2014

Rumours here and there

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Reminder that Rochelle is on The Great Sport Relief Bake-off which is on BBC Two TONIGHT at 8pm. The video will be on the site either later tonight, or early tomorrow morning for those who can’t see it, promise 🙂

 

Yesterday afternoon – I mean seriously afternoon, I had tickets, but work must come first – Mollie was joined by the rest of the girls to film her appearance on ITV’s ‘The Cube’, for those asking there is no airdate for this yet, it could be months and months away yet.

The reason for this post (and after nearly 6 years, If you’ve been here since day one, I’m not the person to post rumours or internet talk) but I feel its worth a discussion for those away from the (bad) world of Twitter.

Apparently those who went down last night asked the girls about the tour, the answer seemingly seemed to be ‘we don’t know’ and ‘nothing has been decided yet’ and other various comments along those lines.

Make of this what you will, but common sense suggests that maybe the form of ‘Living For The Weekend’ has caused someone to sit back and go ‘wait up here’. We all know that the girls are a singles group (more than an album group) – If you don’t get what I’m saying, basically they generally sell more singles than albums, and do better that way. But I’d would be shocked if someone at their label didn’t go ‘wait the album did what now’ and I do wonder if this is the case here. That seemingly the girls and their management want a tour, but the money holders are going ‘wait up, we can’t tour off the back of this album, its too risky.’ Obviously I’m not ‘in the know’ and if you are and reading this, drop us an e-mail!

Your guess is as good as mine, but for now we are seemingly in a state of limbo. We have no confirmed single news, we seemingly now won’t get a tour announcement anytime soon either. I still feel we will get a SINGLE at least in the next few months, be it something reworked/remixed from Living For The Weekend and used as a lead into a Greatest Hits (Seems more likely after the comments last night, be cheaper to release, minimal recording costs) and a Greatest Hits Tour … who knows. You are free to conspire with us over on our Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Away from music the girls are doing pretty good, Mollie is heading up various charities, and doing The Cube. Obviously Una and Rochelle are great parents, and doing their own TV work, Frankie is still a new mum so she’s got enough on her plate and Vanessa seems to be well enjoying life (which is great, right?!) I just think we are all getting a bit bugged down waiting for something that might be a while off, so please also take a lead from the girls and enjoy life too, we will all be here as soon as a sniff of an announcement takes place 😉

Ramp Up The Red!

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Have to admit wearing Red isn’t all that bad now 😉

Mollie is joining up with the British Heart Foundation to ‘Ramp Up The Red’

Mollie explains, “I’m so excited to be supporting the BHF on 7 February by Ramping up the Red and joining the fight against the UK’s single biggest killer, coronary heart disease.

“By organising a Ramp up the Red party with friends, families and colleagues, you will be raising funds that will go directly towards vital research, support and care to help mums, dads, grandparents or babies born with heart problems.

“It’s so easy to organise and you’ll be helping the BHF to continue to fund life-saving heart research in the UK to help everybody who suffers from a heart problem. It is a cause that is particularly important to me, as my grandfather sadly passed away after suffering a heart attack when I was younger.”

 

So on 7th February grab your reds and Ramp Up The Red!!

In other news, Rochelle has tweeted today that the group (finally) are getting back together after the Xmas break – have they had a month off?! Either way hopefully we will get movement on the next single and tour announcement (which I’m personally expecting within the next month or so anyway – alongside a single announcement) shortly.

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year TeamSats! It’s now 2014, and well it’s pretty much the same as 2013 so far?

I’m sure many of you have set resolutions, about eating less, or getting healthy, or a combination of them both. Or it might be something a lot less serious and fun! Either way I hope you’ve not broken it already, it’s only day 6 after all!

I know the big talking points right now are about the hints from the mailer, which state both ‘new single’ and ‘2014 tour’ – which is a lot to take in.

Obviously ‘Not Giving Up’ has been ‘album only’ on iTunes for a while now, which to a lot of people is just screaming out – next single – and as I touched on my previous post the song is appearing on advance single release dates, set for Early March right now. So we will wait and see.

The next debate is obviously about any tour. In the greatest respect to our favourite group, they aren’t going to pull a Beyoncé and announce a tour, and then go on tour 3 months later. Today new 2014 tours have been announced, and they are for dates in October. I’ve been saying a while I foresee an Arena Tour for the girls, but not until Autumn/Winter 2014. I’ll be glad to be proven wrong, but it’s looking increasingly more likely this will be the case.

Quick roundup of the New Year’s news. Mollie has been sunning herself in LA, cooking on the BBQ in a bikini and generally making us feel very unfit. Rochelle and family have been enjoying a lovely exotics holiday. Una has spent time in Ireland as we await her appearance on ITV’s Splash! Vanessa and Gary have been spending time in Paris and Frankie, well she’s got a new born to be looking after!

I promise stuff will be happening soon, just anyone who was expecting instant gratification from the rumoured tour dates and single news might be feeling a tad disappointed, just remember good things come to those who wait! Just ask Mollie and her BBQ!

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Una confirms tour is planned for later in 2014

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There has been a lot of twitter rumblings that the girls where set to announce or even put on sale a tour over this Christmas period – mainly due to the competition to win a Pair Of Tickets/Meet & Greet with the girls with their twitter competition. Since then the girls have been confirmed to be playing 3 summer shows in June …

Una has been talking to the Irish Independent about the girls plans for 2014, and although she confirms the girls will be touring in 2014, it sees it might be later in 2014 as they want to give time to Frankie’s return and so that she’s not leaving new-born Parker behind too early.

The Saturdays’ singer Una Foden has said the band will be back out in force at the end of 2014.

The five – Una, Frankie Sandford, Mollie King, Rochelle Humes and Vanessa White – recently appeared together performing on Strictly Come Dancing.

But Una said that Frankie – mum to new baby Parker – wouldn’t be back properly until later next year.

“Parker’s only six weeks old, so while Frankie was happy to come back for that performance, she’ll only back with us properly in 2014,” Una said.

Asked about rumours that the band would soon embark on a tour, she said: “We won’t be going out just yet, as we’ve only just had Frankie back performing with us.

“But we’re looking forward to getting back out there in 2014. We’ve mentioned a couple of shows that we’re doing in the summer, and we are definitely touring, but it will be later in the year.”

Una was the first of The Saturdays to have a baby – but she’s now been joined by Frankie and Rochelle, who had her baby in May.

“We would never sacrifice our personal lives for our careers, or vice versa,” Una said, adding: “We’re so lucky that we can combine both, and we’re very supportive of each other.”

The Irish singer said that, at first, the band were worried about individuals doing their own thing but that now they felt free to try new stuff.

“We didn’t want to do anything else (individually) too soon in case it looked like we were stepping away from the band, but we’ve been together now for six years, and it’s something we feel comfortable doing alongside the band,” she said.

Comment:
I know the mailer is indicating that the tour is ‘soon’, I’ve always said IF its an arena tour (which it has to be, surely?) a group like The Saturdays will need 6months+ selling time anyway. I’ve always seen the tour to be a late summer/early autumn affair (So say Sept/Oct) so an announcement in January, allowing 6 months odd worth of sales, all sort of fits in. I’m only saying this from experience, not with prior knowledge.

The Saturdays Official Calendar 2014

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The Saturdays Official Calendar for 2014 is available now! As always the official calendar is published by the people over at Danilo – follow them on twitter @CalendarsUK – and you can also buy the calendar, from all over the world, via their official store!

So make sure you pick up your copy today, or at least ask for it for Christmas!

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Remember the girls are in Bristol tonight, turning on the Christmas Lights at Cribbs Causeway. This is a ticketed only event (as they are also performing) so if you’ve not got your tickets make sure you pick some up today (if they are still available) if you aren’t going ITV News West Country are speaking to the girls from 6pm this evening!

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