Ladies Aloud have vowed that the spirit of Sarah Harding will very a lot be felt on their upcoming reunion tour.
On Wednesday night, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts, Cheryl Tweedy and Kimberley Walsh introduced plans to hit the street in 2024 for a brand new tour dubbed The Ladies Aloud Present.
The 4 stars have additionally insisted their late bandmate will nonetheless be a part of the celebrations, with Nadine claiming that Sarah’s vocals will “stay the identical” on their signature hits.
Sarah famously had stand-out strains on tracks like One thing New, Complete Lotta Historical past and the chart-topping The Promise, in addition to delivering the opening solo on the very first Ladies Aloud single Sound Of The Underground.
“Her vocal elements are large elements like ′strolling primrose’ – she is the precise strolling primrose,” Nadine informed the Coronary heart breakfast present. “And ′take a stroll on the wild aspect’, she’s acquired some iconic Sarah’s bits.”
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“They are going to be Sarah’s bits,” Nadine added. “Why would we [change them]? They’re her bits.”
Through the interview, the group additionally spoke about Sarah’s absence, with Cheryl admitting: “We’ve performed just a few issues now within the lead as much as this, and it’s all felt weird.
“Even this morning, getting dressed. Sarah was all the time the one who can be 10 or quarter-hour late anyway, we’d all be ready, and all of us nonetheless really feel like we’re ready for another person. The entire thing may be very unusual to be sincere.”
Nicola agreed: “I got here down this morning into the foyer they usually have been ready for me and I nonetheless instinctively was like ‘somebody nonetheless isn’t right here but’. It took me a second to examine myself and be like, ‘that’s why it seems like that’. And it does nonetheless really feel like that on a regular basis.
“You by no means fairly knew what you have been going to get with Sarah. It was all the time excessive intense power, ‘oh my god, we’re going prime be late!’, ’the place’s the automobile?’, ’the place’s my lip gloss?’, ‘the place’s my eyelash roller?’.”
Kimberley added: “We all the time speak about how a lot she liked Ladies Aloud. She liked it. It was simply the most effective time ever for her, we spoke a lot about it the few months earlier than she handed away and the way a lot she liked it.
“She made us watch previous movies, the issues we’d performed collectively, she all the time stated we had a tremendous time collectively. She would love that we have been doing this.”
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Cheryl beforehand revealed that plans for a Ladies Aloud reunion tour have been years within the making, however they have been placed on maintain when Sarah first grew to become sick.
“She handed away a yr earlier than the anniversary and it simply didn’t really feel proper, it felt too quickly,” she informed British Vogue. “However now, I feel there may be an power that does makes it really feel proper.”
“The tour has acquired to be inclusive of Sarah as a result of she’s such a large a part of our make-up,” she added. “It’s going to by no means really feel just like the previous Ladies Aloud once more however we’ve reached a degree the place we really feel able to have fun all of it. Sarah included.”
Nonetheless, the band have insisted they don’t have any plans to report any new music as a part of their reunion, as an alternative selecting to give attention to their “wealthy again catalogue and all of the ground-breaking success they’ve achieved as a band.”
As Cheryl put it: “We couldn’t [record new songs], as a result of Sarah wouldn’t be included in that newness. That is about celebrating the 20 years we’ve all had.”
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