Jo: ‘I took a year off to have a normal life’

Now S Club 7 are no more, Jo O’Meara can look back on the “crazy five years” and laugh. After a year off to chill out, Jo is currently gearing up to release her debut album, Relentless, in the next couple of months.

Looking back on the S Club years she says: “Now I really appreciate what I’ve done but it was like living 20 years in five. When it ended I didn’t do a lot of anything, it was great to just go round to my mum’s and have Sunday dinner. We are all still friends – I was out with Bradley and Tina the other night and I saw Hannah and Paul not long ago,” she says.

Jo has just finished a tour to promote her first solo single What Hurts The Most (released in September). When I caught up with her she was deep in discussions about her new video, which she is shooting today.

“I don’t really want to give anything away but it’s a boy girl thing, and I get quite moody in it,” she laughs.

She describes her new music as “mature, guitar-based, relaxed” and enjoys being in the studio, but it’s live events such as pop2thepark that she loves. She will be playing her new material, as well as a few S Club hits.

“It’s what it’s all about,” she says. “I’m really looking forward to playing there, it’s a thank you.”

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Posted: August 4th, 2005