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She's on The One Show tonight talking about the book: @1803023799194943523

https://simonneedsyou.com/ - Auditions at the end of July. The show - being produced by Syco with some independent company - doesn't yet have a name but there's a lot of talk about this on social media. And it's largely going down - rightly so - like a cup of cold sick. This thread in particular basically one red flag: @1798140290634862773 Every fibre of my being is hoping that this flops (it probably will anyway) but yeah. The world doesn't need boybands if Simon's involved.

Book signing at Waterstones at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex confirmed for 25th June: https://www.waterstones.com/events/meet-rac...tevens/lakeside

Tough call here but I went for "Wake Me Up" in the end as that was the point I became a mega fan! Do we have any idea which of these is closest to being certified next?

I know, it's extortionate. Even JLS and S Club on their most recent tours didn't charge that much! Kind of glad I got my tees from the vinyl reissues now. (That said, there's rumours flying around that they'll have a pop up store when they do The O2 so I'm kind of saving myself for that! I'll get a programme at Cardiff, of course).

She played her solo show at Jazz Cafe in London last night. She performed quite a lot of the new album, "Never Felt Like This Before" and a few All Saints songs. There's a very extensive interview here about the album on The Line of Best Fit: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/i...ing-new-chapter

Nic and Nat appeared on Mark Wogan's podcast "Spooning With Mark Wogan" (don't worry, it's not as dodgy as it sounds. Very funny watch / listen though): RCSFQDShubE Anyway, when asked about future activities, Nat more or less confirmed that work has started on new music from them both 😄

Annoyed though I am it's taken them three volumes of this Millennium series to stop littering the tracklistings with barely remembered mid-charting singles by 80s legends or songs that weren't even singles here by random US artists, I have to say it's a decent tracklist they've assembled this time around!

Remember the girls were asking for questions for something they were doing soon with Rylan a couple of weeks back? Looks like this was what it was for! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zf06 I will actually be in Cardiff on the tour when this goes out but this'll be nice to listen to on the journey home the day after ☺️

Digital EP out today:

Cardiff on Bank Holiday Monday for me and then the Wednesday show on 26th at The O2 with my friend!

The girls presented their manager and marketing manager at Polydor, Peter Loraine, with a special lifetime achievement award at the Music Week Awards last night: I mean I always say this about Peter but honestly. One man pop champion! Imagine having nicknaming the Spice Girls, marketing S Club 7, managing Girls Aloud and reuniting Steps on your CV? Kings only! There's a really nice cover interview with him here that's worth a read: https://www.musicweek.com/interviews/read/e...-loraine/089713

Jordan presents a podcast for the BRIT Awards called The Red Carpet Treatment. His latest guest is Harley and they more or less confirm in this episode that something is happening soon! v4aTSeq6cig

At long last, we have the 4K video! Wy3SV2fvoG8

I suppose they had the footage for all four. If I remember rightly, wasn't it they filmed all the endings and then mobile users (I wanna say Orange or 3) voted on the best one? I seem to remember the Kimberley one was the chosen one but they went with the cash one instead because that could be played before the watershed :lol:

All four versions of the video are now in 4K (although, bizarrely, "Something Kinda Ooooh" is yet to appear in restored form): Original Version: WjpbcsttFyM Kimberley Ending: lvMM72RFfv8 Tied-Up Ending: sZfKxc6MHQU Cash Ending: xyopYnekTaA

Oh same, the amplifier one is better. I wish that had been the cover for The Sound of Girls Aloud album! On which note - if you have the limited 2 Disc version with the Rarities CD and pink cover, it's the original album version on that one. I loved the Tony Lamezma remix of this one. It's such a serotonin rush!

Full press release that went out today - a tour is coming in the autumn as well: https://forum.popjustice.com/threads/will-y...69/post-9284849

Running just as fast as we can, holding onto one another's hands to the next digital reissue of their cover of the Tiffany classic at midnight:

Just had my first listen. So good! It's definitely got an 80s feel to it, it reminds me a bit of The Police to listen to! Very catchy. The video is premiering at midday: GSil3In4-U8

Happy 50th Lady VB. Quite proud of myself for getting this viral on social media as a result 🤣 @1780529936119304398

First play of "Falling Deep" is with Zoe Ball tomorrow at 8:30am on Radio 2:

It is indeed. Love the cover artwork!

He's back...

I'd legit forgotten about that Beyonce and Shakira one. What a bop!