YOUNGSTERS in North Wales will get a sneak preview this week of a new boy band starring in a TV fly-on-the-wall show. Max N, who have already been signed up to tour as support with chart-topping bands Blazin' Squad and Girls Aloud, will play at schools in Bangor today, at the start of an 11-day tour. The band has been signed up by S4C and the Welsh Language Board to promote Welsh-language pop music among young people. The Taith Max N tour coincides with S4C's St David's Week celebrations and the series that follows the four members of the up-and-coming band - Rich, Gareth, Rod and Matt - as they start out on the rocky path of a career in the competitive pop business. Lisa Pedrick, the winner of S4C's hit talent show WawFfactor, who will also star in her own TV show WawFfactor Lisa Pedrick on Tuesday, March 2, has been signed up as support for the tour. Taith Max N will today perform in front of pupils from nine Welsh-language primary schools in the Bangor area at Ysgol Tryfan. In the afternoon, they will perform to pupils at the secondary school. Organised by S4C's Marketing Department, the Max N tour will perform in ten schools across Wales. In each area, they will hold gigs in a local comprehensive, performing in the mornings to children from Years 5 and 6 from local primary feeder schools and to pupils in Year 7-9 of the secondary schools in the afternoons. Eleri Twynog, S4C's Head of Marketing said: "Following the successful Popty tour that visited over a hundred schools last autumn, I'm delighted that S4C is on tour again with Wales' latest boyband sensation Max N. I'm sure that children and young people all over Wales will really enjoy the show and tune into the new Max N series which is part of our celebration package of programmes for St David's week." The band will also be at Ysgol Uwchradd Syr Hugh Owen, Caernarfon, tomorrow, Ysgol y Berwyn in Bala, on Wednesday and Ysgol y Gader, Dolgellau on Thursday, and Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig, Aberystwyth on Friday, March 5. n Max N, Wednesday March 3, 4pm, S4CBoy band | 
