Music manager and former X-Factor judge Louis Walsh has unveiled his brand new boyband after failing to form the girl group he wanted.
Louis is known for his TV judging stints as well as managing mega successful groups such as Westlife and Girls Aloud. He has been working on his new group for a year and revealed that he originally wanted to form a girl group but failed to "get the right girls".
1,000 auditions were held before Louis chose the five lads he wants for his group, whose name is yet to be revealed. The quintet is made up of Conor O’Farrell, 20, from Meath, Harry O’Connell, 19, Conor Davis, 19, from Dublin, Nueng Kelly, 20, from Carlow and 17-year-old Navan native Joshua Regala.
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He said of the five members: "I was going to do a girl group and I did auditions but I didn’t get the right girls. Then when I did the boys auditions, there was excitement here. There was something young and fresh and different.
“There were all these teenagers coming in, singing their own songs, doing their own thing. And it was too good to say no to – and here we are.”
Louis revealed to Sunday Independent’s Life magazine that the group have already recorded ten songs in London with Brian Higgins who has written hits for Girls Aloud and Sugababes. The lads are yet to sign a record deal but Louis said that if they "get the right songs, it’s a modern boy band".
He said: "Their sound is somewhere between One Republic and Five Seconds [Of Summer]. It’s not what people would expect, and it is not what I had expected."
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