TOUR PERFORMANCES

Better Best Forgotton (Ballad Version)
I Know Him So Well
Stomp
Words Are Not Enough
Tragedy
Its The Way You Make Me Feel
One For Sorrow

And here's an extra treat for you:
Light Up The World (7th Heaven Remix)

TOUR UPDATES

Opening night of the tour last night so expect bits and bobs popping up all over

Here's a video of Say You'll Be Mine from last nights opening night!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xitbW798h00

TOUR INFO

The band today are in Plymouth finishing off rehearsals for tomorrow nights first gig of 6!
H has tweeted the below picture from which if you look closely it reveals another couple of songs that are included: after the love has gone and overjoyed. Also it looks asif there's some kind of staircase/set in the background!

THE WRIGHT STUFF

http://www.channel5.com/shows/the-wright-stuff

Watch Faye on this mornings 'The Wright Stuff' where she talks about the bands future.

UPDATES

More Tour Confirmed Songs:

• Say You'll Be Mine
• I Know Him So Well
• One Less Bell To Answer
• Merry Christmas Everybody

The tour is only 5 days away!! 

And Light Up The World is still holding strong on the BBC Radio 2 Playlist!
The album slips down to #73 on the album chart in its second week. 

TOUR NEWS

More news snippets about the tour:

Confirmed songs are heartbeat and I know him so well.

Tour merchandise so far are signed light up the world albums and official steps Christmas goodie bags.

TOUR SETLIST

So far we've had "confirmation" of the following songs:
Words are not enough
Baby don't dance
Better the devil you know
History is made at night.

Faye has also tweeted to say the setlist will be "half old and half new"

DAYBREAK

The band are chatting on daybreak on itv in the morning between 7 and 830.

TOUR REHEARSALS

Today the band start rehearsals for the Christmas tour which kicks off next week. Faye's tweeted this picture of the band:

LUTW CHART'S AT NO.32

A sad day in Steps world as the new album charts at No.32 in the UK charts, after being in the 20's all week it took a tumble at the weekend. Not their best position so we'll have to wait and see what the future holds....

LUTW CHART UPDATE & LOOSE WOMEN PERFORMANCE

The album is currently sitting at Number 28 in the charts.
If you've not already got a copy - make sure you do today!
Check out the It May Be Winter Outside on Loose Women yesterday aswell:

GUILTY PLEASURE

Tragedy! The official Steps fragrance goes on sale and beats Britney, Lady Gaga and Madonna to top of the perfume charts

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2233374/Tragedy-The-official-Steps-fragrance-goes-sale-beats-Britney-Lady-Gaga-Madonna-perfume-charts.html#ixzz2CKHslEct 

LUTW CHART THURSDAY UPDATE

Tuesday's Midweek: Number 24
Wednesday's Update: Number 22
Thursday's Update: Number 21 

Light Up The World single is now A List on Radio 2.

ALBUM RELEASE & MORE

As we all know LUTW is out now so make sure you get your copy - download it from the usual places or get a physical copy from the usual outlets and let's make sure the album does well and means that Steps carry on! The TV ad is on rotation - let us know where you've seen it!

In other news:
Faye will return to her musical theatre career next February with a role in ‘The Tailor Made-Man” at the Arts Theatre. Read the press release below:
"Faye Tozer, best known for being part of the pop group Steps, is to star in a new musical called The Tailor-Made Man at the Arts Theatre.

The musical tells the true story of silent screen star William Haines, who was fired by MGM Studios for being gay.

It will open at the Arts Theatre on February 21, 2013, following previews from February 13. The show, which will star Dylan Turner as William Haines, is set to run until April 6.

The Tailor-Made Man was originally written as a play by Claudio Macor. The book for the musical is by Macor, with musical adaptation by Amy Rosenthal Music is by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Adam Meggido, who has also written the lyrics.

It will be directed by Macor and have choreography by Nathan M Wright. The show has design by Sophia Simensky, lighting by Humphrey McDermott and sound by Tom Marshall.

The Tailor-Made Man is produced in London by Stephen McGill"

Don't panic though Steps fans as Faye's confirmed that it doesn't mean the end of Steps as it's always been planned for them to take a mini break at the start of 2013.

LUTW ALBUM & MORE

Don't forget everyone that the album of the year is out tomorrow - don't forget to pick up your copy. 

Here's an interview the band have done for CraveOnMusic 

And CraveOnMusic's "Guilty Pleasure's"perfurme review

And here's a link to buy the fragrance gift set:
http://www.theperfumeshop.com/pws/ProductDetails.ice?ProductID=4011

THE ONE SHOW & MORE TV'S

Steps will be performing on The One Show next Friday the 16th.

Between 7 and 730 on BBC1.
*UPDATE - the band will be performing 2 songs - LUTW and one other unconfirmed track.
*UPDATE - The band will also appear on Loose Women next Friday the 16th.
*UPDATE - LUTW is now B List on BBC Radio2.

INTERVIEWS, PERFORMANCE, ALBUM SIGNINGS, NEWS BITS

Check out an interview over at Digital Spy
And another at Celeb Britain http://celebritain.com/644285

Album Signings for Light Up The World

"Steps are pleased to announce three guest appearances / meet and greet opportunities at HMV in support of their brand new album ‘Light Up The World’.

Out Monday 12th November, Light Up The World is the fantastic new studio album from Steps – their first in 12 years and is released on their own Steps Recordings label.

The band will appear at the following regional locations to sign copies of their new album and meet fans…

hmv Birmingham, Bullring Tuesday 13th November 2012 at 1.00pm
hmv Stockport, Merseyway, Wednesday 14th November 2012 at 4.00 pm
hmv Cardiff, Queen Street, Thursday 15th November 2012 at 1.00 pm

The album is available to pre-order online now from www.hmv.com – but do not fear – each store will have plenty if you want to turn up on the day and buy it in person."

Steps singing 'It May Be Winter Outside' on QVC earlier today:

And lastly Lee has revealed that he's getting married this coming Saturday!

Make sure you've preorderd your copy/download of the album and please keep spreading the word about the blog!

FIRST LUTW REVIEW

Have a read of the first review of the album here: http://tinyurl.com/cdsbgys

LUTW INTERVIEW

Check out this interview with the band where they reveal all about the upcoming tour and the future of steps. 

QVC

Steps will be chatting and performing 2 tracks on QVC on Wednesday at 3pm

WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT

Here's an article all about the bands world record attempt on Wednesday

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a435400/steps-complete-tragedy-dance-a-thon-attempt-in-sainsburys-video

And another article on dailymail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2226976/Steps-perform-famous-dance-routine-surreal-supermarket-gig.html

THIS MORNING PERFORMANCE

Check out the first tv performance of LUTW

And interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7sJ8ca1ZJE&sns=em

CELEB BRITAIN INTERVIEW

CELEBritain are speaking to pop sensations Steps tomorrow and we want YOUR questions!

Email them to CELEBritain@gmail.com with the subject line: Steps are amazeballs.

THIS MORNING - EXCLUSIVE

Steps will be on This morning tomorrow chatting and performing LUTW. Tune in from 11.30am.

BBC RADIO 2 PLAYLIST

LUTW has been playlisted by BBC Radio 2.

It's only the C List but hopefully it will get the single heard by a wider audience and be the start of some more promo to come! 

WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT

Today steps were holding their attempt at breaking a world record! Heres a snap from the event

TV AD & BEHIND THE SCENES

Advert

Behind The Scenes

PERSONALISED LUTW ALBUM & MORE NEWS SNIPPETS

You can now preorder the LUTW album and personalise it with your own picture and text all for £9.99!
http://www.mixpixie.com/steps/

Check out the back cover of the album

As you can see from the back cover the rest of the album (apart from the single which was produced by Topham & Twigg) is produced by Steve Lipson who has produced tracks for Cher, Will Young (Leave Right Now), Ronan, SClub7, Jordin Sparks and Natalie Imbriglia (Shiver).
Also Lee confirmed that the album's opener History Is Made At Night is indeed the song from the TV show Smash. 
Steps didn't appear on Xtra Factor last night so keep your eyes peeled as they may pop up on tonights show. 
*update* Light Up The World single charted at number 82.

XTRA FACTOR

Rumour has it the band are appearing on tonight's xtra factor on itv2, no word as to what they're doing yet!

LUTW TV AD

Lisa's confirmed that the band filmed a tv ad yesterday for the album

PROMO

An update from H about today's antics!

MID WEEK CHART

Unfortunately it's bad news as Light Up The World isn't currently in the midweek Top 40, and the song is slowly slipping down both the Itunes and amazon charts so it doesn't look likely that it will enter the Top 40 come Sunday. Let's hope the album fares better and you never know the single might pick up once the promo picks up! 

TUESDAY'S CHART UPDATE

As expected LUTW is slowly slipping down the Itunes chart. The gang have been tweeting and promoting the single however H has tweeted saying that they have lots of promo lined up for the album and the single was only ever meant to be a taster for the album.

TWITTER ROUND UP!

So far we've tweeted over a hundred celebs and shows and had retweets from the likes of Lisa Riley and Claire Sweeney! Aswell as some love from Claire & H, join in on the twitter fun by following us @Steptasticblog and also tweeting this to as many people/shows/magazines etc as you can think of


Steps new single - out now! Please RT. 
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/light-up-the-world/id571749751?i=571749755 #lightuptheworld

SINGLE INFO

So today the single has been up to No. 23 on Itunes and is now slowly slipping back down so if you've not downloaded it - do so either at Itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/light-up-the-world/id571749751?i=571749755
OR
Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Up-The-World/dp/B009SUGYKS/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1350935125&sr=8-10

Also please Retweet this and send to as many Celebs/People as possible to try and get them to retweet it and get some viral promo going and raise the awareness of the fact that Steps actually have a single out.
"Steps new single - out now! Please RT. 
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/light-up-the-world/id571749751?i=571749755"
And please bombard radio stations and anyone else you can think of to get them to play the song! So far no promo is planned although Alan Tichmarsh did say the band were on this week but no further news as to what day or if it's still happening! 

DOWNLOAD

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/light-up-the-world-single/id571749751
Get Downloading the single now!

BARGAIN ALBUM PRICE

Sainsbury's have the bands new album available to preorder at a bargain price of 6.99! So if you've not preordered yet - what's stopping you!?
Sainsburys
Don't forget to get downloading the single tomorrow!! 

NEWS ROUNDUP

The single is now out in Ireland and here's the official cover

And a picture from yesterdays perfume launch

• Single is released in the UK Monday (22nd October) and today in ROI.
• Currently just a one track release
• There is currently no news on the physical release
• There are currently no plans for a video, but there may be a montage of clips released to support the release
• Fragrance will be released November 5th
• Songs performed at the fragrance launch - Light Up The World, Tragedy & Deeper Shade Of Blue

GUILTY PLEASURE

Check out the first picture of steps with their fragrance! They're performing LUTW for the first time today aswell! Don't forget the singles out on Monday!
*update* another picture of the fragrance

BEHIND THE SCENES

Check out this behind the scenes footage from the Light Up The World Photoshoot.

WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT

British pop sensation Steps are on a mission to make dance-a-thon history this half term by setting a Guinness World Record title for the largest number of people dancing to 90’s hit Tragedy – 180,000 in fact!

Steps fans and dance floor divas young and old are being urged to hot shoe shuffle down to South East London on Wednesday 31st October to join the band in making world record history.

The attempt, being hosted at Sainsbury’s, Stadium Way, Crayford at 3.30pm, marks the eagerly awaited Blu-Ray and DVD release of STEPS: The Ultimate Tour Live which is available to buy from 29th October.

Their sell-out 22-date 2012 arena tour across the UK saw Steps rounding up 179,850 fans to join in the iconic moves.  And now the band is on the hunt for willing participants to hit the magic number of 180,000. Steps fans and first timers, shoppers and store staff are all being urged to take part.

Claire – who will be joined as usual by H, Lee, Lisa and Faye for the record attempt – says: “Thousands of fans have already danced their socks off to Tragedy in support of our world record attempt, and this dance-a-thon finale is our chance to step into the record books – but we need wiling participants to come out in force!”

World record advisor, Thomasina Gibson, who will be at the event, says; “This is a fantastic and fun opportunity for people of all ages to perform one of the world’s most popular pop classics and share a unique moment in time.

“Although this is a brand new record attempt, Steps have set the bar high as they wanted as many fans as possible to be a part of record breaking history. But I’m confident this final Tragedy show down will have them stepping up to the mark.”

For those participants whose dancing skills are ‘better best forgotten’, Gareth Walker, the Ultimate Tour’s show director and choreographer, will be teaching the infections moves, and STEPS will be dancing to the hit live on stage inside the supermarket.

Sainsbury’s Store Manager, Robert Johnson, says: “We are really excited to be welcoming Steps centre stage at our store for this tragedy-spectacular to mark their tour DVD release. It’s not often we see shoppers dancing down the aisles so this will be something else!”

To take part, people should e-mail stepsrecord@consolidatedpr.com.  Full details will be sent to anyone who registers. The first 50 people who sign up and attend will receive a Steps goodie bag, and one participant on the day will bag a trolley full of their favourite items to the value of £250.  Steps will also be meeting fans and signing copies of their new DVD in store after the record attempt has taken place.

Notice:

All under 16’s will need to be accompanied by an adult (over 18) who will also be required to take part.  You must be over 16 to register. Those who turn up who have not registered will not be permitted to participate in the Guinness World Record attempt.

HIT FACTORY

Hit Factory live has been rescheduled for December 21st tickets go on sale 9am 19th October

LUTW LYRIC VIDEO & REVIEW

Check out the official lyric video to the new single. And also check out what digitalspy.co.uk had to say about the comeback single
Steps: 'Light Up The World' (out November 12)
Following their chart-topping greatest hits last year, Steps will return this Christmas with their first proper album in almost 12 years, called Light Up The World. If the title track is anything to go by, they've not lost their knack for a warm and fuzzy yuletide anthem.
So apart from the release date being wrong not too bad for a first review. 

LUTW Link

Have a listen to LUTW. And remember to buy the single on Oct 22nd and check out the pic of the gang at Radio 2 earlier on.

LUTW TRACKLISTING

Check out the albums tracklisting.

Update:
The singles out Oct 22nd
Perfume is out the first week of Nov!

LIGHT UP THE WORLD & OTHER NEWS

Don't forget to tune into Graham Norton on Radio2 tomorrow at around 12 to catch the band chatting with Graham and playing their first new single in 11 years!!! 
Also Claire has tweeted that there won't be any dancers on the Christmas tour, just the 5 of them! 
Also please spread the word about the blog wherever you can!

THURSDAY'S NEWS

A few bits and bobs from today.

• Check out the trailer for the Ultimate Tour DVD - released on Oct 29th
• LUTW album is currently number 34 on hmv preorders!  
• The gang are going to switching on the Yale Shopping Centre Xmas Lights - more infor at www.yaleshoppingcentre.co.uk

TODAY'S NEWS

More news on the radio premiere - the gang will be live with graham from 12 on Saturday for a chat and to play the new single!
It's also been confirmed that the bands first fragrance will indeed be called "guilty pleasure" and there's a perfume launch on the 18th October to which you can win tickets via the bands official Facebook page!
And more news on the single - 'It's a real winter warmer' we've been told... 

LUTW PROMO

So it seems that the band are kicking off their promo for LUTW tomorrow, rumour has it they've got an interview with Capital Fm tomorrow. H and Claire have also tweeted about the exciting/exhausting promo tour they're about to embark on. 

GUILTY PLEASURE

It's been alleged that Steps first fragrance is entitled "Guilty Pleasure" we're not entirely sure how we feel about the whole idea at the moment.

LUTW TRACKLISTING

More news from the official steps camp that the tracklisitng for the album will be revealed this week...