The girls attended the Music Week Awards last night to present an award to Peter Loraine. Peter won The Strat in recognition of his incredible success with pop artists over the last 30 years.

Some photos from the evening are in the gallery:

>Public Appearances – 2024 – May 2nd – Music Week Awards x 13

Shark Beauty has been announced as the official sponsors of The Girls Aloud Show 2024 Tour, with the band’s lead hair stylist Lisa Laudat exclusively using styling tools such as the Shark SmoothStyle, SpeedStyle and FlexStyle on the girls before they step out on stage.

“Nobody wants to be sat in the chair for hours every night before a show, and the Shark Beauty hair tools have made getting ready so quick and easy, and ensures our hair stays healthy, despite the constant styling,” Cheryl, Nicola, Kimberly and Nadine said in a comment about the partnership. “We all have different hair types and textures and the tools work for all of us – they really have something for everyone.”

The Shark tools that the girls are referring to are the SmoothStyle, the SpeedStyle and the FlexStyle, which are each designed to create a different look.

We haven’t been as excited about a reunion tour since the Spice Girls regrouped in 2019, but while Girl Power ruled the nineties, Girls Aloud dominated the noughties. After forming in 2002, the band went on to sell over four million albums, claimed four number ones, racked up a record-breaking run of 20 consecutive top 10 singles, took home a Brit Award and by 2012, were crowned the UK’s biggest-selling girl band of the 21st century.

It’s been over 20 years since Nadine, Cheryl, Sarah, Nicola and Kimberley released their first single, Sound Of The Underground – and over a decade since the band hit the pause button on their time together in 2013. A lot has changed since then including, very sadly, the loss of Sarah to breast cancer in 2021, but three years on, the time felt right to reunite and celebrate everything they achieved together, with the four remaining Girls Aloud members flying the flag for Sarah.

Prepare for a heavy dose of noughties nostalgia. The band promise to revisit their smash-hits, speckled with some personal favourites. Expect pyrotechnics, flying harnesses, co-ordinating costumes and big hair (the band has teamed up with sponsors Shark to ensure their strands can withstand some seriously energetic hair flicks each night throughout the tour).

Ahead of the first show, which kicks off in Dublin on 17 May, we caught up with the girls to talk a whole lotta history, fashion fails and beauty wins – and obviously we had to theme the questions to their lyrics…

I’m talking bout a whole lotta history…

What’s your favourite memory with each other?

Nicola: “How can you possibly pick one memory from 22 years? The Brits was a very poignant moment for us. That was a really special time. We’d worked really hard for a lot of years – the single had been number one, the album had been number one, the tour was sold out, then we won a Brit. It felt like everything had been building and then that night everything came together, it was a big moment for us.”