Back Home Tour

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Back Home Tour
Tour by Westlife
Start date	February 25, 2008
End date	June 28, 2008
Shows	42
Westlife tour chronology
The Love Tour (2007)	Back Home Tour (2008)

The Back Home Tour is a world tour by Irish boyband, Westlife in support of their 9^th studio album, Back Home. The band will be touring the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

The tour is divided into two legs. The first leg kicked off in Belfast on February 25 and ended in London on March 29, 2008.^th. The second leg started on a four-day visit on Australia for the promotion of the album.

Contents 1 Set List 2 Support Acts 3 Cancelled Shows 4 Venues 4.1 Leg 1 4.2 Leg 2 5 References

[edit] Set List

01. Hit You With The Real Thing
02. World Of Our Own
03. Something Right
04. What Makes A Man
05. Uptown Girl
06. The Easy Way / ABC
07. If I Let You Go / Where Is The Love (The Black Eyed Peas cover)
08. Mandy
09. My Love (Not Performed On Every Show)

Medley
10. Sexy Back (Justin Timberlake cover)
11. Blame It On The Boogie (Jackson 5 cover)
12. Get Down On It
13. I'm Your Man
14. Let Me Entertain You (Robbie Williams cover)

15. I'm Already There

Acoustic Set
16. Unbreakable
17. Queen Of My Heart
18. Fool Again
19. Catch My Breath

20. Home
21. Us Against The World
22. Hey Whatever (Not Performed On Every Show)
23. Swear It Again

Encore
24. Flying Without Wings
25. When You're Looking Like That
26. You Raise Me Up

[edit] Support Acts

X Factor 2006 contestants, The MacDonald Brothers filled in as the tour's support act. During the New Zealand leg of the tour, the band was supported by New Zealand artist, Annabel Fay.^[1]

Hope, the all-female girl group from X Factor UK Series 4 (2007) is the tour support act in Sheffield.

Shayne Ward, winner of X Factor 2005, will support the band's 10^th anniversary concert on the 1^st of June 2008. The concert will be held in Europe's fourth biggest stadium, Croke Park. With a capacity of 82 500, it will be Westlife's biggest live concert to date. It was reported that the concert is now sold-out.

[edit] Cancelled Shows

A Norwegian newspaper reported on February 26 that the May 26 Norway concert has been cancelled due to time contraints and transportation problems. ^[2] Following that, the May 25 Denmark concert, the May 28 Germany concert^[3] and the May 29 Netherlands concert were also cancelled due to production and transportation problems.

An official statement was then released through the band's official website citing 'complicated production problems' as the reason for the cancellations^[4] . The sudden cancellation of all the European mainland shows has sparked outrage among fans who were eargerly anticipating the band's concerts. Some of the cancelled dates were replaced with new dates in Belfast and Sheffield.

Both the Nottingham and Cardiff shows on the 19th & 20th of May respectively have been cancelled due to Shane and Nicky's illness. Doctors have advised them to get proper rest in order to fully recover.^[5] The band has stated they will be honouring tickets for the shows when they are rescheduled.

[edit] Venues

[edit] Leg 1

Concert	Date	Country	Venue
1	25 Feb 2008	Northern Ireland	Odyssey Arena
2	26 Feb 2008	Northern Ireland	Odyssey Arena
3	27 Feb 2008	Northern Ireland	Odyssey Arena
4	29 Feb 2008	England	Liverpool Echo Arena
5	1 Mar 2008	England	The O2
6	2 Mar 2008	England	The O2
7	4 Mar 2008	England	Metro Radio Arena
8	5 Mar 2008	England	Metro Radio Arena
9	8 Mar 2008	Wales	Cardiff International Arena
10	9 Mar 2008	Wales	Cardiff International Arena
11	10 Mar 2008	Wales	Cardiff International Arena
12	12 Mar 2008	England	National Exhibition Centre
13	13 Mar 2008	England	National Exhibition Centre
14	15 Mar 2008	England	Manchester Evening News Arena
15	16 Mar 2008	England	Manchester Evening News Arena
16	18 Mar 2008	Scotland	Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
17	20 Mar 2008	Scotland	Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
18	21 Mar 2008	Scotland	Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
19	22 Mar 2008	Scotland	Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
20	24 Mar 2008	England	Nottingham Arena
21	25 Mar 2008	England	Sheffield Arena
22	26 Mar 2008	England	Sheffield Arena
23	28 Mar 2008	England	Wembley Arena
24	29 Mar 2008	England	Wembley Arena

[edit] Leg 2

Concert	Date	Country	Venue
25	7 May 2008	New Zealand	Westpac Arena, Christchurch
26	9 May 2008	New Zealand	TSB Bank Arena, Wellington
27	10 May 2008	New Zealand	Vector Arena, Auckland
28	12 May 2008	New Zealand	Aotea Centre, Auckland
29	13 May 2008	New Zealand	New Plymouth Stadium, New Plymouth
30	16 May 2008	Scotland	Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre
31	17 May 2008	Scotland	Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
	19 May 2008	England	Nottingham Arena (Postponed)
	20 May 2008	Wales	Cardiff International Arena (Postponed)
	22 May 2008	England	National Exhibition Centre (Postponed)
	23 May 2008	England	Manchester Evening News Arena (Postponed)
32	25 May 2008	England	Sheffield Arena
33	27 May 2008	Northern Ireland	Odyssey Arena
34	28 May 2008	Northern Ireland	Odyssey Arena
35	1 June 2008	Ireland	Croke Park
36	3 June 2008	England	National Exhibition Centre (Rescheduled)
37	4 June 2008	England	Manchester Evening News Arena (Rescheduled)
38	21 June 2008	Ireland	Pearse Stadium
39	22 June 2008	Ireland	FitzGerald Stadium
40	24 June 2008	England	Nottingham Arena (Rescheduled)
41	25 June 2008	Wales	Cardiff International Arena (Rescheduled)
42	28 June 2008	England	Plymouth Argyle Football Club

[edit] References

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