could watch Jo at your local Pizza Express not so long ago.

That’s pretty pricey!!

 

I wonder if they’ll sell well.

I mean… there’s been nothing (at all) released since the last one so I’m not sure whether I wanna go or not…

I get the feeling some of them are really struggling, iirc they weren't paid well even at their peak and got screwed over from their label?.I can't remember exactly what happened.

 

There was a news article that Hannah was nearly forced to be homeless over Christmas which was really sad to read - I do actually hope it does well for them but I'm not sure if it will? I suppose Blue did alright when they toured and they weren't as popular....we'll see.

Yeah, because the Spice Girls did a number on Simon Fuller, he made the S Club 7 contracts watertight and they suffered as a result.

So really, if you think about it, it's Geri Halliwell's fault that all of them but Rachel just about scrape by :lol:

Yeah, because the Spice Girls did a number on Simon Fuller, he made the S Club 7 contracts watertight and they suffered as a result.

 

Yeah, my understanding is that they were essentially hired as "employees" rather than proper pop stars with contracts, which meant very little royalties and other things they did. It's much how everyone in PCD that wasn't Nicole Scherzinger got treated. I assume Rachel Stevens signed a proper record deal with her solo career, which is probably why she's a bit better off.

 

I think they're all in an awkward position where they really don't know how to be much else but pop stars (because that's what they did during their 20s when they would've gotten education/career), but also none really has that pop star money.

So really, if you think about it, it's Geri Halliwell's fault that all of them but Rachel just about scrape by :lol:

:kink:

 

It is weird to think that their decision to leave Simon is what gave him the inspiration and the time to come up with the concept of S Club 7 :o If Spice Girls had had a change of heart and decided to keep going with him, maybe we'd never have got S Club 7 :thinking:

 

For this upcoming reunion I truly hope that it'll be worthwhile for all of the members. Simon should have treated them better, as one of his most successful acts.

Hannah is apparently the only member not signed on

:kink:

 

It is weird to think that their decision to leave Simon is what gave him the inspiration and the time to come up with the concept of S Club 7 :o If Spice Girls had had a change of heart and decided to keep going with him, maybe we'd never have got S Club 7 :thinking:

 

For this upcoming reunion I truly hope that it'll be worthwhile for all of the members. Simon should have treated them better, as one of his most successful acts.

 

Well a lot of what S Club ended up doing in their career - the TV shows, the movie - that was all planned for Spice Girls before they sacked him.

 

I am hopeful that they are all treated and recompensed properly this time around, whatever this time around involves. But given their 2023 equivalent Now United have changed lineups like no one's business since they came out I'm calling Maldon for a truck load of sea salt.

 

My position from a couple of weeks ago remains the same: secretly hoping for the best, setting myself up for the bare minimum.

It really is sad to see how they were treated. If it goes ahead hopefully they’re treated better this time around.

I do find the whole being really sad how they were treated a bit of a strange one personally.

 

I mean yes they were not "paid" on the same level as many of their counterparts who were able to make money from merchandising etc in a way that their peers did, but they were paid well at the time, they got a quarter of a million pound each per year, and to be honest I doubt they would have raked in millions due to how many members of the band there were.

 

Also I kind of think what did they actually do to warrant getting royalties etc? They didn't write their own songs, they didn't create the TV show, they didn't write, direct or produce the movie, the didn't choreograph their tours... everything was done for them and they got paid a wage for that. In a way it's only like a theatre performer.

 

Obviously others were much luckier than them but they were handsomely paid at the time, far more so than pretty much any other job out there.

That's a very weird take?

 

I'm not even the biggest fan of S Club 7 ever, but when they started they were likely naive teens and likely didn't have much of a say. They still world hard and deserve royalties these years later on - there's so many similarly manufactured acts who are fine years and years later.

They were huge so you would have thought they would have made a lot of money back in the day, they definitely seem to have had fairly crappie contracts that none of them really challenged. S Club 7 and steps were kinda the same in terms of both having big success but steps through better contracts seem to have earned far more leaving aside there was 2 less members.

They didn't write anything but they should have earned from their huge TV show and tours.

 

They didn't write anything but they should have earned from their huge TV show and tours.

 

Not strictly true - they are all credited writers (admittedly, as S Club 7) on both "Bring It All Back" and "Don't Stop Movin'" (although how much they wrote is another issue for another time). Bradley also had a few co-writing credits on later albums.

 

Also, no one's suggesting here that they should have been paid crazy amounts, but compared to say, Steps, their earnings paled in comparison relative to what actual revenue they were generating for Simon and 19 Management. So they deserved more than what they actually earned.

 

Everyone remembers that awkward interview they did prior to splitting on Liquid News with Claudia Winkleman, and when they started attempting to answer her question about the fact Simon was earning more than they were, only for one of his PAs to come marching in ordering the interview to be stopped - which in no uncertain terms is the moves of a man who had something to hide.

 

TBH, without wishing to descend into conspiracy theories here, part of you does wonder if that was some sort of press stunt that was pulled literally days before "Say Goodbye" and "BeSt" were due to be released.

 

Likewise, that brief episode two years earlier where the boys all got "cautioned" for smoking cannabis. That was in March 2001 - and thus around the time Hear'Say launching and the hype around that and the first Popstars happening. You do wonder if that was deliberately done to steal back some press interest? I've got to say that if it came out as being a stunt tomorrow, nothing would surprise me.

Edited February 2, 20232 yr by ThePensmith

No wonder Spicy Girls fired him if he wanted them to do a dull-on tv show on top of recording an album a year, plus solo!!

That's a very weird take?

 

I'm not even the biggest fan of S Club 7 ever, but when they started they were likely naive teens and likely didn't have much of a say. They still world hard and deserve royalties these years later on - there's so many similarly manufactured acts who are fine years and years later.

 

 

I feel like I am saying it wrong. What I am trying to say is I don’t particularly think they did anything to warrant being paid millions (like many other manufactured acts don’t) they had everything done for them and they basically turned up to work and performed like a cruise singers would or a west end star, and they were paid a lot more than these acts.

 

I think it’s more the fact they (and others) believe they are entitled to more money but I’m not sure why exactly? They still got a wage most people would dream of even today… and back then was a heck of a lot more money. I think the main issue is they should have been taught how to manage their money and encouraged to invest it into property or something which would help them a lot more nowadays.