Westlife adds another concert night in Vietnam
Irish boy band Westlife’s Ho Chi Minh city concert organizers have announced the addition of another show to the superstars’ stop in Vietnam next month.
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| Irish boy band Westlife (Photo from Westlie Facebook) |
Do Thu Giang, CEO of concert organizer AMO, announced the news with a representative from the concert’s sponsor VPBank. According to them, the group will perform for an additional night on November 21 as part of their "The Wild Dreams Tour."
"Westlife plays an essential part in many Vietnamese people’s adolescence and early adulthood," the sponsor’s representative said.
"We decided to sponsor the event to help Vietnamese fans meet their idols, enjoy their idols’ iconic songs in person, and contribute to making Vietnam a potential stop for international artists’ concerts in the future."
Tickets for the newly-announced show are set to go on sale starting 12 am next Monday. There will be 15,000 tickets available, which is the venue’s maximum capacity. Ticket prices range between VND850,000 and VND4 million ($35-$163), and they will only be distributed digitally.
Prior to the announcement, the Irish boy band had confirmed that they would hold a single concert at Ho Chi Minh city’s Thong Nhat Stadium on November 22, making Vietnam one of eight stops in Asia on their world tour to date, along with Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.
Tickets for the group’s November 22 performance went on sale on September 26. All of the 15,000 tickets found owners after only four hours, leaving many fans to express their hope that the group would extend their stay in Vietnam.
Westlife’s two November gigs in Ho Chi Minh city will mark the group’s second time performing in Vietnam, after their 2011 show in Ha Noi as part of their "Gravity Tour."
The setlist is expected to include many of the group’s best hits, from "My Love," "If I Let You Go," to "Flying Without Wings" and "Soledad."
Westlife were formed in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland with five members. The group disbanded in 2012 before reuniting again in 2018. The current members of the group are Shane Filan, Mark Feehily, Kian Egan, and Nicky Byrne.
They are holders of four Guinness World Records, including the top-selling group in the 21st century in the United Kingdom.
VNE