S Club have released their first single in more than 20 years, with a music video that honours the late Paul Cattermole.
Paul tragically died on 6 April this year at the age of just 46, mere weeks after the pop group announced a huge reunion arena tour.
Since Paul’s death, fellow S Club bandmate Hannah Spearritt also stepped back from the tour, leaving the remaining members – Bradley McIntosh, Jo O’Meara, Jon Lee, Rachel Stevens, and Tina Barrett to continue as a five-piece.
The 90s sensations have just released their first new single and music video in more than 20 years, and for long-time fans of the pop group, it’s a real nostalgia trip.
The video for These Are The Days also acts as a moving tribute to Paul, showing some of the band’s most significant moments from over the years.
Throwback clips from the group’s heyday are interwoven with present day.
There are videos from their 90s and 00s TV series – Miami 7, LA 7 and Hollywood 7 – as well as behind-the-scenes clips of them all together in their younger years and scenes from their music videos.
S Club’s new music video includes nostalgic footage of Paul Cattermole. Credit: YouTubeS Club’s new music video includes nostalgic footage of Paul CattermoleS Club’s new music video includes nostalgic footage of Paul CattermoleS Club’s new music video includes nostalgic footage of Paul Cattermole
Throughout, a mid-20-year-old Paul is seen laughing and joking, and pranking his bandmates with everything from water pistols to photobombs.
The video lands ahead of the band’s 25th anniversary arena tour this autumn, which will kick off at the AO Arena in Manchester on 12 October.
S Club, who have four multi-platinum selling albums, two BRIT Awards, and nine number-one international hit singles to their name, will perform a second date here on 21 October, again at the AO Arena.
12 Oct – Manchester AO Arena 13 Oct – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena 14 Oct – Sheffield Utilita Arena 16 Oct – Dublin 3Arena 18 Oct – Glasgow OVO Hydro 19 Oct – Newcastle Utilita Arena 20 Oct – Leeds First Direct Arena 21 Oct – Manchester AO Arena 23 Oct – Cardiff International Arena 24 Oct – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena 26 Oct – Birmingham Utilita Arena 27 Oct – London The O2 28 Oct – London The O2 Matinee 28 Oct – London The O2 29 Oct – Birmingham Utilita Arena
My Chemical Romance fans are losing it as emo favourites appear to tease UK tour
Danny Jones
American alt-rock and emo favourites My Chemical Romance aren’t just back for one last Black Parade; it looks like they might be heading to the UK for more tour dates.
Not just a phase, never was.
My Chemical Romance (an entirely different kind of MCR) made yet another mighty return to the fore earlier this year, nearly two whole decades on from the release of the seminal album, which dropped in 2006 and has now been toured live again by the New Jersey band.
Playing the album IN FULL for the first time in years, they’ve been busy in North America delighting die-hard crowds, but now a recent teaser has got My Chem fans gearing up for UK and Ireland shows.
As you can see, MCR released the somewhat cryptic comedy sketch above, in which they seem to spoof a gameshow centred around a robot named ‘Quizzo’.
The host of this fictional programme goes on to explain that the result will determine “who will be the next lucky country to win the grand prize of one nuclear winter.”
It might only last for a few seconds, but the main takeaway is that the ‘who’ selected as the recipient of this upcoming prize is none other than the United Kingdom.
Combine that with a simple caption that reads, “Let’s show them what they’ve won”, it’d be hard not to jump to the conclusion that we Brits are about to pretend we’re ‘Teenagers’ again and chant ‘Na Na Na’ until our lungs give out.
In the time since the post went live, fans on this side of the pond have understandably started getting very excited…
My Chemical Romance are coming back to the UK… For the 1st time since 2022 when we all thought it would be the last hurrah…#MCRpic.twitter.com/vHWO5mK89j
At first, some were wondering whether this year’s revival might have also seen the resurrection of their much-mythologised but ultimately scrapped 2019 record, The Paper Kingdom, but it seems pretty much nailed on that their transatlantic followers are about to get some gigs.
It remains unclear whether these still TBC dates will be an extension of the current ‘Long Live The Black Parade‘ tour, which began on 11 July, or something new entirely.
Either way, with this current run of shows due to end in September and hints at a ‘nuclear winter’, it’s a fair assumption to guess that My Chemical Romance will be coming to the UK either later this year or early 2026 – and you bank on a big Manchester booking to be thrown in there too.
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Adidas drop Liam and Noel Gallagher SPZL trainers
Daisy Jackson
Liam and Noel Gallagher have teamed up with adidas once again to create their very own SPZL trainers.
The sportswear giant has today dropped the designs for the adidas LG Achille SPZL and the adidas NG Marathon SPZL.
The sure-to-sell-out trainers will officially hit shelves in the new Manchester adidas store, and other stockists, next weekend.
The footwear drop coincides with the ongoing Oasis reunion tour, which attracted hundreds of thousands of people to the city when they played five nights in Heaton Park.
Liam and Noel themselves have maintained a close relationship with Gary Aspden, curator of the adidas SPZL range, for more than two decades.
They’re often seen sporting the iconic trainers and creating product collaborations, and now they’re back with a new Three Stripes partnership and their very own new adidas SPZL trainers.
Up first is Liam Gallaghers’s adidas SPZL, with the Oasis frontman asking to bring back a revised version of an archival runner, the adidas Achille.
The LG Achille SPZL features a khaki mesh base, chocolate brown stripes, a beige suede T-toe overlay, and a sand outside, with a motif of Liam on the tongue of the shoe.
Noel Gallagher’s NG Marathon SPZLs are his first collaborations with the brand since his immediate sell-out shoes back in 2017.
His are a new hybrid inspired by the adidas Marathon 85 silhouette, keeping the suede upper and rubber outsole of the Marathon 85 but with a deep navy/sky blue palette with a reworked toe box and midsole, as well as details like the Eco-Tex tongue and tonal eyelets.
Both shoes feature a portrait of their namesakes on the tongue, as well as spare laces, co-branded sock liners, and commemorative packaging.
The adidas LG Achille SPZL and the adidas NG Marathon SPZL are set to launch via adidas SPZL stockists and the adidas Carnaby and MCR retail stores on 16 August.
Daisy Jackson -
26th July 2023 
