{"id":49597,"date":"2019-05-03T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=49597"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:05:55","slug":"mjr-present-the-boys-are-back-tour-featuring-5ive-a1-damage-and-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/05\/mjr-present-the-boys-are-back-tour-featuring-5ive-a1-damage-and-911\/","title":{"rendered":"MJR Present The Boys Are Back Tour Featuring 5ive, A1, Damage, And 911"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Presented by MJR, The Boys Are Back tour promises an evening of late 90s boyband nostalgia! Featuring four of the era&#8217;s biggest pop acts &#8211; 5ive, A1, Damage, and 911, the tour takes in 30 dates across the UK in 2020!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Celebrating a decade of wild boys of pop, &#8216;The Boys Are Back&#8217; includes the original line ups, party classics, their greatest hits, fantastic tunes, and everyone\u2019s favourite dance moves! &#8216;The Boys are Back&#8217; &#8211; on the road, and on the mic!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">5ive, comprising Ritchie Neville, Sean Conlon, and Scott Robinson, were formed in 1997 by the same team who assembled The Spice Girls. Selling more than 20 million records, 5ive garnered many awards and were known for partying hard, and gained a reputation as the bad boys of pop. They reformed in 2013 for ITVs &#8216;The Big Reunion&#8217;, and embarked on their own sold-out headline tour the following year. Their current line-up contains three of the 5 original members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BRIT award winning British-Norwegian band A1, is made up of Ben Adams, Paul Marazzi, Mark Read, and Christian Ingebrigsten. Breaking through in the UK in 1999, and achieved massive success throughout the UK, Asia, and Europe, with over 10 million record sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damage was one of the first boy bands to really bring an urban flavour to their sound, and with 11 hit singles under their belt the band are now a four piece, which includes their original members Jade, Rahsaan, Andrez &amp; Noel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">911, the fourth band on the bill, also reformed as part of ITVs Big Reunion, and are made up of Lee Brennan, Jimmy Constable and Simon &#8220;Spike&#8221; Dawbarn. They sold millions of records worldwide, with 8 hits in the UK top 5 and a UK number 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Boys Are Back&#8217; Tour dates &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">February:<br \/>\nWed 19 &#8211; Edinburgh &#8211; Usher Hall<br \/>\nThur 20 &#8211; Carlisle Sands Centre<br \/>\nFri 21 &#8211; Glasgow Kings Theatre<br \/>\nSar 22 &#8211; Newcastle City Hall<br \/>\nSun 23 &#8211; Northampton Royal, Derngate<br \/>\nTue 25 &#8211; Birmingham Symphony Hall<br \/>\nWed 26 &#8211; Bath Forum<br \/>\nThur 27 &#8211; Sheffield City Hall<br \/>\nFRI 28 &#8211; Hull Bonus Arena<br \/>\nSAT 29 &#8211; Liverpool Olympia<br \/>\nSUN 1 &#8211; Ipswich Regent Theatre<br \/>\nTUES 3 &#8211; Guilford G-Live<br \/>\nWEDS 4 &#8211; Watford Colosseum<br \/>\nThur 5 &#8211; Preston Guildhall<br \/>\nFri 6 &#8211; Manchester O2 Apollo<br \/>\nSat 7 &#8211; York Barbican<br \/>\nSun 8 &#8211; Milton Keynes MK Theatre<br \/>\nMon 9 &#8211; Norwich UEA<br \/>\nWed 11 &#8211; Leicester De Montford Hall<br \/>\nThur 12 &#8211; Southend Cliffs Pavillion<br \/>\nFri 13 &#8211; Nottingham The Royal Concert Hall<br \/>\nSat 14 &#8211; London Hammersmith Apollo<br \/>\nSun 15 &#8211; Margate Winter Gardens<br \/>\nTue 17 &#8211; Cambridge Corn Exchange<br \/>\nWed 18 &#8211; Portsmouth Guildhall<br \/>\nThur 19 &#8211; Reading Hexagon<br \/>\nFRI 20 &#8211; Southampton Guildhall<br \/>\nSAT 21 &#8211; Poole Lighthouse<br \/>\nSUN 22 &#8211; Plymouth Pavillions<br \/>\nMON 23 &#8211; Cardiff St David&#8217;s Hall<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tickets available <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/TheBoysAreBackUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented by MJR, The Boys Are Back tour promises an evening of late 90s boyband nostalgia! Featuring four of the era&#8217;s biggest pop acts &#8211; 5ive, A1, Damage, and 911, the tour takes in 30 dates across the UK in 2020!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[264,7],"tags":[546,2452,21186,7755,394,20343,21184,21185,103,840],"class_list":["post-49597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts","category-music","tag-5ive","tag-90s","tag-21186","tag-a1","tag-concerts","tag-damage","tag-mjr","tag-the-boys-are-back","tag-tour","tag-uk-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-cTX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51851,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/08\/the-boys-are-back-ras-from-damage-talks-to-us-about-their-upcoming-tour\/","url_meta":{"origin":49597,"position":0},"title":"The Boys Are Back! 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