Animated visuals in the background, the dashing Irish boy band Westlife belting out their iconic hits and excited fans swaying to timeless tunes around them… Sunday night at JLN stadium was a sight to behold.
After gigs in Mumbai and Bengaluru, it was time for the famous Westlife quartet — Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Shane Filan and Mark Feehily — to wow the Delhi-NCR audience and the heartthrobs of 90s didn’t disappoint as they ended their India leg of “The Wild Dreams” Tour on a high note.
The performance started with a pitch-perfect opening sequence with members of the boy band storming the stage unannounced and singing the rousing pop number, ‘Starlight’, followed with streams of confetti appearing from nowhere.
“We love you India. We have been waiting for many years to come to India and do the concert, tonight is going to be the best of the lot. Are you ready to party, Delhi?” asked one of the band members to the pumped-up audience.
The Irish-band didn’t wait too long to make music lovers walk down the 90s lane as they crooned to their nostalgic classics “Uptown Girl”, “I Lay My Love On You”, “Seasons in the Sun”, “If I Let You Go”, “My Love”, and “Swear it again” — the band’s first single from their debut album in 1999.
To everyone’s delight, the band, performing its 90th concert, wore matching silver basket coats to perform a medley of ABBA tunes including “Mamma Mia”, “Take a Chance on Me”, “Dancing Queen”, “Thank You for the Music” and “Money Money Money”.
Waving their hands in the air, singing along to every word or at times getting caught up in the emotion of powerful ballads, the audience — particularly the older millennials’ — enjoyed the concert to the tee.
This is surreal. Of course, this is by far the best concert I have ever been to,” said Piyush Sharma, 28, who attended the concert with his wife. (PTI)
