S Membership 7‘s Jo O’Meara and Rachel Stevens have paid tribute to their late bandmate Paul Cattermole following his surprising dying final week.
The musician, 46, handed away on April 6 at his house in Dorset – weeks after asserting that the group’ could be heading out on a reunion tour in celebration of their twenty fifth anniversary.
Paying tribute to Cattermole, O’Meara posted a photograph of her late bandmate on Instagram with an emotional caption that learn: “I simply wished to achieve out and thank all people from the underside of my coronary heart for the love and kindness you might have proven over the tragic passing of our sweetest soul Paul.”
She continued: “We’ve misplaced somebody so extremely particular to us all, and there’s a large sense of disappointment that may by no means go. Paul will perpetually be an enormous a part of our lives, and I’ll perpetually treasure the recollections we made.”
O’Meara ended the tribute by saying: “I’ll love you at all times Paul, God bless you my darling, relaxation in perpetually peace.”
Fellow S Membership member Stevens additionally took to Instagram to honour, Cattermole. “The out pouring of affection for our Paul has been so extremely particular and has meant a lot,” she posted alongside a photograph of the singer. “I hope he knew how liked he was.”
Stevens continued: “Such a form, mild and delicate soul with probably the most unimaginable power and such a wild free spirit. He would gentle up any room. We’re heartbroken however so grateful for the recollections all of us shared. An absolute shining star who we’ll love and miss at all times
RIP darling Paul.”
The band’s supervisor Simon Fuller was additionally amongst these to pay tribute to Cattermole following his dying final week – remembering Paul as a “beacon of sunshine for a technology of pop music followers and he will likely be significantly missed.”
Cattermole’s administration additionally launched an announcement following his passing, writing that “there aren’t any phrases to explain the deep disappointment and loss all of us really feel”.
“We had been so fortunate to have had him in our lives and are grateful for the wonderful recollections we have now,” he mentioned.
No reason for dying for Cattermole has been revealed as of but.
S Membership 7 had lately introduced that they might be reuniting for a reunion tour forward of their twenty fifth anniversary.
The tour would have seen all seven unique members returning to stage after eight years. In an announcement about their comeback, the band shared: “We’re so excited to carry the S Membership Get together again to our followers throughout the nation to have fun 25 years of S Membership 7.”
S Membership 7 had been created by Fuller, who additionally managed the Spice Women, in 1998. The pop group gained fame as a result of success of their very own BBC tv collection, Miami 7.
The band reunited in 2014 with the unique line-up and launched into a tour for 2015, however disbanded once more shortly after to pursue particular person tasks.