It must take something to shake up Sugar Matty O from his self imposed dooyoo slumber but the Christmas sledgehammer that was Steps subtracting from one another was just that bombshell to make my turkey taste that little bit sour. Cynical, me? Less a bombshell then, maybe more of a ripple across pop waters, although to be fair to the shiniest, most anti-controversy set-up in teenybopper history, Steps’ split must have been of such magnitude to make the Boxing Day news headlines. Huw Edwards delivered the breaking story with tears in his eyes himself, unable to comprehend the full extent and implications of such a catastrophe. With there already being ...  Read the complete review

This is a review on the new album Buzz!! It has been years since Steps burst onto the pop scene and it is now hard to believe that they are on their third long player, sold 2.8 mil albums, 3.3 mil singles, 500K in videos and performed to over 1 million people here in the UK alone, not bad for those that dubbed them one hit wonders. Buzz sees the guys moving away from the bubble gum pop camp of Pete Waterman, and heading to the States to work with big names such as Cyndi Lauper and Lulu and all the guys have a bash at writing a song each and damn fine they are. Like all artists Steps want to be taken seriously and take a great stab at it with ...  Read the complete review

When are Steps going to stop plagueing our ears with this bubble gum music rubbish, and disappear for ever. All their songs sound the same and they're all as bad as each other. Joke: 'What got 500 legs and no pubic hair?' Answer: 'The front of a Steps concert'. Its pathetic. Steps are basically catering for 8 year old girls and gay men. I just wish they'd shut up. And now, not only have we got Steps, but we have S-Club 7, Hear'say and a whole host of other manurfactured music. When are we going to stop producing this s***? The music charts have been satrurated with total s*** over the past ...  Read the complete review

Steps [Background: Following on from the scrutiny of Black Lace in Dooyoo's music justice system (see earlier opinion: 'In The Dock'), it is now the turn of the ever-popular Steps to take their turn before the Dooyoo jury.] "Court is in session once again, all rise in the presence of his honour Blackjane who will presiding over the case of Musical Taste & Decency vs. Steps." "The charges brought before this court are twofold: Firstly, that Steps have committed a serious crime against music by being manufactured to the extreme, and secondly that they have corrupted the nation's youth by failing to perform ...  Read the complete review

I saw Steps live last night at Belfast's Odyssey Arena, the first concert to be performed in the new space. It's the second time I've seen them live and in my opinion it was better than the first, which was also excellent. And before you think I'm ten, I'm 19 and thoroughly enjoyed it. There were loads of groups of adults and older teenagers there who seemed to enjoy it as much as I did! SUPPORT ACTS There were three support acts before Steps actually came on and none of them were very high quality. The first were a girl duo called Masai who kept making the audience shout their name - funny because the audience blatantly were not ...  Read the complete review