Five (band)

Five (band)

Five (stylised as 5ive) are an English boy band consisting of Scott Robinson, Ritchie Neville, Abz Love and Sean Conlon. They were formed in 1997 by the same team that managed the Spice Girls before they launched their career. The band were most known as a five-piece, consisting of Robinson, Neville, Love, Conlon and Jason "J" Brown.

Five enjoyed great success worldwide, particularly in the United Kingdom, most of Europe and Asia, Russia, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. They split up on 27 September 2001, after selling over 20 million records worldwide, and having 11 top ten singles and four top ten albums in the UK.

Robinson, Love, Neville, and Brown briefly reformed the group without Conlon in September 2006, with a new management team headed by music manager Richard Beck. Eight months later, having secured a lucrative tour but failing to gain enough record company interest, Five made an announcement via their official website that they would again disband.

In 2012, the band said that they were planning to reunite again, this time again with Conlon, but without Brown, who refused to take part in the reunion, claiming he no longer wanted to be in the music industry. On 17 October 2012, Robinson tweeted that Five will be taking part in The Big Reunion documentary on ITV2 sometime in 2013, which will also feature the reunion of Atomic Kitten, Liberty X, B*Witched, 911 and Honeyz.