I’ve only ever known two fans of the band Steps.One was Mark. He was smashing, very gay and knew every single dance. In a tatty living room in Colchester I saw him do them all. A vegetarian who hated vegetables, he survived instead on fake bacon and oven chips.
I wonder what became of him. His lifelong dream was to get together with Stephen Gately; I hope he’s over that now.
The other owns all their records and has been known to belt out A Deeper Shade Of Blue in the car, when it works.
I married that one.
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I've never heard of Steps before, now I have to know what they are like.
"A vegetarian who hated vegetables, he survived instead on fake bacon and oven chips." ~ Is hands down the funniest thing I have read today. Thanks for that!
Oh, I loved Steps. I could do all their dances except After The Love Has Gone. That one was too hard. Reminds me of my clubbing days.
I have no idea who the Steps are. I guess I'm lame. I better check them out.
I like fake bacon! Not as much as real bacon however. Sorry piggies. And I fully believe chips are a luxury item in that you shouldn't really have them often, so going by that rule, why not just have KICKASS chip-shop chips? No point having substandard oven, dried up nasty things.
I still think that "tatty living room in Colchester" sounds like a Smiths lyric. :)
Best entry ever.
Oh, the sweet innocent days of Steps.
I think VA is on point about "tatty living room in Colchester" sounding like a Smiths lyric. I can hear Morrissey singing it in my head...
Again.. more things that are cooler about UKers than Canadians. Steps. Must Google.
Even on the worst alien insect cack swamp of an asteroid, you'd struggle to find anything as vile as this.
Claire, Claire, Claire, oh my Lord, Claire.
*Faints quietly and subsequently drowns in own drool*
Yep. Never heard of them. But choreographed dance moves...not my thing. Unless it involves the sprinkler. Then it's on.
I imagine that life is pretty tiresome if you are a veggy-hating veggy. And I would hate to be a vegetable who is eaten by a vegetarian that doesn't even enjoy me. Oh the banality of vegetarianism.
Weren't they named after the 12 step programme for rehabilitation? It would fit with the gritty social realism their music embodied.
These are awesome!
Thanks all! I'm afraid feedback on comments kept to a minimum this week because of the RSI. Don't take it personally.
I was really worried people would desert the blog if I only did small posts so I'm glad I was wrong.
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