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7 unusual facts about Girls Aloud


Girls Aloud: Home Truths

The programme focuses on the recording of "Models" and "On My Way to Satisfaction".

Homebase

From 2006–2009 Homebase used the song "Love Machine" by Girls Aloud in their TV Adverts.

Off the record

Girls Aloud: Off the Record, a 2006 reality television series starring pop group Girls Aloud

On the Metro

"On the Metro" is a song by British all-female pop group Girls Aloud, recorded and taken from their second greatest hits compilation Ten (2012).

Plas Teg

It was also featured in Ghost Hunting With... Girls Aloud in 2006, where the girls visited the house as their first location, where they claimed to have experienced paranormal activity.

R v Walker

On 26 July 2007, UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Star reported that it had discovered an online text story about British pop group Girls Aloud that it described as "a chilling story detailing each singer's gory death in scenes that could be straight out of a horror movie", characterizing its author as "a vile internet psycho" and "a cyber-sicko".

Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire

Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole and Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy had their wedding blessed at Wrotham Park on 15 July 2006 – they weren't allowed to have their wedding there because Wrotham Park does not have a licence to hold civil weddings.


Beatmasters

They went on to write, produce and remix for many other artists including Marc Almond, The Pet Shop Boys, Blur, Roachford, Betty Boo, Moby, Aswad, Eternal, Tina Turner, David Bowie and Girls Aloud.

Cheryl Cole videography

Cole made her first film appearance in 2007, with band mates Girls Aloud in the film St Trinian's , Cole made her second appearance as a talent show judge in the 2012 film What to Expect When You're Expecting which featured actresses Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez.

Crossley Hospital East

The hospital was featured on the TV programme "Ghost Hunting with Girls Aloud", where Yvette Fielding and the pop group Girls Aloud explored various parts of Crossley Hospital in search of ghosts.

Dancing Stage Unleashed 3

The third game in the Xbox series, Unleashed 3 features music from Jamiroquai, Sugababes and Girls Aloud.

Edele Lynch

She co-wrote "Some Kind of Miracle" for Girls Aloud's debut album Sound of the Underground, and "Buster", "Situation's Heavy" and "Twisted" for the Sugababes' third album Three.

The Diffs

Founded in 2003, their influences include original Los Angeles punk bands such as Black Flag, The Germs, Girls Aloud, The Weirdos, and X.

The Reason 4

In March 2011, The boys embarked on recording their first album which has been co written and produced by Eliot Kennedy famous for The Spice Girls, Take That, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion etc. and more recently creative director on The X Factor and Andy Murray, Girls Aloud, Natasha Bedingfield, Shayne Ward.

University of Wales, Newport

As well as weekly social events and club nights, the union organises Freshers' Fortnight, Freshers' Fayre, Re: Freshers Week, RAG (Raising and Giving Week) and the May Ball which has previously had headline acts including Supergrass, Girls Aloud, Electric Six, Scouting for Girls, The Zutons and Feeder.


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Chemistry: The Tour

A recording of the show was released on DVD in November 2006, oddly titled Girls Aloud: Greatest Hits Live From Wembley Arena to coincide with the release of the group's first greatest hits collection The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits.

An audio recording of the Kaiser Chiefs cover "I Predict a Riot was included on the rarities disc of Girls Aloud's greatest hits album The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits. A live recording of "Biology" was an iTunes bonus track.

Graffiti My Soul

According to a post on his website, Brian Higgins visited Amsterdam and asked permission to sample the main guitar riff of "It's Not the Drug" for Girls Aloud.

The Observer described "Graffiti" as a standout track on Girls Aloud's album, describing it as "a full-scale collision between Madonna, Michael Jackson and the Prodigy".

On the Metro

In 2013, the song was performed by Girls Aloud on the Ten: The Hits Tour.