The Sugababes are back, with the original line-up and a UK tour – it’s like the year 2000 all over again.
The trio – Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and Siobhan Donaghy – have reunited and reclaimed their name after an earlier relaunch under the name MKS in 2013.
When they performed at Glastonbury this month, there were reports from the festival that so many people showed up to see them, the field had to be closed because of overcrowding.
The group went through several line-up changes during its time in the pop spotlight, and by the time Sugababes released their final album, Sweet release 7 in 2010, it was made up of three entirely different women.
It was a reunion that started out organically.
“Me and Mutya reached out to each other,” Siobhan tells Nadia Jae, presenter of the BBC Radio 1Xtra breakfast show.
“We used to see each other at the odd party. We were like: ‘This is weird’.”
‘I resisted at first’
Keisha found out about their communication through her lawyer – a year or two after she quit the third generation of Sugababes in 2009.
She says at the time she felt “girl-banded out” but compares the original line-up, and their debut album One Touch, as feeling like a TV show that’s been left on a cliffhanger.
“I resisted the most I did it first, but that was because I just needed to adjust,” Keisha says.
“After Siobhan left, there was still Mutya there so it had my childhood and it felt like the essence of Sugababes.
“When Mutya left, I was just like: ‘Oh, and then there was one.’
“I definitely feel like with us three, it’s always felt so natural with us since we were kids.”
