Ladies and gents, as Kurt Cobain once said: "It's better to burn out then to fade away." Well that was the theory anyway for Boyz Aloud's last ever gig.
The band members had all returned in one piece from their holidays, Fras, Danny and Rob from Magaluf and Lee from Bulgaria. A practice was organised for Wednesday night, where the Boyz learned another 3 songs to add to their ever expanding arsenal of tunes. And so to the day of the gig...........

A lot of uncertainty was in the air on the day of the gig. Would Hidden Agenda supply the gear? Was it really the last gig? But more importantly what state would the Boyz be in by the time they hit the stage?! With Fraser, Danny & Lee in Lerwick celebrating another trophy success for the mighty Delting & Robert out on his works leaving do, the chances were that the musical genre "Drunk Rock" was going to get a good airing at this performance! These fears however failed to materialise as contrary to the rumours circulating in the Lights, the bands front man turned up in suprisingly good nick and the band proceeded to the Brae Arena.
After a few technical hitches the band opened up with a new number, Razorlights "In the Morning." This was pulled off with aplomb. B.A's regular numbers were then rattled off with no major traumas apart from the drummer making a pig's ear of the intro to 2 Princes! However he recovered from this minor setback to hammer home the first half of the Boyz set. Knickers were even thrown on stage from a selection of the Boyz loyal groupies and appreciated they were too!
Boyz Aloud's arch rivals Hidden Agenda then rocked the Brae Arena to it's very foundations before bowing to people power and letting B.A. close the show. The big hitters were unleashed such as "500 Miles", "Quit Playing Games", some Johnny Cash plus another new one, The Kooks "She Moves in her own Way." Before the big moment arrived. Rob made the announcment that the Boyz loyal army had feared, the rumours were true, it was to be Boyz Aloud's last performance. There was really only one way to finish the set, of course Love Machine! The song we'd become famous for got the estimated crowd of 15,000 bouncing around, with a fair few of that number on the stage! The final icing on the cake was the Queen esque link up and bow at the front of the stage! That's Rock n Roll baby!

The emotion of the whole experience obviously got too much for one of the bands biggest torch carriers as Anne Doull cried back stage whilst taking photo's, much to the amusement of the band members!

Was it the last time that Boyz Aloud would be seen sharing the same stage? If so, it was a damn good way to bow out.

Drunk Rock Rocks!

This is a video of us practisin in Fraser's hay loft, (notice the mic hanging from the rafters, we didn't have a stand!) it's very rare that we do practise so enjoy it! Thanks for the filming Gary!

Well folks Lee is gonna take the helm for this one cus I actually can't remember ever bein onstage!

So here he goes:

The Boyz arrived in Yell to a very expectant crowd. They had even practiced 4 a while through the week, which had gone well. The Boyz then proceeded to discover a cocktail bar, got hammered, from what they can remember played rubbish then had their mics turned off.

Good darts