Watch as noughties icon reveals band’s first album in 11 years – but is interrupted by boozer with a savage put down

A NOUGHTIES star has delighted fans after revealing a huge comeback after 11 years.

However, the exciting news was interrupted by a cheeky pubgoer who savagely put him down.

Richard Archer from Hard-Fi took to TikTok to reveal the band were making new music.

“Alright, how’s it going? You’ve joined me in the beer garden of the pub,” he said before taking a sip of his pint.

“Got some very exciting news, Hard-Fi are releasing some music,” but before he could continue a stranger jumped in.

“Oi mate,” the man said, but Richard tried to continue his message.

“Hard-Fi are releasing some new music for the first time in…” he said before the boozed up man continued to interrupt him.

“Bruv, can you just give us five minutes,” Richard asked.

“Hard-Fi? Never heard of them mate,” the man said.

“You never heard of Hard-Fi? Alright check this out” Richard said.

He added clips from music videos of their biggest hits over the years, including Living for the Weekend and Cash Machine.

“Never heard of ’em,” Richard wrote in the TikTok video caption.

Despite the rude interruption, fans were thrilled by the news.

“Stars of CCTV is a mint album,” one wrote.

“I remember Hard-Fi, wicked band,” said another.

“Soooooooo glad you are coming back! For me, this is better than this Oasis nonsense,” a third wrote.

“Always loved your music – I’ve never stopped listening to it ever since I was a kid. Can’t wait for new music,” said a fourth.

Hard-Fi swept the charts in the early 2000s before taking a hiatus in 2014.

During their career, Hard-Fi had six Top 20 singles including Cash Machine, Hard To Beat and Suburban Knights.

Their albums Star of CCTV and Once Upon A Time In The West both reached Number One in the album charts.

Speaking about their break from performing shortly after releasing a greatest hits album in 2014, Steve told : “We never actually really split up, everyone had kids.”

“We decided it was the right time to bring it back up. It made sense for us kind of artistically and friendshipwise to bring it back.” 

Speaking about whether he gets nervous before a gig he said: “If you’re not nervous you don’t care.

“We’re always a little bit nervous even if it’s a crowd of 50 people or 5,000 people or 50,000 people, it really doesn’t matter.”

Richard admitted that their hiatus lasted longer than he had planned.

“Everyone experiences it, don’t they, but you don’t quite know where the years went,” he told .

“The start of it was Ross, our guitarist, had his first child and said, ‘I want to spend more time at home’, and that was all fair enough.

“Then Steve wanted to go and do a degree.”

Drummer Steve, 44, who suffers from Crohn’s disease, studied for a degree in nutrition at the Open University.

As well as turning his attention to health and wellbeing, he also enjoyed another niche hobby – fly fishing.

Taking his aquatic love to the next level, he trained to be a fly fishing instructor.