On This Day 23/04/2008 Sugarbabes

On this day, 23 April 2008, girl group Sugarbabes played Cardiff International Arena on their Change tour.

This was part of their thirty-date UK Change Tour, which ran from March to May 2008, supporting their album Change and featuring the lineup of Keisha Buchanan, Heidi Range, and Amelle Berrabah.

Following their Greatest Hits Tour, the Sugababes returned to the recording studio in mid-2007 to continue working on Change, their fifth studio album, and the first to feature Berrabah on all tracks. "About You Now" was released as the album's lead single in September 2007. Upon release, the song became the group's sixth UK number one hit and first Hungarian chart-topper. It remained atop the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. "About You Now" was nominated for a 2008 BRIT Award for Best British Single and is to date their highest-selling single, with sales standing at almost 500,000 copies.

In the 2009 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, "About You Now" was listed as the "first track by a British pop act to top the singles chart solely on downloads". The song was also named as the "biggest chart mover to the number one position in the UK".

Setlist

"Hole in the Head" (contains elements of "Don't Stop The Music")

"Round Round"

"Never Gonna Dance Again"

"In the Middle"

"Ugly"

"Freak like Me"/"Virgin Sexy"

"Back Down"

"Too Lost in You" (piano version)

"Don't Let Go (Love)" (En Vogue cover)

"Denial"

"Change"

"Mended By You"/"Stronger"

"3 Spoons of Suga"/"Overload"

"Red Dress" (Rockamerica remix) (contains elements of "Two Tribes")

"My Love Is Pink"

Encore

"Push the Button"

"About You Now"

On This Day 23/4/2008 Sugababes

All Images Subject To Copyright

On this day, 23 April 2008, Top British girl group Sugababes played Cardiff International Arena as part of their Change tour in support of their fifth studio album, also titled Change.

The critical reaction to the tour was extremely positive, with reviewers praising their vocals and their first attempt at extravagant costumes.

Despite their popular visit to Wales their admiration for Wales’s most famous artist and meeting with Tom Jones left them less than enamoured.

In the same year, Singer Amelle Berrabah was thrilled to be in the same room as the Welsh warbler at the Q Awards – but was gutted after the Green Green Grass singer snubbed her and the girls. “I’m really disappointed – he’s so rude,” she blasted at the unofficial after party at the Shepherds Tavern pub in London’s posh Mayfair.

She added: “My dad died a few years ago and he was a massive Tom Jones fan so I was really looking forward to meeting him.

“I saw him at the awards and as he walked past I said: ‘Hi’ and gave him a wave.
“He just looked at me like ‘Who are you?’
“He’s just a rude old man.”