By Robert Crawford On August 28, 2013

'Let's Get Things Straight': MKS Deny Slamming Sugababes As 'Fake'

The reunited trio apparently criticised former bandmates for acting like the best of friends

Former Sugababes - Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy - have denied slamming their previous bandmates.
Now back together as MKS, the trio were thought to have blasted their bandmates Amelle Berrabah and Heidi Range for being "fake people" and acting like they were" best of friends" during an interview with Q Magazine.

The singers say they've grown up and get along better together (WENN)

In quotes widely circulated today, Keisha and Mutya, who formed the first incarnation of the chart-topping 'Freak Like Me' girl group with Siobhan, appeared to suggest they longer spoke to their ex bandmates:
Keisha was said to have revealed: 'You see them now and they're like, 'What are you girls up to?'"
Mutya was believed to have added of her ex friends: ''And they act surprised when you don't want to say hello back to them. They're like, 'Oh, I can see you don't want to talk to me.' Well, yeah. F**k off. You clearly know why. So you just have to give them that look and hope that they'll go away.''
The target of the quotes had actually been confused with a representative for the band confirming that the girls were actually talking about "people around them" and not the Sugababes themselves.
Keisha took to twitter today to slam the reports, writing: "Morning tweets. Just to make this clear. The "quote" that is going around about us slagging off ex members is totally false. It doesn't even sound like how we talk. Whoever wrote that is clearly on some form of comedy crack. Get a life! We do not hate H A J [Heidi Amelle Jade] ok! Lol".
"Me & @keisha_buchanan r way to busy and real enough to say to say what's on our mind we dnt talk nasty about no1 lets get things straight," added Buena.
Siobhan left the Sugababes first amidst a rift with Keisha in 2001, followed by Mutya in 2005, and finally, Keisha left in 2009 to be replaced by Jade Ewen.
Since then the 'Flatline' singers, who formed as a band as teenagers, are back together and insit the trio have grown up and get along better.
In an interview with Q magazine, Siobhan said: ''We actually know each other now. I don't believe we actually knew each other then. I don't believe we ever had any real relationship. We had a relationship through our management, or our parents. We didn't call, text, email.''
MKS have recently completed their debut album as MKS and they are said to be extremely happy with the music they have produced.
Check out our interview with Amelle Berrabah here.

Original Sugababes Mutya Keisha Siobhan Flaunt Their Assets At Scala!

Mutya Buena at Scala for MKS launch (WENN)

Kiesha Buchanan donned a revealing black bodysuit (WENN)

Siobhan Donaghy was the first member of the original Sugababes to leave the band (WENN)

Infusion magazine - Music that matters - Adam J ft Amelle Berrabah & The Nightcrashers – Love Is All We Need

Infusion magazine - Music that matters

Adam J ft Amelle Berrabah & The Nightcrashers – Love Is All We Need

Very pop friendly dance music that pushes all the peak-hour buttons, with Mizuki dropping an impressive dubstep remix on the package.

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Heidi Range wears skintight dress emblazoned with cocktails as she attends Liverpool Music Awards

She's smoking! Heidi Range wears bizarre skintight dress emblazoned with cigarettes and cocktails as she attends Liverpool Music Awards

By FAY STRANG

PUBLISHED: 00:59, 26 August 2013 | UPDATED: 18:51, 26 August 2013

She has always been proud of her Liverpudlian roots.

So it was no surprise that Heidi Range wanted to go all out with her outfit when she attended the Liverpool Music Awards on Sunday.

And ensuring she turned heads the 30-year-old slipped into a skintight gown with a busy pattern – which featured smoking cigarettes and cocktail glasses. 

Hedonistic Heidi: Miss Range wore a blue dress with cigarettes and cocktails on it at the Liverpool Music Awards

The blue dress fell to the floor and featured both a high neck and long sleeves, while showing off her very impressive figure. 

The pretty blonde added a pair of large wedges and wore her hair off her face in a bouffant ponytail so her dress could take centre stage.

Completing her look the Sugababe carried a small silver clutch as she happily made her way into St George’s Hall for the event.

Eye-catching: Heidi's dress was very tight revealing her slim figure as she walked 

Glitz: Heidi wore a pair of sparkling blue earrings while her hair was styled off her face in a ponytail

The Liverpool Music Awards honours the heroes of the music industry in Liverpool – such as local musicians and those who work behind the scenes in the industry.

This year the One’s to Watch award was dedicated to 18-year-old Michael Molloy who tragically due in coach crash as he returned from Bestival this year. 

While Heidi’ s band currently seems to be taking an extended break, Heidi recently threw herself into something else – Celebrity MasterChef. 

Final touches: Heidi wore a pair of large wedges with her dress, while she carried a silver clutch 

Support: The singer was more than happy to show her support for the local music scene

However it seems she couldn’t quite stand the heat and became the first person to be eliminated from the competition.

Speaking about her disappointment she said: ‘I knew it was going to be hard and there have been some tricky moments.

‘But I’ve learned a lot and it’s made me excited about cooking again.’

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Video of Amelle Berrabah interview with X Swallow Our Words - Part One

Amelle Berrabah X Swallow Our Words - Part One

Published on 26 Aug 2013

Swallow Our Words caught up with Amelle Berrabah from Sugababes to talk her Solo Career, MKS and the future of Sugababes. Her latest single Love Is All We Need features DJ Adam J and Nightcrashers and is the first we hear from Amelle, a new album is in the pipeline and will be out soon!

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Amelle Berrabah says bandmates could read her in a 'heartbeat'

Amelle Berrabah says bandmates could read her in a 'heartbeat'

Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah claims bandmates Heidi Range and Jade Ewen could read her ''in a heartbeat'' but she finds working with men very different.

Amelle Berrabah says Heidi Range and Jade Ewen could read her ''in a heartbeat.''

The 29-year-old singer - who recently released her first solo single 'Love Is All We Need' featuring the Nightcrashers - found working with men a ''different'' experience since she entered the music industry as part of British girl band Sugababes.

She told BANG Showbiz: ''Yeah it's definitely been different especially for the first few weeks ... Like anything you have to get used to it. I'm having the time of my life, especially with the Nightcrashers.

''With the girls - it's different; each person you work with is different. But with the Sugababes, like Heidi and Jade, we were with each other 24/7 so they can read me in a heartbeat ... We worked very well together, we were very honest with each other.''

Although Amelle doesn't have many tracks left to record for her debut album she is a perfectionist and continually makes tweaks to the songs.

She explained: ''We're pretty much done but we keep changing things. Until it gets to the deadline where you can't do anymore.

''Sometimes I listen to a track two weeks later , I do that sometimes when I haven't listened to something for a while to have a fresh ear at it. When you're in it too long, you need to step away. And sometimes I'm like ... 'don't like the bass anymore, let's change it'. It's like your little baby that you're literally nurturing to release to the world.''

Suga Free: Mutya Keisha Siobhán - Evening Standard

Suga Free: Mutya Keisha Siobhán

After 15 years they would rather forget, Mark Ellen witnesses the rebirth of the Sugababes as Mutya Keisha Siobhán

From left: Mutya wears jumper, £190, House of Holland (houseofholland.co.uk). Skirt, £420, Simone Rocha at Dover Street Market (020 7518 0680). Keisha wears jumper, £120, House of Holland. Shoes, £695, Christian Louboutin (020 7553 4082). Siobhán wears top, £380, Simone Rocha at Dover Street Market. Trousers, £300, House of Holland. Shoes, £640, Nicholas Kirkwood (nicholaskirkwood.com)MARK ELLEN. PHOTOGRAPHS BY OPHELIA WYNNE. STYLED BY ORSOLYA SZABO

Published: 23 August 2013

Updated: 13:37, 23 August 2013

Mutya Buena, 28, has six facial piercings, a stud in her tongue, a silver tooth and a tattoo of a clock face frozen at the time her daughter was born — 18 minutes past three. She’s so permanently decorated she refers to her arms as ‘sleeves’, as if they were ornamental clothing. There are roses inked all over them, and Latin prayers and the words ‘NEVER SATISFIED’. The two gemstones on her collarbone are attached with ‘implants’, metal plates embedded beneath the skin.

The message is fairly clear: she has drive, belief and intense commitment — all of which might come in handy as she’s now sitting in a Camden rehearsal studio with two former sworn enemies, Siobhán Donaghy, 29, and Keisha Buchanan, 28. They’re back together, even though their time in the Sugababes was so famously fractious it made The Supremes look like one big hen party. I’ve interviewed countless acts who claimed their relationship was as good as it ever was — Bananarama and the Backstreet Boys among them — but this is something else: a group that never got on in the first place who seem to have kissed and made up.

Siobhán wears jumper, £250, Kenzo at liberty.co.uk. Shorts, £270, Carven atmatchesfashion.com. Mutya wears shirt, £550, Chloé at harrods.com. Jeans, £245, Kenzo atliberty.co.uk. Shoes, £58, Topshop (topshop.com). Keisha wears jumper, £250, and skirt, £225, Kenzo at selfridges.comSugababes was put together by All Saints manager Ron Tom in 1998; Mutya and Siobhán were joined by the former’s best friend Keisha, when all three of them were 13. At the ripe old age of 16, Siobhán bailed, circulating tales of heavy-handed control, vicious internal catfights and ‘bullying’ by the iron-willed Keisha. In the blunt and efficient world of girl groups, a cross between a theatre show with understudies waiting in the wings and a football squad with substitutes warming up on the touchline, the London-born redhead then had to sit back and watch the act she’d co-founded rocket to international success — ‘Hole in the Head’ and ‘Push the Button’ achieved 700,000 sales in the UK — with her own part now played by Heidi Range, formerly of Atomic Kitten.

Four years later, Mutya resigned. It wasn’t easy, she says, having to juggle tour rehearsals with exam revision, or recording until five in the morning when breastfeeding a baby. She left aged 19, sensing her days were numbered and her replacement already trained up: two days later the new Sugababe was announced, a stage-school siren called Amelle Berrabah.

At least Keisha lasted until 2009. By then, the group was a multimillion-pound empire who’d supported Coldplay at Glastonbury — the first girl pop act to play its Pyramid Stage — and had a vast merchandise wing that included dolls and footwear. Fanned by reports of her spats with Berrabah, Keisha was shown the door (exchanged for Eurovision Song Contest trouper Jade Ewen), amid complex legal wrangles over the ownership of the band’s name.

The three original Suga-babes are now hopping about nervously, offering to make tea and loudly singing each other’s praises, flying the flag for unity and solidarity. The whole thing has the strange, cautiously excited air of a school reunion, three girls with bad memories of the place, but who now have something powerfully bonding in common.

Asked why the group was a hotbed of discontent, they paint pictures of a world entirely controlled by ‘the adults’, a shape-shifting army of management, parents, guardians, minders, label and studio personnel. If you’re given the impression that your band is a brand and its three members just replaceable units, it doesn’t tend to make for warm interpersonal harmony.

‘Looking back,’ Siobhán says, ‘there was a lot of divide and conquer going on. The adult world around us wanted to manage the environment and make it a business, and maybe forgot we were young and our happiness was important. We were teenagers. We weren’t even old enough to drink! They saw us as interchangeable — it was all about the band, not the individuals, and that’s not good for your self-esteem.’

‘We were home-schooled,’ Mutya adds, ‘and that created a lot of pressure. We were just too young to appreciate it. We didn’t realise our music was credible. “You’re number one!” OK, can I go home now?’

‘As a teenager you feel insecure and frustrated that your voice isn’t being heard,’ Keisha chips in. ‘It’s all hormones and stuff like that and I didn’t know how to express myself, to be honest, as I was only 13 years old! I felt constantly misunderstood. Now we’ve been able to rebuild a fresh new adult relationship where we’re clear about how we feel about things. There’s none of that suspicion that “you’re just here to get famous off me”.’

Mutya wears top, £185, Equipment at my-wardrobe.com. Jeans, £240, J Brand atmatchesfashion.com. Shoes, £640, Nicholas Kirkwood (nicholaskirkwood.com). Sunglasses, £225, Miu Miu at net-a-porter.com. Bag, £2,170, Fendi (020 7838 6288). Siobhán wears minidress, £260, House of Holland (houseofholland.co.uk). Keisha wears top, £325, JW Anderson at matchesfashion.com. Skirt, £1,790, Todd Lynn at avenue32.com. Shoes, £50, Topshop (topshop.com)The legality of the situation is still tangled. Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath were both embroiled in court cases about the use of the brand name without certain founder musicians involved, and when 1960s soul duo Sam & Dave split up, Dave toured with a brand-new Sam — though the only people who complained were the ticket-buying public. But when a version of Fleetwood Mac set out in 1973 without a single original member in its line-up, m’learned friends soon pulled the plug.

The Sugababes saga is more complicated still. Through her long tenure in the band, Keisha retains some rights to the group name but chose not to state her case. ‘I wanted to stay positive and show we’ve got a new team,’ she says. Siobhán and Mutya insist they could use the name, too, if they wanted, but elected against it — partly, I suspect, because it wouldn’t show much sisterly support for the three girls who replaced them and kept the brand alive, though it’s anyone’s guess whether the current band actually still exists. 

‘It’s our decision and we don’t need the name,’ Keisha declares, adding with a hollow laugh that there was a richly ironic interview with Mutya when she was 16. When asked why they’d called the group the Sugababes, she said, ‘Well, we’re not going to call it Mutya Keisha Siobhán as that’d be ridiculous!’

Mutya Keisha Siobhán take the stage in this tiny studio to rehearse the new single ‘Flatline’ to an audience of two. It’s a weather-beaten slice of pop soul about a fading love affair, a lot more knowing and less polished than the shimmering singles of their youth. They step up to their microphones, they move in sync, they harmonise, they swap wide-eyed sideways looks of delight. Their backing band fires up the riff to Gary Numan’s ‘Are Friends Electric?’ and they steam into ‘Freak Like Me’, Siobhán now singing the Heidi Range lead part as she did at the well-reviewed Scala gig earlier this month. I sit and watch from the balcony, fascinated, at a whole new chapter in a soap opera that’s rolled on for 15 years — more than half their lives. The standard cliché is about a lost childhood, but I can’t help thinking that this is the reverse: three people who had their childhoods extended by never being allowed to be independent. If they lost anything, it was their adulthood.

But you can see why they want to give it another whirl: they don’t feel responsible for the miseries of the past, and the three of them together is their most commercial option available. Working with producer Dev Hynes — aka Lightspeed Champion, whose past projects include Florence + The Machine and the Chemical Brothers — and with contributions from Emeli Sandé, Shaznay Lewis and William Orbit, they recorded enough material to give them a lever in negotiations, signing last year with Polydor ‘with no name and on the strength of our vocals and body of work’. Siobhán and Mutya were the prime movers in the peace process, but the key, still-smouldering bridge to repair was between Siobhán and Keisha.

‘That was so strange,’ Siobhán admits. ‘We met up in The Lanesborough. The last time we’d seen each other we’d been teenagers in our tracksuit bottoms having KFC and our parents were there, and here we were having this fabulous dinner and cocktails. We were quite shocked to find we got on really well.’

When she’d been in the Sugababes, their chart rivals were Blue, Steps and S Club 7, and they were trying to make singles with ‘an edge like All Saints’. The second Siobhán left she’d hurled herself into adult life, booking models for the Storm and Union agencies and taking charge of girls the same age as she’d been when she was in the band. ‘I took that responsibility very seriously,’ she says pointedly. ‘I want to morally respect that.’ She released a few records under the name Shanghai Nobody — a clever anagram of Siobhán Donaghy — and in 2007 took the role of Mimi alongside Denise Van Outen in Rent at the Duke of York’s Theatre, a ‘notoriously hard sing, 26 songs a show with matinées on Fridays and Saturdays’. In January she married her long-term boyfriend, financier Chris McCoy.

Mutya released some solo records, including ‘Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)’ with Groove Armada, split up with Jay, the father of her child, and got stuck into various profile-sustaining TV slots such as Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong, but salvaged some dignity by walking out of Celebrity Big Brother 6 after 15 days of incarceration. ‘There’s cameras behind the mirrors,’ she shrugs. ‘Cameras when you go to the toilet. You have to wear your mike 24 hours a day, you even have one hanging down over your bed. You’re not too sure what the time is and if you get your rations taken off you, you lose control of yourself. Sometimes I get bad rashes and eczema and I was sitting there with my hoodie up to cover my face… and I just missed my daughter so much. So I left.’

Keisha’s four years since leaving the band have been filled with the gradual, tentative assembly of Mutya Keisha Siobhán, the news of their evolution artfully drip-fed via Twitter and Instagram by the girls themselves. ‘I think we’ve made a BANGER people #studio with @devhynes,’ Keisha tweeted when they’d finally finished the album.

What advice would they give anyone starting out as young as they were?

Keisha: ‘Know your worth to the band. When you’re sad, express that. When you’re happy, express that. Be open. Be transparent. Compliment other people.’

Siobhán: ‘Be strong enough to be yourself. Don’t let people divert you too far from that path because the minute you do, you’ve moved an inch and then you’ve moved a mile, and then you don’t know who you are or what you’re doing.’

Mutya: ‘Make sure you have the right support and backing. Take your time and remember talent never dies.’

Would she let her daughter go into this business? ‘Never.’

‘Flatline’ is released on 15 September

Photo: Jade looking fresh faced and lovely

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Shout magazine: Five Minutes with Amelle Berrabah

Five Minutes with Amelle Berrabah

Best-known as one-third of the Sugababes, Amelle is back on a hot new track! We caught up with her to find out more...

Tell us about the single…

I've been in the studio constantly over the past year and I'm sent demos of stuff quite a lot and always make the effort to listen to them. This one just jumped out at me straight away! I really liked it, but they'd only written one section and the rest was melodies with no words. So I added my own ideas to it. We made quite a few changes because I'm a perfectionist!

You've filmed the video now - was it weird doing it without the Sugababes girls?

Yeah, it was to be honest. The weirdest bit has been the first couple of writing sessions on my own actually. When I'm with the girls, we all chip in and feed off each other. We're all really honest too - so if we don't like something, we'll just say so. We're very quick at making up our mind. I'm not a shy person, but being alone in a room working on something and then having to show people what I'd come up with by myself was really nerve-wracking. It gave me a lot more confidence though. So it was weird shooting the video too, as we normally have a break while the other girls do their parts, but this time it was constant for 18 hours so it was a long day!

And what's happening with the girls - will you be getting back together?

We still keep in touch and see each other - it's a bond that you can't ever break. I can tell how Heidi is feeling from just one look! We're very honest with each other. We've always spoken about doing something at the end of next year, but I think Jade, at the moment, doesn't feel that way. I respect that though - we all have to be 100% in it, or it's not fair. We'll just have to see what happens.

Are you still working on your solo album, or is it almost ready to go?

Almost ready - but it's been almost ready for two months now! I can't stop changing little bits of it. Even one song I listened to recently, I was like, 'What was I thinking with that guitar?!'

As a whole, I'm really happy with it - I would never release something if I didn't love it - that would feel fake. Hopefully everyone will like it and not just me!

What were you like when you were the same age as a Shout reader?

Very, very hyper! I still am - people always comment on it! So, I would run in from school, get my sports gear on and go play tennis or basketball in the park every day. I was really sporty and used to run for the south of England. I was pretty boyish - I always had big baggy tops on!

♥ Love (Is All We Need) by Adam J Feat. Amelle & Nightcrashers is out now!

Maximum Pop: Amelle reviews Ellie Goulding, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, MKS and herself!

AMELLE REVIEWS ELLIE GOULDING, LADY GAGA, KATY PERRY, MKS AND HERSELF!

It’s time for another Pop Star review where we give a super famous pop star the opportunity to become a talent scout without the commitment of being a judge on The X Factor.

We called on the help of current Sugababe (or is it ex? We’re not quite sure) and solo artist, Amelle Berrabah, to review some of the biggest tracks around. Here’s how it went down:

Ellie Goulding- ‘Burn’

Love it! I love her! She really interests me… I hope that’s not weird! She’s a great singer and such a talented songwriter. The song is fresh and current and something a little different.

Lady Gaga- ‘Applause’

I like it. It’s catchy and really stays in your head  *sings* “Applause. Applause. Applause”. I think the verses are very David Bowie and I like how she changes her voice around. She’s a great character.

Katy Perry- ‘Roar’

I’m not a fan. It kind of shocked me, if I’m honest. I think it sounds like it’s from an artist who’s a lot younger and I don’t think it’s really a lead single. It has grown on me a little.

MKS- ‘Flatline’

I really like it. I didn’t instantly love it but it’s definitely a grower. I love the harmonies and the blending. It’s just three really great voices. It sounds like the Sugababes earlier stuff from the start like ‘Overload’ and, yeah, I like it.

Adam J feat. Amelle & Nightcrashers -‘Love (Is All We Need)

It’s the best song ever! I’m kidding. I think it’s got a fresh sound and I love the bassline. I tried to make it sound kind of jazzy-esque. When I wrote it, I tried to make the lyrics a lot sweeter than the backing track. It’s a feel-good, Summer dance track. It’s about love which, without sounding corny, is a beautiful thing. It’s all about having a good time.

So there you have it. Some awesome reviews of some awesome pop songs from the awesome Amelle! Love (Is All We Need)’ by Adam J Feat. Amelle & Nightcrashers is out now and you can get it here.

Entertainmentwise: Sugababe Amelle Berrabah Talks MKS, Split Rumours & New Single 'Love Is All We Need'

BY ADAM MILLER ON AUGUST 20, 2013

INTERVIEW: Sugababe Amelle Berrabah Talks MKS, Split Rumours & New Single 'Love Is All We Need'

The Sugababe chats to EntWise about her new music

Sugababes star Amelle Berrabah has become the first member of pop's sweetest trip to launch her solo career as the 'Get Sexy' band take some time out from topping the charts to pursue their own projects, with Amelle releasing her new single 'Love Is All We Need' this week.

And we have to admit, we're loving the babe's debut dance floor anthem, promising a corker of an album set for the beginning of next year.

 Amelle Berrabah chats to EntWise about her new single 'Love Is All We Need' (WENN)

Sugababes have become one of the biggest girl bands in Britain but now Amelle is flying the nest, although she insists it's only for a while despite her bandmate Jade Ewen claiming the band were through just weeks ago.

As part of one of the most dramatic pop groups of recent years and with the founding members of the band, Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan reforming as MKS, we had a lot to chat about with Amelle such as what she really thinks of her rivals' new single and just what exactly is going on with Sugababes?

You recently unveiled your new dance inspired track 'Love Is All We Need.' What's the single about?  

I wrote it about when you have that instant attraction or love at first sight or whatever I wrote it about that when you can’t take your eyes off someone and you’re like magnets and you grow together. You know that feeling like you just want to be with that person 24/7 and you’re in your own little bubble that was kind of the head space I was in when I wrote it. It’s just a nice song, everyone likes being in love and it makes you want to dance and smile. But because the bass line was so hard I didn’t want to go too hard with the melodies or the vocals so I wanted to it to contrast. I think it fits in quite nicely so I think it fits in well so yeah I’m happy with the result definitely.  

Is it a good representation from what we can expect to hear on the album?  

It’s definitely different I mean on the album there’s definitely a couple of dancey tracks with a hard core bass line because I love a bass line. But I wouldn’t say it’s a direct impression from the album but for me it’s quite random because I’ve got quite a big imagination and I’ve definitely had reflective times with this album writing about day to day life, things I find funny, random stuff. There’s a couple of quirky ones on there like there’s one called ‘Wrigley’s Extra’.

I mean it’s not even about that but when you listen to it you’re like ‘ah ok’! There’s a bit of an accent on that song it’s a bit of a character and then there’s another song I wrote which is one of my favourites from the album called ‘Come On’ which is a mid tempo ballad, quite stripped back at the beginning and just builds and builds and builds. I wrote that about someone else as well and that’s a very close song to my heart. And then you’ve got the dancey tracks and the quirky ones but it kind of depends what mood I’m in when I’m in the studio.    

You've teamed up with Adam J and Nightcrashers for the single – are there any other collaborations lined up?  

There’s one more which we’re just finalising at the moment and then I go onto my first solo single from the album so I’m just really excited obviously it’s a whole new thing for me. When I was going into the studio for the first couple of weeks it was normally with Heidi or Jade and they could tell me if they didn’t like it straight but when you’re in a room with people you don’t even know it’s quite intimidating at the start like ‘Oh are they going to like my idea?’

Then you have to get over that and think you know what, what will be will be but if they don’t you can’t be precious about certain things, you have to move on. It’s been a real amazing experience for me, been almost like tunnel vision just focusing, working my a**e off and I’m really happy with the end result. It’s completely different it’s my own stuff so if I hear something two weeks later like ‘I don’t like that guitar anymore’, I can change a few things over and I just want it to be perfect, I don’t want to release anything that I don’t absolutely love.  

How are you finding it without the other two girls?  

It’s good, they regularly keep asking how it’s going. Heidi’s listened to a few things as well and given her opinion, I like listening to her opinion. But yeah they’re cool, they’re always in contact. Heidi’s going to do a bit of theatre and her presenting and Jade’s doing some presenting also. But they’re really happy and I think they’re happy for me.  

You said you've been in talks with Dr Luke – have you started working with him yet?  

We’ve done a couple of Skype stuff and at the moment it’s still talking through some ideas because he works quite differently to what I’m used to but he’s just building something at the moment so I’m just waiting to hear what he has for me because I’ve heard a couple of little snippets but I’m looking forward to hearing the end result.

When do you think we'll be able to hear the album?

So after this next collab that wasn’t expected until later on in the year I’ll go two or three singles in and then release so hopefully I reckon now because of this next collab that wasn’t expected until later on in the year it will push back my stuff. But it’s looking either the very end of this year or the beginning of next year so I can do the tour in March/April time.

Do you know what the next single's going to be yet?

It’s either between two and they’re both completely different and we’ve had a few meetings but there’s definitely two in our head which is either funnily enough ‘Come On’ or ‘Wrigley’s Extra’. But I’ll be happy with either one of those to be the single, they’re completely different to each other so we’ll see where the label finally say will be the one to be released first.

The single's quite a different direction fro Sugababes – what inspired you to go down a more dance route?

Mostly because if I hear something and I like I’ll go with it. My musical taste is so random, it’s crazy and I just wanted to experiment. There was a couple of crazy ones I wrote and they were just too crazy not to be on the album. But it was more to experiment to see what I wanted to do and not have someone in my ear telling me what road to take. But some of it’s quite dancey and clubby and some of it’s completely different. But the bass line carries it for itself anyway and we put a melody that sticks in your head but it’s not just random stuff.

With this album I think if people hear it on the radio they won’t even recognise that it’s necessarily me and I kind of liked that. Just let people hear it for what it is and then be like ‘it’s me!’ So it’s definitely different from the girls stuff because it’s not as poppy but I’m more intrigued to hear ti because I’ve been so wrapped up in this bubble I can’t wait to hear what the whole album sounds like.      

Does this mean we'll be waiting a while for new material from Sugababes?  

Well we’re thinking we’re going to re group towards the end of next year and I’ve finished promo for the album, have a re group and see if we all want to release another album but right now we all love each other, we all love working with each other and we’re very close and we’re very honest with each other as well and I still have a few ideas for us as well which I’ve put aside but whether we’ll use because time passes, music changes very quickly but it will be nice anyway.

Heidi and Jade have been doing a spot of reality TV – are you tempted to go on any shows?  

I’m not. It’s something I’ve been asked to do quite a few times and I’ve always said no. I love watching reality TV but it’s just not for me I’ve just been in my own little world, music’s been my number one. That’s all I want to concentrate on but never say never I wouldn’t rule it out at all but for me at the moment, not for me.      

MKS recently unveiled their brand new single what did you make of it?

Yes I’ve heard the single, I had to listen to it a few times but now I really like it. But that happens with me a lot I have to listen to a track at least three times before I get it. But I really like it, I think they’ve got really lovely harmonies, each of their voices are beautiful in their individual way, the blend really well, their harmonies are really tight, the melody’s really good. I just think it’s a really nice song, I genuinely really like it.

Do you think it will do well?  

I do! I hope so I’m always a big fan of any artist that has pure talent that hasn’t been manufactured and told what to do and with them I definitely hope it does well and I wish them all the best so yeah I hope it does well.

Have you met them since they've reformed?

I haven’t no, I haven’t even seen Keisha in like two years. I’ve never met Siobhan before and I’ve only met Mutya once and she came to wish me luck but yeah I know there work but I wish them all the best.

Are any of the other girls working on any solo material?

I know Heidi at some point wants to make an album and she’s a really talented singer, she’s very pure, so I’m looking forward to that as well but I don’t think that will be for another year before she starts writing and stuff but I’m really proud of her, I think she’ll do really well.   

Now that Girls Aloud have split and Sugababes are taking a break which girl groups out there are you finding exciting at the moment?  

I love Little Mix! You know they can sing, they can sing live, they can perform. There’s certain people who have star quality and for me they have that and they just seem, well I’ve met them a few times and they just seem really genuine, happy to be there which is how you should always be, you should never forget that this is a blessing that you’re living every day but I think they’ve done an amazing job. They’re taking over the planet by the looks of it so yeah I really really like those girls.

What did you make of Girl Aloud's split? Did you see it coming?

I kind of…well you hear things but you never know whether to believe it or not but I think they obviously felt they were at their absolute peak and it was time for them to go their own way or whatever. That’s their decision and you have to let them be for being a great girl band.  

There's been quite a surge of groups recently does that make you nervous about returning with Sugababes?  

It seems like it is but it always seems like that from year to year. Like five years ago there was a massive indie phase like literally the pop charts were taken over by indie music, then there were solo artists like Emeli Sande coming out but it doesn’t necessarily effect the outcome I think if people love the track and they love the music it’s cool basically. But yeah I’m all for it especially being a girl. All for women doing really well, whoever, anyone who’s musically talented and doing their thing I’m all for it.

Amelle's new single 'Love is All We Need' is out now.