she was always um so gracious and so lovely and we yeah we tried to get involved in
in her charities when we could she was amazing
so right we're going to go through some pictures okay and you're just going to tell me immediately
what memories spring to mind when you see them feelings thoughts anything like that that comes
to mind when you when you do so the first one that you've got in front of you yes um do you
want to tell us what you're looking at for this first one yeah i'm looking at a picture of me
holding a number plate uh that says new york on it and and i i would guess that this was my first
time ever in new york right yes not hull wasn't it yeah and we were so excited to be there uh it was
probably the early 90s i would guess i mean you look excited the thing is you look so excited i
think it was also the time of our like first like number one i think prey was number one and and so
it was just it was the band was starting to we were getting we were getting global you know
you're making waves very exciting okay great do you want to turn to the next picture and tell
us what you see yeah this is exciting this is uh i played the isle of wight festival
um literally um a couple of weeks ago a week ago um and this was my first performance on stage
for 10 years and it was a it was great it was you know it was i've got a new band it was just
a great audience very exciting um and just nice to be out there again especially with you know the
last few years yeah um not a lot of people a lot of these shows being cancelled and stuff and it
was a great atmosphere i loved it was it weird not having the lads does it make you nervous when the
other lads are not there or you like no hang on this is me now are you a different person on stage
when it's just you um probably probably it's like yeah you know when you're doing a show with a band
a lot of it's sort of uh sort of choreographed and you know where you're going and you know you
allow space for each other so yeah it's slightly different when you're out there on your own but
i totally enjoyed it yeah amazing well after 10 years it's made to have your back shall we see
what the next one is yeah i'm excited wow what can you say i can see us all doing soccer age
um which is uh rob's charity which he does i think every couple of years doesn't he which
is absolutely amazing they've raised so much money for unicef and uh and and yeah this was
i think we maybe old trafford um in manchester and it looks like we'd have a really good loser
which was very exciting and it's really tough when you're out there because you you honestly
it is like your cup final and you get really excited of course you're living that life of
the footballer that day like it's dreams coming in train for a week yeah um yeah i love i love
those games and it's so nice because i grew up um in the north of england and played weekend
football all the time and most of the pitches were like you know big turfs and you know uneven and
one you played up uphill first half so you could play down in the second half they were the kind of
decisions that you'd make tactics yeah the tactics and to play on cut grass that is actually level
heaven i mean it doesn't sound like you're asking for much really does it cut grass to put it on
some cut grass that's flat but it looks like a great lineup as well it must be so exciting
oh yeah it's an absolute buzz i absolutely love it oh amazing right let's move to the next picture
this one uh you can see princess diana with all five of the take that lads there
yeah uh and robbie looks like he's got polite hands on him you know like when you're sort of
a bit nervous and you're like i don't want to do anything silly so i'm just going to hold my
hands really still can you see how old he is how tight he's holding them he looks quite shocked
yes yeah i think this might have been a wembley uh in wembley uh arena it was something yeah
in 1994 it's the concept of hope for aids benefit yeah we we uh we had the the pleasure
of meeting diana a few times princess diana and she was always um so gracious and so um
so lovely and we yeah we tried to get involved in in her charities when we could she was she
was amazing do you remember what she said to you can you remember any of that moment uh
no no fair enough it was quite a long time ago yeah but uh but she was she was you know always
like i say so gracious and it was so lovely to meet her it's a great picture
when you've got pictures do you have pictures up at home of moments over the years memories
that you've made with the band and stuff um i do have pictures um but not really up at home
not not many up at home i think i've been through phases where i had them all up
um is that the earliest yeah and then i had every disc like filling
all this all the walls but yeah not so much i have a couple up now but not so much not so many now
but i do think to myself well i should get some more yeah i think so i will do i'll go through
phases yeah or maybe just one dedicated room sometimes people just have the toilet don't they
yes just didn't yeah just plaster the toilet in all the pictures yeah that's that's very true
i've been in many toilets that are filled with pictures oh yes would you like to tell us
i'm trying to think now there was one i was in recently it's quite a common thing to put
pictures that mean a lot up in your toilet to pretend that they don't
mean a lot oh these old things sorry about to see those
all right let's move to the next picture then do you remember this one i remember this colt i loved
this coal it's a look it was it was like the best cold ever the collar was so warm it was um yeah
i love that coal where's that coating i have no idea where that goes probably in the toilet
is that the kind of thing that you look at you think i wish i kept that i probably will have it
somewhere i just don't know where boxes of storage somewhere or something do you remember the moment
of what this was i think that was big brother it was it was yeah um it was the final in 2002
20 years ago long time ago how was it i mean it's i it's such a strange concept now thinking of you
being on big brother because it's like obviously it was a celebrity early it was the early days of
of shoals yeah wasn't it um how was the experience of it what is there a standout memory it was i was
in with some lovely people i remember i remember that um yeah i remember um it was actually okay
the the the general thing i hadn't been sort of out of probably my kitchen for a few years before
that so it it was i think i was quite nervous to go back into that sort of world um i don't think
you're much out the kitchen in the house really there's only four spaces yeah exactly but i mean i
think just generally i'd probably not start doing anything of course publicly for a few years yeah
it's probably i think i remember being like a bit like oh my like yeah and then this shot you
into like you know people's homes every night like did you realize how big it was going to be
when you went in did you realize how you know did you notice stepping out there that suddenly
there was a new audience of people that were coming up to you in the street and um
yeah i guess i guess so yeah because i i i made a record after that so you know it it definitely
uh helped in in uh and things like that um helped me sort of get back in the studio and
do things like that so i think it was definitely played a part um in my in my world but uh do you
still speak to anyone that you're in the house with i've come across them a couple of times um
i've seen melinda a couple of times she was in there um and goldie was in there um
so i've come across them out and about yeah that must be nice yeah it's strange isn't it
all right do you have a look at the next picture then yeah this one was only a few weeks ago
how was it doing the jubilee street party it was amazing
it was a it was uh in manchester which was always special and we were at the um
in the arena there which is a great venue it's the first time i've been on stage and performed
um the new song but also like myself for quite quite some time and uh so we turned up the
day before and i learned i was trying to learn choreography again but it was great it was really
nice to do and i went and saw my mom and dad when i was in manchester so it was really useful to be
able to do that and um and then she turned up i turned up there and you know they they've
not changed at all and yeah they're turning this and my mum said john some cheese on top
is that your meal when you go home is that what she's got ready for you oh
nice that's what we used to have um but it was really cool i really enjoyed being back
in manchester and uh and seen like i said my faults and i saw a couple of other people
knocking around at that stage there and caught up with a lot of people i hadn't seen for a few years
yeah really nice yeah it looked like an amazing night i mean how was the feedback for the first
time of doing your new song was it incredible yeah i think it was really good it was just um
yeah the whole event i mean it was a celebration obviously so i have the the spirits were really
high there and and i was able to sort of walk in and be a part of that and and i i was really i was
really pleased to be asked to do it to be honest it was really like nice to be asked to do some and
obviously for the queen and stuff um was really nice and for the queen in manchester so i was
uh i was really happy right should we skip over to the next one have a little look at this one
there's a real outfit joyce
i like what i'm wearing i don't know i don't know where that jacket is what what is it that
you're wearing there there seems to be a couple of jackets going on there is i think i'm layering
you're layering it was around that time i think it's the early 2000s layers upon layers yeah the
mtv awards fabulous in edinburgh how was it your memory is very good no i can see it all right okay
are you just good at reading yeah he says yeah i love them i love the interview awards they're
always um i i am a big um i'm a fan of music more than anything and uh and so to i remember mainly
um like the mtv awards were times where you got to meet other actors yeah the bands we played
at the first one i think the mtv european music awards back in the 90s and um and we've we've
managed to get to a few over the years um but i i really remember it for me just like getting to see
a lot of bands people watching and seeing other massive bands and just being like was there anyone
that you were just blown away by you were like wow who would have people like madonna and prince and
and um those sort of artists i think were when we were growing up and and yeah i think that
maybe george my cullen and uh so that you know all those marvelous artists that you grew up with
you know um but yeah it was really a chance for me it was the day before probably in the time before
like selfies and yeah and those sort of things uh it was the sweet spot yeah but i i i think if i'd
had a phone and back then i would have probably annoyed quite a lot people a lot more it was more
like pointing and looking yeah rather than going up and going can i have a picture yeah yeah yeah
um but uh yeah it was always very exciting oh mark it's been so lovely taking a trip down memory lane
thank you thank you very much for coming and doing that i hope you've enjoyed it
oh absolutely yeah very much so i it was it was wonderful to look back i've had been on some
journey yeah you've had some good times haven't you got some lovely time thank you marco thank you