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Pop svengali Nigel Martin-Smith, who created Take That, is working on a new "streetwise" boy band.

He says they will sing about knife crime and other issues "that are more relevant with the kids today", and will release their first single at the start of 2009.

"I searched for these lads in council estates all across the north-west," Martin-Smith recently told the Manchester Evening News.

"I haven't put together a boy band since Take That and I believe there is a huge opening for a boy band that is relevant to today - not just one that sings big slushy love ballads."

They sound incredible. What a name! Wonder how long it took them to come up with that.