{"id":47367,"date":"2025-09-30T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/47367\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:59:11","slug":"boyzone-announce-one-off-final-farewell-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/47367\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyzone announce one-off ‘final farewell’ gig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul GlynnCulture reporter<\/p>\n

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Boyzone (left to right): Ronan Keating, Shane Lynch and Keith Duffy<\/p>\n

Irish group Boyzone have announced they are to play a one-off concert at London’s Emirates Stadium next year.<\/p>\n

The event, entitled One For The Road, will take place at the Arsenal football ground on Saturday 6 June 2026.<\/p>\n

Frontman Ronan Keating described the stadium gig – the first and biggest of their career – as a “final farewell” for the 1990s boyband who had hits with ballads including Words and No Matter What.<\/p>\n

It will be their first performance together since a five-night run at the London Palladium in 2019 and comes off the back of a positive reaction to their recent documentary, Boyzone: No Matter What.<\/p>\n

‘One last time’<\/p>\n

“We’re not making new music, it’s not a reunion,” Keating told BBC Breakfast on Tuesday. “There’s plenty of bands out there doing that.<\/p>\n

“Everybody has been part of Boyzone’s journey, this story they’ve shared, they’ve cried with us, they’ve laughed with us through the documentary.<\/p>\n

“And now, to get to Emirates together, all of us, and say our final farewell the way we want to do it, will be pretty powerful.”<\/p>\n

Fellow singer Shane Lynch admitted he had previously thought the group, which also includes Keith Duffy and Mikey Graham, would “definitely not share a stage again.”<\/p>\n

Duffy confirmed that it is “not going to be a tour.” He added: “It’s a celebration, it’s the final chapter, it’s us boys, one last time on stage together.”<\/p>\n

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A young Boyzone pictured together ahead of the Capital Radio Christmas Party in 1994, with the late Stephen Gately (front and centre)<\/p>\n

Brit Award-winners Boyzone scored six UK number one singles and plan to play all their hits at the concert where, they hinted, they could be joined by some “friends”.<\/p>\n

Their recent documentary looked back on their career and tackled the topic of grief following the death of their bandmate Stephen Gately in 2009 aged 33.<\/a><\/p>\n

Asked by BBC Breakfast presenter Sally Nugent how the band had healed after what they had been through, Keating replied: “I don’t know if you heal.<\/p>\n

“I think you put a band aid on it and you crack on, and that’s what we’ve done,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been together, we’ve been apart. We do find it easier when we’re together, because Steo [Gately] is alive when we’re together. So that’s a beautiful thing…<\/p>\n

“But it’s gonna be hard to stand up on that stage without him, that’s for sure.”<\/p>\n

Fans can register to access a ticket pre-sale from 09:00 GMT on Tuesday 7 October, before all remaining tickets go on general sale from 09:00 GMT on Friday 10 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul GlynnCulture reporter Getty Images Boyzone (left to right): Ronan Keating, Shane Lynch and Keith Duffy Irish group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-47367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}