From the official H & Claire website: Pop’s newly formed duo have just arrived back from song writing in Sweden with Jorgen Eloffsen. They had a fabulous time and they’ve come up with some great new material which you will be hearing soon, and that’s a promise. On the same day this was posted too: […]
From Ananova: Former Steps stars Claire and H are taking over from James Redmond as hosts of SM:tv Live. The duo will present the show with Brian Dowling and Tess Daly. They have also recently signed a £4 million deal with WEA records. Claire told The Mirror: “I’m really excited, It’s a dream come true.” […]
This is from the News Of The World: BATTLE OF THE BABES WARRING pop starlets Faye Tozer and Claire Richards will go head to head in the battle for no.1 when they release their new singles on the same day. The showdown between the former Steps stars is set for 6 May, when Faye releases […]
Thanks to a few people for sending this in to me over the past few days – sorry for taking so long to get it on the news pages: Gold Greatest Hits has been released on VCD in Hong Kong / Singapore (And therefore I guess across Asia) – it has 15 of their videos […]
From Dotmusic: Ex-Steps stars Claire Richards and Ian Watkins are reported to have signed a £4million deal with WEA. According to a UK tabloid, the duo agreed the four-album deal yesterday before jetting off to Sweden to work on new material. The singers, who will record under the name ‘H and Claire’, are said to […]
From The Sun: IF you want to avoid meeting old enemies then DON’T all go to the cinema on the same day. But dozy STEPS did just that yesterday at the London premiere of animated flick The Ice Age. The five members of the group, which broke up last October, turned up within minutes of […]
Thanks to a few people from Manchester for sending in this article in the Manchester Evening News: Opera singer Russell Watson has recorded a song with former Steps star Faye Tozer. The unlikely duo got together in an industrial unit in Stockport this week to make the video. It’s a new recording of Someone Like […]
The Official Claire & H Site (claireandh.com) has been updated with the following: It is now confirmed that H and Claire will be jetting off to Sweden next week to songwrite with Jorgen Elofsson. Jorgen wrote one of Steps’ biggest hits – It’s The Way You Make Me Feel – and has written many songs […]
Thanks to Christopher for sending this in: London’s East End hosts the ‘First Act’ in the development of Serotica: The Dream Comes True – a new musical telling the unofficial story at the Tate Modern inspired by the chart hits of supergroup Steps! Both Steps and the Tate Modern began life in 1997 with the […]
Quite amazing sales from the UK Pop Idol Will Young… sales figures for one week were 1,108,269! Hear’say sold just over 500,000 in their first week and people said that was a lot at the time! I doubt Gareth will sell over one million in his first week but will probably beat the Hear’say total. […]
Here are a few news bits. Lisa was on Blue Peter yesterday where she confirmed that she was going solo. The Official H & Claire website has been updated and confirms the following: H and Claire have made a decision on what their debut single as a duo will be. The song is called DJ. […]
The US tracklisting for the Gold Greatest Hits album has been adjusted for the release, it now stands as: Tragedy One For Sorrow Stomp Its The Way You Make Me Feel Loves Got A Hold On My Heart Heartbeat Better Best Forgotten Say You’ll Be Mine Deeper Shade of Blue 5, 6, 7, 8 Last […]
H and Claire say the reason Steps split up was because of a rift between them and the rest of the band. They say Faye, Lee and Lisa would go out together leaving the other two behind. H and Claire have now announced they are to record as a duo. Claire told The Sun: “To […]
Lisa just posted on the Steps Official message board: Hi guys, Lisa here! You may think I haven’t been on our official site for a while, but I have been frequently been logging on & reading all your messages on the board since our sad statement. Today, once again, I sat here reading but this […]
From Worldpop: Former Steps members H and Claire have revealed they will continue as a duo. Speaking on this morning’s cd:uk show H told presenter Cat Deeley: ‘We’re very close to signing a deal with a record company right now. We’re working with a lot of songwriters including Diane Warren who’s written some massive US […]
From BBC Text: Former Steps stars Claire & H are to record as a duo, it has been announced. They are in talks with record labels and will be signing to a label in two weeks, said a spokesperson. They will simply be known as Claire & H. “We both loved being in Steps and […]
From Ananova: Faye Tozer is to team up with Russell Watson for her first show since Steps split. She will duet on one of his songs at an open air concert overlooking Auckland harbour in New Zealand. Faye will rehearse with Watson on the QE2 prior to the concert on February 6. She will duet […]
Today I received information on the US release of the Greatest Hits package: Steps: Best Of Steps (Release Date 19 March 2002) Steps are a worldwide phenomenon. The band has been certified gold or platinum in a dozen countries, and has sold a whopping 12 million plus records worldwide. With 15 Top 10 hits (including […]
According to the SMTV website, Claire & H are due on the show this weekend, which is 26 January… which makes it a whole month since the split… it all seems a little “planned” to me, that they are due to appear on the show exactly a month afterwards…
Developments on the Step Two album (maybe)… thanks to Leonardo for sending this in. In the forums on the Jive Brazil website, this has been posted as the tracklisting for the new Steps album “Step Two”: Run To You Bittersweet Mars & Venus (We Fall In Love Again) In It For Love Why Words Of […]