The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits Tour

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The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits Tour
Tour by Girls Aloud
Start date 14 May 2007
End date 02 June 2007
Legs 1
Shows 15 (scheduled)
Girls Aloud tour chronology
Chemistry Tour
(2006)		 The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits Tour
(2007)		 Tangled Up Tour
(2008)

The Sound Of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits Tour began in May 2007 as Girls Aloud's second arena-based concert tour and their third tour overall.

The tour celebrates the groups five years at the top and sees them showcase their string of hits featured on the The Sound of Girls Aloud compilation album, a #1 double platinum selling success. Almost all of the singles were performed, only See the Day was excluded.

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[edit] History

Dates for the tour went on sale in November 2006. It was longer than their previous tour, making it their biggest tour yet. They also announced that they would be doing a summer tour around the country, playing places like castles and festivals. The tour was sponsored by the shampoo brand Sunsilk.[1]

Support acts were girl groups Australian electro-rock band Rogue Traders[2] and singers Natalia and Misha Williams.

Girls Aloud were planning to perform a Spice Girls medley of songs as part of their show, in a section including covers of songs by various other acts.[3]. The tour program does mention a tribute to girl groups paving the way, but no such medley features in the show.

[edit] Tour dates

[edit] Summer leg

The date in Plymouth was cancelled due to the floods during summer 2007.

[edit] Setlist

  • Outfits: GA Police Gold/Black

01. "Something Kinda Ooooh"
02. "Wake Me Up"
03. "Walk This Way"
04. "Jump"

  • Costume Change / Outfits: Summer clothes

05. "No Good Advice"
06. "Long Hot Summer"
07. "Whole Lotta History"
08. Dirty Dancing Medley: "Do You Love Me"/"She's Like the Wind"/"(I've Had) The Time of My Life"

  • Costume Change / Outfits: Gangster outfits

09. "Sound of the Underground"
10. "Life Got Cold" (Reggae Version)
11. "Graffiti My Soul"
12. "Real Life"

  • Costume Change / Outfits: Glittery dresses

13. "I Think We're Alone Now" (Big Band Version)
14. "Money"
15. "I'll Stand By You"
16. "Love Machine"

  • Costume Change / Outfits: Black dresses
    (Fake Ending)

17. "The Show"
18. "Biology"

[edit] Costumes

[edit] Entrance: GA Police

Nadine: Black spandex suit, with no arms in the suit, gold bars running across her chest and gold, knee high boots.

Cheryl: Black and gold sports bra, with black spandex trousers and black knee high boots.

Nicola: Black and gold spandex dress with black knee high boots.

Sarah: Black and gold spandex jump suit with gold boots.

Kimberley: Black and gold spandex suit with gold knee high boots.

For Something Kinda Ooooh, all the girls wore a black leather cap which were removed after the song. The girls also performed Wake Me Up, Walk This Way and Jump in these costumes.

[edit] Costume Change 1: Summer

Nadine: Black tank top, black knickers and pink belt and heels.

Cheryl: Black T-shirt, denim hot pants and heels.

Nicola: Black top, which ends under the bust, black knickers and heels.

Sarah: White top which ends under bust, black knickers and heels.

Kimberley: White bra, white mini skirt and heels.

No Good Advice, Long Hot Summer, Whole Lotta History and the Dirty Dancing Medley were performed in these costumes.

[edit] Costume Change 2: Gangster

Nadine: White boob tube, black belt, white trousers, black tie and black and white top hat.

Cheryl: White top which ends under the bust, black trousers and black and white top hat.

Nicola: Black and white top, which ends under the bust, black trousers and black and white top hat.

Sarah: White top, black trousers, black suspenders and black and white top hat.

Kimberley: White top, which ends over midriff, black hot pants, black suspenders and black and white top hat.

The girls performed Sound of the Underground, Life Got Cold (Reggae Version), Graffiti My Soul and Real Life in these costumes. For Graffiti My Soul, the girls performed with black canes.

[edit] Costume Change 3: Casino

Nadine: A pink frilly dress and pink frills over her bottom.

Cheryl: Cream dress with extra large sleeves.

Nicola: Baby blue dress.

Sarah: Blue glittery dress and a blonde wig.

Kimberley: Sea green dress down to her knees.

I Think We're Alone Now (Big Band Version), Money, I'll Stand By You and Love Machine were all performed in these costumes.

[edit] Costume Change 4: Encore

For half of the song The Show, all the girls preformed in short purple silk dressing gowns. They then took these off to reveal each girl with a black mini dress with a shocking pink belt.

Biology was also performed in these costumes.

[edit] Broadcasts and recordings

The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits Tour was not filmed for DVD release as the title would clash with the tour DVD filmed as part of the Chemistry tour (the DVD was called The Greatest Hits Live). However, an audio recording of "Something Kinda Ooooh" from Bournemouth appeared as a b-side to "Sexy! No No No...".

Clips from the tour were broadcasted at the beginning of Passions.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Girls Aloud land shampoo deal", ITN.co.uk, 2007-04-02. Retrieved on 2007-05-01. 
  2. ^ "Aussie rockers' UK deal", The Sunday Telegraph via News.com.au, 2007-02-11. Retrieved on 2007-05-01. 
  3. ^ Kilkelly, Daniel. "Girls Aloud to pay tribute to Spice Girls", DigitalSpy.co.uk, 2007-02-10. Retrieved on 2007-05-01. 
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