| Tour by Boyzone | |
| Start date | May 25, 2008 |
|---|---|
| End date | August 24, 2008 |
| Boyzone concert chronology | |
The Back Again... No Matter What Tour was a concert tour by Boyzone, their first tour since the By Request Tour in 1999. They played to over 250,000 fans.
Boyzone returned in 2007 for a reunion performance on Children in Need. They subsequently announced a tour.
The Take That Ultimate tour inspired them.
The group sold 200,000 tickets for the tour within three hours and sold 20,000 tickets on the first day of them going on sale for their concert in the RDS Dublin. Keating told the Daily Star: "We've been taking it easy on the Guinness and been out for dinners and just a couple of drinks. We're taking the tour plans very seriously. We're all on diets and we've been training in the gym every day. I'm probably the fittest now that I've ever been. I think we all look better now than before. I can't wait to be back on the road and all the guys feel the same." The 29-date tour, taking in cities such as Cardiff, Newcastle, Liverpool, London at the O2 Arena and Wembley, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Sheffield, Newcastle, Nottingham, Edinburgh Castle and the RDS in Dublin.
The tour began on 25 May 2008 at Belfast's Odyssey arena and finished at Carlisle Bitts Park on 23 August 2008. On 29 August 2008 Boyzone played alongside other acts such as Sandi Thom and Scouting For Girls at an event in Blackpool to switch on the Blackpool Illuminations, an annual event in the town. The event received coverage on BBC Radio 2.
According to the 30th May 2008 show.
The dates from Manchester were used to make a DVD of the full concert which was released on the 13 October 2008.
| Date | City | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2008 | Belfast | Northern Ireland | Odyssey Arena |
| May 26, 2008 | |||
| May 29, 2008 | Cardiff | Wales | Cardiff International Arena |
| May 30, 2008 | London | England | The O2 Arena |
| May 31, 2008 | |||
| June 1, 2008 | Wembley Arena | ||
| June 3, 2008 | Nottingham | Trent FM Arena | |
| June 4, 2008 | |||
| June 6, 2008 | Cardiff | Wales | Cardiff International Arena |
| June 7, 2008 | |||
| June 8, 2008 | |||
| June 10, 2008 | Birmingham | England | National Exhibition Centre |
| June 11, 2008 | |||
| June 13, 2008 | Manchester | Manchester Evening News Arena | |
| June 14, 2008 | |||
| June 15, 2008 | Liverpool | Echo Arena Liverpool | |
| June 17, 2008 | Newcastle | Metro Radio Arena | |
| June 18, 2008 | |||
| June 19, 2008 | Sheffield | Motorpoint Arena Sheffield | |
| June 20, 2008 | |||
| June 22, 2008 | Glasgow | Scotland | Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre |
| June 23, 2008 | |||
| June 24, 2008 | |||
| June 26, 2008 | Aberdeen | Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre | |
| June 28, 2008 | Dublin | Ireland | RDS Arena |
| July 5, 2008 | Hampshire | England | Broadlands |
| July 18, 2008 | Edinburgh | Scotland | Edinburgh Castle |
| August 15, 2008 | Newmarket | England | Newmarket Racecourse |
| August 16, 2008 | Newbury | Newbury Racecourse | |
| August 23, 2008 | Carlisle | Carlisle Bitts Park | |
| August 24, 2008 | |||