The Lottery Winners have turned to Robbie Williams to help them score a big hit.
The pop band has bagged two UK number one albums - 2023's Anxiety Replacement Therapy, and 2025's KOKO - but now Thom Rylance (vocals/guitar), Robert Lally (guitar/vocals), Katie Lloyd (bass/vocals), and Joe Singleton (drums) need to add a smash-hit song to their list of achievements.
Frontman Rylance told the Daily Star newspaper's Wired column: "I've been writing with Robbie.
"To be candid and to be honest, the one thing we are missing as a band is that huge hit, and that is my absolute determination to make that happen."
The You Again hitmaker was in awe of Williams, 51, when they were working together in the studio.
Rylance shared: "I don't know how he does it, like we'll sit down, and I'll play like a piece of music, and then he just sings, but what he sings is incredible lyricisms that's poignant, funny and rhymes like straight off the top of his head."
Coming off the back of touring with the former Take That boy band member, The Lottery Winners have secured a homecoming gig at Leigh Sports Village Stadium, Leigh, Greater Manchester, which takes place on May 30, 2026.
And Rylance is feeling nervous about the fact that they will be the first band to play there - following in the footsteps of Sir Elton John, 78, and Lionel Richie, 76, who have already performed at the venue.
He said: "I am petrified. I don't know why we're doing it.
"We're idiots. We are always too ambitious, we're far too ambitious for our own good sometimes."
Despite feeling the nerves, Rylance says it has been his childhood dream to perform for people in a stadium.
He explained: "My earliest memory of seeing any kind of live music, although it was on a VHS tape, was Queen live at Wembley, and that's what I thought concerts looked like.
"My gran Mavis used to make me outfits that Freddie wore, I had the yellow jacket and the white pants with the red line on it, and I used to dance around the living room, and that carpet was my Wembley.
"So I always had in my head that I would be stood in a stadium singing to people, and we have been doing it this summer - but now I want to be at the top of that poster!"
