First of all, can I just say, I am officially a collaborator.
- Yes! - Wooh!
Who came up with that incredible fan name?
I can't remember now.
- I think it was me. - I'm pretty sure it was Jamie, yeah.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah. Of course it was. - We had collaborators or-
We were above a pub, rehearsing, in January and we were just think about different- Which
is where we got the zoo from as well, remember? We came up with all of this stuff on the same
day and it was a bit of a mixture of all of us, really. But collaborator we just thought sounded-
We couldn't decide between collaborator or collabroator but collaborator works much better.
I like collabrolite but that sounds a bit too cult-y.
A massive congratulations guys.
- Thank you. - Thank you very much.
A massive congratulations, can you talk me through the moment when you walked on stage
last night? Just talk me through it.
Well, we'd been waiting back stage because we were the last act to go on, so the nerves
were really at the highest point possible and, when we walked on, obviously we saw the
judges sitting there, we all just knew that we had to get the job done, you know? And
the reaction we got in the end was amazing.
Because we were last, we were waiting and we would hear people belting out notes and
doing their show and going 'Oh, they're good. Oh, they're good as well. Oh, they're really
good as well. Um.'
We were listening to the comments like, 'Oh, Simon's in a bad mood.'
And the fact that you know that it's live and anything can happen just makes you want
it more and, yeah.
Which performance could have potentially psyched you out the most?
Darcy's.
- Yeah. - Completely.
Because we could hear the comments in our earphones. We couldn't hear the performances
but we could just hear the judges comments. We were sitting backstage and all the way
through, Simon was in a bit of a bad mood at the start of the show, and then suddenly
Darcy came on and we were like, oh no! Straight away.
Huge cheer before he'd even started.
Okay, so this is mental. You met a month before the first audition, I mean, absolutely mental
boys. What brought you guys together and why did you decide to start singing together?
Well, me and Jamie already knew each other and we thought we just wanted to put something
different together, we don't want to stick to the usual boy band, because we've obviously
got a passion for musical theatre, but we also didn't want to go down the route of suited
and booted, that's what musical theatre is. So we though we want to keep it young and
me and Jamie contacted the boys over social media and we met up above a pub and we started
singing and thought, we're alright, so we went for-
- Yes, it's alright - We're okay.
Yeah, you're alright. Average. Just finalists of BGT.
Well, I mean, if you look at 'Bring Him Home', we were singing it and we just looked at each
other and we knew that, when we were singing that, we knew that something good was going on.
So you found the other boys on twitter? Or?
On Facebook. At the time, they had stuff on YouTube and stuff like that and we thought,
you know, obviously they've got a passion for musical theatre as well.
Rich actually had a video of 'Bring Him Home' on YouTube, that's how we found him. But,
yeah, it's- Social media's a really powerful thing nowadays and we didn't realise
the standard of people that we would find. Which, of course, made a massive contribution
to how the group formed.
So you're a bit of a mini Simon Cowell?
Oh, no no no.
Bringing bands together.
No, I think we were just looking to do something special, weren't we? But we didn't realise
how brilliant it would turn out to be until we sang 'Bring Him Home' for the first time
which I think it made last night a really important night.
- It was a special night. - A really special night for us.
So, it it going to be Les Mis for the final?
- You'll have to wait and see. - Couldn't possibly say.
The only thing we can say is we're gonna step up our game and it's gonna be another big song.
Now, what would be the dream for you guys? What do really hope comes out from this competition?
A career. To do what we love doing. Perform in front of thousands. I mean, we performed
in front of millions last night on National Television. We just want to do this for the
rest of our lives.
- I think we'd- Sorry. - Bring out an album.
- I was gonna say. - Would be lovely.
Bring out an album would be lovely, so, yeah.
And it's five now best friends doing something we love.
- Oh yeah. - Sharing it with the-
I wouldn't want to do it with anyone else.
- No. - Awh.
We're actually really lucky in that respect because we could have contacted anybody and
we've actually ended up being really close, which is really nice.
We're all good mates, so.
Now, if you could collaborate with anyone, if you could have a celebrity sing-off,
who would it be?
I'm actually a massive Glee fan, so I'd love to take part. If I could get on Glee, that'd
be great. So any of those from Glee, definitely.
You will be on Glee. I see this already.
But you know what, that's the market. That's what revived musical theatre in the last few
years. Glee has done a huge amount. Glee and Smash have both done massively well.
- Get that trending, Collabro on Glee. - And Les Mis, the movie.
- Collabro on Glee, let's get it trending! - Trend it!
Let's get this trending, this is going to happen! Favourite Glee star?
- Definitely Lea Michelle who plays Rachel. - It would be.
- Hands down? - Hands down.
Now, let's talk about twitter. It has exploded. You did get a lot of celebrity tweets. Which
ones really got the heart racing?
- Olly Murs. - Gary Lineker.
Gary Lineker, yeah. That was amazing.
I was gonna say, who would alert the band to the last person that tweeted?
The fans. The fans retweet everything, don't they? Because we jumped last night from 12,000
followers to 25 within an hour, and it's just not stopped. So we don't see a lot of the
tweets that come through but the fans all retweet everything, so we kind of see everything
that all the celebrities tweet us because the fans make sure that we see it.
Like, 'Look what I did for you!'
- They're amazing, they're amazing. - They're great.
Collaborators have just been phenomenal.
Their drawings. They send in so much fan art, it's amazing.
Now, we got some great questions on twitter, one is 'Why is Thomas so hot?'
Because he's just naturally gifted.
I can't see it personally, but...
Neither can we.
Now, Simon Cowell is just a genius. What is he like backstage, off-camera?
Do you talk to him much?
He's lovely. I bumped into him yesterday and he shook my hand and said 'You're amazing'
and he's just genuinely a nice bloke. He is really nice.
We haven't had a chance to have a cup of tea with him, really. But-
Yet.
I don't think he's as bad as people make out, so.
Probably not as bad as he makes himself out to be.
What's nice is he really knows what he's talking about as well, so the comments that we get
from him, they just mean so much.
I feel the Queen would just adore, like, she would adore every single one of you and just
adore your music too.
We hope so.
What would it mean to meet her?
I met her once already.
Stop! Where?
I met her because I blindfolded myself for three days to raise money for Guide Dogs for
the Blind and I got to meet the Queen for it which was really cool. But I cracked some
really awful joke about trying to eat curry with a blindfold on and it just didn't go
down very well.
You never told us this.
So, you didn't see her you just knew she was there.
At the time I had, like, long red hair.
It was John Clegg. It was John Clegg.
John Clegg doing an impression, yeah.
Well thank you so much guys. You are utterly heaven, so good luck!
- Thank you. - Thank you very much.