The drummer of award-winning band N-Dubz has told a court he is like "honey to a swarm of bees" when it comes to female fans.

Aaron "Breakbeat" Fagan was giving evidence at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Friday where he is on trial for sexually assaulting two students at a university gig. The 25-year-old musician is alleged to have grabbed both girls - aged 20 and 19 - on the bum and groped the breasts of one of them at the university's student union in October last year.

On Friday, Fagan denied the charges and claimed that the girls made them up after being knocked back from the band's after-show party. He claimed that he had been touring all over Europe for years and would not have suddenly done something like this in Glasgow which is "hardly a haven for models".

The drummer is accused of sexually assaulting the girls at the John Street Union on October 1, last year, after attending the MOBO awards which were held in Glasgow the same night. He told the court that he was "on a high" that night after the band had won several awards.

He said: "After the gig I remember going out into the crowd to mingle with some of the fans and whoever shows me love gets love back. I had girls doing all sorts to me…some were kissing me on the neck. I'm like honey to a swarm of bees."

Fagan claimed that the two girls then approached him and asked if they could go to the after party. He said: "They were being quite flirty and had linked arms with me and because I knew they really wanted to come I said I would go and ask the tour manager. We walked upstairs and I remember I was in the middle with my hands round their waists and they had their arms round me."

Defence lawyer Euan Cameron asked Fagan if he ever touched the girls on their bums or breasts and he replied: "No, that's totally incorrect, it never happened." Fagan added: "It was all merry at this point. If there had been indication that these girls felt intimidated or were scared it would've ended."

The musician claimed that he then went and spoke to the band's tour manager Mark Sutton to try to get the girls access to the party. He claims that Mr Sutton told him and the girls that they were a "bit below standards" and "minging" and refused to let them go to the party.

'Kid in a sweetie shop'

Fagan said: "The girls were angry and upset and they stormed off." He claims that a short time later he went outside and was arrested by police who had been called by one of the door stewards after the girls complained. Mr Cameron said: "It may be put to you that you simply felt like a kid in a sweetie shop with all these girls and thought you could do what you wanted to them, what would you say to that?"

Fagan replied: "I've met girls from all over the world so why on this one day in Glasgow - which is hardly a haven for models - would I suddenly go mental." Prosecutor Keith O'Mahoney put it to Fagan that he was lying because the band wanted to break into America and he wouldn't be able to do so with a sex assault conviction.

Fagan replied: "I'm not lying." Mr O'Mahoney asked: "Are you really suggesting that two young girls have came in here and lied about what happened to them because you wouldn't let them go to your party?" Fagan replied: "Yes that's what I'm saying."

The court earlier heard from the 20-year-old girl who claimed that Fagan told her "I'm having you tonight" before grabbing her bum and breasts as they walked up a set of stairs. Her 19-year-old friend also told the court that Fagan grabbed her bum.

They both denied lying because they were refused entry to the after show party. Fagan was initially also charged with making indecent comments to the girls but prosecutors have dropped this charge against him.

N-Dubz reached number one in the charts in April last year with hit song Number One and reached number five in September with I Need You. The group's second album Against All Odds reached number five in the UK album chart.

The trial continues.