Boyz will always be boyz

Irish boyband Boyzone are marking 20 years in the business with a reunion tour in the autumn. As they reunite for a third time, Ed Power offers them his top 10 tips for a successful, em, ‘comeback’.

NEWS of a Boyzone reunion will have sent many a middle-aged heart a-flutter. With Westlife no more and Take That between projects, a vacancy has opened for what might diplomatically be called a ‘vintage’ boyband.

But in a world where One Direction have their own range of Ugg boots, and in which Bieber fever is approaching the pop equivalent of Spanish Influenza, can four careworn 30-somethings cut it as pin-ups?