Twenty years ago, very few people would have predicted this. Two decades after first emerging into public view with their foot kickin’, finger clickin’, leather slapping, hand clappin’, hip bumpin’, music thumpin’, knee hitchin’ line dancing anthem 5,6,7,8, Steps are still here.

What’s more, Steps - that’s Claire Richards, Lee Latchford-Evans, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian ‘H’ Watkins – are not exactly cutting the image of grizzled pop veterans either.

Occupying the dining room area of the Heights bar in ...