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| Birth Name(s) : Kerry Katona, Natasha Hamilton, Liz McClarnon |
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Atomic Kitten began as a project under the eye of Andy McCluskey, one of the members of a highly popular group called Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD). From as far back as 1998, McCluskey worked to establish a new all-female music group. The first name for the group was 'Honeyhead'. This soon changed to 'Automatic Kittens' taken from the name of the designer label owned by the group's clothing designer, Mary Lamb.
Automatic Kittens started off with Liz McClarnon and Kerry Katona. Heidi Range was another early member in pre-Atomic Kitten days. Liz McClarnon and Kerry Katona had themselves formed a partnership in Liverpool, England back in 1998. Liz or 'Lil' had initial plans to become a lawyer but on taking up singing at age 16 her plans took on a new road. She met Kerry and together they became best friends. It wasn't too long before the name 'Automatic Kittens' was changed to the simpler 'Atomic Kitten' in March 1999. Heidi Range departed the group well before they had taken on the charts and was replaced by Natasha Hamilton or 'Tash' in mid-1999.
The name 'Atomic Kitten' was a creative variation of Kerry's over the name of their once clothing designer's own label name. Mary Lamb, that clothing designer used the name 'Automatic Kitten' to describe her range of clothes and although taken up by the Kittens as their original stage name it was felt that the shorter 'Atomic Kitten' was easier to say and remember. |
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Right Now was a modest success upon its release. Initially, there were no plans to focus on the global market and Atomic Kitten's record label, Innocent Records, was even considering dropping them because of their limited success, however they persuaded to record one more single. This one single changed the career of Atomic Kitten because they scored their first No. 1 hit in the UK in 2001 with "Whole Again". The song and video for "Whole Again" originally featured Kerry Katona, however, she left the group several days prior to the number-one position because of her pregnancy. The single was remade when Jenny Frost was added to the line-up as Kerry's replacement. The success was such that it was decided to remaster and rerelease the album, which then went to number one on its second appearance on the chart.
The next single "Eternal Flame", a cover version of the 1989 hit by The Bangles, also became a No. 1 hit.
The first single off the album was "It's Ok!". Even though this song performed well in the charts, securing a No. 3 position, it was the next single "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)", a remake of the 1965 song by The Paragons, also made famous by Blondie in 1980), which attained Atomic Kitten their third number-one single.
In April 2002, Natasha announced that she was pregnant, but had no intention of leaving the group, and wanted the scheduled 2002 tour to continue. Natasha filmed the music video for "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)", and made an appearance at Party in the Park before finally going on pregnancy leave.
During January and February of 2003, Atomic Kitten toured around Southeast Asia, visiting Singapore, Thailand and Korea.Natasha, who had given birth to her son, Josh, on August 24, 2002, decided to take her newborn baby with her on the tour as well.
Before recording their third album, Kool and the Gang approached the group about a collaboration for their Odyssey album. Kool and the Gang wanted an updated version of Ladies Night and were looking for a girl group to sing the lyrics. Atomic Kitten liked the idea and inquired whether they could use it for their next album which was subsequently named Ladies Night in honour of this collaboration.
Atomic Kitten spent the late part of 2002 and early 2003 in the studio recording their third and final studio album. Up until the recording of Ladies Night, the group mainly relied on songwriters and sometimes co-wrote songs featured on their albums. While recording Ladies Night, they decided to be directly involved in the creation of eight of the fifteen songs. Ladies Night was released on November 10, 2003.
In early 2004, a tour to support Ladies Night and the upcoming release of their Greatest Hits album was planned. The tour was dubbed "The Greatest Hits Tour". Shortly before the tour kicked off, the girls announced they would be splitting after the completion of the tour.
On January 23, 2004, Natasha Hamilton decided to devote more time to her young son and wanted to take a hiatus from the group. Atomic Kitten released the single "Someone Like Me/Right Now 2004" as a "goodbye" to their fans, but were reunited on Valentine's Day to release the charity single "Cradle 2005", a new version of the original on their album Right Now. "Crade 2005" peaked at No. 10, with proceeds going to World Vision.
In 2006, Atomic Kitten recorded a one-off single, "All Together Now (Strong Together)", in association with Goleo VI, the official mascot of the FIFA World Cup 2006. The track is taken from The Official FIFA World Cup Albumm and was released for digital download and in CD form in on June 6, 2006, in Germany, where the World Cup was held ten days later. The single was listed by the HMV website for release in the UK many weeks prior to the competition, the single was taken off from schedule and deleted from the catalogue, due to the amount of competing football records that were being released at that time. The proceeds of the single went to SOS Children's Villages.
On December 4, 2006, the girls reunited once again for a one-off performance of "Whole Again" and two other songs at a benefit concert for the Michael Shields appeal at the Liverpool Empire Theatre.
On December 31, 2006, Atomic Kitten performed at the Ocean Terminal in Hong Kong at Nokia's New Year's Eve celebration. The appearance marked their second international appearance since splitting in 2004.
In 2008, Atomic Kitten will reunite releasing Cilla Black's classic single "Anyone Who Had a Heart". The single is scheduled for release on January 21, 2008.
It's unknown whether the reunion will be permanent or just a one-off appearance as none of the group have talked about the reunion..
Note : Anyone Who Had a Heart will be released on January 21, 2008, in aid of Liverpool Number One Project. |
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