Westlife performs in India for the first time. And we have the details

Westlife’s Shane Filan talks about the band’s first-ever live concerts in India, a part of their ongoing The Wild Dreams world tour, and how fans can expect to hear the Irish band’s hits

Mumbaikars will soon be flying without wings. Popular Irish music band Westlife is all set for an India tour, which starts with Mumbai, followed by Bengaluru and Delhi, during which they promise to perform all the songs that we grew up listening to.

In an interview with The Hindu, Shane Filan, one of the two lead singers of the pop vocal group Westlife shares that it is the band’s first visit to India for a concert tour. “We have always told our promoters that we really want to go to India but sometimes things take a little longer to happen. We are really excited that we are coming to India with not one, but three shows in three different cities,” says Shane.

He has been to Mumbai earlier, in 2013, for the launch of his solo album Everything to me. “When I came alone in 2013, I stayed for a few days. But before that, we four had come to Goa in December 2003, around Christmas. We shot the video of our song ‘Obvious’ on a Goan beach; it was really cool,” recalls Shane, adding, “However, the best feeling about being in a country is playing a concert at night hours, sing live for fans, be with them and create memories together.”

The global best-selling band — with Shane Filan, Mark Feehily, Kian Egan, and Nicky Byrne — will perform live at three concerts brought to India by BookMyShow Live.

The tickets are selling fast in India. “Seeing the excitement among fans to watch us live and . learning about their reaction online is encouraging. It is also great to know that our songs have been very successful in the country for a long time,” says Shane. He also shares that this concert will bring all the 25 years of Westlife hits. “There is going to be a lot of memories at every show we perform,” smiles Shane.

Westlife fans can expect to hear ‘Swear It Again’, ‘If I Let You Go’, ‘Uptown Girl’, ‘Flying Without Wings’, ‘You Raise Me Up’, ‘I Have A Dream’, ‘When You’re Looking Like That’, along with fresh pop numbers from their album Wild Dreams. “Every night we go on stage and perform all these songs, we feel extremely blessed as a band. What is amazing is that people are still so fond of our old numbers that we don’t get to sing our new generation Westlife songs,” says Shane.

Talking about the title of the album Wild Dreams, Shane says that the album was made during the COVID-19 pandemic when everyone around the world was going through a hard time. “It was like we all were living in a wild dream, a nightmare we all wanted to wake up from. So with that song ‘Wild Dreams’ came the idea of the title for the album. It was a wild dream for everybody making this album too. Of all the 12 songs, we will perform one song, ‘Starlight’ from the album in every concert.”