It's like a part of you has been found again

BOYBAND FIVE TALK TO LAUREN DEL FABBRO AND CASEY COOPER- FISKE ABOUT THEIR REUNION TOUR

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As they were: Five in 1998

BOYBAND Five are back and heading out on tour after launching their latest reunion with a surprise performance — with Robbie Williams.

They are still best known for late-90s hits like If Ya Gettin’ Down, Keep On Movin’ and Everybody Get Up, and are reuniting with their original lineup for the first time in 25 years for the Keep On Movin’ tour, which will see them perform across the country from London to Aberdeen.

The group - made up of Abz Love, J Brown, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson and Sean Conlon ~ have performed as a four-piece and with three of their original members after the band’s breakup, but have not fully reunited since splitting in 2001.

Sean says: “It’s like a part of yourself has been found again.”

After the struggles faced by the band during their 90s heyday were well documented in the BBC’s Boybands Forever series last year, news of their return has been received so warmly that the guys have had to put on 13 extra dates.

Ritchie says: “Obviously you wouldn't step into it and put yourself on the line if you thought you were going to flop, but you can’t help, as a human being, having this fear of, like, is it going to fly? Are people going to care? Or has it just been too long?

“So to then practically double the amount of dates that we've put on (and) sell out these arenas, it’s been genuinely heartwarming.