Glitter & Gold: The Original Steps Podcast Glitter & Gold

To celebrate 21 years of ‘Lately’, we are thrilled to have Pete Day & Paul ‘Bronze’ Newton from Point4 on the podcast to tell the complete untold story of the making of ‘Unleashed’, the original debut album from Lisa Scott-Lee that was recorded with Mercury records. The guys tell us EVERYTHING from writing and recording the singles ‘Lately’ & ‘Too Far Gone’, the cancelled 3rd single ‘I’ll Wait For You’ and a number of other tracks, some of which have never been spoken about or heard before.
After 21 years we finally get answers to questions so many of us have wanted and the boys had some of the most incredible “OMG moment” stories to tell of a time they have nothing but fond memories of.
In there words “We have never spoken about this before because, simply… no one has asked us”.
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Their is SO much love for the b-sides from the original 1997-2001 run, so we thought it was about time we gave you our "Words of Wisdom" by taking a deep dive into them. Rather than talk through them in order of release, we asked you over on Instagram to vote for your favourite tracks so we could countdown based on your rankings and you came through with the votes (over 1200 to be precise).
Do you agree with the results? Lets us know over on our socials.
NOTE: Since the recording of this episode it has been confirmed the proposed statue of H in his home town of Cowbridge is false, and was part of a fake news prank for Joe Lycett's TV show 'Late Night Lycett'.
B-Side Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4j5bxNkXxKQfZiSahMQS95?si=bce2d8ef021643cd
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Joining us on the podcast this month is legendary remixer Gareth Shortland. Having first had the opportunity to remix tracks for Claires solo album 'My Wildest Dreams' in 2019, Gareth has since been an instrumental part of all the Steps and Claire campaigns and become the go to person for mixes for other pop legends including Will Young, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sarah Harding and Four of Diamonds (just to name a few).
We chat to Gareth in-depth about how the relationship with Fascination Management and Steps began, the process of how a remix comes to life and the joy of hearing those vocal stems. He also shares an incredible story about the time he had the opportunity to do some songwriting with the ONE and ONLY Mark Topham and play the piano that some of THE biggest Steps hits were written on. Plus, we expose which UK boyband Gareth was briefly a member of.
You can follow Gareth Shortland on Instagram @garethshortlandmusic and find all his remixes via his artist page on Spotify.

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The party (on the dancefloor) continues this month with Part 2 of our birthday celebrations as we listen to more of your FABULOUS voice notes and questions. You all came through with the messages and we cannot thank each and everyone of you enough for the love and support.
Along with our usual news round up, we also have a special recap from friend of the pod Frankie @justfrankstar who attended the musical launch at The Alexandra Theatre earlier in the month and was first in line to meet Steps and secure his tickets. He gives us a Steptacular run down of the whole morning including his dedication of lining up from 3am (we would do the same...)

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We are BACK for 2024 and kicking things off with our 1st birthday celebrations. We put a call out for you all to send in voice notes and messages to read out and you delivered in a BIG way, with one particular voice note taking us all by surprise......
While we took a break over the Christmas and New Year so much has happened in the Steps world, from the forthcoming vinyl reissues AND the BIG news of 'Here & Now: The Steps Musical' you can bet we discuss it all with a huge news round up.
A MASSIVE thank you to all our loyal listeners for the support over the past year, we are just getting started.
Look out for Part 2 coming in a fortnights time.

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Things are getting festive on the podcast this month as we bring you the final episode for 2023, talking all things Christmas. We are covering everything from the 2000 Christmas tour (release that footage H), the one off tracks AND most importantly, we deep dive into the 'Light Up The World' album and tour.
PLUS we have a very special message from 'H' (ie. Benny) from the cast of the forthcoming Steps tribute show '5,6,7,8 - The Steps Experience', to tell us all about the show and where you can see the tour coming to a venue near you in 2024 across the UK.

Purchase tickets to '5,6,7,8 - The Steps Experience': https://5678.showplanr.com/tickets
'Steps Into Christmas' tour audio: https://youtu.be/6cBtL_hG57U?si=xLi5xwpyam8IGkae
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