Girls Aloud Tangled Up Live Video Released as Deluxe Reissue Nears

Girls Aloud‘s Tangled Up live video archive continues to grow, with the group releasing footage of ‘Control of the Knife’, filmed at London’s O2 Arena during the 2008 Tangled Up Tour. The performance is now available on their official YouTube channel, the latest in a run of vault releases that have been arriving with quiet regularity over recent weeks.

From the Vault: Revisiting the Tangled Up Tour

‘Control of the Knife’ appears on Tangled Up, the group’s fourth album, released in 2007 via Polydor. The Girls Aloud Tangled Up live performances being surfaced now give a sense of just how assured that tour was. In August alone, the group shared O2 Arena footage of ‘Call the Shots’, ‘Sexy! No No No’, ‘Close To Love’, and ‘Black Jacks’, all drawn from the same run of shows.

The Tangled Up Tour encompassed 35 shows across two legs, taking in Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Edinburgh, and London, where the group performed two nights at the O2 Arena. As arena tours of that era go, it was a sizeable undertaking for a pop act still, at that point, only five years into their career.

The album itself had an unusually extended gestation. In a 2013 interview with Wales Online, Nicola Roberts explained the process, touching on the group’s working relationship with producer Brian Higgins: ‘Brian takes inspiration from all that, so it’s important he’s up to date with where we are. Our songs have to reflect us so that’s why we do it. After that, songs are written, demos are recorded and ideas are swapped. Normally, a Girls Aloud album will be recorded in a matter of weeks, but Tangled Up took much longer.’ That extra time is audible in the record’s texture, more layered and restless than anything Xenomania had delivered for them before, the kind of album that rewards returning to.

Deluxe Reissue Confirmed, with Previously Unheard Tracks

When the live video of ‘Call the Shots’ was unveiled last month, the group also confirmed a deluxe reissue of Tangled Up. The new edition carries real archival weight: alongside B-sides, alternative mixes, and remixes, it includes two previously unheard tracks, ‘What’s A Girl To Do’ and ‘My Heart’. The reissue is available in three formats: a coloured vinyl, a picture disc, and a 3CD set.

According to Retropop, the reissue follows the group’s 2025 reunion tour, which saw Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Tweedy, Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts return to the stage in honour of their late bandmate Sarah Harding. That tour, billed as The Girls Aloud Show, had already demonstrated there was both appetite and affection for the catalogue; the vault releases and reissue feel like a natural extension of that momentum.

Harding died in 2021, and the 2024 run of The Girls Aloud Show was framed explicitly around that loss, honouring more than two decades of the group’s work. The London leg alone featured five nights at the O2 Arena, the same venue where the 2008 footage now being released was captured.

There is something quietly satisfying about the pairing: a tour in memory of a bandmate, and then, in its wake, the unearthing of the recordings that show what they were at their peak. The Girls Aloud Tangled Up live video series, and the deluxe reissue it accompanies, make the case for the album as something more than a pop footnote. The two previously unheard tracks, ‘What’s A Girl To Do’ and ‘My Heart’, will be the real test of just how deep that vault runs.