V (band)

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V
Also known as	"V"
Origin	UK
Genre(s)	Pop
Years active	2004— 2005
Label(s)	Virgin Records
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 a now the drummer for Freerunner, an indie band.

According to their MySpace profiles, as of June 2007, Kevin was a photographer and Aaron was singing in theatre shows in the United States. ^[1] ^[2]

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.

1 Singles
2 Albums
3 External links
4 References

[edit] 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)

[edit] Albums

You Stood Up (November 2004, #86)

[edit] External links

[edit] References

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