Five Reunion

Pingu said:
SURELY if whatever zombie iteration of S Club was doing the rounds last year could do it...
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Perhaps I'm underestimating the appeal, but I feel like Five have left a particularly thin musical legacy compared to S Club, Steps etc. Tricky to say with Boybands though.

But yeah, if it does go ahead, I give it until the Nottingham date before one of ABZ or J has ignominiously departed.
 
I think they will manage to catch the nostalgia train with ease. All the teenage girls of the time will now be mid thirties/early forties so I would have thought they will be jumping on this like a tramp on chips. They have around one million less monthly listeners than S Club on Spotify though and I believe S Club struggled with their last tour? It was only 5 members though and I think it was their second time getting back together since the original split…
 
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Sugababes are doing the FD arena in April and they've already reduced it down to first level seating only.

I wonder if the artists lose money when that happens?
 
As much as I loved a few of their hits back in the day, they are not an act I ever need to see outside of a Mighty Hoopla type event. The dates seem ambitious but good for them if they fill them.
 
Oh this will sell just fine

Underestimate feral women in their 30s/40s at your peril
 
Rita said:
Do Blue sell out arena tours?
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Nah but this is the first time Five fans have been able to see them properly (and with the two best members (AT THE TIME)) in two decades, Blue have been knocking around for ages.
 
dUb said:
Nah but this is the first time Five fans have been able to see them properly (and with the two best members (AT THE TIME)) in two decades, Blue have been knocking around for ages.
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I am pretty sure Blue have an arena tour coming up or just past at some point last year and I don’t think that was their first?
 
Just looking on wiki and they done a Greatest Hits tour last year, and another one in 22/23. As you say they have been kicking around for years so I would think Five will sell alright.
 
Rita said:
I think they will manage to catch the nostalgia train with ease. All the teenage girls of the time will now be mid thirties/early forties so I would have thought they will be jumping on this like a tramp on chips. They have around one million less monthly listeners than S Club on Spotify though and I believe S Club struggled with their last tour? It was only 5 members though and I think it was their second time getting back together since the original split…
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I think S Club and now 5ive may well have hindered their chances at coming back with a real bang because they have both limped on in reduced lineups, performing at small festivals and the like where they have been some way down the bill rather than headlining. And that's before considering that I don't think they have a musical legacy in the way that an act like Steps do (and personally I think S Club's musical legacy is probably greater than rivers, but I realise that's just my opinion).

So although I think there will be some appetite for them, arena dates to me feel a bit ambitious, particularly after reading what VoR states about the Sugababes, who I'd also say have a better catalogue of hits, and are coming off the back of very well received live dates already.
 
Rita said:
Do Blue sell out arena tours?
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I saw them in the O2 a couple of years ago (I can't remember exactly how I ended up there mind) and it was fairly full and I'm not sure it even had the novelty of being a major reunion. They'll be fine.
 
Even JLS were filling The O2 last year, and their fans would probably only be mid to late 20s, without any new music or major period of hiatus.
 
Yeah a lot seems to have changed in the past ten to fifteen years, where concerts now at least feel much more ‘worth it’ for the general public than they were…or people have moved money they used to buy music with to seeing it live or something. It didn’t feel like things sold out anywhere near as much back then than they do now.

Based on nothing, of course, it just feels like nearly everything now has a live market.
 
I think it's valid that there is SOME market for this

Five won't hold much interest from your dedicated music fans or Gay Twitter, but I suspect they're a much bigger draw than Steps or S Club with the middle aged Facebook Hun brigade (many of which will now have money)
 
I suppose another thing they have is the novelty of it being all five of them again, which is probably good for a few headlines and higher-profile TV spots. Once you've shot that load, I imagine it's a case of diminishing returns, unless you absolutely nail the comeback into a full second era the way Steps managed.
 
dUb said:
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That is a pretty speedy trip round the country. Just over two weeks and they are done.

This coming fairly swiftly off the back of the boyband documentary should help them sell seats. It isn't on the Gallagher level but there's also the frisson of excitement from the risk it may all go horribly wrong between them onstage too.
 
lolly said:
I think S Club and now 5ive may well have hindered their chances at coming back with a real bang because they have both limped on in reduced lineups, performing at small festivals and the like where they have been some way down the bill rather than headlining. And that's before considering that I don't think they have a musical legacy in the way that an act like Steps do (and personally I think S Club's musical legacy is probably greater than rivers, but I realise that's just my opinion).

So although I think there will be some appetite for them, arena dates to me feel a bit ambitious, particularly after reading what VoR states about the Sugababes, who I'd also say have a better catalogue of hits, and are coming off the back of very well received live dates already.
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I honestly think with the whole shebang five they will be good. I wouldn’t put my neck on the line for it but I am quite confident they will manage.
 
Surely they don't look THAT bad considering they're all comfortably close to being 50yo? Except Sean, I just found out he's 43.
 
Five must have had such a big difference in fan base to the likes of Steps and S Club. I think my Blue comparison must be close to that fanbase but later. Five have 2 million less monthly Spotify listeners than Blue though which I find CRAZY.
 
Pipo said:
J is 48, he looks FINE for someone who must have gotten a regular job all these years staying out of the spotlight and didn't go crazy with procedures and fillers.
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Oh come on he never got a normal job. He possibly invested well though.
 
Rita said:
Five must have had such a big difference in fan base to the likes of Steps and S Club. I think my Blue comparison must be close to that fanbase but later. Five have 2 million less monthly Spotify listeners than Blue though which I find CRAZY.
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Monthly listeners though is any one person who has listened to one song (many by playlist) in the past month. So any act that had more ‘general public’ hits - or even any - will have much higher. Acts with a fan base have much more an even distribution between the songs streamed.

Steps will never compete with S Club/Blue on monthly listeners as an example, but have a far more rabid fan base that will allow them to get #1 albums and tour more extensively (Blue have like five times as much as Steps but were their support act on tour a tour or two ago). Same with Sugababes having triple Girls Aloud but I imagine GA would likely grab a higher album in equal release circumstances.
 
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