Girl Bands in the 'pop' heyday

I wonder if Jane or any of the other ladies would talk about their time in the band and First Avenue and Epic’s treatment of them.

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I’d love to hear from them! Jane ended up running a children’s talent school but I last time I tried looking for it I failed!
 
Jane also wrote quite a few songs for some other artists, including Flip Reverse by Blazin' Squad!

I'm fairly sure Gary Barlow mentions Lie To Me being planned as the third single from his second album in his book, though it's been a few years since I've read it. He is definitely fond of it though, he's mentioned it as one of his all time favourites, and performed it on his first post- Take That tour!
 

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I sometimes wonder if Bellefire would have been a success if they had just launched a year or two earlier.
I kind of doubt it partly because Louis Walsh and the Boyzone-Westlife changing of the guard but also because they didn’t exactly have a strong identity and girl groups like that are a harder sell than a boyband like that. Even the flop girl groups like Hepburn and Thunderbugs had a band/image (playing instruments!!!) going for them at least. Bellefire were just… pretty and girl groups seemed to have to stand out more even if they were bound to fail.

I say this as someone who likes the first Bellefire album.
 
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I don’t know, I think if they had launched around the same time or just after Westlife, they could have had better momentum from day 1. But they came in when pop’s trajectory was on the down and Atomic Kitten had already filled the space of inoffensive mid-tempos.
 

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This description for Kick Angel is absolutely wild:

Kick Angel were Abi, Anna and Laura - a UK girl group formed in 1999. Signed to Mercury Records and teamed with songwriters/producers Pete Kearney and Steve Robson, the girls debut single, 'I Don't Care', was due for release in February 2000. Their label however decided to halt it's release, leaving a promo video incomplete, as the label were unhappy with the group's styling.

In May, Kick Angel appeared on the Smash Hits Magazine cover-mounted freebie CD, 'Things That Go Pop!', with a new track 'Eyes Shut Under You', which was 'from the forthcoming album'. A couple of weeks later, they released 'Misunderstood' (or 'The Misunderstood' on promo copies) but it only charted at #79. At this point, Mercury decided to call it quits, dropping the girls and leaving their debut album, 'Tales From The Tent', shelved. It was originally scheduled for an August 2000 release and set to include tracks called 'Goodnight Judas', 'Medicine Girl', 'Pussy Galore', 'I Need You', 'So Tired', 'He Loves Me Not', 'Sometimes You Know' and 'Dream Hangover'.
 


This description for Kick Angel is absolutely wild:

Kick Angel were Abi, Anna and Laura - a UK girl group formed in 1999. Signed to Mercury Records and teamed with songwriters/producers Pete Kearney and Steve Robson, the girls debut single, 'I Don't Care', was due for release in February 2000. Their label however decided to halt it's release, leaving a promo video incomplete, as the label were unhappy with the group's styling.

In May, Kick Angel appeared on the Smash Hits Magazine cover-mounted freebie CD, 'Things That Go Pop!', with a new track 'Eyes Shut Under You', which was 'from the forthcoming album'. A couple of weeks later, they released 'Misunderstood' (or 'The Misunderstood' on promo copies) but it only charted at #79. At this point, Mercury decided to call it quits, dropping the girls and leaving their debut album, 'Tales From The Tent', shelved. It was originally scheduled for an August 2000 release and set to include tracks called 'Goodnight Judas', 'Medicine Girl', 'Pussy Galore', 'I Need You', 'So Tired', 'He Loves Me Not', 'Sometimes You Know' and 'Dream Hangover'.

I Don't Care would also have flopped, but I think it and Misunderstood are both cute little tracks.
 
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This description for Kick Angel is absolutely wild:

Kick Angel were Abi, Anna and Laura - a UK girl group formed in 1999. Signed to Mercury Records and teamed with songwriters/producers Pete Kearney and Steve Robson, the girls debut single, 'I Don't Care', was due for release in February 2000. Their label however decided to halt it's release, leaving a promo video incomplete, as the label were unhappy with the group's styling.

In May, Kick Angel appeared on the Smash Hits Magazine cover-mounted freebie CD, 'Things That Go Pop!', with a new track 'Eyes Shut Under You', which was 'from the forthcoming album'. A couple of weeks later, they released 'Misunderstood' (or 'The Misunderstood' on promo copies) but it only charted at #79. At this point, Mercury decided to call it quits, dropping the girls and leaving their debut album, 'Tales From The Tent', shelved. It was originally scheduled for an August 2000 release and set to include tracks called 'Goodnight Judas', 'Medicine Girl', 'Pussy Galore', 'I Need You', 'So Tired', 'He Loves Me Not', 'Sometimes You Know' and 'Dream Hangover'.

What the fuck, the name of the group vaguely rang a bell but I had no actual recollection of them until I read “The Misunderstood” in that blurb. As soon as I saw it, the chorus came straight into my head. Sort of bops.
 

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