In front of a full house of predominantly teenage girls, some excitedly brandishing home-made banners, the pop princesses, Una Healy, Frankie Sandford, Rochelle Wiseman, Mollie King and Vanessa White, showed why they are the number one girl group since the disappearance of Girls Aloud and Sugababes.

They performed all nine single releases, including eight top tens, a smattering of tracks from the Wordshaker album plus, as you would expect by the tour name, all the tracks from their album, Headlines.

The evening started with pop/rock support band Twenty Twenty, who have just signed to Geffen Records. The McFly-style trio immediately got the girls screaming as they performed four songs which culminated in an airing of their soon-to-be released single, Love To Life. On this performance and the crowd’s enthusiastic reaction it is sure to be a big success.

Next up were Six D, an exciting all-singing street-dancing act who kept the vibe going with a brief set of three songs which included audience participation and a finale performance of Best Damn Night, which will be their first single.

A half-hour break sent anticipation levels into overdrive and when The Saturdays took to the stage there was a crescendo of noise as the girls, dressed in short dazzling sequinned dresses, launched into their most recent hit, Higher.

Everyone was on their feet dancing and singing along, and this was to continue throughout the show. One Shot, Up and Lose Control followed with the end of each song being greeted by deafening screams.

There were swift costume changes and renditions of Denial, Puppet and Work. Una strummed her guitar to Died In Your Eyes. The girls showed they are very much a group by sharing all the vocals in If This Is Love, Issues, Karma and Just Can’t Get Enough.

For the encore the girls donned black leather dresses and sang Forever Is Over, Missing You and Ego — SJC.