Jo O’Meara would be “up for” an S Club 7 reunion, but she insists the group isn’t actively discussing working together anytime soon.
The Reach group, featuring Jo, Bradley McIntosh, Hannah Spearritt, Jon Lee, Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens and Tina Barrett, previously reunited in 2015 for a UK tour, but she insists there’s nothing happening with the band right now.
Speaking to Bobby Norris and Stephen Leng on FUBAR Radio Jo said she’d be keen to get the group back together again when the “timing’s right”.
“I think I’d be up for it. Yeah. When the time, if the timing’s right,” she mused. “Because obviously getting seven diaries together to sort of like, it’s tough because you know, few of us have got children and people are married and got other careers going on.
“So timing is always a big, massive, it has a big part to play in it. Definitely. But you never know, could be reaching again one day.”
And Jo insisted they don’t have an “S Club WhatsApp group” where they talk about reuniting.
“There’s not an S Club WhatsApp group,” she added. It would be going like, ‘Ping, ping ping’ all the time. But do you know what? There’s no, there’s nothing set in stone.
“There’s been no meetings or anything like that. I mean I’d say, I’d never say never to it. You just, you never know what’s around the corner. But who knows, that’s all I’m saying.”
Jo, who recently released a solo version of the group’s classic hit Don’t Stop Movin’ for its 20th anniversary, is busy working on her second solo album – 16 years after she released her debut effort ‘Relentless’ back in 2005.
The singer has reunited with producer Brian Rawling of Metrophonic Music to work on the project, which had been due for release in 2020. Amid the pandemic, the album was pushed, with a 2021 release date expected for the new music.
When asked what made her return to music now, she said: “It’s now or never, really. Because I’m sort of like, getting older. And also if I hadn’t took the opportunity and done it, I would have been just thinking to myself, ‘Oh, I wonder if I’d given it a go, what might’ve been’. And I just thought, ‘You just got to go for opportunities when they’re handed to you’. So I’ve just gone for it. And I’m so pleased I did because I feel so good at the minute. I’m feeling very positive.
“I mean, obviously I’m so excited because I think to get a record deal, like it’s really quite lucky, really. But I am, I’m very excited, but I am nervous, yeah. Because it’s been 16 years since I put my first solo album out there. It’s a long time.”
According to Jo, the LP will feature a new recording of her first album’s title track Relentless, with label bosses promising a Christmas album is also on the cards.
Her comments come after singer Tina Barrett previously hinted the group was in active discussions about working on new music.
