Boyzone 'may not perform Gately songs'

Boyzone star Ronan Keating has claimed that the group may not perform songs that Stephen Gately sang lead vocals on again.

The singer admitted that it would be "tough" to erase the distinct style of Gately, who passed away while on holiday in Majorca last October.

"We have to decide what songs we sing, how we sing them and what we do as a four-piece, it's just bizarre. It doesn't make sense to us at the minute so we're just trying to figure it out, but we will go forward as best we can," he told the Sydney Herald Sun.

"Songs like 'No Matter What' and 'Love Me For A Reason' will never be the same again in a concert or a performance for me, so whether we continue to perform those songs, I don't know, I don't know if we can. It's really, really tough."

Boyzone recently premiered new single 'Give It All Away', out on March 1, which is taken from their upcoming new album Brother.