V (band)

Infobox musical artist
Name = V


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Alias = "V"
Origin = UK
Genre = Pop
Years_active = 2004— 2005
Label = Island Records
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Current_members = Antony Thomas Brant Aaron Buckingham Mark Harle Kevin McDaid Leon Pisani

V was a UK five-piece boy band consisting of:

* Antony Thomas Brant, (born 18 January 1983)
*Aaron Buckingham, (born 7 July 1983)
* Mark Harle, (born 8 November 1983)
* Kevin McDaid, (born 7 March 1984)
* Leon Pisani, (born 25 December 1985)

Lead singer Antony Brant came up with the band name "V" because V is the Roman numeral for five and there were five members in the band. V made their debut at the same time as McFly by supporting Busted's arena tour in the spring of 2004.

Their first single, "Blood Sweat & Tears", was released in May 2004 went into the official UK singles chart at number 6. The video was shot in Miami in February 2004 and the single contained a collaboration with their friends McFly, called "Chills in the Evening" written by Tom Fletcher from McFly and James Bourne from Busted. The band's second single, released in the August 2004, was a double A-side consisting of a new song "Hip To Hip" and a cover of the Jackson Five's song "Can You Feel It" (with a memorable video consisting of the band dressed as a double glazing salesman, ice cream man, postman, milkman and paperboy) and charted at number 5 in the UK official singles chart.

The third single, "You Stood Up" made #12 in the charts after an appearance on Top of The Pops, but their debut album of the same name failed to reach the Top 75 album charts. In February 2005, V announced their decision to split on their website.

In August 2005, Mark Feehily of Westlife announced that he is gay and that he is currently in a relationship with V band member Kevin McDaid. In July 2006, band member Aaron Buckingham also announced he is gay in a guest column in Attitude Magazine. Mark Harle is now the drummer for indie band 'Little Comets'.

According to their MySpace profiles, as of June 2007, Kevin was a photographer and Aaron was singing in theatre shows in the United States. [ [http://www.myspace.com/aaronbuckinghammusic Aaron Buckingham MySpace page] , accessed 21 June 2007.] [ [http://www.myspace.com/kevinmcdaidphotography Kevin McDaid MySpace page] , accessed 21 June 2007]

In 2006, Kevin appeared on the pannel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, in the line up. Phill Jupitus' team (including Tom Fletcher (McFly) and Alan Carr) managed to guess correctly who he was.

In Summer 2008 they appeared on Big Brother's Little Brother due to the fact that 6th evictee Rebecca Shiner had reportedly followed them for a year. She was reunited with a book containing all of her tickets and pictures of her with the band which she had collected during this time. [ [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/big_brother/article1281774.ece The Sun Article]

Singles

*Blood, Sweat and Tears (June 2004, #6)
*Hip To Hip/Can You Feel It (August 2004 #5)
*You Stood Up (November 2004, #12)
*Earth, Wind & Fire (February 2005, cancelled UK single)

Albums

*You Stood Up (November 2004, #86)

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/vofficial V Official Myspace Profile]
* [http://www.freerunner.uk.com/ Freerunner Official Site]

References