At 16, I was going through what most lads are going through at that age: puberty, becoming a man.
I was very sociable and cheeky. I loved chatting to girls. I wanted to be a football player. I was training every day and had aspirations of going professional. I just wasn’t good enough in the end. Music came later when I started going to the pub, got drunk and did karaoke. I loved performing and when you’re 16, you’re starting to look at what you’re wearing, you want to be seen, you want to be recognised. You want people to know who you are.
I was obsessed with boybands.
I loved Westlife, Blue; NSYNC were flying, Backstreet Boys were popping hits. I started really finding myself with music. And at the time, pop was at its peak. I remember watching an interview with Britney Spears on before I went to school. She was
