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Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
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.
Sky News
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Five: Nineties boyband reunite and will tour the UK
Nineties boyband Five are reuniting and will be touring the UK later this year. The group - made up of Abz Love, J Brown, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson and Sean Conlon - haven't performed together for a quarter of a century. In their heyday, the platinum-selling band topped charts across the globe and sold more than 20 million records worldwide. Their 12-date UK arena tour, Keep On Movin' 2025, will begin in Brighton at the end of October, before travelling to Bournemouth, Cardiff, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and London where they will perform at The O2. They will perform some of their biggest hits, including If Ya Gettin' Down, Everybody Get Up and international success When The Lights Go Out. Fans will also be treated to some of their past number ones, with Keep On Movin', We Will Rock You, and Let's Dance also on the playlist. Speaking ahead of the tour, band member Robinson said: "This has been a long time coming and it really does feel right for all of us now - 25 years on, and we're so ready for it. Reconnecting as a 5 over the last year has been special and I know I speak for all the boys when I say we can't wait to do this all over again. Hope you're ready!!" Abz Love added: "We really can't wait to get back on stage together & see the fans, it's gonna go OFF! Buzzing to have Naughty Boy on tour with us too… 5 bad boys and a naughty boy, that sounds like a lot of fun. Let's gooooo!" Formed in 1997, Five is the only UK act to hit the Top 10 with all of their 11 singles, including three number ones. Their first and second albums both went double platinum. Their tour announcement comes 25 years after the band won their first BRIT Award for best British pop act in 2000.
BBC News
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Boy band Five to reunite with all original members
After 25 years apart, all five original members of the British boyband Five are reuniting for a massive UK arena group sold more than 20 million records in the late 1990s and early 2000s with tracks such as When The Lights Go Out, If Ya Gettin' Down and Slam Dunk (Da Funk).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 fights. "This has been a long time coming and it really does feel right for all of us now," said Scott in a statement. "I know I speak for all the boys when I say we can't wait to do this all over again. Hope you're ready!" The reunion announcement lands on the 25th anniversary of the band winning best pop act at the 2000 Brit Awards. "We really can't wait to get back on stage together & see the fans, it's gonna go off!" said Abz. Five were formed in 1997, in a gruelling audition process that saw more than 3,000 aspiring singers - including a pre-fame Russell Brand - audition for former Spice Girl managers Bob and Chris group came together relatively naturally, however, after the members formed a unit during rehearsals and convinced record label executives with their chemistry."I remember Simon Cowell was there and he said, 'You're the band, I'm signing you to RCA Records on a five-album deal, this is happening very soon," Scott told journalist Michael Cragg in his book about the 2000s pop era, Reach For The group were quickly moved into a shared council house in Surrey to begin the process of bonding - but it didn't go entirely to plan."They wanted a band with edge and that's what they got," Ritchie said in Reach For The Stars. "None of us are people that will be bossed around. So if you put five of those people together all the time and then they start annoying each other... eventually there's going to be eruptions." Despite those initial tensions, the group achieved huge commercial success. Their first song, Slam Dunk (Da Funk), went to number 10 in the UK; and the follow-up, When The Lights Go Out, achieved the same ranking on the US Billboard of the first bands to utilise the talents of Swedish hitmaker Max Martin, they famously turned down the opportunity to record ...Baby, One More Time before Britney Spears turned it into an era-defining they had further chart success with see-sawing song titles such as Everybody Get Up and If Ya Gettin' Down, and opened the 2000 Brit Awards by performing We Will Rock You with rock legends three consecutive years, they were named best band at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, while Scott picked up a hat-trick of best haircut awards. Meanwhile Ritchie's relationship with fellow teen star Billie Piper made them a permanent fixture in the tabloids and teen music magazines. 'Crying in the corridor' In 2001, Five played to half a million fans at Brazil's Rock In Rio festival, but the band was disintegrating due to a relentless touring schedule and personal walked out during an interview to promote the 2001 single Let's Dance and never came back. His absence from the music video was officially explained as glandular fever but, in reality, he had suffered a mental departure was formally announced later that year and, after releasing a greatest hits album, the band officially split said he decided to leave after being pressured to perform on TV while his young son was in a hospital's intensive care ward."I was crying in the corridor and I think [Ritchie] looked at the boys and said, 'This is done'," he later the recent BBC documentary Boybands Forever, Cowell cited Five as the band that "got away", saying they had come tantalisingly close to becoming a major act in the US."The band ended before we really cracked America, and I honestly think we could have done that," former manager Chris Herbert agreed. Five reformed without Sean in 2006, but plans to record a new album were shelved after they failed to secure a record deal.A second reunion occurred in 2012, this time without "J" Brown, who declined to take part for "privacy reasons".After appearing in the ITV documentary The Big Reunion, the group toured with fellow 2000s pop survivors Atomic Kitten, Liberty X and B*Witched - until Abz abruptly quit in 2014."As of today I am no longer a member of @itsfiveofficial Thank you to all the fans who support us, I love you all," he wrote on social media at the time,.The news apparently took his bandmates by surprise"Wow what a way to find this out!" replied who was born Richard Breen, announced he had rejoined the band earlier this week, with fans speculating his return could lead to a full news was confirmed by BBC Radio 2's Scott Mills on this morning's Breakfast 12-date tour will kick off in Brighton on 31 October 2025, with tickets on sale from Friday, 7 March.
