{"id":166617,"date":"2025-06-08T03:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166617\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T03:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T03:34:20","slug":"five-perform-live-for-the-first-time-in-25-years-as-they-surprise-fans-at-robbie-williams-stadium-gig-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166617\/","title":{"rendered":"Five perform live for the FIRST time in 25 years as they surprise fans at Robbie Williams’ stadium gig in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five sent fans into frenzy as they made a surprise appearance during\u00a0Robbie Williams<\/a>‘ stadium gig in London on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marking the band’s first live performance in 25 years, the iconic Noughties boyband, made up of Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, Abz Love and Jason Brown, brought a vibrant energy to the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n

The English group, who originally formed in 1997,\u00a0 joined Robbie, 51, while singing their hit Keep On Movin amid his\u00a0mammoth UK BRITPOP stadium tour.<\/p>\n

The jaw-dropping moment marked\u00a0the very first time Five has performed together with all five members in 25 years, with a reaction that was nothing short of electric.<\/p>\n

As the hit song began, echoes were heard in the stadium, with Robbie doing a perfect rendition of the track, before joked that he didn’t really know the second verse and asked if anyone could help him.<\/p>\n

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\"Five <\/p>\n

Five sent fans into frenzy as they surprised fans on stage at Robbie Williams’ stadium gig in London on Friday night – marking the band’s first live performance in 25 years<\/p>\n

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Marking the band’s first live performance in 25 years, the iconic Noughties boyband brought a vibrant energy to the Emirates Stadium as they sang KEEP ON MOVIN<\/p>\n

As the crowd erupted, Abz Love, J, Ritchie, Scott and Sean walked out on stage, stepping into the spotlight together for the first time in a quarter-century for a poignant performance of their signature hit with fans singing along to every word.<\/p>\n

Uniting pop history and transporting fans straight back to peak boyband mania – it’s also the first time Five and Robbie have ever performed together.<\/p>\n

Five said of their experience: ‘Wow, what an honour to be asked by Robbie Williams to join him on stage at his London stadium show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Rob has been such a big supporter of ours, from the early days through to the comeback, so when he reached out to ask whether we’d come out on stage for his performance of Keep On Movin’, it was the EASIEST yes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘To get to share that moment with Robbie in front of 60k people was crazy\u2026 definitely a version of Keep On Movin’ we’ll never forget.”<\/p>\n

The surprise performance comes ahead of Five’s highly-anticipated 25-date ‘KEEP ON MOVIN’ Tour, which will kick off this October.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently speaking to MailOnline, the group couldn’t help but bicker as they revealed the correct way to spell their name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Five – who went on to sell more than\u00a020 million records worldwide before they split in 2001 – have widely been known as 5ive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Five said of their experience: ‘Wow, what an honour to be asked by Robbie Williams to join him on stage at his London stadium show (L-R\u00a0Jason ‘J’ Brown,\u00a0 Sean, Abz Love, Scott Robinson and Ritchie Neville)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Five recently\u00a0 broke out into a row during an exclusive chat with MailOnline as they cleared up a ‘silly’ myth about the band that’s plagued them for 26 years\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fans of the band have been referring to them as such for decades, and even the group’s Wikipedia page states the name\u00a0is ‘stylised as 5ive’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So last week, fans were left in shock when the group filmed a TikTok video captioned: ‘when people call us 5ive instead of Five’, showing them kicking bottles and hitting the wall in frustration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Such is the passionate defence that their name has been misstyled that when asked by MailOnline why they decided to ‘drop the 5’ from their name, Richie immediately exclaimed: ‘We didn’t!’<\/p>\n

Revealing they had never spelled their name that way, Scott explained that the trend started when they released their Slam Dunk (Da Funk) music video 26 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He shared: ‘In the video\u00a0there is a 5 but it was never on one of our albums! it’s wrong on\u00a0Spotify<\/a>, because it’s got the 5. We are called F, I, V, E.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Admitting it had been a cause of contention between the group, Sean then said: ‘I can’t understand – now I know I’m gonna get a lot of backlash – you’re going to attack me – I don’t get what’s so upsetting about it.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The group then immediately started bickering as\u00a0J bellowed: ‘I don’t like it!’<\/p>\n

Scott added: ‘It\u00a0looks silly. Like 5Five. we’re not called 5Five, we’re called Five, please, please!’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Slam Dunk (Da Funk) was Five’s debut single and went on to hit\u00a0number 10 on the UK Singles Chart.<\/p>\n

Charting in over 20 countries, Five are the only UK act to hit the Top 10 with all of their 11 singles, including three No 1s<\/p>\n

Tickets to Five’s Keep On Movin’ 2025 Tour are available at www.itsfiveoffical.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five sent fans into frenzy as they made a surprise appearance during\u00a0Robbie Williams‘ stadium gig in London on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,92,393,4884,257,2620,813,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-robbie-williams","14":"tag-tvshowbiz","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114645648371668973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}