{"id":416860,"date":"2026-05-07T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/416860\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:03:14","slug":"westlife-to-perform-all-the-hits-on-first-new-zealand-tour-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/416860\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlife to perform all the hits on first New Zealand tour in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Westlife are bringing their 25th anniversary tour to New Zealand in July. Photo \/ Westlife\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Westlife are bringing their 25th anniversary tour to New Zealand in July. Photo \/ Westlife<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe 25th anniversary show will be our most exciting and ambitious to date and, of course, we will be performing all of the hits. Australia and New Zealand \u2013 we cannot wait to see you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">General tickets will go on sale May 15, while Mastercard holders and Live Nation members will have access to a presale on May 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Westpac customers can buy tickets on May 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily formed Westlife in 1998 and became one of the biggest boybands of the 2000s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">They have sold more than 55 million records worldwide and are Britain and Ireland\u2019s top-selling album group of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The tour will see Filan, Byrne and Egan reunited without Feehily, who announced in 2024 he would not continue playing with the band for ongoing health reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westlife are bringing their 25th anniversary tour to New Zealand in July. Photo \/ Westlife \u201cThe 25th anniversary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2327,141959,5263,4624,1888,4508,78,117,111,43,139,69,90,5202,24265,1527,84484,223,2044,61,208,214222,1530,80],"class_list":["post-416860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2327","tag-25th","tag-all","tag-anniversary","tag-first","tag-hits","tag-in","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-part","tag-perform","tag-return","tag-shores","tag-the","tag-time","tag-to","tag-tour","tag-westlife","tag-years","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}