TINA BARRETT'S RETURN TO POP

It’s been eight years since the TV pop phenomenon S Club 7 said goodbye. Since then, both Rachel and Jo had varying degrees of success with their solo careers, Jon became a West End star, Hannah's on the telly and Bradley & Paul... well, they’re probably fine. But whatever happened to the English/Guyanese brunette vision that was Tina Barrett? Well, she’s back. And she came to the Holy Moly office to tell her story...

HM: So, Tina. Where the hell have you been?
Tina: “Well, S Club was such a rollercoaster ride, an amazing five years of being thrust into the public eye. So when we split up I just wanted to have a bit of a break and do all the things I never got to do. Just being normal, really. I enjoyed that.

“But I’ve been doing a lot of songwriting and working with producers. I’ve been songwriting since I was eight years old. But after watching people like Cathy Denis, when I was in S Club, I picked up some things...
“I started working on the material that’s ready to release, three years ago. My stuff is completely different from S Club. People might be a little bit shocked when they hear it. I’ve been working with William Orbit and he’s a genius. It was a random thing; he knows a friend of mine and we got chatting at a party. And from there we made some tunes. He barely knew who S Club was.

“And I’m working with uber-cool artist Stuart Semple. He’s art directing all my videos and photoshoots. I like taking risks. I’m not saying I’m gonna copy Lady Gaga, because she’s in a league of her own. But I’ve got a little artistic edge to me that people haven’t seen.”