Boyzlife

When Keith Duffy and Brian McFadden first went on the road as Boyzlife – the supergroup made up of the former Boyzone and Westlife members – they never anticipated that almost 10 years later they’d be successfully touring internationally as a duo and releasing music.

“The whole concept of the band at the start was that we wanted to do an autobiographical show,” says Keith. “Instead of doing what everybody else does and write their life experiences through the music business in a book for people to read, we decided to actually tell people the stories out loud.”

Scattered among the stories, the duo performed several Westlife and Boyzone’s biggest hits. It was a recipe for success: after the first tour finished, the group quickly took their show out on the road again. Demand was so high that they developed a bigger show, one more focused on the songs from Westlife and Boyzone’s iconic catalogue. “To put together a set list and not do any stories was easy because we had so many hit songs; every song we do is a hit song,” Keith says. “We started off playing small venues and now we’re doing these beautiful theatres around the world. We have a full live band behind us. We’ve got all the bells and whistles: pyro, special effects... We do the whole thing now.”