Wednesday, March 11 2009, 05:50 GMT
By Alex Fletcher, Senior Entertainment Reporter

The Saturdays have said that they are hopeful their next single will get them their first No.1.

American rapper Flo Rida’s ‘Right Round‘ kept the girl group’s Comic Relief charity release ‘Just Can’t Get Enough‘ off the top spot this week.

“We are trying to do stuff for charity and we wanted to reach the best that we can but there’s always next week,” Rochelle Wiseman told MTV. “And we’re number two so that’s amazing. We’ve sold a lot of records so… we’ve done our bit now, haven’t we?”

Vanessa White added: “Definitely the next one is a number one. The last one was number two so we’ve only got one to go!”

The Saturdays confirmed earlier this week that their fifth single will be ‘Work’ from their debut album Chasing Lights.

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The Saturdays Talk Chart Battle
The girl group speak to MTV about their Comic Relief single…
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
The Saturdays have spoken to MTV News about being beaten to the number one spot by Flo Rida.

The gorgeous girl band have released their cover of Just Cant Get Enough for charity Comic Relief- but it was beaten to the top of the charts by the rapper’s own 80s cover Right Round.

Rochelle told us: “We are trying to do stuff for charity and we wanted to reach the best that we can but there’s always next week.

“And we’re number two so that’s amazing. We’ve sold a lot of records so… we’ve done our bit now haven’t we?”

Fellow Saturday Vanessa added: “Definitely the next one is a number one. The last one was number two so we’ve only got one to go!”

MTV News asked the ladies how it felt to follow in Girls Aloud and Sugababes’ footsteps by recording the official Comic Relief single. Una explained they were happy with their career so far.

She said: “Hopefully one day we’ll be as successful as both those bands so that’s what we hope for but it seems to be going really as well as we expected.”

It definitely is going well for the stunning Saturdays and we can’t wait to hear their next single.

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Saturdays ‘flattered’ by Blizzards cover

The Saturdays star Una Healy has said the group are “flattered” by The Blizzards take on their hit single ‘Up’.

Speaking to RTÉ 2fm DJ Will Leahy, Tipperary-native Healy said: “I was blown away. It’s so fantastic.”

“It’s so different. They made it their own… it’s really cool,” she said

“I put a comment on their MySpace and said ‘Well done, we’re very flattered that The Blizzards are covering The Saturdays’.”

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Congratulations to The Saturdays as their brand new single, ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ has just debuted on the charts at Number Two – their highest entry yet!

A big thank you goes out to all the fans that have bought their copy and supported the girls. The track is all in aid of Comic Relief as well so it’s great that so much money has been raised for the charity. The band are really thrilled that so much money has already been raised ahead of the official Red Nose Day!

Stay tuned this week as the girls will be popping up on your TV and performing the track! This Thursday they will be appearing on the Album Chart Show which airs at 11:55pm on Channel 4 and then on Friday they will be appearing on Comic Relief which kicks off at 7pm on Friday on BBC One.

Plus the girls will be exclusively revealing their NEXT single with their debut performance of it on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway this Saturday. So make sure you catch it before going out! The show is on ITV1 at 7:45pm.

Source: Official site

Monday, March 9 2009, 10:44 GMT
By David Balls, Entertainment Reporter

The Saturdays have announced that they are releasing ‘Work’ as the fourth single from their debut album Chasing Lights.

The girlband, who are currently at number two with their Comic Relief single ‘Just Can’t Get Enough‘, will bring out the single to coincide with their first headlining tour in June.

The group will perform the song on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Take Away next weekend.

Speaking to DS recently, band member Una Healy confirmed that the group would be concentrating on recording their second LP after completing their tour and promotion for the single.

“We’ve blocked time aside for the new album in the near future and we’re really looking forward to getting on with it.”

“We’re planning to write quite a lot of songs for the album, but we won’t be turning down good songs just because we didn’t write them. We want the album to be the best it can,” Frankie Sandford added.

> Click here to read our review of The Saturdays’ Chasing Lights

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Saturdays’ Frankie ecstatic about V performance

Monday, 09 Mar 2009 08:32

The Saturdays’ Frankie Sandford ‘screamed the house down’ when the girl band learnt they were to play this year’s V Festival, according to her bandmates.

In the week in which the quintet announced their first UK tour, it was revealed that the Issues stars will take to the stage in Chelmsford and Stafford for the 2009 V Festival in August.

Speaking at the launch of the British Music Experience (BME) at London’s O2 Arena, Frankie’s former S Club Juniors band-mate Rochelle Wiseman said the Essex girl “screamed the house down” when their record label revealed their addition to the V line-up.

“I didn’t get to go to any of the festivals last year, so I was moaning about it all summer so when they told us we were doing V, I was like ‘Thank God!'” Frankie told inthenews.co.uk.

“It’s a really big deal for us to be doing a festival so early on though.”

However, the five-piece, who released this year’s Comic Relief single, a cover of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough – which got to number two in the UK charts yesterday – said they had to explain to Frankie that they would be at V to work, not to camp.

“She was like ‘We can spend the whole day, maybe get a few tents out,” Vanessa White told inthenews.co.uk.

“I’ll be camping on my own and they’ll be in a Winnebago!” Frankie joked, with Una Healy adding: “I am not camping!”

The girl group have just announced a 16-date UK tour starting in June.

“The London date is the Hammersmith Apollo, so we’re just dead excited to perform at a big venue but one we’ll feel comfortable in and where our fans can see us up close,” Rochelle added.

The Saturdays’ tour dates in June are:

Friday 5th – New Theatre, Oxford,

Saturday 6th – Royal Concert Hall & Theatre Royal at Royal Centre, Nottingham

Monday 8th – SECC, Glasgow

Tuesday 9th – City Hall, Newcastle

Wednesday 10th – LCR at University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich

Friday 12th – Regent Theatre, Ipswich

Saturday 13th – Corn Exchange, Cambridge

Sunday 14th – Colston Hall, Bristol

Tuesday 16th – Hexagon Theatre, Reading

Wednesday 17th, Cliffs Pavilion, Southend

Friday 19th – Apollo, Manchester

Saturday 20th – Civic Hall, Wolverhampton

Sunday 21st – Guildhall, Southampton

Wednesday 24th – HMV Apollo, London

Thursday 25th – Concert Hall & Brighton Dome, Brighton

Saturday 27th – Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield

The Saturdays were speaking after playing an exclusive acoustic set at the Gibson Interactive Studio in the new British Music Experience, now open at the O2 Arena.

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The Saturdays join bill for T in the Park

Mar 9 2009 By John Dingwall

POP favourites The Saturdays will add glamour to a talent-packed T in the Park line-up.

The girl group beauties, who reached No2 in the charts this week with their Comic Relief version of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough, will perform at Balado on Sunday, July 12.

That’s in addition to their headline show at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium on June 8.

They’ll appear on the King Tut’s stage, before pop legends the Pet Shop Boys.

Last night, The Saturdays star Frankie Sandford admitted the band can’t wait to rub shoulders with the likes of indie-rockers Kings Of Leon and The Killers.

“We are so lucky to be invited,” she said. “It’s a big deal for us. This is going to be our first time. I’ve heard of T in the Park but have never been up there. I’ll bring my wellies.

“It’s amazing to think we are on the same stage as the Pet Shop Boys. I don’t listen to them but they are legends. I love festivals. I went to Vand Reading last year.”

The Saturdays – Frankie, Rochelle Wiseman, Una Healy, Mollie King and Vanessa White – join an already glamorous T pop bill that includes Lily Allen, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. But traditional rock is well represented with reformed American alt-rockers Jane’s Addiction also added to the bill, performing on Saturday’s Radio 1/NME Stage alongside 12-times Grammy nominated industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails.

And Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme will bring his side project, Eagles Of Death Metal, to the Radio 1/NME Stage on Sunday.

Last night, The Saturdays narrowly missed out on the No.1 spot to Flo-Rida, but Frankie says the girls are satisfied.

“It was about raising money for Comic Relief so we are happy,” she said.

“It is not about us, but everything is going so much better for us than we could have hoped for.”

The announcement of their Baladogig coincides with the news that The Saturdays’ rivals, Sugababes, are to split.

“It’s such a shame because competition is always good,” said Frankie, 21.

“The Sugababes were more established than us, but they have been around so long that it probably is time for them to call it a day.”

The T in the Park line-up now includes Kings Of Leon, The Killers, Blur, Snow Patrol, Razorlight, Elbow, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, The Specials, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Bloc Party, James, Paolo Nutini, The Script, Pet Shop Boys, Glasvegas, Jane’s Addiction, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lily Allen, Manic Street Preachers, The Ting Tings, Katy Perry, The View, Maximo Park, Pendulum, James Morrison, Lady GaGa, Peter Doherty, Seasick Steve, Eagles Of Death Metal, White Lies, Jason Mraz, Squeeze, Mogwai, The Streets, The Mars Volta, Foals, The Game, Jeff Mills, Friendly Fires, Bjorn Again, Felix Da Housecat, Dave Clarke, Florence And The Machine, Airborne Toxic Event, Slam, Ladyhawke, Of Montreal, The Gaslight Anthem, Gary Go, Beardyman, Simian Mobile Disco (Live), Claude Von Stroke, Silicone Soul, Hockey, The Saturdays and more to be announced.

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