Westlife's Mark Feehily: 'We're Not Splitting Up.'

29-10-2007 11:00

Westlife's Mark Feehily is determined that the band will not split after their next tour as predicted by recent reports.

“We know we're not splitting up," he told Female First last week after fans began to panic over news the guys are taking a year long break after their upcoming tour.

"The fans are all not sure because that's what Boyzone said and whatever but we're just going to take a lot longer to make this 10th album," he confirmed.

"This is a big tour coming up and then we're actually taking a year off after that. It's a big one for us and a big one for the fans. So it's not like we're taking a year off- we're taking a year away from releasing an album in November because we've done the 9 albums in 9 years.”

Westlife are also planning some big celebration for their 10 year anniversary: " We're in talks about doing some mega mega gigs in Ireland and possibly in the UK too just to sort of seal off the 10 years with a bang. But we're not sure about them yet. Some are more likely than others," said Mark.

Mark also confirmed that ex-member Brian will definitely not be joining them on stage next year: “Brian is well and truly gone from Westlife,” he said.

"There's no plans what so ever to have Brain playing any gigs with us because he's not in our band any more.”

“Brian decided to leave and therefore we don't feel bad saying that. We had to get over the fact that he left and get used to it and now we are used to it. We're a 4 piece now and that's that," he added.

Read the rest of Female First's exclusive interview with Mark