Animated visuals within the background, the dashing Irish boy band Westlife belting out their iconic hits and excited followers swaying to timeless tunes round them… Sunday night time at JLN stadium was a sight to behold.

After gigs in Mumbai and Bengaluru, it was time for the well-known Westlife quartet — Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Shane Filan and Mark Feehily — to wow the Delhi-NCR viewers and the heartthrobs of 90s did not disappoint as they ended their India leg of ”The Wild Dreams” Tour on a excessive be aware.

The efficiency began with a pitch-perfect opening sequence with members of the boy band storming the stage unannounced and singing the rousing pop quantity, ‘Starlight’, adopted with streams of confetti showing from nowhere.

”We love you India. We have been ready for a few years to return to India and do the live performance, tonight goes to be one of the best of the lot. Are you able to celebration, Delhi?” requested one of many band members to the pumped-up viewers.

The Irish-band did not wait too lengthy to make music lovers stroll down the 90s lane as they crooned to their nostalgic classics ”Uptown Girl”, ”I Lay My Love On You”, ”Seasons within the Sun”, ”If I Let You Go”, ”My Love”, and ”Swear it once more” — the band’s first single from their debut album in 1999.

”When we began this band we have been lots youthful than what we are actually, however so have been you guys,” stated 43-year-old Kian Egan as he joked about how the group and its viewers have grown outdated collectively.

To everybody’s delight, the band, performing its ninetieth live performance, wore matching silver basket coats to carry out a medley of ABBA tunes together with ”Mamma Mia”, ”Take a Chance on Me”, ”Dancing Queen”, ”Thank You for the Music” and ”Money Money Money”.

Waving their fingers within the air, singing alongside to each phrase or at instances getting caught up within the emotion of highly effective ballads, the viewers — significantly the older millennials’ — loved the live performance to the tee.

”I do know it’s a cliche but it surely was certainly a dream come true second for me. I’ve grown up listening to Westlife, and attending to see them performing reside in spite of everything these years is a minimum of a blessing. This is surreal. Of course, that is by far one of the best live performance I’ve ever been to,” stated Piyush Sharma, 28, who attended the live performance along with his spouse. The band was shaped in Sligo, Ireland, by the identify ‘IOYOU’ by Egan, Feehily and Filan in 1997 with Byrne and Brian McFadden becoming a member of them a yr later. The group was later renamed as Westlife.

They launched their first single in April 1999 and have since launched 12 studio albums, together with 2021’s ”Wild Dreams”.

The group ended its act and the Indian leg of the tour with the hovering anthem of ”You Raise Me Up”, and everybody, as if on cue, flashed their digicam lights in the direction of the stage to seize the magical second and their childhood idols for one final time. Westlife’s ”The Wild Dreams” tour was delivered to India by GuideMyPresent Live.

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