The Buzz About … BROS

A RAW DOCO LOOKS INTO THE AFTERMATH OF FAME FOR THE BOY BAND

They once sang ‘When Will I Be Famous’ but when they became the most idolised boy band in the world in the late ’80s, twins Matt and Luke Goss, who formed Bros, found that adulation came with a huge price to pay.

In 2018, their documentary After The Screaming Stops was released to huge acclaim. It provided an un inching look at the incredible highs they achieved as a band. Their debut album Push sold more than 10 million copies and they had No. 1 hits in more than 20 countries around the world. But the brothers experienced devastating lows, too, at the height of their fame, including when their sister Carolyn tragically died in a car accident.

Now the lm is getting a run on Australian TV. After a long period of estrangement, Matt and Luke, who are now 53, reunite to perform a concert in London, but their fraught relationship with each other and fame threatens to derail the highly anticipated event. “The documentary was challenging for both of us, we questioned doing it because we’re both so private now,” says Matt, who now lives in Las Vegas and whose solo album The Beautiful Unknown is out on February 4. “We agreed to go ahead because it allowed us to get things o our chests, but I hope it also corrected some of the misconceptions about us that were radically inaccurate.”

The lm also explores their volatile relationship, but it’s perhaps an unintentional goldmine of hilarious one liners and sound bites, too, with Matt, at one point in the lm, saying earnestly, “I made a conscious decision, because of Stevie Wonder, to not be superstitious.” It’s a must see for anyone who loved the band or wants a close-up look at life after extreme fame. (After The Screaming Stops airs Mon., Jan. 17, 11pm on SBS Viceland)