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With Westlife due to release their new studio album on November 20th First
thought it would be an opportune time to catch up with the guys and find out
whats been happening recently, how they felt when Brian McFadden left, and a
look back on eight years of musical success.
Shane, Mark, Nicky and Kian look set to romance us into Christmas this year
with the release of The Love Album on 20th November 2006. The album is a
collection of old favourites picked out by the boys and Simon Cowell and Louis
Walsh. For one of the tracks, the boys team up with Delta Goodrum for a version
of All out of Love. The album also includes hits like Total Eclipse of the Heart,
You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling, Easy and many more. Their first single, The
Rose, is set for release on 6th November. Liz Frost catches up with them on
their way to approve their latest video.
What have you been up to today?
Nicky: Got out of bed about 11 o’clock and came into Sony to do some
Interviews and we’ve got some meetings with our marketing department. We’ve
just approved the final edit of the video for our brand new single. It’s in
colour currently, but we’ve changed it to be black and white.
How was your recent Face to Face tour?
Shane: Great! It was very long! We did a lot of dates, at the end it was
quite tiring because we went to Asia and places like that. We were touring for
about 6 months more or less, we did 3 months straight then we had a few weeks
off then we were doing every weekend in the summer, we did 3 outdoor shows
across the UK. Scotland Wales and England then we went to Asia for a 3 week
tour over there. The crowd seemed to like it. We check our website and people
seemed to think it was the best so far. That’s a good sign, but we have to
beat that next year now.
Do you prefer touring or recording?
Mark: When you’ve performed the same show so many times it becomes
monotonous, but then you go into promotion and recording a new albumn then back
to touring. It’s sort of half the time touring half recording.
What was the highlight
Nicky: This year we changed it up a bit. We usually do a medley. And I
think on this show, we decided to do something different. We usually do one of
the Jackson five, Queen, we’ve done Wham, all sorts of things. This year for a
laugh we decided to try and cover a modern song, so we did a version of Don’t
Cha by the Pussycat Dolls, obviously changing it to boyfriend. It really went
down a storm. A little sexy routine to it. You go on the sites and the comments
were that they kind of liked to see us doing Don’t Cha. It was tongue in cheek,
not like we’ve done before. Also the new single You Raise me Up went down a
storm aswell. I think that song came at just the right time for us. I mean,
every band starts to go a bit, then Bryan left and everyone started to write
us off. Then we did the Rat Pack albumn and Face to Face with You Raise Me Up,
which really took off.
What made you choose the songs for the Love Album?
Shane: The whole idea of the albumn was to do a tribute Love Albumn. When
you’re going do an original album you have to get new material in. We had 4 or
5 songs that were decent, but they weren’t in any ways near songs like You Raise
Me Up. So we said to ourselves we’ve got a standard. If we want to make an
original album it has to be at a certain standard. Simon Cowell came up with
the idea ‘Why don’t you do a Love Album? You’re famous for singing love songs
so it’s going to suit you’ Simon had his favourites, Louis had his favourites.
There are some great songs on there. The rose is a famous song, but it’s not
that famous a song. It was actually Louis who chose it but Simon thought it
was a great song, the perfect song to launch the album.
Nicky: There’s an interesting song on there too. There’s a song called
‘All Or Nothing’ That song was written for us 7 years ago, but Simon Cowell
turned it down. That song was passed to OTown in the states and they had huge
success in the States with it. We were quite gutted because we knew it was
sounding very much like us. We have a bit of a laugh about it now. So we
covered it on this Love Songs album. We do an acoustic version of it, it’s a
lovely song.
You’ve been together 8 years, have you had any major squabbles?
Kian: We bicker over stupid things, but we’ve never had a major bust up
ever. We’ve got too much respect for the band to do that.
Nicky: All we’d have to do is look on Youtube at footage of us all
having a laugh and it makes you forget about it.
Mark: A couple of times we were close to headbutts and kicks.
Kian: We tend to get worked up over travel, when we travel for a long
time. We’ve been working very very hard for a few weeks, somebody would say
something and it would be taken the wrong way. It would always be in a scenario
when we haven’t been home for a while, we’ve been in eachothers faces for like
6 months really really working hard. It happened more in the earlier years than
the later years, because we were younger and more feisty. Now we’re more grown
up, it’s easier to say things to each other, There’s no winners when this sort
of thing happens. What’s the point in rowing when we should be enjoying it?
When Bryan left, did you think it was all over?
Shane: To be honest, no. For about 10 minutes we were like ‘Oh no, what’s
going to happen?’ We were only like 20 days away from the first show of a 4
month tour. We started rehearsals the next day and Bryan said ‘I’m hanging up
my boots lads’. We thought we were being Punk’d because MTV Punk’d had just
started. Then we had a 3 hour chat about it and we were like ‘Right, what are
we going to do?’ Everybody wanted to carry on so we were just like ‘Let’s do it
then!’ We had a big heart to heart. Louis drove over to chat to us at 3 in the
morning for 3 hours.
Nicky: Louis was worth his weight in gold. He was like ‘It doesn’t
matter. There are so many more years left’. If ever there was any doubt he
convinced us. Especially in the aftermath because all the press were on
Bryan’s side, everyone was like It’s Robbie again, when Take That were over.
They went into our financial details. Bryan was worth more because of clever
investments. But they were building him up in any way they could. It really got
to us. It made us even more determined to succeed.
What do you think of Take That reforming?
Mark: There’s not enough Pop music around at the moment, So I think it’s
great that old bands like Take That are coming back.
Kian:: Most of the bands that are coming back now were around when we
started off, and we’re like ‘ah now you see why we stayed together?
Will you ever break up?
Kian: I don’t think we’d ever break up. We might take a break for a year
or something like that but for the 4 of us to sit down in front of room full
of people or on TV and say we’re finished for good. I don’t think we’d ever do
that. I think we feel like we could go away for a few years and come back after
that, but we’ve just had a renegotiation with the record label for another
4 albums and that’s after the next album, so there’s 5 more albums in our
record contract. It depends really on how we’re seen as people. I can’t
imagine us breaking up and never coming back.
Nicky: Obviously if we don’t want to do it anymore, we won’t, but the
fact that we’ve signed this renegotiation; we can keep coming back and doing
another album when we feel like it. I think we are at a level now, we’ve got
through and survived it.
Shane: A lot of our original fans don’t like Westlife anymore, because
they’ve got older and cooler and they’re going out with guys and that. If you
came to one of our shows you’d be shocked, there’s Mums, Grans everything. Our
average age of the show is probably 35 now. That’s the future, you know.
Hopefully it will keep going.
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added: 23rd October 2006, Source: FemaleFirst.co.uk
Captures
MTV
Sharon Osbourne Show - 20th October 2006
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added: 21st October 2006, Videos: Westlife Belgium
Interview with Bryan Robson
The Manchester United and England legend on his greatest ever game, Scarlett
Johansson and Westlife.
What's the last CD you bought?
[Chuckles] Well, I was given the last Westlife CD.
Are you a big fan?
I am actually. It started because I played with them in a 5-a-side football
tournament recently and we won it. Brian [McFadden] and Nick [Byrne] became
very good friends.
Word is they're good players too ...
Yes, very good indeed. Nick was an apprentice at Leeds at one stage and Brian
loves his football.
Click
here
to read the whole interview.
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added: 20th October 2006, Source: Guardian Unlimited Sport
Westlife Back All Saints
Kian and co have delivered their verdict on the Girls Aloud V All
Saints battle...
Westlife have waded into the Girls Aloud/All Saints war and urged GA to keep it
buttoned.
Talking to MTV UK News, Kian said, "I think Girls Aloud should shut up - that's
my opinion."
"I just don't think there's any need for (bad-mouthing another band).
Girls Aloud should look and learn from All Saints. They have the experience
and have made amazing music," Mark added.
The battle of the girl bands was sparked earlier this month when Cheryl told us
All Saints' new song 'Rock Steady' sounded like a Girls Aloud tune.
"They must have looked at what's working at the minute and thought, 'We'll go
that way'," she said.
All Saints responded by saying, "They are stupid little girls and we don't
really give a f**k."
Westlife's Shane went on, "People who slag you off don't go on to sell even a
tenth of the albums (of the band they diss). Someone will be smiling at the
end of this."
We can't wait for the ensuing chart battle: Westlife's 'The Rose', All Saints' '
Rock Steady' and Girls Aloud's 'Something Kinda Oooh' are all released next
month...
To watch the whole interview with Westlife go
here
and click on the Overdrive link...
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added: 20th October 2006, Source: MTV UK
Westlife: Delta is the victim
WESTLIFE have spoken up for Aussie songstress DELTA GOODREM who has been cast
as the villain in the feud between their former bandmate BRIAN McFADDEN and
his ex KERRY KATONA.
The Irish lads say Delta is actually the victim in the whole mess.
NICKY BYRNE told Closer magazine: "We feel sorry for Delta. People blame her
but she's the victim in this."
Delta sang on their latest album and they are still pals with Brian but the
boys said they still speak to Kerry too.
MARK FEEHILY said: "I was texting Kerry last week. She's been doing well,
although she's been in hospital. But we don't like to read about Brian and
Kerry's lives in the newspapers. They're our friends so we call them up and
talk to them just like other friends.
Westlife boys also say they didn't realise that cracks were appearing in the
relationship.
"Hindsight is a great thing. Even when Brian was in the band, we didn't
realise there was anything wrong with his marriage," added Nicky.
"Perhaps if we had we could have helped them more, but we did everything we
could. We even offered to take them to counselling."
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added: 18th October 2006, Source: The Sun Online
The enduring matriarch now blooming without Bertie
PROFILE: Miriam Ahern
She has been asked about rumours more often than Fleetwood Mac, but somehow
Miriam Ahern seems to rise above them every time, emerging unscathed,
reputation enhanced. Sound familiar?
There was the rumour that she got a barring order against Bertie. Not true.
And there was the rumour about Bertie cheating on her with Celia Larkin,
before the marriage ended. No comment. And there was the rumour about her and
Bertie getting back together in 2003. Just good friends, they said.
She’s been the frumpy ex of the Teflon taoiseach. She’s been the woman scorned
as Bertie travelled the world with Larkin as his official consort. Celia was
the mistress in the beauty business, Miriam the matronly mother of the
taoiseach’s children. The difference weighed more than an inch or two on the
waist.
There are no opinion polls for the wives of politicians. But Miriam has had to
face the electorate of newspaper gossip writers more than once — and sometimes
the result has been scathing. She is known to have been particularly hurt by
unfavourable descriptions of her attire at her daughter
Georgina’s infamous
French wedding to
Westlife’s Nicky Byrne.
The clear insinuation at the time was that she didn’t fit the Hello! magazine
mould into which her daughter had married. But this is exactly the type of faux
celebrity she rejects. She doesn’t even regard
Byrne as a celebrity; he’s just
the fella
Georgina’s been with since their school days in Baldoyle.
Last week, the social diarists were at it again, only this time they were
celebrating the birth of a new Miriam. A confident, well-dressed matriarch was
the picture of stylish middle age as she appeared on the set of the Hollywood
movie adapted from a book written by her other daughter, Cecelia. One daughter
married to a sex-symbol pop star, the other a multi-millionairess and
international bestselling author. PS, I’m over you.
Indeed, Miriam is over Bertie. With a long-term boyfriend now in Terry McCoy,
who owns the Red Bank House & Restaurant in Skerries, Co Dublin, she’s moved
on. Where once she wore the worried weariness of a woman who could never quite
escape her marriage to the taoiseach, or separate herself from the persona of
the ex, she now exudes a new confidence. Where another 52-year-old mother-of-
two might be drowning in the depression of empty-nest syndrome, she has taken
on a new independence, socialising with her daughters and embarking on a
fundraising career with the children’s charity CARI.
It’s hard to imagine that the 20-year-old Miriam, living with Bertie in a small
house in Artane, Co Dublin, in the 1970s, ever thought that one day she would
be a lady who lunches. Their nearest claim to fame then was that their next-
door neighbour was councillor Joe Burke, now the chairman of Dublin Port
Authority.
One of 11 children, Miriam was born into the Kelly house on the Clonliffe Road
in 1954. She was an insecure child. She has spoken about irrationally
suspecting that she was adopted. She based this suspicion on the fact that
she was the first girl born after four boys. She has hinted that she would
have liked to have had a closer relationship with her mother, who was loving
but not a friend. This distinction could not be drawn in Miriam’s own
relationship with her two daughters. Friends, like the socialite solicitor
Gerard Kean, say her motherhood is one of Miriam’s defining personality traits.
Read the whole article
here
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added: 16th October 2006, Source: Times Online
New Website
To coincide with Westlife's upcoming new album, we'll be bringing you a brand
new official website. And what's more, we want you to tell us what you'd like
to see on it!
Put your thinking caps on and email your suggestions to
westlifewebsite@sonybmg.com - then keep an eye on westlife.com over the next
few weeks...
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added: 13th October 2006, Source: Westlife.com
Delta supplies song
Delta Goodrem has recorded a duet with Irish boyband Westlife.
Goodrem appears on the band's cover album singing the Air Supply hit All Out
of Love.
The last single Goodrem released was Almost Here with boyfriend Brian McFadden,
who was in Westlife.
The group will release a cover of the Bette Midler classic The Rose as the
first single.
With Marcia Hines, Human Nature and Rod Stewart also releasing cover albums,
it is a worrying trend.
It's about time for some innovative originals.
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added: 11th October 2006, Source: Herald Sun
Captures
GMTV - 10th October 2006
Lorainne Kelly Show - 10th October 2006
Strictly Come Dancing It Takes Two - 10th October 2006
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added: 11th October 2006, Videos: Westlife Belgium and Lesley
When SD Comes Alive After Two Decades
When it all started, most music lovers thought it was a joke. Most people
never thought that the country would ever host a massive show that would see
music lovers from our neighbouring countries coming to join Swazi's as they
host a show, which is first.
The last show was held two decades ago during the King's Trust Show. It is
when top artists like Joanna Armatrading and Jonathan Butler perform at the
Somhlolo Stadium.
Relaxed, refreshed and bursting with energy, Westlife, the quiet superstars of
the mainstream UK music scene will set Swaziland alight.
Performing for the first time in the kingdom, the boys are expected to fill
music lovers from every corner of the country at the Mavuso Trade and
Exhibition Centre.
The show made specifically for the Swazi's, will be held on December 30
courtesy of Big 5 Entertainment Company.
best
Although the group will not only be performing in the country, but indeed,
local fun lovers are expected to get the best from the group.
The UK based superstars are indeed expected to get music lovers on their toes
with their latest album 'Face To Face'.
It's the world that they have dominated for seven years and the album features
all the hallmarks of that reign - a collection of classic songs and future
standards.
In brief, 'Face To Face' finds Westlife doing what they've always done best.
The initial date of the show was last Saturday but, however, the organisers
postponed the show to December 30, as they needed more time to advertise the
show. One other reason was that they wanted the members of the public to get
time to budget for the show.
Many people believe that tickets to the show are very expensive but organisers
look it the other way round.
Surprisingly, a number of people have showed interest of buying the VVVIP
tickets costing E5 000.
The organisers see this as a breakthrough as they believe it shows members
of the public have an interest of watching Westlife performing live.
Prizes of the tickets
1. Normal tickets cost E 370.00/person
2. VIP Tickets cost E 570.00/person includes buffet dinner and the dress code
is White or Black.
3. VVIP No Tickets. You buy a table of 10 for E 10000.00
Dress code is White and red or white and Red only
Benefits Westlife DVD (Face to Face)
Unlimited beverages
Table is next to the artists (forming a circle around the artists)
4. VVVP No Tickets costing E5 000/person included unlimited drinks and
authography and pictures with the group members.
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added: 10th October 2006, source: The Weekend Observer
Living the Westlife
The heart-throbs release their much anticipated new single 'The Rose', plus
find out if they're performing at a venue near you
Westlife are the biggest vocal boy band in the world and their successes to
date are unrivaled.
The new album
November 13th will see Westlife release their 8th album, 'The Love Album'.
Following on from the enormous success they achieved last year with the release
of their Number 1 album 'Face To Face', Westlife return with a new album
consisting of 11 of the most classic and memorable love songs of all time.
The album will be preceded by the single 'The Rose', which is set for release
on the 6th of November.
Shane, Mark, Nicky and Kian look set to bring some romance to Christmas this
year with a selection of their favourite love songs that they personally chose.
The opening track and first single 'The Rose' sets the tone for the album.
Originally a huge hit for Bette Midler in the US in 1980, it now looks set to
emulate the success here in the UK. On another of the album's many highpoints
the guys teamed up with Australian singing star Delta Goodrem to record a
version of 'All Out Of Love'.
Westlife have experienced phenomenal success from the start of their career
dominating the UK music scene for eight years. Having sold over 35 million
albums worldwide with six multi-platinum albums in the UK, 12 UK number ones
and countless awards including two BRITs and an MTV Europe Award. 'The Rose'
marks Westlife's unprecedented return reaffirming their reign at the top.
Record breakers
11 November 2000, Westlife equalled the record set by the Beatles, with their
first seven singles scoring the 'Most Consecutive Number Ones'
They also hold the record for the 'Most Entries at Number 1 by a Debuting Act'
They've made 8 albums, with six multi-platinum albums in the UK alone
Having sold over 35million albums worldwide
November 2002 saw Westlife set a new Guinness World Record for the
'Most Personal Appearances' by a pop band in 36 hours (Westlife visited Dublin,
Belfast, Edinburgh, Manchester and London to promote their Greatest Hits album
Unbreakable) which entered the album charts at number 1 (and was top ten in
over 16 countries).
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added: 10th October 2006, source: GMTV
Nicky's birhtday
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added: 9th October 2006, source: Nicky-Byrne.com
Westlife's New Releases
Westlife will be releasing a brand new single and album next month.
The Love Album, out on 13th November, is a collection of eleven of the most
classic and memorable love songs of all time, chosen by the band themselves.
Long-term collaborator Steve Mack produced the album, which was recorded in
London, Dublin and Sweden during breaks on this year’s Face To Face tour and,
amongst its many highlights, features a duet with Delta Goodrem on ‘All Out
Of Love’.
The first single to be taken from The Love Album is ‘The Rose’, originally a
huge hit for Bette Midler in 1980. It’s set for release on 6th November.
The tracklisting for The Love Album is as follows:
1. The Rose
2. Total Eclipse Of The Heart
3. All Out Of Love
4. Light Up My Life
5. Easy
6. You Are So Beautiful (To Me)
7. Have You Ever Been In Love
8. Love Can Build A Bridge
9. The Dance
10. All Or Nothing
11. You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
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added: 8th October 2006, source: Westlife.com
Face to Face with Westlife
They're all in their late twenties and one is even a happy, nappy-changing dad,
but you can still call Westlife "a boy band" and get away with it.
That's what Prime Time Morning discovered in an exclusive interview with the
Irish group who were in Singapore for their "Face to Face" album tour.
When asked about being called a 'boy band' Westlife's Kian Egan cheekily
stated "just don't call us a girl band".
At the same time, he was serious in maintaining that the group doesn't find
it offensive being called a 'boy band' since that is indeed what they are.
"We started off ... we were young at that time, we're abit older now but
we still do the same thing, we stand on the stage,sing songs, we do dance
routines... we're a pop band."
Egan went on to say that "we don't really care what people call us because
when people have something negative to say about Westlife it's because they
don't really like Westlife and we're not really interested in those people..."
Westlife which is touring Asia with the launch of 'Face To Face', says the
album is a collection that has their best material so far.
Speaking on Prime Time Morning, one part of the quartet, Shane Filan said,
"this album really says what Westlife is all about" and the single "You Raise
Me Up" which comes from the album "is exactly the type of music we want to
sing", he adds.
Nicky Byrne also believes that release of "You Raise Me Up" is giving Westlife
a kick-start again, opening up new markets and re-opening older markets, which
is part of the reason why the group is touring Asia right now.
The 28-year-old also revealed that "it's always nice to go back to Asia, and
our fans in Asia are up there as the best in the world".
And the fact that the fan base has matured along with the band, is a reason
why Mark Feehily feels the music has changed too, becoming more adult and
contemporary in its approach.
Overall, the members of Westlife feel little has changed for them even though
one is father to a little girl and another is married, with a father-in-law
who just so happens to be the Irish Prime Minister.
But Byrne would only reveal that that having a VIP in-law is "good fun",
describing him as a hard-working, "nice guy ... very down-to-earth for the
job he holds".
Still, having family makes touring difficult as Filan revealed, and that may
have an impact on just how long Westlife will continue as a band.
But for now, the group who say they take things a year at a time, have no plans
to change anything.
And that includes taking back a fifth member who left Westlife some three
years ago.
Byrne who admitted that the loss of Bryan McFadden was a difficult time, also
said the group had managed to survive that and "go from strength to strength,
which is a big deal for us".
And when asked if the group would consider taking McFadden back, Egan said
"we will never close the door on that one... but we don't see it happening,
realistically... in the near future."
He also said that Westlife has since worked very well as a four piece, and
that "if it's not broken then why try to fix it."
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added: 6th October 2006, source: Channel NewsAsia.com
Beauties gear up for Miss World final
WARSAW - Contestants from 104 countries and territories will vie Saturday in
Warsaw for the crown of Miss World, after being put through their paces for the
past month at venues across Poland.
The contestants have travelled the length and breadth of Poland since arriving
at the beginning of September, and have been asked to try their hand at a
number of activities, some not usually associated with beauty pageants.
They have not only sung and danced -- fairly run-of-the-mill pastimes for
aspiring Misses -- but also attended university conferences where they learned
about quantum physicist Max Born, and accompanied Polish police officers on a
tour of duty to inspect bus engines. Why the latter, nobody knows.
The final of what claims to be the biggest beauty pageant on the planet will be
broadcast live on Saturday to nearly 200 countries from Warsaw's imposing
Palace of Culture -- a "gift" to Poland in the 1950s from Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin.
During the gala evening, the 104 contestants will model everything from evening
dress to swim suits, perform choreographed dance routines and submit to the
usual question and answer session.
The field will be whittled down to 16 finalists, one of whom will eventually
step into the shoes of Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir of Iceland, last year's
winner.
The two billion television viewers the organisers expect to tune in to the
competition will be able to vote for their choice for the title by sending a
mobile telephone text message. Their vote will be combined with the decision
of a jury to eventually crown Miss World 2006.
Saturday's final will last two hours. Tickets for the gala at the Palace of
Culture start at 250 euros (300 dollars) and go as high as 2,000 euros.
"The 2,000-euro ticket not only allows you to see the final but also to
take part in the banquet at the end and have a photo taken with the new Miss
World," Miss World press officer Lukasz Niegowski told AFP.
The evening's masters-of-ceremonies will be China's Angela Chow, Britain's Tim
Vincent and Grazyna Torbicka of host nation Poland.
Entertainment at the final will be provided by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees
and Irish group Westlife. - AFP/ir
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added: 29th September 2006, source: Channel NewsAsia.com
Free Westlife ticket for Zinhle
By Nhlanhla Mathunjwa
MISS Swaziland Zinhle Magongo will be given a free entry ticket worth E5 000 to
the much awaited show featuring United Kingdom-based group Westlife.
This means Magongo will be amongst those to hold the VVVIP Tickets.
Magongo will be expected to wear a red outfit during the show as it is one of
the colours required by the organisers on the VVVIP ticket.
"The colour theme is red only (reminding love birds about Valentines as
Westlife sings lovesongs)," said Maria de Sousa, Public Relations Officer
for the Big 5 Entertainment Group who would be hosting the group.
Miss Swaziland will share a table with Westlife members. She will be given a
Benefits Westlife DVD (Face to Face) and unlimited beverages. She will also
have the chance of signing autographs and taking individual pictures.
The show is billed for the Mavuso Trade and Exhibition Centre on December
30 and tickets will be available as from September 30.
De Sousa stated that before they officially inform Magongo about the offer,
they will first let the Swazi Beauty Pageant know.
Professional
"I can confirm that Magongo is one of the few people who will get the
opportunity of sharing the same table with the USA artists. As this is a big
event, we have to make everything professional. We will inform the Swazi
Beauty Pageant that Miss Swaziland would be given the ticket and thereafter
she will be informed officially," she said.
Westlife will also be performing in Durban and Johannesburg at the Coca Cola
Dome, Port Elizabeth EPRU Stadium, Garden Route Casino, Mossel Bay, Cape Town
and finally Namibia.
"Everything is almost ready and we hope that the show will be one of the best
the country has ever hosted. We will inform the public where the tickets would
be obtained soon," said De Sousa.
Cost of tickets
1. Normal tickets cost E 370/person
2. VIP Tickets cost E 570/person includes buffet dinner and the colour theme is
White or Black.
3. VVIP No Tickets. You buy a table of 10 for E10 000
Colour theme: White and red or plain white or red
Benefits Westlife DVD (Face to Face)
Unlimited beverages
Table is next to artists.
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added: 13th September 2006, source: The Swazi Observer
Robbie, Westlife & Elton for The X Factor
Music stars Robbie Williams, Westlife and Elton John are reportedly set to
coach the finalists in the current series of 'The X Factor'.
According to the Sunday Mirror, the famous music stars will join judges Sharon
Osbourne, Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh in coaching the eventual finalists in
the reality show.
The paper reported that Williams will assist in coaching the 16-25 year-olds,
Westlife will advise the groups and John will coach the over 25s.
A source told the newspaper: "Simon said he wanted this series to be the
biggest and best yet. This is a massive coup."
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added: 4th September 2006, source: RTE.ie
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