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Steps band members Lisa, Lee and Claire come together to share the reasons behind making their new musical HERE & NOW, discuss how much their fans mean to them and how having children changes everything as a pop band. #steps #hereandnow _ Subscribe for regular entertainment! http://bit.ly/1qyfc2T Watch videos in full + exclusives here: https://thisisheart.co/heartglobalplayer Honest Celebrity Interviews: https://thisisheart.co/honestinterviews Music Artists: https://thisisheart.co/3YVm8wN Film and TV Stars: https://thisisheart.co/filmandtv _ We're the UK's biggest commercial radio brand creating memorable moments with the most recognised names in entertainment!
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We're here to talk about Steps, here and now
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I think it's a natural progression for all of us. We've been talking about putting our music on stage
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in terms of not fronted by ourselves, but creating a musical. We've got a fantastic team, award-winning team
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So it's set in a seaside supermarket, as you said, and Kaz is kind of the linchpin of the four friends
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and she seems to have her life all together and they all look up to her
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because she's about to adopt a child, she's married um and they and it's just before her 50th birthday so they are all kind of saying
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oh we wish our life was as perfect as yours and she says well you know you've got to take control
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of it and they've got to basically find their summer of love they've got two weeks to sort
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their lives out but in the meantime Kaz's life may kind of start to fall apart and it's yeah it's
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just about that journey and and and it's about friendship it's about love it's about yeah all
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sorts it's just it's got everything including a drag queen it's one of those shows actually that
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caused a bit of trouble in birmingham because people were getting up mid and dancing and doing stuff it like you not at a concert you actually watching a show so you know respect for the artist it the
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music obviously we all love the fans are going to love it but I think what's important to all of us is that if a person walked past the theatre that doesn't really know anything about steps and went
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in and watched the show and then leave smiling going oh my god that was amazing absolutely loved
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it I think that's ticked then every single box we could possibly take with this musical it's
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actually a jukebox musical a bit like mamma mia with the music of abba this is not the story of
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abba so yeah and that's how i i kind of explain it but people always come up to me and say who's
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playing you you know and it's like it's it's not actually us yeah it is our music and i think
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we let the the story and the music like i say speak for itself um and i think it's people would
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have expected it to be our story we've always when whenever we've talked about it we always said and
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we always knew that we didn't want it to be our story. We wanted it to have a life on its own
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Do you know what I mean? We wanted it to fly without us
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Totally, yes. It is the music. And we are lucky, you know, we have done a few covers as well
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So there's gonna be songs that everybody knows. You know Tragedy in there Better the Devil You Know in there Chain Reaction in there It well as all our original catalogue as well We somehow got 5 6 7 8
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And 5, 6, 7, 8. And it's brilliant. It's brilliant. All the fans that have grown up with us and listened to us from day one
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a lot of them were feeling the same thing as us. They didn't want the musical to kind of let them down
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and ruin their memories of steps and things like that. They didn't want it to be rubbish lead. Basically, they didn't want it to be not very good
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I think everybody cares, don't they? They really do. So much love, as you know, Kev, you know, still
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all over the years and all across the world. So I do think, you know, we're really happy with the outcome
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It's a fabulous musical and we love everyone to come and see it when it comes near you
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We always felt like we had to work harder than everybody else because we were seen, because of 5, 6, 7, 8, I guess
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as a novelty pop act. We weren't... But everything that we've done over the last 28 years
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is very carefully thought out. We care about it. We don't do anything on a whim
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It's all planned. Everything's planned and it's our legacy. We don't want to..
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We want to enjoy it just as much as the fans do. And a large part of that now
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is that everything we do do is with the fans in mind What do they want What do they want to see what songs do they want to hear us perform literally yesterday i sat on the stairs with my little boy
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i haven't really ventured into steps with him yet for whatever reason he's he sees me on stage in
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pantos and musicals and whatever and he looked at the discs on the wall and he kind of sat there and
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he tries to name you all and that and and then he looked at another day she went oh that one's the
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same oh daddy daddy that one's the same so he started to realize we're all the same so i went
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do you want to see a video and he went yeah so i i showed him tragedy and i showed him um what the
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future holds and he went can i come and watch you please oh my god oh what so yeah there we are when
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we started on this journey we never even thought that we would we weren't thinking about children
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you know we were all young um and so i think it's so lovely now that what what we have achieved and
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and the work that we've you know we put out there now our children can watch and that's something
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that I never thought about at the time. So, yeah, it's lovely. It's all on YouTube
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It's not going anywhere. You've always been there. I just want to say thank you. You've always supported us from day one
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Can't wait to hear what you think about the musical
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