Sophie Ellis-Bextor eyes Xenomania collab

Sophie Ellis-Bextor is keen to work with songwriters Xenomania again because she enjoyed collaborating with them on her last album Trip The Light Fantastic.

The singer, who teamed up with the Girls Aloud hitmakers on the song 'If You Go', also insists that they are some of her favourite pop writers.

She told Bang Showbiz: "I think Brian Higgins and Miranda Cooper from Xenomania are two of the best pop writers around, they're great.

"I really liked the song we created, 'If You Go'. I've performed it a few times and hopefully if I do my next tour I can wheel it out. Because it sounds so good live with all the drums."

Discussing the possibility of a new tour, the 31-year-old said: "We're talking about doing an autumn tour and hopefully we'll get that on sale soon. It would be good to get it up and running.

"It's been too long. I haven't done a solo tour in ages. I've done lots of support tours and I have done the odd one-off solo show, but nothing flat out. It's pretty shameful really."

Ellis-Bextor previously cancelled a string of tour dates supporting Take That in 2007.