Girls Aloud
When: 8th June 2024, 9th June 2024 and 10th June 2024
Location: OVO Hydro
Girls Aloud have announced their return. Coming to Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on 8th, 9th and 10th June 2024.
They’re back! After a decade away, the biggest-selling girl group of the 21st century have announced their reunion with the Girls Aloud Show, a 15-date arena tour through the UK and Ireland. It will be a magical celebration of their career and the memory of their late bandmate Sarah Harding, who tragically passed away in 2021.
Girls Aloud – comprising Sarah Harding, Cheryl, Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts and Nadine Coyle — formed in 2002, on the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals. The endearingly real, still-teenaged group members became instant national sweethearts, and with stunning voices to boot. In the wake of the programme, they released their debut single ‘Sound of the Underground’, an electro-surf scorcher that became the UK Christmas No.1 and spent four weeks there. The track would later place on several lists of the best songs of the 2000s. It also marked Girls Aloud’s first collaboration with the writing and production team Xenomania, which would go on to define their career.
2003
In 2003, the group released their debut album, also titled Sound of the Underground. The album received critical acclaim, and further singles ‘No Good Advice’, ‘Life Got Cold’ and ‘Jump’ became charting hits. The following year, they released their second album, What Will The Neighbours Say? Their first to be entirely penned by Xenomania, the album toyed with fresh and varying sounds, from electropop to rockabilly, and was hailed by RTÉ as a “near-perfect pop album”. Lead single ‘Love Machine’ is one of the group’s best-loved songs to this day – being named by Billboard as one of the 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs Of All Time. In 2005, the group were nominated for a BRIT Award for Best Pop Act, and embarked on their first tour.
In December 2005 came Girls Aloud’s third album, Chemistry, to glowing critical acclaim, which BBC Music writing that the album “resuscitated pop’s corpse”. It pushed their sound into even more progressive new realms, particularly on single ‘Biology’, which the Guardian proclaimed “the best pop single of the last decade”. March 2006 saw their first arena tour, Chemistry: The Tour. In October, they released The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits, with lead single ‘Something Kinda Ooooh’ becoming another iconic hit. In 2007, they hit No.1 again with Comic Relief single ‘Walk This Way’, a collaboration with Sugababes.
2007
The group released their fourth album, Tangled Up, in November 2007. It continued the trend of critical acclaim and chart success, with singles ‘Sexy! No No No…’, ‘Call the Shots’ and ‘Can’t Speak French’ becoming Top-10 hits. They received a second BRIT Award nomination for Best Group in 2008. October 2008 saw Girls Aloud release their final studio album, Out of Control, which became their first to debut at No.1, and remains their best-selling studio album. Lead single ‘The Promise’, a Phil Spector-indebted soul track, debuted at #1 on the singles chart and won Girls Aloud’s first BRIT Award for Best British Single.
Girls Aloud announced a hiatus in 2009. In 2012, they reunited for their 10th anniversary, and released Children In Need charity single ‘Something New’. The same year, they released their second greatest hits album, Ten, and in 2013 came their last tour to date, Ten: The Hits Tour. They announced their split in March 2013 after their final concert in Liverpool.
In 2024, Cheryl, Walsh, Roberts and Coyle announced their reunion tour, dedicated to the late Harding, which will include two nights at London’s O2 Arena.
