Gavin Scott, Contributor

Ray Slijngaard describes how the band was forced into faking playing instruments on TV despite having no musical training, the band’s implosion, and his falling out with Anita.

In the late ’90s and early 2000s, you couldn’t move without bumping into a boy band, girl group or teenaged blonde bombshell – but by 2004, things had happened.

“We were like, ‘We do not want to do another cover, we’re not a cover band, we’re writing our own songs, we’re good at what we do.’"

“I was pretty pissed about that”