Sexy Saturdays lace up for chart success

Sexy Saturdays lace up for chart success
Interview by ANDREI HARMSWORTH – Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Move over Sugababes, Girls Aloud and any other spent Spice Girls still willing to challenge.

There’s a new girl band tweeting high in the charts and they’re hard working, ferociously ambitious and hot as Hades – they are the Saturdays.

These five foxes could be big, so we got them out for lunch to hear them unveil plans for record-breaking success.

They’re looking a good five years ahead after insatiable single ‘If This Is Love’ blasted straight into this week’s top 10 on debut.

‘We can definitely have a number one. Loads’, says smouldering Rochelle, 19. ‘We can be bigger than the others’ says Sienna lookalike Mollie, 21.

‘I’ve been dreaming of my teary Brit Awards speech since I was eight so we have to’, she adds.

So not just another five minute pop band? ‘No! We want to do something different. People are scared of pop but it needs a shake up’ warns Vanessa, 18.

Ready to snare the limelight, Una says: ‘We’re not frightened of being papped. It hasn’t happened loads yet but we have to put ourselves out there.’

‘We’ll love it’, Una reveals. ‘I was in the loos of a club and a girl whipped out a camera and took my picture right in my face. Weird. She was showing it to her friends. I’d say that was rude.’

Frankie and Rochelle scored success as kids as part of S Club Juniors but know the ride’s a whole lot different this time round.

Confidently side stepping the looming threat of tabloid lies, Frankie says: ‘It won’t really bother me what people write. As long as I know the truth. Most of it is made up lies anyway.’

‘I don’t really read trash mags and know who my real friends are. I have three or four best friends I can trust. You can tell the people who want something’, tells the 19-year-old.

Impressed by Cheryl Cole and Sienna Miller’s bullet-dodging abilities, Una, 26, says: ‘They handle it so well. They never actually say anything.’

Rochelle jumps in to defend one Girls Aloud idol, size zero singer Nadine Coyle, recently cellulite bashed in the rags. ‘That was so stupid. They criticise her for being too thin and then turn around and attack a dimple.’

Vanessa reveals: ‘We don’t really work out or have routines. We just eat what we like and don’t worry about it.’

Una insists the girls are far more than the latest trolley full of pretty faces.

‘It’s a lot more than just being pretty’ she says.

‘After supporting Girls Aloud they taught us it’s about working really hard at everything you do. We’re up early and are none stop until about 8pm each night.’

As for the queue of fellas, well only two of them are single. Frankie and Mollie.

‘I go for the tall, grungy guys’ says Mollie. ‘I hope Frankie doesn’t get a guy then I’ll have to sit by myself. We had to sit away from the others and their boys at YO! Sushi.’

Frankie warns the lads she won’t take any eager beaver. As for re-writing the record books, they’ve had a good start being the second most downloaded British act on YouTube last week, they say.

‘We get on so well. We have the advantage of not living together’ says Mollie. ‘But there aren’t the fights which people may want’, adds Rochelle.

‘We’re past nerves and just want to really give it every time we’re on stage. We’re ready for anything’ roars Philippine beauty Vanessa.

They certainly have fire in their well painted cats eyes so we better believe it!
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The Saturdays to appear on Online TV

The Automatic, Sugababes and Sam Sparro will perform in a new online drama about the music industry.

‘The Secret World Of Sam King, a series about a junior Universal Music employee who secretly starts up his own label in the company’s post room, will feature appearances from girl band The Saturdays and US pop-rockers The Jonas Brothers.

From its launch on August 6, a three to five-minute episode of the drama will be streamed on social networking site Bebo every day, in a format similar to other social network drama hits KateModern and Sofia’s Diary.

“Users will experience a truly interactive world,” said Iain Funnell from the series’ producers Globe Productions.

“The drama will be the centre-piece and will be set within the walls of a major music company with characters drawn from real life company staff plus guest appearances and walk-ons drawn from the music industry’s biggest roster of artists,” he added.

A preview of the series is available to watch on Bebo.com now.

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A new TV Apperance and a new blog!!

Big Brother’s Little Brother!

Make sure you tune into Big Brother’s Little Brother tomorrow night on E4 from 6pm.

The girls will be dropping by the studio to chat with Zezi and George about Dale, Nicole, Stuart and all the other housemates.

BLOG from VANESSA – 05.08.09

Hello hello hello! It’s VANESSA!!!!!

Hope everyone is good!!

Well this week we released our debut single IF THIS IS LOVE! We have been so so excited and it has charted at no.8!!! We are so happy we have made the Top 10 and the announcement on radio one was an amazing moment for us all. We have been waiting for so long and now the time has finally come!! So first of all I would like to thank everyone who has bought the single, we really appreciate it!! We’ve been working non stop for a while now and I love every minute of it. We just had Friday and Saturday off so I caught up with a bit of sleep, went shopping and had loads of fun!! Now I’m rejuvenated and ready to work hard again! We had a fab show on Sunday with Girls Aloud at Pop In The Park in Dorfold Park, Cheshire!!

Over the past few weeks we’ve been crazy busy with lots of TV and interviews. When we’re waiting around we all have a thing for watching random video clips on You Tube. It is hilarious!!! Right now were watching the PCDs….great to watch!

This Saturday 9th July we’re performing at Nightingales Club in Birmingham so that should be a lot of fun. Come down and check it out!!!

That is all the latest goss from me right now! Im going to love ya and leave ya for a lil bit!!

Take care ppl!!!

VANESSA xxxxx

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Make a date with The Saturdays

FUTURE superstars The Saturdays, expected to top the charts with their debut single If This Is Love, will perfor m at Birmingham’s Nightingale Club on August 9.Having just completed the Girls Aloud arena tour, the female fivesome, which includes former members of S Club Juniors, are one of the hottest pop acts around.

The single samples the 80s UK & US dancefloor anthem Situation from synth duo Yazoo.

The Nightingale in Hurst Street will host appearances by Lonnie Gordon on August 16, Martha Wash from The Weather Girls on August 23 and Baditude featuring Sam Obernik on August 30.

Next month sees shows by Angel City, Baby D and Alex Party’s Shanie and Booty Luv. Snap! will perform on October 4 and Ms Lynch from B*Witched on October 11.

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The Next Big Thing

Article from The Daily Mail

WHO ARE THEY?

A new girl band who are hoping to reach the top without the catfights or Premiership boyfriends.

WHAT’S THE SPIN?

The quintet’s record label, Fascination (home to teen pin-ups The Jonas Brothers), reckons that The Saturdays are ‘a five-woman whirlwind’ who will put some fun back into the charts.


AND THE REALITY?

Well, the garish outfits and irritatingly catchy debut single are in place. And with Girls Aloud and the Sugababes (11 albums between them) approaching pop veteran status, The Saturdays’ timing is spot-on. Some will dismiss them as manufactured disco dollies, but they seem unfazed: ‘We’re a proper, full-on girl band and we love it,’ they say.

WHAT DO THEY SOUND LIKE?

More Rihanna than Girls Aloud. Their first single, If This Is Love (set to chart on Sunday), is a slick, electro-soul number built around a sample from Eighties synth duo Yazoo. The vocals are a little shrill in places, but the overall feel is upbeat and feisty.

WHAT’S THE ST0RY?

Two of the girls, Essex lasses Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman, were members of S Club Juniors in 2002. They continued to sing after that ill-fated project fell apart and eventually hooked up with Londoners Vanessa White and Mollie King, plus Irish singer Una Healy, a guitarist who has already released a solo album in her homeland and is regarded as the band’s most sensible member.

AND THEN?

The group got their big break when they supported Girls Aloud on their Tangled Up tour earlier this year. They have since recorded their debut album, as yet untitled, and are planning to play live at a London showcase when it comes out in October.

WHAT NEXT?

Chart success without the tantrums and tittletattle, hopefully. Frankie says: ‘We’re not models who can’t sing. We all sing and we all dance. No one’s telling us what to do. We’re all different because we’re just ourselves  –  and that’s the way it should be.’

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Wednesday Chart Update

The sales from Sunday-Tuesday are now in, it seems that If This Is Love is climbing, if slowly, its now sitting at number 8 on the UK charts, whilst it has climbed up to number 9 on the iTunes downloads chart.

Any upwards movement is good, if it continues to sell well for the rest of the week, then they should get that all important Top10 placement by Sunday!

Remember to catch The Saturdays tomorrow on Nickelodeon tomorrow between 11.30am-1.00pm!

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