The Saturdays on SMART 07-03-09
The Saturdays on SMART 07-03-09
The Saturdays – Waking You Up 02-03-09
The Saturdays – Waking You Up 02-03-09
The Saturdays interview BBC Breakfast 06 03 09
The Saturdays interview BBC Breakfast 06 03 09
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The Saturdays on Alan Titchmarsh Show
The Saturdays on Alan Titchmarsh Show March 3 2009
Interview
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Just Can’t Get Enough
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We Love The Saturdays!
04 March 2009
By: Phoebe Frangoul
The Saturdays rocked high street style on the red carpet!
We love the newest girlband on the block – The Saturdays – and their sexy, sassy style, so imagine how thrilled we were to see them working the red carpet in top-to-toe high street fashion!
The girls showed off their amazing legs in super-short mini dresses and skirts from none other than Toppers and wore stunning chunky grey platform heels from Office. We loved the floral mini skirt
worn by Mollie (far left) and the sexy floral print corset top and grey stretchy mini that Rochelle rocked.
Vanessa and Una worked this season’s hottest trend – the bra top – with their Liberty-print Topshop bustiers, while Frankie was lucky enough to get her hands on a graphic-print Topshop Unique bodycon dress which is so new it’s not even on Toppers’ website yet!
EXCLUSIVE: SATURDAY FIGHT FEVER
EXCLUSIVE: SATURDAY FIGHT FEVER
4th March 2009
By James Cabooter
WATCH out Girls Aloud – foxy fivesome The Saturdays are hot on your heels and determined to steal your crown as Britain’s top girl band.
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The gorgeous quintet – Frankie Sandford, Mollie King, Vanessa White, Rochelle Wiseman and Una Healy – have already cracked the Top 10 with their first three singles If This Is Love, Up and Issues.
Now they’re aiming to be bigger than Girls Aloud and reckon the Love Machine hitmakers had better watch their backs.
In an exclusive chat with Playlist, the girls opened their hearts about coping with their newfound success, their hopes for the future – and how they’re not causing enough scandal… yet.
The Saturdays have recorded the official Comic Relief song, a cover of Depeche Mode’s 80s classic Just Can’t Get Enough, and admit it was a dream come true to land such a top job.
“We grew up watching Comic Relief and have had a great time dressing up in giant red noses,” says Frankie, 20.
Despite gunning for Girls Aloud’s crown, The Saturdays admit they owe their success to their pop rivals.
Blonde Mollie, 21, explains: “We supported them last summer and we learned so much from them.”
Now Girls Aloud have notched up a BRIT award, The Saturdays want the same.
Frankie says: “A few years ago pop bands like them wouldn’t have had a look-in at the BRITs but that’s changing.”
Rochelle, who was in S Club Juniors with Frankie, adds: “The days of just getting some pretty models who look half-decent to mime on stage are over. We all sing and we always do our vocals live all the time.”
That they are able to is down to the fact they were hand-picked by record bosses to form a new girl group last year. Not unlike the legendary Spice Girls, in fact.
Una, 27, says: “To follow them with Comic Relief is amazing. Some people said it might be too early for us to do Comic Relief but The Spice Girls only had three hit singles before they did it and look what happened to them.”
The Saturdays are a dead cert for No 1 come Sunday but chart success comes at a price – their social lives.
Frankie admits: “I’m not going to say stuff like us falling out of clubs will never happen because that’s just tempting fate.
“But we’re working so hard that we can’t afford to be tired and hungover the next day. But I think our management would like us to be a bit more outrageous!”
Just Can’t Get Enough is out now.
THE SATURDAYS
Mollie
Blonde Mollie was in a couple of girl bands and even auditioned for The X Factor before joining The Saturdays.
She’s the posh one and gets mistaken for Sienna Miller when out and about.
Mollie, 21, says: “I’m pretty excitable and I’ve got one of the loudest laughs you’ll ever hear.”
She likes long-haired men – and would love to meet a surfer dude.
Una
This Celtic belle first found fame as a champion swimmer before discovering rock music and winning Ireland’s Glinsk Song Contest twice.
Una is an accomplished guitarist and at 27 years of age is the most sensible member of the group.
“We all get on so well because we’re all willing to work our butts off,” she says. And sorry, fellas – she’s already dating rugby player Ben Foden, 23.
Vanessa
Somerset babe Vanessa is the group’s very own Mariah Carey and comes armed with the most incredible vocal range.
She’s appeared in several theatre shows, including The Lion King in London’s West End.
Vanessa, 19, says: “I don’t know where my voice came from but we all take a role singing the songs, there’s no one lead singer.”
This beauty may seem shy at first but cheeky Vanessa adores honest men – and loves getting into trouble with her partner-in-crime Frankie.
Frankie
A former member of S Club Juniors, fussy Frankie loves the important things in life like chocolate croissants and going to gigs but hates it when people make noise while they’re eating.
The 20-year-old says: “I always have to say something.”
She loves a good-looking fella but don’t go getting any ideas, boys – she’s currently dating McFly heart-throb Dougie Poynter, 21.
Rochelle
One of the most recognisable members of the group, Rochelle was another member of S Club Juniors before becoming a BBC children’s presenter for two years.
She’s the party animal of the group and loves shopping.
Rochelle, 20, says: “I don’t like saving for a rainy day. If it’s raining, I’ll go shopping anyway.”
Someone tall, dark and with muscles floats Rochelle’s boat.
Saturdays ‘squeeze each other’s boobs’
Saturdays ‘squeeze each other’s boobs’
Tuesday, March 3 2009, 10:21am EST
By David Balls, Entertainment Reporter
The Saturdays star Frankie Sandford has admitted that she squeezes bandmate Vanessa White’s cleavage and touches her bottom because she is jealous of her physique.
The singer revealed that she was uncomfortable with her own breast size and didn’t like revealing her body after having her appendix removed.
“You’ve got perfect boobs and a perfect bottom – I was perving over you yesterday,” she told White during an interview with Heat.
“I was just standing there yesterday squeezing her boobs and poking her bottom – I’m so jealous.
“I’d pay to have boobs like that,” she added.
Sandford, who is currently dating McFly star Dougie Poynter, added that the best way to impress a man is to dress casually.
“I think that if you can’t decide what to wear on a date, a nice white vest, tight jeans, high heels and a cool necklace is an outfit that all boys will like. You can also go anywhere wearing that.”
The Saturdays’ new single ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ is out now.
The Saturday’s Storming Success
The Saturday’s Storming Success
Bursting with energy and bent on brightening up the airwaves with their seductive electro pop, The Saturdays are injecting the music industry with a high-strength dose of fun.
With three top 10 hits, an official Comic Relief single and the US achievements of their Spice Girl idols locked firmly in their sights, bandmates Una Healy, Mollie King, Vanessa White, Rochelle Wiseman and Frankie Sandford are proudly heralding the next generation of girl power.
In contrast with sullen lyrics from young artists trying their best not to crack a smile, these fresh-faced young women are unabashed advocates of happy, uplifting pop.
Mollie, the group’s 21-year-old blonde bombshell, said: “Why are people ashamed of pop?
“Everyone’s taking themselves so seriously at the moment. We’re a proper, full-on girl band and we are loving it.”
London-born Mollie had her first glimpse of band life as a member of Fallen Angelz, a girl group founded on ‘The X Factor’ in 2007.Â
Her fellow Saturdays Frankie and Rochelle had a more successful start to their music careers when, along with six other youngsters, they bounced onto the scene in 2001 as chirpy pre-teen group S Club Juniors – later called S Club 8.
When the group split up in 2004, Frankie found herself even hungrier for pop success.
Why are people ashamed of pop? Everyone’s taking themselves so seriously at the moment. We’re a proper, full-on girl band and we are loving it.
The 20-year-old singer said: “It doesn’t get much better than Pop! It’s fun and you can really play around with your sound! Bring it back!”
Essex-born Frankie – whose long S Club locks have been chopped into an edgy page boy crop – is the group’s outspoken prankster. She has also recently acquired a superstar boyfriend – McFly’s 21-year-old bassist, Dougie Poynter.
Rochelle was just 12 years old when she joined the S Club Juniors, and only 15 when the group disbanded. She went on to present BBC children’s show ‘Smile’ but Rochelle was always eager to return to singing.
Now 19, the striking teenager – who is part Sierra Leonean – says there’s nothing better than being “five normal, well, normal-ish, girls that can have fun, sing and perform together to music we love!”
At 27, Una is the group’s music veteran. The Irish beauty – dubbed “the classy one” by her bandmates – is an all-rounder, with talent for songwriting men’s magazine FHM likens to that of Oasis’ Noel Gallagher. Before she joined the girly group, Una was a regular fixture on Ireland’s live music circuit – she even won Ireland’s famed Glinsk Song Contest in 2004 and 2006.
Eight years Una’s junior, Vanessa brings soaring vocals to the group. The petite 19-year-old, who appeared in the West End production of ‘The Lion King’, joined The Saturdays fresh from London’s prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School.
Since Polydor’s Fascination Records introduced the girls in late 2007, The Saturdays have been steadily approaching their goal of being Britain’s biggest female group.
While their debut track ‘Is This love’ failed to bring the instant chart-topping success experienced by the Spice Girls and Girls Aloud, The Saturdays safely scored a top ten hit, debuting at number 8 in the UK singles chart.
Single ‘Up’, released in October 2008, took the group to number 5 and also appeared on the US charts after it featured in popular sitcom ‘Ugly Betty’.
The band’s debut album ‘Chasing Lights’ – released the same month – went to number nine in the UK album charts.
The group’s next single ‘Issues’ brought them their greatest success to date. Released in the January 2009, the song rose to number four in the UK single charts.
A mammoth PR offensive of radio and TV appearances, a September support slot with The Jonas Brothers at the Hammersmith Apollo, performing at Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball in December and even guest starring in Channel 4’s soap spinoff ‘Hollyoaks Later’, got the girls even more exposure.
The Saturdays have enjoyed increasing success, but they owe it all to Girls Aloud – it was a supporting slot on the BRIT Award-winning girl group’s summer 2008 tour that first catapulted The Saturdays onto the pop radar.
Rochelle said: “It was the best experience we could have ever asked for. It was amazing and the girls are lovely and were so nice to us!”
The tour kicked off in Belfast on May 3 and took the five foxy singers across Britain, with ten open air concerts and 24 arena dates.
Frankie adds: “We were so lucky to go on tour so quickly! To watch them kind of taught us a lot about what we need to do to get where they are and it gave us a goal, and I think it was the best thing we could have ever done!”
But while The Saturdays are eager to learn from their well-established mentors, they are also desperate to overtake them and become the biggest girl band in Britain.
Rochelle said: “Eventually we want to be bigger than them – but at the moment we just want to go head-to-head with them. We love them and respect what they’ve achieved and obviously we have to remember that we are a new band and they’ve been around for a long time.”
It’s clear that behind the fluttering lashes and cherubic smiles The Saturdays are fiercely competitive – when their manager put up signs in their dance studio to find members for a new girl band, Rochelle admits she ripped them down.
Mollie is also keen to tell anyone who will listen that she finds it “a bit weird” that Girls Aloud aren’t battling to crack the US – global success is something The Saturdays desperately crave.
Frankie said: “No British girl group has made it in America since the Spice Girls but we are hoping to. We worked with Rihanna’s producers to give us more of an American sound.”
But before they can think about conquering the other side of the Atlantic, Mollie, Una, Rochelle, Vanessa and Frankie have a career-defining challenge much closer to home.
The Saturdays’ fourth single – a cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ – is an official song for this year’s Comic Relief, and the girls are desperate to continue the historic success of the charity track by getting their best chart result yet.
Rochelle said: “There is a lot of pressure on us because Comic Relief singles have gone to number one in the past and we want to sell enough.”
If the single, released on March 1, does take the girls to the top spot, the girls will be one step closer to filling the shoes of their Spice Girl idols.
Mollie said: “I remember watching the Spice Girls doing “Who Do You Think You Are” and now it’s us! I cannot wait!”
The Saturdays – five beautiful girls, each boldly championing their individual character and style – do seem to fit a little too perfectly into the Spice Girl mould. But while they can’t escape the manufactured label, the girls are adamant their strong identities are 100 per cent real.
Frankie said: “We’re not models who can’t sing – we can all sing, we can all dance, and no one’s telling us who to be or what to do. We’re all different because we’re just ourselves, and that’s the way it should be.”