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NO COMEBACK FOR WESTLIFE
Topic Started: Nov 4 2011, 10:55 AM (115 Views)
JoanneVIP
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THE BOSS
NO COMEBACK FOR WESTLIFE


By Kim Dawson with James Cabooter

WESTLIFE yesterday spoke for the first time about their decision to split after 14 years in pop.

The lads – Mark Feehily, 31, Shane Filan, 32, Nicky Byrne, 33, and Kian Egan, 31 – helped me mop up my tears as they vowed: “A reunion is not going to happen.”

Nicky confirmed: “It’s not a publicity stunt.

“There was more money on the table from Sony Records as part of a re-negotiation but it feels right to see what else is out there.”

It’s clear from spending time with the guys there’s no secret agenda, they simply feel they’ve done all they can as a group.

Managed by X Factor judge Louis Walsh, 59, Westlife’s achievements are immense, including 14 No 1 hits, seven No 1 albums and 10 sell-out tours.

Mark revealed: “Louis said to us: ‘Whatever is wrong we’ll fix it,’ but there’s nothing to fix. It’s a natural thing to happen. We couldn’t go on releasing albums until we died.”

Westlife’s final single Lighthouse drops on November 13 and is followed by their Greatest Hits a week later.

They tour the UK and Ireland for the last time next May.

Shane explained: “The tour will be the end of Westlife. We’re hoping to do one last extravagant show and it’s going to be horrendous when we come off stage, the worst day.”

Nicky agreed: “Other bands who have breaks know they might come back. We’re saying we’re not.”

Kian is the only member of the group with confirmed plans, as a judge on Ireland’s The Voice.

Shane mused: “I’d like to keep singing but we have no record deals.”

With The Wanted, JLS and One Direction flying the boyband flag, who do Westlife think can succeed them?

Kian said: “I don’t see any of them lasting as long as we have.”

Mark agreed: “Four or five years max for a boyband is normal.

“We lasted as we all get along. We’re quite freakish like that.”

Freaks, nah, fantastic, yes.

Credit/Source: dailystar.co.uk
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JoanneVIP
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Westlife trash talk of reunion – it’s all about beers now


Still to release a Greatest Hits album and tour before the final ‘cheerio’, Louis Walsh’s Irish stars revealed they rejected a huge deal to stay together and now just want to get ‘f***ed up’.

‘If it was about money, we turned down an absolutely massive record deal for an awful lot of money,’ Shane Filan told me during an exclusive farewell chat.

‘There’s no reunion planned. There’s nothing.’ Backing him up, Nicky Byrne, 33, admitted: ‘We could have signed the record deal, taken a break and made the reunion one as well and made money.’

Despite 14 No.1s, Westlife always failed to match Take That in the headline stakes but they insisted there’s been mischief behind closed doors. Among their career highlights is ‘the amount of alcohol we’ve drunk’.

Mark Feehily said: ‘Take That were the boyband of the 1990s and we were the boyband of the 2000s.’

Filan added: ‘For us, it’s never been about trying to get headlines. We let our music do the talking and our controversy is our success.’

Byrne went on: ‘We weren’t great at playing the fame game and falling out of pubs.’

Now the lads are planning to stay in music in some way but maintain their obscurity.

‘We always felt we were in a famous band but we weren’t individually famous people,’ said 31-year-old Feehily.

Unknown in the US, they are eyeing Vegas for a farewell. Kian Egan, 31, said: ‘There is no way in the world I am not going to go out after the last gig and get absolutely trashed.’

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/music/880676-westli...w#ixzz1cjW16rnC
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Gloria
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Thanks for posting Jo, it will be a very sad evening after their last concert ever.
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Sara
Its so sad :( I hope the tour gets filmed! Thank you for posting Jo
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Mary
thanks for posting me so hope the tour gets flim there last date is going to be so emotional
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