Women Aloud kick off reunion tour and shock launch ‘The Complete Rattling Present’ megamix
Women Aloud started their reunion tour in Dublin final night time (Might 17) with a setlist full of their biggest hits – take a look at footage and the setlist under.
The present marked the primary time the woman group have carried out collectively for 10 years, in addition to their first reunion because the demise of bandmate Sarah Harding, who handed away in 2021 as a result of breast most cancers.
Introduced again in November, the preliminary run of fifteen dates offered out so quick, the band had been ended up including one other fifteen reveals.
The primary present of their reunion tour featured quite a few tributes to Harding all through, together with throughout ‘The Promise’, the place she appeared on a video display singing her solo. In the meantime, their rendition of The Pretenders’ ‘I’ll Stand By You’ additionally featured audio of Harding’s vocals, with the remaining members of the group – Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh – singing backing vocals.
Take a look at footage of the present and the setlist under:
Cheryl and Nadine 😭💚 @GirlsAloud pic.twitter.com/GsJO2ruaUR
— Karen (@KazzyGA) May 18, 2024
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— HERR (@HERRTHEQUEEN) May 17, 2024
Seen #TheGirlsAloudShow tonight and I actually suppose it is perhaps the perfect live performance I’ve ever been to. The tributes to Sarah had be bawling @GirlsAloud you had been unbelievable pic.twitter.com/CfMVHdCXmh
— Kathy (@KathyWasHere_) May 18, 2024
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— ً (@heIIobritney) May 17, 2024
Pop perfection such a feelgood present @girlsaloud #girlsaloud pic.twitter.com/zhUa6dsgLH
— Alan Mulvey 🌻 (@al70) May 17, 2024
It’s like Women Aloud have NEVER been aside.
Welcome again queens!❤️ @GirlsAloud#TheGirlsAloudShow pic.twitter.com/w2Z4L0r57i— KingSpears (@godkneebitch) May 17, 2024
Setlist:
‘Untouchable’
‘The Present’
‘One thing New’
‘Love Machine’
‘Can’t Converse French’
‘Biology’
‘Complete Lotta Historical past’
‘Wake Me Up’
‘Sound of the Underground’
‘Lady Overboard’
‘No Good Recommendation’
‘Graffiti My Soul’
‘Lengthy Sizzling Summer season’
‘I’ll Stand By You’
‘Horny! No No No…’
‘On The Metro’
‘Bounce’
‘Name The Pictures’
‘One thing Kinda Ooooh’
‘The Promise’
Women Aloud beforehand stated that followers could be “blown away” by the present, which they hoped would “transport” them again to their ’00s heyday.
“We wish individuals to be transported again to the time by means of our music. We wish individuals to sing their hearts out and dance their socks off,” Tweedy instructed The Independent.
“It’s the correct time to have a good time Sarah, the correct time to have a good time the band, and the correct time to have a good time the very fact we will nonetheless do that over 20 years later. That’s an enormous honour.”
“What do I would like individuals to suppose once they see Women Aloud? That we’re pop icons of our period who’ve all the time been enjoyable and free.”
Walsh added that the love proven for Harding after her demise in addition to the entire band helped to reignite them. “It simply felt too uncooked to start with, however time does make an enormous, big distinction. And now appears like the correct second to have a good time Sarah and the 20-year anniversary that we didn’t have a good time on the time.”
“In case you’d requested me a yr in the past about the potential of a Women Aloud tour, I’d most likely have stated it wasn’t very probably,” she continued. “However our energies have all aligned on the similar time, which is one thing you may’t predict. It simply received to some extent the place all of us checked out one another and thought: ‘This feels proper.’
In the meantime, the band surprise-released a megamix referred to as ‘The Complete Rattling Present’ to have a good time the start of the tour. It mashes up 27 Women Aloud hits and fan favourites, combined by The Alias, and can be launched as an especially restricted 12” extremely clear vinyl on August 2 – you may pre-order yours here.
Yow will discover the remainder of the tour dates under and purchase tickets here.
MAY
20 – Belfast SSE Enviornment
21 – Belfast SSE Enviornment
23 – Manchester AO Enviornment
24 – Manchester AO Enviornment
27 – Cardiff Utilita Enviornment
28 – Sheffield Utilita Enviornment
31 – Newcastle Utilita Enviornment
JUNE
1 – Newcastle Utilita Enviornment
2 – Newcastle Utilita Enviornment
4 – Aberdeen P&J Reside
8 – Glasgow OVO Hydro
9 – Glasgow OVO Hydro
10 – Glasgow OVO Hydro
12 – Nottingham Motorpoint Enviornment
13 – Nottingham Motorpoint Enviornment
15 – Leeds First Direct Enviornment
16 – Leeds First Direct Enviornment
18 – Birmingham Resorts World Enviornment
19 – Birmingham Resorts World Enviornment
20 – Birmingham Resorts World Enviornment
22 – London The O2
23 – London The O2
24 – London The O2
25 – London The O2
27 – London The O2
29 – Liverpool M&S Financial institution Enviornment
30 – Liverpool M&S Financial institution Enviornment