The group have announced that they are reissuing their second album, 2004’s What Will The Neighbours Say? along with three previously unheard songs, which will be out on March 8.

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Two of them are original tracks called Disco Bunny and Baby When You Go while the third is a cover of Chris Isaac’s Wicked Game, which had been earmarked as the lead single, before they decided to switch to their No2 hit The Show instead.

It sounds like a good decision in the long-term.

The group, featuring Cheryl Tweedy, Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle and Nicola Roberts, will head off on their first tour since 2013 in May, but it will be bittersweet as it is their first time playing live without Sarah Harding, who passed away in 2021.

Since her death, the girls have said they won’t return to the studio to record new music, so these previously unheard tracks may be the closest which fans get to hearing fresh material from Girls Aloud.

But my hunch is that if the tour goes well, and these reissues of their back catalogue prove lucrative, they might just be tempted to record something new together after all.

After all, money talks, and now that Cheryl’s solo career has bombed, it could be the perfect return to form.