The Boyz Are Back in Town
admin | June 23, 2009
On Friday 19th June I went to the Manchester Evening News Arena to see Boyzone on their Better 09 Tour. After seeing them on their reunion tour last year I was expecting to see something new from them, instead I got the same as last year but with a different stage set and costumes. They did add in the latest single Better and Ronan sang Time After Time from his current solo album Songs For My Mother.
They opened the show with Love You Anyway and then went straight into Picture Of You, at which point some very scantily clad female dancers made an appearance and even through numerous costume changes the dancers never wore much. They added in a couple of album tracks; And I and Must Have Been High.
Mixed in with all their old hits they did a medley of Queen songs which was possibly one of the better moments as it was something different to last years show. Stephen did a solo of Beyonce’s song Single Ladies, which was; quite frankly cringe worthy to watch. A very strange song choice and he couldn’t have made himself look more camp if he’d tried.
Towards the end of the show they were suspended above the audience and propelled over to a mini stage at the back of the arena. Life Is A Rollercoaster got them there where they then performed Words before being propelled back to Baby Can I Hold You.
They put a different theme to When The Going Gets Tough and A Different Beat when they went all army military complete with dance moves involving air rifles.
Overall the 2 hour show was good, I enjoyed it, but if they want to cement their return to the music industry they need to come back with some amazing new material and tour off the back of that, not off their hits from 10 years ago, good once for the reunion, slightly more boring for the follow up tour when you expect to see new material mixed in with the old.
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