Steps comeback: Sia gifts band new single ‘What the Future Holds’

Nineties band to return with sixth album later this year

Steps perform in 2001 (Rex Features)

Steps are making an official comeback – with a new single that was gifted to them by Sia.

The band, who are made up of Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian “H” Watkins, are set to release “What the Future Holds” on their new record.

The dance song is the lead single on the band’s forthcoming sixth studio album of the same name, which comes out on 27 November.

Richards told The Sun: “Sia wrote the track for herself but realised it wasn’t really for her and gave it to us.”

She added: “It’s not like it was in the bottom of a drawer somewhere. It was her who said, ‘We should give this to Steps because it would really suit them.’”

Sia performs in 2016 (Rex)

Scott-Lee said the “Chandelier” hitmaker “is a Steps fan” and has Steps on her playlists.

Steps were originally popular in the late Nineties with hits such as “Heartbeat”, “Stomp” and their cover of the Bee Gees’ classic “Tragedy”.

They announced their comeback on Twitter on Monday (7 September), writing: “We couldn't keep it a secret any longer!!”