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Five on '90s fame, counselling, and finally reuniting: 'We were scared stiff'
Five on '90s fame, counselling, and finally reuniting: 'We were scared stiff'

Sky News

time30-03-2025

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Five on '90s fame, counselling, and finally reuniting: 'We were scared stiff'

From the beginning, the intention was clear. "Five bad boys with the power to rock you," came the shouty introduction in their first video, all hoodies and hair gel, the bandmates swaggering through a dim, strobe-lit corridor that suggested they might be trespassing - or at the very least, flouting a health and safety rule or two. Signed by a then little known Simon Cowell to create "chaos", Five (or 5ive) were the antidote to the squeaky clean boybands of the era. The image was tough egos, not hearts, on sleeves. Jason "J" Brown, Abz Love, Scott Robinson, Ritchie Neville and Sean Conlon burst into the charts and on to teen girls' walls with Slam Dunk (Da Funk) in 1997, and continued with hits including Everybody Get Up, If Ya Gettin' Down and Keep On Movin'. They had 11 top 10 singles in total, including three number ones, filled arenas, and even had their own dolls (which is when you really know you've made it). Behind the scenes, as we now know has been the case for so many young pop stars, things weren't always as carefree as they appeared. The inevitable split came after just four years, and a full reunion always seemed unlikely. A couple of comebacks involved different members, but never J. "I hated the industry," he said during his appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2007. "I ran away from it all." Earlier this year, however, the announcement was made: Five - all five! - were making a comeback. A month later, after a few weeks to process the reaction (the initial arena tour dates have more than doubled, due to demand), I meet them at their publicists' offices in London. A constant stream of easy ribbing has to be gently interrupted to get the interview going. Now in their 40s, the bandmates are aware the internet has cottoned on to how often they used to sing about getting up - and getting down - in most of their songs. "We were aware of that at the time," half-groans Ritchie. "We count a lot as well," laughs J. "We're an educational band." They are happy to be back in each other's company. Back in the day, there were squabbles, but never any serious fall-out, they say. Five split because they were tired of the industry, not each other. "We broke up out of love," says Ritchie. "Sean was having a bad time, he was 15 when he joined the band, and it is a high-pressure, high-stress situation. We were thrown into the deep end and it's sink or swim. It had been nearly five years of 18-hour days. We were worn out." When the video for the band's penultimate single, Let's Dance, was released, featuring a life-size cardboard cut-out of Sean in place of the real thing, it was claimed he had fallen ill. In reality, the pressures of the band, and fame, had become way too much. Scott was also suffering, desperate for a break and to spend time with his girlfriend, Kerry (the couple married shortly after Five's split). By the time they called it a day, they were all worn out. 'Our bond wasn't spoken about' "We ultimately made the call that it doesn't matter how many number ones you have, it's not worth this," Ritchie continues. " Our bond wasn't actually spoken about," says Sean, "because of that 'bad boy' image." There was a stigma, he says, and some pressure "to live up to being a lad". They were five young men given the opportunity of a lifetime, so some laddish behaviour was par for the course. But it wasn't the whole truth. "Really, we are five big softies." It was Scott who picked up the phone first. "I hadn't seen J or Abz for a long time. I kept on hovering over their names." Abz first. "Was it 'cus I'm at the top - A, B?" he laughs. Scott reassures him it was an intentional dial. "That means a lot, man." An AirBnB was booked and that was it - the first time in almost 25 years all five had been in the same room. Initially, they weren't reuniting as Five, simply as friends. But word got out, the offer came in. "We didn't sleep," says Sean, recalling the night before the launch. "We were scared stiff... petrified." Given their huge stardom back in the day - and following successful nostalgia-filled reunions by '90s-'00s contemporaries such as Steps and S Club 7 - surely they realised the comeback would be something of a cultural moment? Ritchie says not. "We're just normal dudes that did something that went bigger than I thought." There were fears of ending up "with egg on our face", J adds. "We release it as this big thing and it could have just gone 'pfff'." Staying in a hotel the night before the announcement, Scott called Kerry. "What if no one cares?" Just a few months earlier, millions had watched Ritchie, Sean and Scott taking part in the docuseries Boybands Forever, which pulled back the curtain on the darker side of fame. Their honesty about the mental health struggles they all faced during their time in Five no doubt contributed to the groundswell of support surrounding the comeback. "I suppose it's a massive part of the healing process," says Scott. "When I started speaking to the boys again, it was like, I'm not sad anymore. Because all of that stuff is a distant memory... I've gone from being a little bit broken, to complete again." They are keen to stress they had lots of good times. "So many highs," says Ritchie. "We played Rock In Rio. How many people was it?" "16 billion," one of his bandmates exaggerates. "We opened the Brits with Queen, Times Square, we went platinum in the States..." "I won two haircut awards," says Scott, adding with mock false modesty: "I don't like to talk about it." While they enjoyed so much of it, it got to the point where they were all desperately craving normality, and a rest. Now, they say it's "massively" important to talk about the low points, and how the industry can learn from its mistakes. 'Nobody's life is that good' "I think the marketing of bands of our era was really based around 'everything's positive, there's no troubles'," says Sean. "I don't really think that that's good for anybody." "Nobody's life is that good," adds Ritchie. Back then, mental health was not part of the conversation - particularly for five "bad boys". "Now, thankfully, it's spoken about a lot," says Scott. "I think it's so, so important." "It takes a lot of pressure off you," says J. "When we were doing it - and we were children doing it - and we are in this position of being on a pedestal almost. You're going through some really rough times and you just want people to know... [but] when you try and voice it to anyone else outside of this collective, it's like [the response is], 'you've got the world at your feet, you're this age, you've obviously got millions in the bank'..." "And that makes you feel a million times worse," Ritchie adds. "I remember having this conversation with one of my best friends. They were like, 'what have you got to be down about?' It actually broke me." Things are different now, Ritchie continues. When he joined the band, he was 17 and "didn't know what too much was". But signed artists now have access to counselling and support, he says. "We've already done it and it's absolutely amazing to be able to speak to someone and go, this is what I'm feeling," says Scott. "We didn't have that. We're not blaming anyone for that. It was a massive time in the '90s where we were all learning at the same time... We're older, they're older. We're more experienced and so are they." Abz chips in: "When you're so wrapped up in it, you're not sure what's left and what's right. To have that break, as wild and as long as it was, whatever happened in that time period, to actually all be here. We're very grateful." 'We didn't realise we were cool' There is also no longer such a snobbery around pop music now. "We didn't realise we were a really cool band," says Scott. "We didn't realise how good our songs were, and that's not blowing our own trumpet." After the split, they tried to "run away" from the music, he adds. J and Ritchie, who "hung out a lot" in later years, would inevitably get asked about it when they were out together. They hated it. "We used to apologise a lot," says Ritchie. "Oh yeah, we're from that rubbish band." He pretends to wince. "Sorry." "It's a ridiculous thing, a really adolescent mindset, the whole, 'I'm selling out'," says J. "I had that for a long time, unfortunately." With enough time passed, he now appreciates the Five back catalogue. "When I hear it, I can hear it fresh. And I'm like, that's why people were digging it." The pop conveyor belt was an industry mistake, says Sean, and artists paid the price. "They looked at our music and bands like us and they thought, okay, it's not really got a lot of depth to it, it's not really moving people in that way that they'd be able to do a tour 25 years later. So we'll get them working all day and all night, maximise it, profit-wise." But here they are, 25 years later. "Our music - and not just our band, the whole '90s era - meant so much to so many people. We're witnessing that now." At the moment, there are no plans for new songs. "I think fans want to hear the old music," says Scott. "They want to remember a simpler time when they didn't have a mortgage to pay. They want the nostalgia." Maybe later down the line though, he adds. Given everything they have been through, the highs and the lows, what would their advice be... "Don't do it!" Abz interrupts, laughing, before I get the chance to finish the question about the boybands following in their footsteps. Get the "right people" behind you, Ritchie says, seriously. "Sleep in the breaks," adds Scott. But would they recommend it? Especially given some of them are fathers now. "I'd do it all again, but different," says Abz. To which Sean quickly reminds him he is now doing exactly that.

Kicking off tour in Cardiff will be a 'special' moment, say Five
Kicking off tour in Cardiff will be a 'special' moment, say Five

BBC News

time22-03-2025

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Kicking off tour in Cardiff will be a 'special' moment, say Five

Nineties British boyband Five are ready to "get on up" when they kick off their massive UK arena tour in been a long time coming for many, but fans in the Welsh capital will be the very first to see the original group on stage together after a 25 year hiatus, with the boys saying it will be a "special" and "emotional" moment. The group - Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, Abz Love and Jason "J" Brown - haven't performed as a five-piece since they broke up in 2001, amid burnout, mental breakdown and backstage the band believe they will enjoy their success much more this time around. The group sold more than 20 million records in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and announced in February they were reuniting for a UK arena tour. "I'm so emotional about this. To have my brothers back does feel really, truly special," Scott told BBC Radio Wales."Cardiff really is going to be a special moment, because we open the tour in Cardiff. The 30 seconds before we go out, I think there will be some tears, I really do."The band were unsure whether the tour tickets would sell, J said, adding: "After being away for a quarter of a century you really don't know how you're going be received."But Ritchie said he thinks it's even better this time around: "There's something so magical, I never thought this could ever be a reality that the five of us are going out and doing it again." In the 25 years apart and band members going their separate ways, Abz moved to Carmarthenshire to escape the limelight and became a farmer."I am not a farmer by any means, but I loved it. I had a couple of pigs, two alpacas, two horses, five ducks, a couple of geese, five dogs, three or four feral cats. "I love Wales so much, I love the people, I was a resident for about two or three years. "The people are so beautiful so friendly, so yeah, you could say the gig is a bit of a homecoming." Five were formed in 1997, in a gruelling audition process that saw more than 3,000 aspiring singers audition for former Spice Girl managers Bob and Chris Herbert. The band were then signed by Simon Cowell to RCA Records on a five-album hits, including Everybody Get Up, Got The Feelin' and If Ya Gettin' Down, came thick and fast, but the recent BBC documentary Boybands Forever highlighted the pressures the band felt, with a gruelling schedule of performances, press and promotion."Back in that time, a band of our music, they just thought they needed to make as much money as possible because it's going to be short-lived," said Sean. "They never thought a band of our nature would be doing an arena tour. There were some tough times, but there were some great times too." Known for their synchronised dance routines, the group plan to keep on movin' and bring them back to the stage once again, even if they are a little rusty."It does come back when you start getting back into the swing of things again, rehearsals, the moves, 'oh I'm meant to go up there, and go down there'," said Abz. "But I do need a little reminder of the lyrics, so I will be going back through the albums and reminding myself which parts were mine and what I'm actually singing where and when.""I'm feeling pretty good about the moves," said Ritchie."I can't wait to get back out there and thrust me hips again." The 25-date tour kicks off in Cardiff on 29 October and 2 November can hear Five on BBC Radio Wales at 12:00 BST on Saturday 21 March and on BBC Sounds.

Five say they were left 'traumatised' by pop stardom
Five say they were left 'traumatised' by pop stardom

Yahoo

time17-03-2025

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Five say they were left 'traumatised' by pop stardom

Five were left "traumatised" by pop stardom. The 1990s group - which consists of Abz Love, Jason 'J' Brown, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, and Sean Conlon - have got back together as a quintet for the first time since their split in 2001 but have admitted that the first time around, being in the group took a mental toll on all of them. Ritchie told The Independent: " We should have had six months off. It's taken us 25 years – I'm not even joking – literally 25 years to be able to even get my head around it." Sean added: "It's almost like we've been traumatised." Ritchie insisted: "No, we are traumatised!" But Ritchie admitted that once it was all over, he felt "completely lost" and turned to alcohol in a bid to cope. He said: "Jesus, straight after the band, for three years I was sat in a living room, frozen, drinking too much, completely lost. "I used to say, 'I feel like I'm a rowing boat in the sea with no oars or sail." Meanwhile, J admitted that he started to suffer from insomnia during his time with the 'Everybody Get Up' hitmkakers because of the demanding schedule. He said: "'I went through the whole [experience] with chronic insomnia, from about three months after it all kicked off. "Most nights I was getting maximum three-and-a-half-hours' sleep. Sometimes I'd go four or five days on an hour and a half, and then have to get up at five in the morning and film a new video." The group will be back on the road across autumn 2025 for the 'Keep on Movin' Tour' and Abz admitted that he is "proud" of how himself and his bandmates have put themselves back in the spotlight again. He said: "What I feel like I want to say is how proud I am of these guys and how brave they are to put themselves into this environment again."

Five on Nineties boyband stardom: ‘It doesn't matter how many No 1s you get, it ain't worth that'
Five on Nineties boyband stardom: ‘It doesn't matter how many No 1s you get, it ain't worth that'

The Independent

time16-03-2025

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  • The Independent

Five on Nineties boyband stardom: ‘It doesn't matter how many No 1s you get, it ain't worth that'

Summer 1998: Five are top of the album charts and have just released the video for their new single ' Everybody Get Up '. In it, pupils rebel against a boring exam; they whack their rulers in unison against desks to summon the five bad boys every teacher and mother of girls should be terrified of. 'Ha ha!' Jason 'J' Brown laughs as he leads the boys in, wearing a hat to show he's the eldest. Spiky-haired, chain-wearing Abz Love, the naughtiest one, turns off the power to the room. Then in comes the blond one, Ritchie Neville, along with gobby Scott Robinson (who throws an evil little grin to the other lads) and baby-faced Sean Conlon (obviously the sensitive one). Each has a different role within Britain's biggest new boyband, but their joint identity has been crafted to appeal to teen girls for whom the other boybands seem too wet, too girly. Three years and 11 Top 10 singles later, it will all be over. Today, the grown adult members of boyband Five are running an impromptu massage parlour. Scott stands over a seated and blissed-out Ritchie, giving his shoulders a kneading. This has piqued the interest of Abz, who wants in on the action; Scott dutifully obliges. J and Sean watch on amused. 'We don't need more stress,' Scott will say, almost sternly, in his gruff Essex accent in a few minutes' time. Despite their mischievous image, this was a very stressed-out boyband – ill, in fact, from the 24/7 pressurised schedule of travelling the world promoting hits like the optimistic jam ' Keep on Movin' ' and rap-rock Queen collaboration cover ' We Will Rock You ' to insatiable fans. If they're doing this again as a manband, it has to be different. They're no longer in their teens, but their forties – now in age-appropriate smart-casual black outfits (plus what feels like emotional armour in the form of immovable dark sunglasses for Abz). As Sean puts it, 'We've got communication now; before it was all lad banter.' Just a few months ago, I watched Five members in the recent BBC docu-series Boybands Forever, which chronicled the dark side of being in a 1990s British boyband. It's odd, given Scott's tears on the show over his appalling experience of fame, to have them here sitting around a boardroom table in an office just off Oxford Street, grinning and cracking jokes. There's a boyish hyperactivity in the air, a distinct disbelief that all five of them are in the same room again to promote their band's reunion tour. Before I can ask my first proper question, conversation descends into comparing notes on whose fault it was that they broke up in 2001. A neutral statement at the time gently said the band could 'no longer do justice' to their fans or each other. In reality, they were all having a mental health crisis on some level or another. In Boybands Forever, the cause of the split is wrongly framed as being a result of Scott's breakdown, though Scott says he is unbothered by the edit because he's always felt deeply responsible for the breakup. Sean leans over the table to more clearly face Scott, who is sitting next to him, and tells him that that's crazy, because he has always carried the blame on his shoulders. 'I was the first one to fall,' Sean insists. 'When we did [chart-topping 2001 single] 'Let's Dance', we were at the beginning of the promotion of the album [Kingsize] and it's not an ideal time to have a breakdown from the record company's point of view at all.' They all laugh grimly. Sean remembers it quite vividly. 'J came up to me and he said, 'You're not right mate. I really think you need to get some help.' I don't want to get emotional…' his eyes start to water during this retelling, and Scott gives him a thumping pat on the back. After that intervention, Sean had a brief break from the band to get counselling and their team told the world that he was resting up from glandular fever. The band had to film the 'Let's Dance' video without him; a cardboard cut-out of Sean bobs up and down in the background. Shortly after this, while Sean was absent, Scott marched into the record label's office and got into an escalating physical fight with one of their team who refused to let him quit the band, pinning him against a desk. Simon Cowell had to intervene, nearly punching Scott. Following that was a meeting between Scott and the band while they were getting ready for a Top of the Pops performance; Scott had planned to tell his friends and bandmates he was going to leave. 'You came in and lost the plot, crying your eyes out – I mean that weeping where someone can't actually speak,' Ritchie says to Scott, performing the heaviness of those sobs. 'Me and J went out in the corridor and I said, 'It's done, ain't it?' Because nothing is worth that, it doesn't matter how many No 1s you get, it ain't worth that.' But all five of them were emotionally and mentally suffering. 'We should have had six months off,' says Ritchie. It's a shame, J adds, that the industry didn't recognise they were struggling and support a hiatus; if they had, they might have been able to have a much longer career. 'It's taken us 25 years – I'm not even joking – literally 25 years to be able to even get my head around it,' adds Ritchie. 'It's almost like we've been traumatised,' says Sean, as if coming out of a daze. 'No, we are traumatised,' says Ritchie, with a look directly at me. What they're traumatised from is worth examining. Their young lives changed overnight in 1997 after they successfully auditioned in an open-casting call for a boyband with 'attitude and edge'. They were signed by Simon Cowell and RCA there and then. Their eclectic pop sound was a new blend of US hip hop, provided by rappers J and Abz, and spikier boyband pop, crooned and sung by the other three. They were thrown together to live in the same house by their management, but their ages meant that Sean, the youngest at just 15, was cohabiting with J, who was about to turn 21. ('So that gives you a gauge of the age [we were] and what was going on in the house – and we kind of ran riot…' J says ominously, which I assume means casual sex and partying.) Five were instantly famous, their debut album not just No 1 in the UK but seriously successful on a global scale. Fans camped out all around the madhouse, so the band felt constantly observed; they'd often do an 'SAS job' and pretend to be out, just creeping around in the dark to get some 'mental headspace', says Richie. Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 30-day free trial It sounds like the female attention warped their young minds with paranoia (bar Abz, who grins like a sated cat about the never-ending line of girls: 'It was good to me, and I enjoyed the process'). At the very start, the rest of them loved it, too. But it quickly became tiresome when they craved normal life, without being mobbed by fans; in a pre-internet era, they couldn't even buy their family gifts for Christmas. 'It made me feel really weird because I'd think all the other people in the street were thinking, 'Look at this idiot, who does he think he is?'' J says. Sean agrees, 'You got scared that people thought you were arrogant.' Then Ritchie adds about the touching and grabbing: 'I didn't know if somebody was overstepping – obviously certain boundaries, I did – but if somebody's taking the p***, I didn't have a good gauge of what that was.' I went through the whole [experience] with chronic insomnia, from about three months after it all kicked off Five's Jason 'J' Brown I see how Scott became the 'main one' in Five's episode of the BBC series. He's clearly the storyteller of the group, and goes into great detail recalling those incidents that forever altered his psyche. There was the occasion Five were in a Tokyo hotel after mini-disc players had just gone on the market. Scott desperately wanted one, as well as the experience of going into a shop with his own money and choosing it. He told the two security guards outside his hotel door that he was popping out to buy one but they said he had to be accompanied by five bodyguards. Fans mobbed him and the bodyguards almost immediately, ripping at their clothes. 'I go into the shop and I'm looking for about a minute and then the fans, they're not trying to be rude, they're not trying to break things, but they're so excited that they broke the shop windows to get to me. And the shopkeeper went, 'Just take it, just take it!' So I didn't pay for it, and then I cried in my room because I had stolen this thing. But I had been told to steal it. And I just sat there and I cried. And I went, 'It's not the one I wanted.' I cried myself to sleep.' They'd constantly wake up and not know which continent they were on, having to look out the hotel or car window for clues. J in particular suffered with this. 'I went through the whole [experience] with chronic insomnia, from about three months after it all kicked off,' he remembers. 'Most nights I was getting maximum three-and-a-half-hours' sleep. Sometimes I'd go four or five days on an hour and a half, and then have to get up at five in the morning and film a new video.' It had a diabolical compounding impact on his mental, emotional and physical health. The band is keen to impress on me that it wasn't all doom and gloom; there were moments in this slog that shone through, including No 1 singles and playing Rock in Rio to an audience of half a million people. The subtext seems to be that the joy came from the band's togetherness, away from the individual members feeling alone in the madness. After the band broke up, Scott got married to his partner the very next day, a straight life swap for stability with his wife and future family. The others fell apart without that structure. 'Jesus, straight after the band, for three years I was sat in a living room, frozen, drinking too much, completely lost,' says Ritchie. 'I used to say, 'I feel like I'm a rowing boat in the sea with no oars or sail.'' Sean compares their situation to being in early retirement. 'I had that at 20 years of age: I had some money in the bank and enough not to work,' he says. 'In your mind there was no Everest, because whatever I do it's not going to be bigger or better than Five. And you've still got an ego and want success at that age, so it's a really troubling, conflicted time.' What was unique about Abz's situation is that he was the only one who didn't want the band to end. His turbulent life after the split is well documented in the media: drug addiction, isolation and paying for friends; bankruptcy; suicidal ideation; going cold turkey. 'I thought we went hard in the band – I went rock and roller after the band… that life just pulled me in,' he says. Five tried to reunite a few times to varying degrees of success. In 2020, when Scott, Ritchie and Sean got back together and went on This Morning, viewers made predictable jokes like, 'They should change their name to Three.' Clearly, it needed to be a cultural moment like this, in which, they collectively insist, no one is being dragged along, more reluctant than the others; they're all hungry for a proper second chance. We internalised that attitude, thinking, 'Oh, we're not really doing anything meaningful, it's not impacting anyone's life, it doesn't really mean anything, it's not real music.' Five's Sean Conlon It wasn't until they were approached by Louis Theroux's production company to make Boybands Forever that they all started to consider what a reunion could look like. Scott booked an Airbnb and the members met, hung out, shared some drinks and laughs, and decided the time was right. Scott reached out to Simon Cowell about the physical scuffle (no hard feelings there, he insists) and much to their amusement, the guy at the label that Scott fought with, Rob Wicks, is now their new manager. Abz has been more reserved for most of our interview, content to let the others speak, but when he is finally nudged into talking he focuses on the positive, the present. 'What I feel like I want to say is how proud I am of these guys and how brave they are to put themselves into this environment again,' he says in his strong London accent. They've reassessed their music – the same music they used to apologise for in the pub when men approached them to ask, 'Aren't you those guys from that boyband?' or began singing 'Keep on Movin'' to them. 'The industry's attitude towards this 90s era of pop was, 'It's bubblegum pop, it's not going to last, it's superficial,' especially after the wave of indie bands before that,' explains Sean. 'We internalised that attitude, too, thinking, 'Oh, we're not really doing anything meaningful, it's not impacting anyone's life, it doesn't really mean anything, it's not real music.' It also ties back to why we were so overworked and stressed – because of that mindset. The focus was on making as much money as possible and moving as quickly as we could. At the time, no one would have expected that, 25 years later, there would still be interest in the band and our music.' Now any personal embarrassment over their music has gone; all say they love it and find it joyful and unique. It's made them view their fans in a completely different way as well. 'I can see that the fans are really genuine, it did touch them,' Sean adds. 'Because I used to be like, 'Why are they going mad about that song when it's not that great?'' Unless Calvin Harris calls them up and asks if they want to make a 'summer banger', they're probably not going to make new music. 'A lot of times, people don't want that, do they?' says J, pragmatically. 'They want to hear all the bangers they remember.' The focus is entirely on having the most fun as possible at reunion shows they promise will be like a giant school disco. 'It's about the hits, the tour, reconnecting,' lists Sean. Then Scott says, unironically, 'Keep on Movin'.' One of them adds, 'Tickets out now.' It's been nearly a quarter of a century but they still remember the game that the pop machine requires – this time they're prepared to play it.

Multi-platinum-selling band add extra Glasgow date for 2025 reunion tour
Multi-platinum-selling band add extra Glasgow date for 2025 reunion tour

Yahoo

time06-03-2025

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Multi-platinum-selling band add extra Glasgow date for 2025 reunion tour

Five have announced seven extra dates for their 2025 tour. The boy band, who formed in 1997, have shared that they have added an extra show date in Glasgow. The extra dates have been added following an unprecedented demand for tickets to see the band perform again. The 90s band will be in the city this year (Image: Newsquest) READ MORE: The boy band will be performing in the city's OVO Hydro on November 16 and again on the 25. Tickets for the tour go on general sale tomorrow, March 7, at 10am on READ MORE: The band, which consists of Abz Love, J Brown, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, and Sean Conlon, will perform their biggest hits including If Ya Gettin' Down, Everybody Get Up, When The Lights Go Out, Keep On Movin', We Will Rock You, and Let's Dance. The band said: "Absolutely buzzing to share that we're adding even more dates to the Keep On Movin' 2025 tour. "To say we're overwhelmed by the response to the tour so far would be an understatement, we're truly speechless. READ MORE: "Getting all this support 25 years on is nothing short of mindblowing. "We cannot wait to be back on that stage surrounded by our incredible fans, make sure you get your tickets." They are the only UK act to hit the Top 10 with all of their 11 singles, including three number ones. The 2025 Keep On Movin' tour will be the first time all five band members will share the stage together again in 25 years.

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