{"id":474381,"date":"2026-03-14T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474381\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:13:09","slug":"sugababes-tease-new-music-and-tell-us-about-fighting-injustice-and-why-love-is-the-biggest-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474381\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugababes tease new music and tell us about fighting injustice and why “love is the biggest thing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sugababes<\/a> have spoken to NME about new music on the way, wanting to join forces with \u201cincredible\u201d PinkPantheress<\/a>, and why they believe that speaking out against injustice is \u201cthe reason why we\u2019re all here on this planet\u201d.<\/p>\n

The trio took to the stage at Wembley Arena on Wednesday (March 11) as part of the star-studded line-up for the Trans Mission show<\/a>, organised by Olly Alexander<\/a> and Mighty Hoopla<\/a>\u2019s Glyn Fussell.<\/p>\n

Dubbed \u201cA Night of Solidarity For A Lifetime Of Change\u201d<\/a>, the concert worked to raise funds for non-profit organisations the Good Law Project<\/a> and the transgender charity Not a Phase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joining Sugababes on the bill were Wolf Alice<\/a>, Beth Ditto<\/a>, Adam Lambert<\/a>, HAAi<\/a>, Jasmine.4.T<\/a>, Kae Tempest<\/a>, Kate Nash<\/a>, MNEK<\/a>, Romy<\/a>, Sophie Ellis-Bextor<\/a>, Sir Ian McKellen<\/a>, Jordan Stephens<\/a>, Munroe Bergdorf, Nicola Coughlan, Zack Polanski and more.<\/p>\n

Backstage, the pop legends caught up with NME before they went to perform classic tracks \u2018Overload\u2019 and \u2018About You Now\u2019, and shared that they wanted to join the stacked line-up because they have always seen themselves as \u201ca band that\u2019s about unity\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a no-brainer when we were asked to be involved in the show,\u201d Siobh\u00e1n Donaghy said. \u201cIt was an immediate yes, especially because it\u2019s such a topical subject at the moment, and one that\u2019s quite close to our hearts. Sugababes have always been a band that\u2019s about unity, bringing people together and about being your authentic self, so we were a good fit for what we\u2019re celebrating today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As for why they were determined to use their platform to call for change, Keisha Buchanan insisted that it was the duty of everyone to speak out against issues they see in society and in politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s like the reason why we\u2019re all here on the planet! The more popular you are, the more you should be using your voice to bring awareness to the injustice in the world. I think it\u2019s pretty selfish if you don\u2019t,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are many things that we stand beside, but love is the biggest thing that we want to put out. We want to just support people being their themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

After revealing that they were most looking forward to seeing MNEK, Wolf Alice, Kae Tempest and former NME Cover star Rose Gray<\/a> performing on the night, the group reflected on what it was like to contribute to the new remix album from PinkPantheress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really cool, she sampled one of our songs from years ago, then we had the opportunity to kind of expand on that and write new verses and stuff, which we did,\u201d Buchanan said, adding that it has made the three of them want to join forces with the BRITs Producer of the Year<\/a> again.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was amazing, and congratulations to her [on reaching Number One in the US] because I believe that she\u2019s amazing. It was so much fun working on it, and we\u2019ve never met her before actually, so that would be quite cool if we could do that at some point this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When asked about if the group have any more announcements planned for the year, Sugababes kept their cards close to their chest, and said that there will \u201cdefinitely be new music in 2026\u201d, as well as \u201ca few surprises in the pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n

The appearance at Trans Mission came following the group \u2013 which also features Mutya Buena<\/a> \u2013 dropping the standalone singles \u2018Weeds<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018Jungle<\/a>\u2019 last year, shortly before they kicked off their biggest-ever arena tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before the two songs were released, Sugababes confirmed that they were now independent and would be dropping any future music on their own label The Orchard \u2013 and told NME that they\u2019ve always put their own money into their music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More details about their upcoming music is expected to be shared at a later date.<\/p>\n

Alongside all of the powerful performances from singers and DJs at Wembley last night, other impactful moments came from guest speakers. These included Sir Ian McKellen<\/a>, who recited Shakespeare\u2019s The Strangers\u2019 Case speech from Thomas More to the crowd, and Caroline Litman \u2013 the author of Her Name Is Alice \u2013 who made a moving speech in tribute to her transgender daughter, who took her own life.<\/p>\n

Find out more about what went down at the Trans Mission show here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sugababes have spoken to NME about new music on the way, wanting to join forces with \u201cincredible\u201d PinkPantheress,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,1581,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}