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Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

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by Mike Diver
The red-top rumour mill is busting a gut over this one - word around the gutter press is that Gareth Gates is to jump atop the good ship Boyzone when the Irish boyband reform, after a fashion, for a comeback tour.

Gates would fill some of the void left by Ronan Keating, who wants nothing to do with the 'Zone's reformation. Gates apparently released a second album that vanished without a trace. Truth be told, I don't remember.

A source told today's favourite tabloid, The Star: "There's always been one major sticking point in getting the lads back together and that was Ronan. He refused point blank to join the band again. But Gareth has the right look and voice and the boys really rate him."

Next week's shocker: Daphne and Celeste to return to our pop charts with a cover of Placebo's 'Nancy Boy'


Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

Run!!!!!!!!!!
Btw - who remembers B*Witched? Yes...those ugly trolls....

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How can gates not see that he is a talentless cock who shags pregnant slappers?? what a nob.

Anyone remember Buffallo G? awesome two-piece girl band. Cleopatra were great too, they had a TV series and everything, bit like 'The Monkees' and 'Da Club' (S Club 7 for those that don't them.)

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

B*Witched yeah..
Who remembers Cleopatra?

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

that's g-g-g-great news!

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Who remembers Girls Aloud?
Oh wait, they aren't over yet. Bollocks.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

I remember Cleopatra...coming atcha.
Usual untalented kiddie band, wonder which hairdressers their working in now?

Only one other boyband I hate more than Boyzone...WESTLIFE!!
Can't stand you now, then or ever.

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hahaha cleopatra...comin at ya..
*shudders*

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

OK, but who remembers Bad Boys Inc.? Now there's a boy band.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

Vaguely...the name is familiar...80s bling and baseball caps everywhere....

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A friend of a friend of a friend etc. actually made it into a boy band that had some releases, Soul Intention was the name if I remember rightly. They were on tour with Cleopatra themselves at one point. Those closest to him were actually given stories about him to go to the press with, should they be successful. Stories of his sexuality, the antics of his girlfriend and his brushes with the law (all fabricated) were given to his mates to be used at strategic moments.

I was that mad when I heard this I went straight home and ripped my 5ive posters off my bedroom wall

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I don't think they were particularly street - that's why I found it funny at the time. remember a baby-faced guy with one of those annoyingly 90s backwards flat caps, and a song about walking on clouds, or air, or something else floaty.

Oooh, forgot about the CDDB search on firefox:

"Walking on Air" from the s/t album (1994). Shit, that was a long time ago.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

I remember Five or however the hell it was they spelt their name.
There was that freak with the blue eyes, the one called Ape or something who was as thick as shit, the "bad boy" of the band with tattooes, piercings and a rude haircut and one who would up as a flight attendant.

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I love the fact there's a metal band on Tortuga called 5ive. Spelt the same and everything.

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They had to change their name to 5ive's Continuum Research Project. I've seen them live and I guarantee the boyband would actually shit themselves if they saw that band...totally fucked up instrumental craziness.

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I've seen 5ive live....it was by accident though. They were at some free radio 1 thing in plymouth. Well disappointing, there were only 4 of them. In my defence Ash were playing as well and it was free.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

Say its not true

PEASE!

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

We all know that Gareth Bathroomgate and Shitlife's career have been fortunately flagging.
I hate Shitlife, especially that guy with the square head and little piggy eyes.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

anyone remember Gina G

damn she was awesome

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Gina G's going back for more Eurovision this year apparently

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

I rememember Gina G...I think....or am I thinking of Wiggyfield whose now a hooker.

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I didn't even know Denmark had a rugby team...

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

"OK, but who remembers Bad Boys Inc.?"

...or Worlds Apart, Let Loose or Two Thirds ?? They must have accounted for about half of Woolworth's bargin buckets by themselves !

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Oh man. Shit! Let Loose!

How about......911!

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

Tevin Campbell anyone?

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

Gates apparently released a second album that vanished without a trace.

It was actually a DOUBLE album. The horror, eh?

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

is it true about Daphne and Celeste are doing that cover or is it a wind up please tell me.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

best ever pop band were Dum Dums.

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i met the dums dums around the back of the astoria after the At The Drive-In gig there in 2001, they seemed like quite nice people

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

What a fucking irritating little band they where.
Who remembers poor old Rootjoose?

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those bitches 'dalphene and celeste are going to totally murder placebo's 'nancy boy'
what is the world coming to:(

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

I think i must have gone to see rootjoose about 15 times. They must have been the only band allowed to play in cornwall in 1997. Mr Fixit was a gem. EYC, now there's a pop sensation!!

EYC Ya

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I was just about to say EYC! They ruled as far as boybands went.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

EYC were horrible. Express Yourself Clearly.
Good memories of crap boy bands being brought up here.
Two thirds - I remember they were billed as the "gay" boy band cos all the members were gay and actually were willing to say so and so their record company thought this would be a good USP. Cant remember any of their songs though.
Let Loose were funny. I remember reading about their guitarist standing up in a pub and doing an impromptu jam/ fretwank soloing exhibition to prove how "real" they were as a band. Plus their drummer used to do that annoying "twirling the drumstick in his hand" beofre every downbeat on one of their songs.
What about North and South? Maybe the precursors to Busted with their "punk" sound and green and blue hair. Their big single was "Im a man not a boy". Ho
Others: Upside Down - I remember the brilliant BBC documentary about them.
Worlds Apart - Saw one of them working as a trolley dolly on a Virgin Atlantic flight I was on.
Northern Line?
An Irish Boyzone wannabe band who were on the Big Breakfast a lot and had about one hit?
God this is worrying me...

Oh and 5ive the metal band are called 5ives continuum research project or something these days due to possible confusion or legal challenge from the shit 5ive.

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Others: Upside Down - I remember the brilliant BBC documentary about them.

They had to change their name to Orange Orange after someone else called Upside Down sued.

I found an Upside Down single in a branch of Cash Converters about a year ago. The back cover was them all standing around without shirts on, perfectly toned / tanned / hairless, trying to look all macho yet accessible to preteen girls. Possibly the funniest, most obviously homoerotic pop single artwork I've ever come across.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

Does anyone remember A1, the only boy band in history to be named after a main road?

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

I can't believe no one has mentioned Ultra yet!

And A1 were painful to say the least.

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northern line played at my school

an all boys school, mind

the mind fairly boggles

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How's about O-Town? They were pretty darned awful if I remember rightly (I know it was only a couple of years ago but my memory's a little hazy!) Were they the ones with the song about Janet Jackson's smile etc?

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

I remember A1 - have an unpleasant story about them from my Sony days.
I remember they tried to have some "cred" for getting one of them to play Guitar - except you could see beads of sweat forming on his face through intense concentration...so it really wasn't convincing.
Like Busted really.

I remember O-Town
*Shudder*

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

Whose heard of or remembers the little Chav Girl Band "Tommy"

"I walk up in the club like what, what, what?"

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

I remember North and South they had their own tv programme as well, it was quality (what i meant by quality, is that it was shit).

Lol at Buffalo G, i was watching the adam and joe best of and they were on the series 4 best of beginning!

The Cartoons, now they were a band....

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is it not the cartoonies? they did the fast food rocker song. fuck me...

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

Does anyone remember Upside Down? Who changed their name to Orange Orange... or the other way round. They played at my school.

They were crap.

Pop horror! Gates to join Boyzone?

O-Town! How sinister is a song called "liquid dreams"?




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