Gold Tour (Steps)
| Tour by Steps | |
| Associated album | Gold: Greatest Hits |
|---|---|
| Start date | 21 November 2001 |
| End date | 22 December 2001 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 34 in Total |
| Steps concert chronology | |
Gold was Steps' fifth arena tour. Despite this being the final tour before a 10-year split, there were no dates outside the UK. A few hours before the final show in Manchester, band members H and Claire Richards announced their resignation from the band to the rest of the members. In the 'Steps Reunion' TV show in September 2011, the band members revealed that it was the most uncomfortable concert that they had ever performed.
The final show in Manchester was recorded for a TV broadcast and a DVD/VHS later entitled "The End Of The Road" that was released 25 November 2002, almost a year after the split of the group. Throughout the concert members of the group were seen crying; it was later revealed in 2012 that shortly before the concert began, band members H and Richards had informed the band they would be leaving the group. The tour was promoted through the slipsides of single's "Here and Now/You'll Be Sorry" and "Chain Reaction", which showed the dates and where tickets could be purchased.
The concert opens when an orchestral piece playing with the backdrop showing each member of the group in a cartoon character before their first performance of "One For Sorrow", the curtains draw to reveal the group wearing pink and red outfits as the opening of the song is playing then is mixed into the Sleazesisters mix. Each song that is performed features the music video on the backdrop to tribute the success of that single. The group then perform "Deeper Shade Of Blue" straight after and then take a moment to address the audience before performing "Love's Got a Hold On My Heart", right at the end of the performance of the song the group then go into a white door way that closes them off into backstage. "5,6,7,8" is performed by 5 male dancers with huge masks on resembling each member of the group.
H's Solo "Believe" a cover of Cher's hit single is performed, it starts with the opening of the song as H is suspended on a piece of equipment that allows him to "fly" over the audience members, when he reaches the stage he performs the song while using auto-tune and dancing this large neon canes with male dancers. Shortly after the three girl members of the group walk on stage in green and blue costumes addressing the audience about their next song they are going to perform "After The Love Has Gone" the stage is by now decorated with oriental lanterns. Next they perform "Heartbeat" in the style of Simon Hill's remix and then perform "Here and Now" before the group goes backstage to leave Lee to address the audience and to introduce Faye for her solo number "If You Believe" which is remixed and performed in a street style with a piece of apparatus in the middle of the stage which is used for the dancers.
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