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S Club Juniors

Top of the Pops Archive Also known as S Club Juniors

GENRE

Pop

TYPE

Group

FOUNDED

2002

DISBANDED

2004

LOCATION

United Kingdom

PRIMARY GENRE

Pop

5

TOTAL APPEARANCES

GROUP MEMBERS

Daisy EvansJay Asforis Calvin Goldspink Stacey McClean Frankie Sandford Rochelle Wiseman

ARTIST OVERVIEW

S Club 8 were a spin-off of the British pop group S Club 7. The children were all in their early teens or younger when they were chosen from thousands of hopefuls on the television series S Club Search to appear as a support act for pop band S Club 7. Read more on Wikipedia.

Timeline


Performance Statistics

Repeat performances are not counted, unless stated otherwise.

Mimed

4 / 5

Live

1 / 5

Archived - Video

5 / 5

TOTP Appearances

Episode Performance Chart # archived performance image preview YouTube performance
10/10/2003 Sundown
Mimed
4
11/07/2003 Fool No More
Mimed
4
18/10/2002 New Direction
Mimed
2
02/08/2002 Automatic High
Mimed
2
03/05/2002 One Step Closer
Live
2

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Interview date: Circa 2003

No longer the pop pip-squeaks of the charts, S Club 8 return with a funky new album and some nifty moves to rival Bustin Justin.

Rochelle: Yeah, it's quite similar to 'One Step Closer' really and it definitely gives you a taste of what our new album is like.

Stacey: It was harder than some of the routines we did for the first album. The songs are more mature on this album, so the dance routines were too. It was definitely trickier to start with!

Hannah: It all depends what the song is like really. 'Sundown' is obviously very dance-y and upbeat, so the routine took us a two days to learn. Once we've learned the core moves of the routines though, it doesn't take us long to get it really polished.

Stacey: I think we've always enjoyed doing the dance routines, but 'Sundown' is probably our fave so far. It just more funky and cooler.

Calvin: Well, our choreographer creates our routines, so we think he's pretty cool. We don't make up the routines ourselves really.
Jay: We all really like Justin Timberlake and his moves though. If we could, we'd add a few JT moves to our routines. But, we did have a little bit of input for the 'Sundown' routine. Our choreographer asked us to think of a move that each of us would like to put into the routine. So there's a little bit of each of us in the 'Sundown' number.

Aaron: Yeah, the last one we did that with was for 'New Direction'. We did this move with our arms which we called 'Poppadom', because the track had an Indian feel about it!

Frankie: Aaron and Daisy pick up the routines really quickly. They always add their own freestyle bits as well, while the rest of us are concentrating on getting the basic moves right.

Calvin: Usually our choreographer puts in special moves for us. We're not usually doing exactly the same routine, just steps that complement one another.

Rochelle: We've never really had to wear anything we're not comfortable with. There is a different theme to each single though. The 'New Direction' routine and video was Bollywood-style, which was good fun and 'Automatic High' was summery. 'Sundown's' theme is all about how we've grown up more now, we wanted to show to everyone that we're not kids anymore. So, we're just wearing what any teenager would wear at a party in our latest video.

Stacey: [Giggles] To be honest with you, it's a bit embarrassing for us. I don't think most of us would want to show off like that. When we hang out with friends, we just want to be normal with them.

Frankie: [Sheepishly] I've fallen over a couple of times! I've done it twice now during live TV performances, and it's really embarrassing. The last time was on cd:uk, just the other weekend. It was during the actual show, I had to pick myself up and carry on, but I couldn't stop laughing!