Westlife might be depressingly heading towards middle age (like their fans), but their energy levels still remain in the post-pubescent, boy band category. Then it was the encore of ‘Hello My Love’ and ‘You Raise Me Up’ with the band holding a tricolour flag of Ireland.Īnd they're back tonight to do it all over again at the Aviva. Then it was ‘Flying Without Wings’, delivered at the end of the ramp.įeehily wished his mother who was in the audience a happy birthday. The lyrics of the latter “You make me feel happy” did what it says on the tin and the crowd lapped it up accordingly. “It’s his birthday.” It wasn’t long before the crowd was singing him happy birthday.Īfterwards they played ‘What Makes A Man’, a rousing ‘Unbreakable’ and a poptastic ‘World Of Our Own’. He added that his mother was at the Aviva and that football legend Robbie Keane was also present. Westlife play Dublin's Aviva Stadium on Friday July 8, 2022. The orchestration could be The Verve’s ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ The next song could never in a million years be by Richard Ashcroft but still ‘Mandy’ (popularised by Barry Manilow in the 1970s) had all the crowd waving the light on their phones en masse.Īfterwards, Byrne (looking like an ever-youthful Larry Mullen of U2) asked : “Dublin, how are you feeling? I see so many flags from around the world here tonight. Then they were gone, to reappear five minutes later in colourful suits in front of a massive video screen of post-apocalyptic rain straight out of the movie Blade Runner. “Everybody, dancing queen is in the house,” Egan said as he announced the latter song. ‘Thank You For The Music’, and, finally, ‘Dancing Queen.’ Suddenly it was like a hen night for 50,000 people as Westlife crooned their way through ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘Money, Money, Money’, ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! A Man After Midnight’, ‘Take A Chance On Me’, ‘I Have A Dream’, ‘Waterloo’. Then they went offstage to change out of their cowhide pattern outfits to return to an extended Abba medley. ‘I'm Never Going To Say Goodbye’ was up next. And we have waited a full three years for this special night. This was followed by ‘If I Let You Go’ and then ‘My Love’ before Egan told the crowd: “We have been together for 23 years. "This was out fifth number 1 single,” he said introducing ‘Fool Again.’ Tonight, we are going sing a lot of number ones, thanks to you guys." We are delighted to be kicking off our tour in Dublin. It is so good to see people hugging and dancing and being together after last three years. Everyone was waving their waves and swaying as the famous foursome ran along the giant ramp way into the middle of the crowd.įire belched out of the stage on the next number ‘When You're Looking Like That’, with its well-rehearsed harmonies.īyrne asked rhetorically at the end of the song: “Dublin, are you ready for this?” Before 50,000 fans could get the answer out, Feehily told them: “Honestly, guys, it is so good to hear that noise after three years. This was followed by the zippy Motown moves of Billy Joel's ‘Uptown Girl’ with Filan on lead vocals. Sometimes soppy, overly sentimental power balladry notwithstanding, the crowd went mental. There were musical fireworks too as Filan, Feehily, Egan, and Byrne (dressed in quirky black and white outfits) did a choreographed dance move on the giant ramp that jutted into the audience from the stage before going straight into the soaring, feel-good anthem ‘Starlight’.
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