Don't Let Go!

Here's a great recording of the En Vogue song Don't Let Go from the same Change tour in Preston, Lancs. Says it all really..

Change tour - fluffy?

Here's a YouTube video of last year's Change tour performing in London at the Royal Albert Hall. Despite a rather fluffy opening it looks as though it was a lot of fun. And great songs!

A Classic Band

Here's some controversial propositions about the Sugababes:

• the same band performed Overload as recorded Catfights and Spotlights;
• this band has produced a sound unlike anything else in the 21st century or the previous century. It may consist of three young women but that doesn't mean it's a typical "girl band";
• this music is by far better and more interesting than anything else produced this century (I said controversial!);
• the band has always been more than just three young women and has attracted song-writing and production talent throughout its career;
• the five women who have sung for it have each contributed remarkable individual voices - from Keisha's soul/gospel sound to Siobhan's Celtic lilt.

Here's an uncontroversial proposition: the Sugababes have proved more durable and long-lasting than any other female band in the last 50 years.

This means it's time for an end to gossipy talk of splits and come-backs. This band deserves respect just like you'd give to a classic band like the Rolling Stones or U2. One Touch and Angels are classic albums - this is a band from whom you always want to hear more. It's time they were given the space to go off and produce some more classic albums...

Siobhán - Don't Give It Up

Mutya - Real Girl

Freak and Red Dress Live!

Red Dress

Song of the Year 2000

Song of the Year: 2000 - Sugababes - Overload

Sunday Times March 15th 2009

"...Something about the song, even now, seems to foreshadow subsequent events in the band’s career.

In place of the synchronised polish and dance-routine uniformity of other girl groups, Sugababes came across from the word go as simultaneously hanging as a crew and pulling in different directions. If any song suggests a group of stroppy teenagers ambling down an urban street in search of trouble and mischief, Overload is it. Their choice of collaborators — among them Neneh Cherry’s husband and producer, Cameron McVey — hinted at the savviness they would show in later hook-ups; not least when their single Freak Like Me (on which they took up squatters’ rights in Gary Numan’s Are Friends Electric?) became their first No 1 in 2002..."