It was the first time they had performed together since their ironically-titled S Club … We thought we don’t want to be one of those, let’s do it the right way.Solo careers and projects ensued; O’Meara almost killed her career after those controversial Meanwhile, McIntosh joined a new band in 2006, Upper Street, a product from the MTV-produced reality television series The band members were all former members from other groups; Dane Bowers of Another Level, Jimmy Constable of 911 and Danny Wood of New Kids on the Block.They split up soon after the disappointing chart result of their first single, McIntosh explained it was Barrett who initiated contact with the rest of the S Club crew and “talked about the old times”, including the possibility of a comeback.“Everyone was free and available and were up for doing a reunion tour. He selected the members for the group after auditioning from over 10,000 hopefuls; Rachel Stevens was the only member of the group who did not audition to gain admittance into the group. This time, bigger and better. (11) Top Rated. During that tout they announced the band would split — two weeks after they were forced to deny the same rumours — and just months after Paul Cattermole left the group. Then you’d be getting ready for the next season of the TV show.“It was never ending, year after year, it was back to back, really full on. As well as performing for In November 2000, S Club 7 were invited to provide the official song for the UK's BBC Children in Need Campaign 2000, so a new song, the ballad ""Never Had a Dream Come True" had marked a more mature direction for the group whilst still retaining their pop sensibilities, a direction which continued into their third studio album, By spring 2001, the group were "desperate" to start touring; it was something which they had always wanted to do, but couldn't because things were "always so hectic".The effects of the group's charity single, "Never Had a Dream Come True", were felt when the group handed over £200,000 to Children in Need, from the sales of the CD after the release of "Don't Stop Movin'" in April 2001.In January 2002, S Club 7 embarked upon their second arena tour, Talking about his former musical venture three months before he left S Club 7, Paul Cattermole described his school After Cattermole's departure, vowing to not disband, the remaining six members stayed together under the name In April 2003, S Club released their first feature film, The band cited a mutual split, expressing it was simply a time "to move on and face new challenges".In August 2014, it was reported that the band would be reforming under the backing of On 20 March 2001, Cattermole, Lee and McIntosh were caught with The style of music S Club 7 normally falls under is pop, or more specifically Over the years, their style and direction changed progressively with each new album. It will be nice for the three of us to come out and have a bit of fun with it.”A year beforehand, in 2014, all seven members reunited for British charity Children in Need. Their second album With the departure of Cattermole, S Club released their fourth and final album, S Club 7's 2000 Children in Need song and second UK number one. S Club 7 was made up of Jon Lee, Tina Barrett, Hannah Spearritt, Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens, Bradley McIntosh and Jo O'Meara (left-right) Credit: Alamy What do S Club … The fans were calling for it, they wanted us to do something.“We said, ‘you know what? We didn’t get much sleep but we were quite a grounded band. It was the first time they had performed together since their ironically-titled S Club United tour in 2003. Simon Fuller has commented that he came upon the concept of S Club 7 the day after he was fired by the Spice Girlsin November 1997, with the new group meant as a "continuation" of the latter.
After all, there was a TV show to produce and storylines to fill.“The good thing about our situation was that it was all written into the TV show, so it was all kind of planned,” McIntosh said.“We sat down and said, ‘OK, Paul wants to leave’, we discussed it. We were like, ‘you know what Paul? You never knew where you were going to be from one day to another. He was in a relationship with (bandmate) Hannah and he didn’t want to be in a working relationship.“It was done in a really nice way for the fans. All of our music was incorporated into the TV show.”They continued their success for four years, but the intensity of their schedule would eventually create cracks.1999: Members of UK band S Club 7 in Sydney. S Club 3 (also known as S Club Party and SC3) are an English spin-off pop group based in London with S Club 7 former members. We had really steady success and when the team came together, we said we’re all happy to call it a day.“A lot of pop bands around us were getting dropped by labels or breaking up. We all worked together on it, and were happy to do so.”Yet despite O’Meara claiming it “felt right” that the band was back together as a seven-piece in 2014, McIntosh says the group were “really chill” about the decision to let Cattermole go.“We were the most laid back group together, we were really chill about it.“We were you like, you know, respect, that was his decision.