Due to unbelievable demand, we are very excited to announce that Westlife
now have an extra date scheduled for the Where We Are Tour!
Saturday 21st August 2010 will now see Westlife play at Mansfield FC,
Mansfield.
The show starts at 9:00pm and tickets are available NOW through
www.ticketmaster.co.uk or on 0844 4631875. Good luck!
Source & Credit:Westlife.com
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Queues to see Westlife come home; CONCERT
Byline: MICHELLE O'KEEFFE
WESTLIFE fans were queuing in the early hours yesterday to snap up tickets for a homecoming concert.
Hundreds lined up from 4am to make sure they got their hands on passes for the gig at Lissadell House in Sligo on Friday, July 30.
Westlife manager Louis Walsh said Lissadell could become the next Slane.
He added: "Shane Filan told me, 'I want to play in my home town' and I said, 'OK, let's do it'. Lissadell looks just brilliant and it will be as good as Slane."
It is more than seven years since Westlife played in Sligo and fans camped outside Third Wave music shop on Sligo's O'Connell Street to get their tickets.
Around 1,500 tickets were sold within five hours for the 10,000-capacity gig which precedes two nights of Leonard Cohen at Lissadell.
Tickets priced from EUR55.50 including booking fee are available from Ticketmaster and all usual outlets.
Credit/Source: Irish Daily Mirror / Published on 18.05.2010
WESTLIFE fans were queuing in the early hours yesterday to snap up tickets for a homecoming concert.
Hundreds lined up from 4am to make sure they got their hands on passes for the gig at Lissadell House in Sligo on Friday, July 30.
Westlife manager Louis Walsh said Lissadell could become the next Slane.
He added: "Shane Filan told me, 'I want to play in my home town' and I said, 'OK, let's do it'. Lissadell looks just brilliant and it will be as good as Slane."
It is more than seven years since Westlife played in Sligo and fans camped outside Third Wave music shop on Sligo's O'Connell Street to get their tickets.
Around 1,500 tickets were sold within five hours for the 10,000-capacity gig which precedes two nights of Leonard Cohen at Lissadell.
Tickets priced from EUR55.50 including booking fee are available from Ticketmaster and all usual outlets.
Credit/Source: Irish Daily Mirror / Published on 18.05.2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Westlife MegaFan: Real Life Stories: Mary Maclaclan
Tour SPOILERS when you click on the link
One of Westlife's very own forum members was interviewed in the run up to Westlife's amazing performance at the O2 that was broadcast live on Sky Box Office.
You can read Mary Maclaclan (aka ShanesFoxyLady)'s interview again on Sky Real Lives or watch the whole show again on Sky BoxOffice until Friday 21st May.
Credits: westlife.com
One of Westlife's very own forum members was interviewed in the run up to Westlife's amazing performance at the O2 that was broadcast live on Sky Box Office.
You can read Mary Maclaclan (aka ShanesFoxyLady)'s interview again on Sky Real Lives or watch the whole show again on Sky BoxOffice until Friday 21st May.
Credits: westlife.com
Another support act at Glasgow
We can announce that another great act will be supporting Westlife at their Glasgow date on the 24th of May.
Please welcome "The MacDonald Brothers"!
Credits: westlife.com
Please welcome "The MacDonald Brothers"!
Credits: westlife.com
Shane interview in the Irish Sunday Mirror
It was so important to sing for Gerry.. we rented a jet to make sure we got to the funeral on time;
WESTLIFE EXCLUSIVE: THEIR SADNESS
Byline: RICHIE TAYLOR
WESTLIFE were so desperate to sing at their friend Gerry Ryan's funeral they hired a private plane to bring them to Dublin in the morning and back to Nottingham afterwards for a gig that evening.
Singer Shane Filan revealed how they had become very close to him over the past few years and were determined to give him a vocal send-off in the church.
He said: "It was one of the hardest gigs we ever had to do. Standing by his coffin with his children in front of us, I found myself getting very emotional.
"I get emotional when I see kids in situations like that, probably because I now have three of my own. It changes the way you look at things - the way you look at the world.
"His daughter Bonnie and her pop band had also toured with us before.
"Gerry always supported us and he was very proud of us being Irish. We met him over the years, going on his programme and all that and he was a very sound guy. We became very close over the last few years. He was always brutally honest and would tell us in no uncertain terms if he didn't like a certain song.
"It was a lot of hard work to get back for the funeral, and even though there was a gap in the volcanic ash cloud, we didn't want to rely on an airline. We didn't want to risk it. It was worth every penny to hire the jet.
"After the funeral we went straight back to the airport and within a few hours we were performing on stage in Nottingham."
Ironically, Westlife had never sung at a funeral until Kian Egan's dad died in Sligo last year. Then Nicky Byrne's dad passed away and they performed at his father's funeral in Baldoyle.
And the third one was Gerry's send-off. Shane added: "We have sung at three funerals in the past 12 months, and had literally never done one before.
"They say that bad things happen in threes, don't they? Let's hope that's it for now. I think it also brought it all back for Kian and Nicky, they started remembering their own family grief."
And the singer said he thoroughly enjoyed the 12 months the band took off last year. "For me, a holiday was staying at home with my family.
I've spent most of my adult life so far t r ave l -ling on planes. Our last child was on the way and it was great to be at home. The only trip we took was to Kian and Jodi's wedding in Barbados.
He added: "I also set up a soccer team with my mates and we played every week, I played a lot of golf with my father-in-law and also did some planning and organising with my brother Finbar in the construction company we've set up.
"Three of the four planning applications we put in for have now been granted. It's a good time to build, things are half the price they were a couple of years ago.
"We're about to start building a nursing home and a small shopping centre, so it's going very well."
Shane was astonished after the band took a year off to discover they were probably more popular than ever.
When we spoke Westlife were in the middle of a three-night run in London's O2 arena, playing to 18,000 people a night - and getting fantastic reactions. "After 12 years it's quite incredible.
The average age of our fans now seems to be between 25 and 30. Looking out at the audience recently I realised that the fans are now so much older. There were people in their 30s and their 40s.
"It used to be all children, now only about 10% of the audience are kids. It's all changed over the years. Every night they hold their camera phones up in the air and sing along to Flying Without Wings. It's mind-blowing.
"As for the future, we just want to continue selling out concerts and making hit records.
"We're actually having a meeting today with Sony to discuss the next album, we're that far ahead of ourselves.
Louis Walsh has already come up with half a dozen songs for it, and I'm pretty sure that several of them will make it onto the album. But we all have an input into it, ourselves, Louis and Simon Cowell.
"It's always a team effort. Except I remember when Louis suggested that we record You Raise Me Up, I didn't want to do it at all. I felt it was a bit too gospel or something for us. But he told me to just trust him, that it was going to be one of our biggest ever hits. And he was dead right. It just goes to show.
"We'd like to branch out sometime and do a live album or an Unplugged album. In fact we might kill two birds with the one stone and maybe record a live Christmas album. I think then fans might like that. But it's going to be a regular album this year. Then we'll think about doing something different for 2011."
And two highlights for Shane this summer will be the band's return to Croke Park on June 5 and at Lissadell House in Sligo on July 30. It's seven years since Westlife - then a five-piece with Brian Mc-Fadden - performed at the local stadium in Sligo.
"But this will be a real homecoming in the grounds of then historic house that was closely associated with WB Yeats. They will be performing to a crowd of around 12,000 fans.
"I'm looking forward to both gigs, Croke Park last year was one of the highlights of my life. I had to keep pinching myself on stage to prove that it was for real. But this will be the first time we've performed in Sligo since Brian left.
"So it will probably be a bit emotional because of that and the fact that it's hometown for three of us - myself, Kian and Mark. I think the promoter John Reynolds is trying to turn it into something like a mini Slane, with Leonard Cohen performing there on two other nights. I know the place well, only six months ago I did a tour of the house with my mother.
"At the time I had no idea we were going to be playing there this year. It's a really beautiful place. I love the whole idea of concerts there, and it will all be great for Sligo."
He also said he would love to meet up with former member Brian Mc-Fadden, who is back in Ireland at the moment and wants to try to catch one of their shows and meet up.
He added: "We haven't heard from him for a while so it would be great to see him. He's always welcome, we still love to see him. We have a brand new stage show at the moment and have considerably upped the ante. You need to keep improving and developing all the time.
"It's like a new band. You have to give people something new every time you go out on tour. You have to keep it fresh."
And he laughed while recalling Nicky Byrne's recent accident after a spot of horseplay in their hotel with Kian Egan went very, very wrong.
"Kian is always up for messing, for doing things like arm-wrestling. He can get a bit rowdy at times. Basically, what happened was that he had Nicky in a headlock and tried to lift him up. But Nicky fell and landed on this glass table. His head swelled up like a balloon and there was blood everywhere.
"I started to panic and took him straight to A&E at six in the morning.
They fixed him up there, gave him an injection to reduce the swelling and stitched up his wound. I was very worried, but I told him it was more about all the gigs we had coming up! He now thinks he's some sort of a tough guy with his scar!" And the singer also revealed how they spent two weeks rehearsing their stage moves at a dance studio he set up in his Sligo home.
He said: "The guys were moaning about having to go to London to rehearse in a dance studio there so I suggested this huge room with wooden floors I have over my garage.
We installed some mirrors and it was perfect. Everybody was happy. Nicky and his family came up form Dublin. He actually loves being in Sligo, even though he's a real Dub.
"We then decided to do the full dress rehearsals in City West in Dublin, so we didn't have to leave the country at all to prepare for the tour. And no, I don't use the dance studio to rehearse by myself. No solo stuff involved there at all. We actually only used it for the Westlife moves. There's definitely no solo Jacko thing to it."
And with his eldest daughter preparing to start junior school later this year, Shane revealed how he actually gets back home more these days than he used to in the past.
He added: "Nicole is getting ready to start school and I definitely want to be around more than I used to be. We can fly to Sligo and spend a few days there at a time now. We haven't been affected much yet by the volcanic ash. Let's hope it stays that way!"
WESTLIFE EXCLUSIVE: THEIR SADNESS
Byline: RICHIE TAYLOR
WESTLIFE were so desperate to sing at their friend Gerry Ryan's funeral they hired a private plane to bring them to Dublin in the morning and back to Nottingham afterwards for a gig that evening.
Singer Shane Filan revealed how they had become very close to him over the past few years and were determined to give him a vocal send-off in the church.
He said: "It was one of the hardest gigs we ever had to do. Standing by his coffin with his children in front of us, I found myself getting very emotional.
"I get emotional when I see kids in situations like that, probably because I now have three of my own. It changes the way you look at things - the way you look at the world.
"His daughter Bonnie and her pop band had also toured with us before.
"Gerry always supported us and he was very proud of us being Irish. We met him over the years, going on his programme and all that and he was a very sound guy. We became very close over the last few years. He was always brutally honest and would tell us in no uncertain terms if he didn't like a certain song.
"It was a lot of hard work to get back for the funeral, and even though there was a gap in the volcanic ash cloud, we didn't want to rely on an airline. We didn't want to risk it. It was worth every penny to hire the jet.
"After the funeral we went straight back to the airport and within a few hours we were performing on stage in Nottingham."
Ironically, Westlife had never sung at a funeral until Kian Egan's dad died in Sligo last year. Then Nicky Byrne's dad passed away and they performed at his father's funeral in Baldoyle.
And the third one was Gerry's send-off. Shane added: "We have sung at three funerals in the past 12 months, and had literally never done one before.
"They say that bad things happen in threes, don't they? Let's hope that's it for now. I think it also brought it all back for Kian and Nicky, they started remembering their own family grief."
And the singer said he thoroughly enjoyed the 12 months the band took off last year. "For me, a holiday was staying at home with my family.
I've spent most of my adult life so far t r ave l -ling on planes. Our last child was on the way and it was great to be at home. The only trip we took was to Kian and Jodi's wedding in Barbados.
He added: "I also set up a soccer team with my mates and we played every week, I played a lot of golf with my father-in-law and also did some planning and organising with my brother Finbar in the construction company we've set up.
"Three of the four planning applications we put in for have now been granted. It's a good time to build, things are half the price they were a couple of years ago.
"We're about to start building a nursing home and a small shopping centre, so it's going very well."
Shane was astonished after the band took a year off to discover they were probably more popular than ever.
When we spoke Westlife were in the middle of a three-night run in London's O2 arena, playing to 18,000 people a night - and getting fantastic reactions. "After 12 years it's quite incredible.
The average age of our fans now seems to be between 25 and 30. Looking out at the audience recently I realised that the fans are now so much older. There were people in their 30s and their 40s.
"It used to be all children, now only about 10% of the audience are kids. It's all changed over the years. Every night they hold their camera phones up in the air and sing along to Flying Without Wings. It's mind-blowing.
"As for the future, we just want to continue selling out concerts and making hit records.
"We're actually having a meeting today with Sony to discuss the next album, we're that far ahead of ourselves.
Louis Walsh has already come up with half a dozen songs for it, and I'm pretty sure that several of them will make it onto the album. But we all have an input into it, ourselves, Louis and Simon Cowell.
"It's always a team effort. Except I remember when Louis suggested that we record You Raise Me Up, I didn't want to do it at all. I felt it was a bit too gospel or something for us. But he told me to just trust him, that it was going to be one of our biggest ever hits. And he was dead right. It just goes to show.
"We'd like to branch out sometime and do a live album or an Unplugged album. In fact we might kill two birds with the one stone and maybe record a live Christmas album. I think then fans might like that. But it's going to be a regular album this year. Then we'll think about doing something different for 2011."
And two highlights for Shane this summer will be the band's return to Croke Park on June 5 and at Lissadell House in Sligo on July 30. It's seven years since Westlife - then a five-piece with Brian Mc-Fadden - performed at the local stadium in Sligo.
"But this will be a real homecoming in the grounds of then historic house that was closely associated with WB Yeats. They will be performing to a crowd of around 12,000 fans.
"I'm looking forward to both gigs, Croke Park last year was one of the highlights of my life. I had to keep pinching myself on stage to prove that it was for real. But this will be the first time we've performed in Sligo since Brian left.
"So it will probably be a bit emotional because of that and the fact that it's hometown for three of us - myself, Kian and Mark. I think the promoter John Reynolds is trying to turn it into something like a mini Slane, with Leonard Cohen performing there on two other nights. I know the place well, only six months ago I did a tour of the house with my mother.
"At the time I had no idea we were going to be playing there this year. It's a really beautiful place. I love the whole idea of concerts there, and it will all be great for Sligo."
He also said he would love to meet up with former member Brian Mc-Fadden, who is back in Ireland at the moment and wants to try to catch one of their shows and meet up.
He added: "We haven't heard from him for a while so it would be great to see him. He's always welcome, we still love to see him. We have a brand new stage show at the moment and have considerably upped the ante. You need to keep improving and developing all the time.
"It's like a new band. You have to give people something new every time you go out on tour. You have to keep it fresh."
And he laughed while recalling Nicky Byrne's recent accident after a spot of horseplay in their hotel with Kian Egan went very, very wrong.
"Kian is always up for messing, for doing things like arm-wrestling. He can get a bit rowdy at times. Basically, what happened was that he had Nicky in a headlock and tried to lift him up. But Nicky fell and landed on this glass table. His head swelled up like a balloon and there was blood everywhere.
"I started to panic and took him straight to A&E at six in the morning.
They fixed him up there, gave him an injection to reduce the swelling and stitched up his wound. I was very worried, but I told him it was more about all the gigs we had coming up! He now thinks he's some sort of a tough guy with his scar!" And the singer also revealed how they spent two weeks rehearsing their stage moves at a dance studio he set up in his Sligo home.
He said: "The guys were moaning about having to go to London to rehearse in a dance studio there so I suggested this huge room with wooden floors I have over my garage.
We installed some mirrors and it was perfect. Everybody was happy. Nicky and his family came up form Dublin. He actually loves being in Sligo, even though he's a real Dub.
"We then decided to do the full dress rehearsals in City West in Dublin, so we didn't have to leave the country at all to prepare for the tour. And no, I don't use the dance studio to rehearse by myself. No solo stuff involved there at all. We actually only used it for the Westlife moves. There's definitely no solo Jacko thing to it."
And with his eldest daughter preparing to start junior school later this year, Shane revealed how he actually gets back home more these days than he used to in the past.
He added: "Nicole is getting ready to start school and I definitely want to be around more than I used to be. We can fly to Sligo and spend a few days there at a time now. We haven't been affected much yet by the volcanic ash. Let's hope it stays that way!"
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Westlife wow fans at the LG Arena
Westlife
LG Arena, Birmingham
They may have been going strong for 12 years, but Irish pop sensations Westlife can still effortlessly whip a crowd into a frenzy.
At Birmingham’s LG Arena last night, the lads showed other boy bands just how it’s done – and what has brought them such longevity in the music industry.
From the start, the adoring sell-out crowd was on its feet singing and dancing to some if the group’s best known hits and a few surprise songs too. To ear-piercing screams and impressive lighting effects, the boys burst on to the stage with a bang to the title track of the tour, Where We Are.
Fans were transported back to the beginning of the group’s career with a performance of their first hit Swear it All Over Again, as well as other older favourites such as Uptown Girl.
The lads at one point took the tempo down a notch for a quieter set, which included Barry Manilow hit Mandy and If I Let You Go, where the four piece- made up of Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily – got the chance to show off their full vocal range.
Best known these days for being perched on stools and belting our ballads, the band showed off a different side when they performed an up-tempo mash up of pop hits.
This kind of medley has become a popular staple of most recent Westlife shows, and last night was no exception.
Fans were moved when the boys returned for their encore, dressed in smart suits, to perform their smash hit ballad Flying Without Wings.
You Raise Me Up – a song which has been covered more than 125 times – brought the curtain down on the evening along with deafening applause.
Westlife have grown up but it looks like this is one boy band that will be around for a good few years yet.
Credit/Source: www.expressandstar.com
LG Arena, Birmingham
They may have been going strong for 12 years, but Irish pop sensations Westlife can still effortlessly whip a crowd into a frenzy.
At Birmingham’s LG Arena last night, the lads showed other boy bands just how it’s done – and what has brought them such longevity in the music industry.
From the start, the adoring sell-out crowd was on its feet singing and dancing to some if the group’s best known hits and a few surprise songs too. To ear-piercing screams and impressive lighting effects, the boys burst on to the stage with a bang to the title track of the tour, Where We Are.
Fans were transported back to the beginning of the group’s career with a performance of their first hit Swear it All Over Again, as well as other older favourites such as Uptown Girl.
The lads at one point took the tempo down a notch for a quieter set, which included Barry Manilow hit Mandy and If I Let You Go, where the four piece- made up of Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily – got the chance to show off their full vocal range.
Best known these days for being perched on stools and belting our ballads, the band showed off a different side when they performed an up-tempo mash up of pop hits.
This kind of medley has become a popular staple of most recent Westlife shows, and last night was no exception.
Fans were moved when the boys returned for their encore, dressed in smart suits, to perform their smash hit ballad Flying Without Wings.
You Raise Me Up – a song which has been covered more than 125 times – brought the curtain down on the evening along with deafening applause.
Westlife have grown up but it looks like this is one boy band that will be around for a good few years yet.
Credit/Source: www.expressandstar.com
Win Westlife Tickets!
Westlife are giving their fans an amazing chance to win tickets to a selection of their UK Tour dates through their official twitter account!
The seventh pair of tickets that are now up for grabs are for Glasgow on the 24th of May.
To enter all you need to do is:
1. Sign up for a twitter account. (http://twitter.com)
2. Follow http://twitter.com/westlifemusic
3. Re-tweet the below competition twitter message and that's it! You could be going to see Westlife!
I want to see the @westlifemusic 'Where We Are Tour' at Glasgow on 24/05 #Westlife24/05
Competition closes Tuesday 18th May 12:00. Winners will be picked at random and notified (Direct Messaged) through twitter in the following days.
Make sure you follow @westlifemusic or we wont be able to let you know if you've won!
Good luck!
PS. keep an eye out next week for more tickets to be won!!!
Westlife HQ
Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions
Source & Credit:Westlife.com
The seventh pair of tickets that are now up for grabs are for Glasgow on the 24th of May.
To enter all you need to do is:
1. Sign up for a twitter account. (http://twitter.com)
2. Follow http://twitter.com/westlifemusic
3. Re-tweet the below competition twitter message and that's it! You could be going to see Westlife!
I want to see the @westlifemusic 'Where We Are Tour' at Glasgow on 24/05 #Westlife24/05
Competition closes Tuesday 18th May 12:00. Winners will be picked at random and notified (Direct Messaged) through twitter in the following days.
Make sure you follow @westlifemusic or we wont be able to let you know if you've won!
Good luck!
PS. keep an eye out next week for more tickets to be won!!!
Westlife HQ
Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions
Source & Credit:Westlife.com
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Another announcing Westlife Tour Date
Westlife have just announced another 'Where We Are'
Tour date at Tamworth Castle on 18th July.
Westlife will headline the day and
other acts on the bill will include The Saturdays, Scouting for Girls, Chipmunk,
Alexandra Burke, Taio Cruz, Level 42, Billy Ocean, Sister Sledge, Aswad, Peter
Andre.
Tickets are available from
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/
or
0844 248 5016
Source & Credit:Westlife.com
Tour date at Tamworth Castle on 18th July.
Westlife will headline the day and
other acts on the bill will include The Saturdays, Scouting for Girls, Chipmunk,
Alexandra Burke, Taio Cruz, Level 42, Billy Ocean, Sister Sledge, Aswad, Peter
Andre.
Tickets are available from
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/
or
0844 248 5016
Source & Credit:Westlife.com
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