We've been given the chance to interview Westlife on Friday 29th February in Liverpool and we thought maybe one or two of you might be interested in doing it? Perhaps?

Westlife release their new single 'Us Against The World' on March 3 and to celebrate they're currently on tour around the UK.

We want to take you and a friend to meet the boys and interview them for us at their Liverpool gig. Not only will you meet them, but then you'll also enjoy what's sure to be a spectacular performance.

If you want to be our superfan, then email lucio@hit40uk.com with your name, address, and phone number. Plus we want you to tell us what the ultimate question you'd ask Westlife is.Please only enter if you can make your own way to and from the gig as transport and travel aren't included!

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Westlife are thrilled to announce a string of tour dates in New Zealand.

Here's where they'll be:

Wed 7th May - Christchurch Westpac Arena
Fri 9th May - Wellington TSB Arena
Sat 10th May - Auckland Vector Arena
Tue 13th May - New Plymouth Stadium

There will be a presale for these dates starting on Monday 25th February. You won't need a password for the presale, but you will need the web address, which we'll be sending out to the mailing list this weekend. (So if you're not already signed up, do it HERE!) We'll also be posting the website details on this site on Monday morning.

Tickets go on general sale on Saturday 1st March.

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Get ready to scream, ladies - Irish boy band Westlife have announced they will perform four New Zealand tour dates in May.

The band, which has sold more than 36 million albums, will perform in Christchurch's Westpac Arena on May 7, Wellington's TSB Arena on May 9, Auckland's Vector Arena on May 10 and New Plymouth's TSB Stadium on May 13.

It will be their first time in New Zealand.

The band formed in 1998 with five members, but Brian McFadden left in 2004 to embark on a mildly successful solo career. The band tours as a four-piece.

Their hits include Swear It Again, Flying Without Wings, If I Let You Go and Uptown Girl.

Tickets for the shows go on sale on March 1.

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Westlife

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After fourteen UK No.1 singles and more than 36 million records sold worldwide, the biggest selling pop act of the last 10 years, WESTLIFE, triumphantly announce they will perform in concert in New Zealand for the very first time.

The all-boy band, who has dominated the charts since 1999 when they released Flying Without Wings, will appear in Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and New Plymouth in May.

Westlife is a cultural phenomenon and after a decade of hits, they are still at the top of their game and continue to surprise and astound in equal measure. No modern band can compare to Westlife’s extraordinary success. In their 10 years aboard the pop express they have sold over 36 million records globally and been awarded 28 platinum discs. In the UK alone they have scored eight multi-platinum albums and a record breaking 14 number one hits (behind only Elvis and The Beatles). The band has also picked up innumerable awards and appeared on hundreds of magazine covers around the world. They are the only recording artists to win the prestigious ‘Record Of The Year’ a staggering four times (other top awards include two BRITS and an MTV Europe Award).

As well as all their hits including Seasons in the Sun and Swear It again, they will feature songs from their latest album "Back Home" when they perform in four fabulous New Zealand venues.

As a special gift to their New Zealand fans in celebration of their debut tour, Westlife will be releasing a NZ only edition of their "best of" album featuring all their greatest hits.

"We are ecstatic to have such an amazing band coming here," says the promoter. "We advise people to get in quick as this is THE hot ticket for 2008."

Tickets will go on sale on the following dates:

Visa Presale: 25th, 26th & 27th February 2008 www.visaentertainment.co.nz

General on sale date: Saturday 1st March 2008

WHERE, WHEN & HOW

WEDNESDAY 7 MAY
CHRISTCHURCH - WESTPAC ARENA
TICKETS FROM TICKETEK: 0800TICKETEK www.ticketek.co.nz 0800-842538

FRIDAY 9 MAY
WELLINGTON - TSB ARENA
TICKETS FROM TICKETEK: 0800TICKETEK www.ticketek.co.nz 0800-842538

SATURDAY 10 MAY
AUCKLAND - VECTOR ARENA
TICKETS FROM TICKETMASTER: (09) 970 9700 www.ticketmaster.co.nz

TUESDAY 13 MAY
NEW PLYMOUTH - TSB STADIUM
TICKETS FROM TICKETEK: 0800TICKETEK www.ticketek.co.nz 0800-842538

http://www.westlife.com/

NEW ALBUM ‘BACK HOME’ OUT NOW - GREATEST HITS CD/DVD INSTORES MARCH

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Have you entered the Westlife quiz yet?

If not, you're missing out on a chance to bag the ultimate competition prize: a face-to-face meeting with Westlife, as well as two tickets to see them live in concert!

The quiz is divided into two sections, both of which are online now, and you're up against the clock to answer as many questions correctly as you can in the time provided. The user with the highest score in the fastest time wins the top prize, while ten runners up will each receive signed copies of the album.

You must be a registered user to enter the quiz, so if you're ready... Click here to take part, and may the best fan win!

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By Phil Crossey

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than snuggling up on the sofa tonight with Westlife?

Not to mention our very own Phil Crossey, just one of the media experts talking about just why the band are so popular.

Shane, Mark, Kian and Nicky join presenter John Kearns in a special up close and personal UTV documentary - Westlife Back Home - at 7.30pm tonight, celebrating 10 years of Westlife, ahead of their return to play to three sold out concerts in Belfast this month.

Speaking fondly of their Northern fans, Shane says that Northern Ireland fans are "crazy", but that they've supported them from day one and are probably "the most loyal fanbase in the world".

And Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says that when the band started out, "the people in the North took to them and they took to the people in the North; they love going back".

Nicky admits that there's something about Belfast fans that gives him goosebumps, and that there's always pandemonium when Westlife go to Belfast, making Northern Ireland fans distinctive from those across the world. Nicky also reveals that he enjoys hearing fans standing outside the band's Belfast hotel after a concert at 4am still singing World Of Our Own.

And Shane confesses that if he was planning a night out, he'd probably go to Belfast before he'd take the boys to Dublin.

They talk to John about starting out in 1998 and their first ever number one Swear It Again and Shane reveals that they knew they had to be different from the other boy bands. Simon Cowell admits that when he first saw the band, he knew within 30 seconds that he was going to sign them.

Record of the Year winning Flying Without Wings is Bertie Ahern's favourite Westlife song and Shane says it's probably the best song of their career.

They do, however, admit that You Raise Me Up was
most likely the song that saved their career, which some thought was on the wane at that stage.

Mark says: "It brought us right back up to the very top," while Shane says: "It changed our career."

They speak of Brian's much publicised departure and Kian admits that he should never have cried at the press conference announcing Brian was to leave the band but he says he thought the band was over.

Shane says that after releasing their current album Back Home, they'll be taking a year off for the first time in 10 years, but Nicky adds: "We want to stay around a long time and conquer the world as a pop band."

Westlife Back Home includes a host of commentators from the local media who have contributed in some way to the band's immense popularity, although some are bigger fans than others!

n Westlife Back Home is on UTV tonight at 7.30pm and repeated on Sunday at 5.25pm.

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In our special Valentine's poll, 42 per cent of you thought a song dedicated to you would be the perfect Valentine's gift from Westlife.

In our new poll, with Westlife's new single ‘Us Against The World' out on 3rd March, we want to know where in the world you'd like Westlife to take you?

Find the poll on the homepage now.

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Thank you to everyone for submitting such creative entries for our Valentine's Card competition.

It was a very tough choice, but the winner is Ann Lorraine Dones, for the card below. Congratulations Ann, you'll be receiving a signed Valentine's card from the band in the post!



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Westlife are swapping their trademark suits for motorcycling leathers in the promo for new single Us Against The World.

A source said: "The lads wanted a tougher image for their new video and turned to bikers' favourites Hein Gericke for advice on how to look the part."

"They ordered a wide variety of authentic kit and jet black helmets."
Racy stuff."

The tune is released on February 25, the same day their Back Home tour kicks off.

Credit/Source: Daily Star / Thanx Rachel for typing it up

WE'VE GOT MALE!

WOMAN gets up close and personal as Westlife answer your questions

This year, Valentine's Day is likely to be quiet for the Westlife boys - Shane Filan, 28, Nicky Byrne, 29, Mark Feehily, 27, and Kian Egan, 27 - as they are busy rehearsing for their Back Home arena tour.

Shane and his wife Gillian will be having a night in with their daughter Nicole, two, while Nicky and his wife Georgina will no doubt be busy with nine-month-old twins Rocco and Jay. Mark will be cooking a roast dinner for his boyfriend Kevin McDaid, and Kian wants a romantic meal with his fiancee, actress Jodi Albert.

But the boys have still found time to open their hearts and answer all the romantic questions WOMAN readers posed to them.

Kian, were you very nervous about proposing to Jodi last Christmas?
Victoria Hart, Preston, Lancs.
Kian: Yes, I kept thinking how I only ever want to ask that question once! But even though I was nervous, I really did enjoy doing it because I knew Jodi was not going to say no! The wedding will be sometime in 2009.

If you could relive a romantic moment in your life, what would it be and why?
Catherine Hiscoke, Plymouth, Devon.
Shane: It's got to be either my wedding day or the day our daughter Nicole was born. Gillian and I were friends for years before we started dating, but it didn't take long for me to realise that I didn't want to be with anyone else. I know that Gillian loved me before the band, before the money or fame.

Mark: will you tie the knot with your boyfriend Kevin?
Carmel Flood, Byfleet, Surrey.
Mark: We've no plans just now, but if and when it happens, it will be a big craic. Kevin's really been embraced by our fans - he even gets his own fan mail!

How do your partners feel about the attention you get?
Eleanor Mulligan, South London.
Nicky: Georgina's absolutely fine with it but I really hate it when we're out together and a group of girls come up to me and then act like Georgina's not there. But she just laughs about it and sings that old Carpenters song Close To You that goes, 'Why do birds suddenly appear…' That's her little joke.

Has anyone had a stalker?
Ros Howard, Bisly, Surrey.
Kian: We all have but I had one from Switzerland and she'd follow us all around Europe when we were on tour, giving me letters saying she loved me. The next thing I know, she's moved to my hometown in Ireland and she still lives there!

Who gets the dirtiest fan mail?
Elaine Fitzgerald, Portsmouth, Hants.
Mark: One fan sent me a DVD of her having sex with her boyfriend and I have also been sent used sex toys, I open my post with Marigolds on these days.

Nicky, when did you realise Georgina was the one?
Sally Joyce, Watford, Hertfordshire.
Nicky: This sounds corny, but I remember coming home from school when I was 14 and saying to my mum: 'I've seen the girl I'm going to marry'.
Shane, Kian and Mark: Aahh!

What food would you give to seduce someone?
June O'Dell, Bath, Somerset.
Shane: I just give Gillian a hot chocolate with marshmallow!
Kian: You need to be more adventurous than that! I'd make a chilli so hot that Jodi would have to start unpeeling her layers…

What do you wear in bed?
Angela Caine, Glasgow
Mark: Depends on my mood!
Kian: Just my undies
Shane: Usually boxer shorts and a T-shirt, I don't like wearing too much.
Nicky: Nothing!

Westlife's new single Us Against The World is released on February 25. Their Back Home arena tour kicks off on the same day.

Credit/Source: Woman Magazine / Thanx Joanne (for the scans), Gloria (for typing it up) and Rachel (for the scans)

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