Boyzone's Shane Lynch didn't speak to bandmate 'for years' after stunning row
Dubliner Shane Lynch did not speak to one of his Boyzone bandmates “for years” after a bizarre difference of opinion. The star, 48, who grew up in Donaghmede, used to be a shy and introverted car mechanic before he joined the boyband when he was just 17 in 1993. And his passion for motors soon sparked division with fellow performer Mikey Graham. Revealing all, he said: “Mikey and I didn’t speak for years. He was a car mechanic also, I was a car mechanic, but I was more interested in… "It is funny, only about two weeks ago I was speaking to Mikey Graham and it was him who brought up the situation. He goes, ‘Do you remember we fell out over an exhaust pipe?’” Both Shane and Liam Tuffs, host of the podcast, laughed before the Baby Can I Hold you singer explained how the disagreement started.
Shane Lynch starred in the recent Sky Documentary called Boyzone: No Matter What
He continued: “I’m dead serious and that was the truth. I put a Janspeed exhaust pipe on my little twin-cam Coralla AE86 and it gives you an extra five brake horsepower and a K&N air filter and I was telling him in excitement what I was doing in my car.” And as for what caused the commotion, Shane added: “He called me a p***k or something. He goes, ‘You p***k, that can’t make your car faster.’ So he was a car mechanic, I was a car mechanic, but in different head spaces so then I went, 'Ah, I don’t like this fella, you know, he is not into it the way I am into it.'” He then gave some context, explaining that he was 17 when he joined Boyzone, and Mikey was 21, and as young lads, that was a decent age gap where you see the world differently. Thankfully for the band, internal squabbles had minimal impact on success, with the band selling 25 million records by 2013.
Mikey Graham also took part in the Sky documentary about the band
The chart-topping pop stars split up in 2000 with Shane finding himself in a dark place where he drank just to get through the day. Speaking on the podcast, he said: Mentally, I was a broken fella. 1999 into 2000 when the door closed, it really closed. “I had been on the road for seven years, the year (previously) we were on 130 planes that year. Let’s call it every second third day getting on a plane. Then the phone wasn’t ringing. The door wasn’t being knocked, the car wasn’t outside. “I had nothing to do. I was like, s**t. And it goes back to, who the f*** am I? Who am I? The guy from Boyzone, called Shane Lynch, and now I’m not that guy from Boyzone called Shane Lynch any more. You are in the public view but you’re sat going, what are my next steps in life? Where do I go from here? What the f*** do I do?” He described losing his identity and purpose after constantly touring the world but he found himself again by going back to his passion which was cars. Since 2007, he has been a professional drift driver and has raced with Team Japseed.
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