Not only is Scott Robinson, from pop band 5ive, a keen Arsenal fan but he also plays charity football matches himself.

"I love playing and getting involved, anything we can do, we always want to help, even if it means giving up my precious weekends with the family,'' said Scott, who is secretly hoping his son Kavan, who is only 11 but a brilliant footballer, will play for Arsenal one day.

The band, whose hits include Keep On Movin', If Ya Gettin' Down, When The Lights Go Out, Got The Feelin', and Everybody Get Up, will be linking up with S Club, the spin off from S Club 7 in the Ultimate Pop Reunion Tour stopping off in Cardiff on Friday, May 25 and Southampton on Saturday, May 26.

This is not the first time the guys have linked up with S Club as they were both featured on the TV documentary Big Reunion.

Scott said: "This is a different dynamic from what was mainly a reality TV show, showing behind the scenes of a pop band, what it was really like, and how every band went through its own trial and tribulations.It showed the dark times of a band, like when you get stuffed by your record company. It made me very aware everyone has the same story, and there are a lot of going down wrong paths, but your vision is what you make it.''

Scott says the boys are too busy performing this summer to think about writing new songs or recording an album.

"We are enjoying playing again, we are enjoying giving people the nostalgia,'' he said. "We are joining Peter Andre on tour in October including Wembley arena and then we are off to Australia.''

The singer knows he is is fortunate to have come from a very stable background and proudly says his parents are still together, that he has never touched drugs and married his long term beautiful girlfriend Kerry. He grew up in Essex and attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, the same school as Swindon's Billie Piper, and from there went on to do acting and musical theatre.

He appeared in EastEnders, The Bill, Casualty and on the West End stage with Ron Moody in Peter Pan.

"I enjoyed that and would like to do more acting but there is just not the time for everything,'' said Scott.

5ive got together in 1997 through the legendary route of an advertisement in the performing arts newspaper, The Stage, which was placed by the same production team who had launched the Spice Girls, Bob and Chris Herbert.

Scott was one of 3,000 that auditioned including Russell Brand.

"What a different dynamic that would have been, I think working with Russell would have been hard work,'' said Scott.

"I can remember it as clearly as yesterday, it was the second audition and we went through all these interviews with Bob and Chris and Simon Cowell. It was Simon, in that special voice, who told us not to tell anyone but we were the band and signed to RCA Records. Within weeks I found myself living in a house in Surrey with four lunatics - the rest of the band.''

From the get-go the boys knew what they wanted, and insisted on writing or co-writing their own songs, and the hits followed. One of the highlights for Scott was opening the Brit Awards with the legendary rock band Queen. They also won Best Pop Band award that year.

"It is all a bit of a blur, we did drink a tiny bit of beer that night,'' said Scott.

His oldest son Brennan looks like he may take after his dad as he plays guitar and is writing his own songs. "I told Ed Sheeran about Brennan and he was kind enough to ask us to one of his concerts and chat to Brennan back stage, nurturing his enthusiasm. What could be better than the best songwriter's advice.''

Scott and 5ive will be heading to Tramshed in Cardiff on Friday and tickets are £26 from http://tramshedcardiff.com/ - Flicky Harrison