Berlin – Als würden die Beatles und die Stones zusammen auf eine Bühne gehen … So fühlen sich jedenfalls viele junge Frauen um die 30, die in den 90er Jahren heftigst pubertierten. Die beiden größten US-Teeniebands von damals stehen erstmals gemeinsam auf einer Bühne – New Kids on the Block und die Backstreet Boys. Als NKOTBSB rocken sie Montag die O2 World – und wir verlosen rare VIP-Karten.

Ganz so kreischlaut wie damals wird es allerdings in der O2 World wohl nicht werden. Denn viele der ausgeflippten Wesen aus Reihe 1 sind heute besonnene Mütter – und aus den bartlosen Sangesknaben von einst wurden gestandene Herren, meist schon Väter. Nestor der neuen neunköpfigen Boy-Supergroup ist Jonathan Knight (43, von NKOTB), als Junior geht Nick Carter (32, BSB) an den Start.

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By Trent Maynard

The biggest boybands of yesteryear, New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys, took to the stage at London’s O2 Arena Sunday night for the last UK date of their NKOTBSB world tour.

The two groups stormed the stage for an all-hands-on-deck opening mash-up number, before NKOTB jumped into their 2008 single Summertime and Backstreet followed with The Call.

The groups played tag-team for most of the evening, allowing time for the all-important costume change. Nearly all the boyband wardrobe clichés were present – there were white suits, black suits, fedoras, glittery t-shirts, army fatigues and some baggy streetwear.

NKOTB’s Donnie Wahlberg even tore off his t-shirt to reveal washboard abs and rippling biceps. The women screamed. So did some of the men.

Screaming is an essential component of boyband reunion shows, it seems. In between cranking out more than two decades of pop hits, the bands graciously stopped and posed – eyes looking skyward – for minutes on end so delighted crowds could applaud. It’s hard to not get swept up in all that energy and emotion (and muscle).

And so, when Donnie Wahlberg stretched out his sweaty hand as he passed our row – singing passionately into his mic and staring into our eyes – the ladies around me stretched out their arms to touch him. And, I’ll admit, so did I. I may have missed his hand and accidentally poked his shoulder blade, but I still feel I was a part of something special.

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By Aranda Rahbarkouhi

IT’S roughly 25 years since I returned from a holiday in America clutching my newly-bought New Kids on the Block Hangin’ Tough cassette tape.

If my memory serves me right, when I got back, it was passed around nearly all the girls in my year group.

Back then, Jordan was always the favourite, so posters of Donnie, Joey, Jon and Danny were left for the rest of the class to pick over. Ah, the nostalgia!

Fast-forward to 2012, and for a bunch of men verging on 40, they have formed a super group alongside the Backstreet Boys, with an easy-to-Tweet name too – #NKOTBSB.

Surrounded by an audience of now 30-something-year-old women, the excited squeals took me straight back to the classroom … and I recaptured my youth (if only for one night)!

Loyal fans came in their droves wearing band T-shirts, and carrying posters declaring their love for the lads.

They began their set by rising up on a platform like a boy band phoenix which was truly spectacular. In fact, the choreography, lighting, stage design, and most importantly, the singing were all top-notch.

Each band took it in turn to file on to the stage and roll out hit after hit, and as they did, the crowd took a step back in time and screamed their hearts out.

By the time US heartthrobs New Kids belted out The Right Stuff, everyone was on their feet doing their own version of the “oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh” dance.

Donnie Wahlberg was by far the chattiest and cheekiest of the New Kids (Men), hollering ‘Newcastle’ whenever he got the chance, stripping off his top, and inviting all the ladies back to the tour bus. I know a few who would have taken him up on that offer!

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Bremen. Da sind Erinnerungen an die Jugend wieder wach geworden: Zwei der berühmtesten Boy-Bands der 80er und 90er Jahre, die “New Kids on the Block” und die “Backstreet Boys”, sind gemeinsam auf Welttournee. Ihr Konzert ist am Sonntagabend live aus der O2-Arena in London via Satellit in das Bremer Cinemaxx übertragen worden.

Überwiegend Frauen ließen sich die Chance nicht entgehen, die Stars ihrer Jugend nochmal live zu sehen. Während der zweistündigen Show gaben die Boygroups, die nun als NKOTBSB auftreten, sowohl ihre jeweils eigenen Hits, als auch gemeinsame Songs zum Besten.

Es wurde mitgeklatscht, mitgesungen und mitgetanzt. Vor allem bei den Auftritten der Backstreet Boys wurde laut Gejubelt und als einzelne Gruppenmitglieder auf der Leinwand zu sehen waren, wurde sogar gekreischt.

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Boyband fever is taking over the world at the moment with British talent such as The Wanted and One Direction topping the charts in the US. 26 years earlier though it was New Kids On The Block that ruled the world before handing their boyband crown over to Backstreet Boys in 1996. New Kids On The Block called it a day in 1994 leaving it 14 years until they reunited. Backstreet Boys on the other hand have been going since 1993 and have taken one hiatus in their careers in the early 00’s before Kevin Richardson decided to leave the group. Carrying on as a foursome the group has had limited success since.

In 2010 New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys performed together and after receiving a positive reaction they formed super-group NKOTBSB and set off on tour together in 2011. A collective greatest hits featuring two newly recorded tracks was released and now NKOTBSB are taking their show across the world. Last night we caught the boyband legends as they performed the last date of the UK leg of their tour.

Nostalgic was definitely the best way to describe the NKOTBSB show. As we piled into The O2 Arena along with a largely female audience, the excitement was bubbling as people began to take their seats. For some fans they were seeing both groups for the first time whilst others had clearly been fans since the beginning. We were somewhere in-between remembering both groups as part of our childhood and shaping our idea of what good pop music should sound like.

Arriving on stage at 8pm NKOTBSB performed on an elevated platform which lowered down allowing them to move around their impressive stage. As Coldplay’s Viva la Vida played NKOTBSB performed a mash-up of their songs Single and The One. Immediately the super-group hurtled down the long catwalk stage towards the circular stage at the rear. For some fans the sight of their idols was too much with screaming and tears a key feature of the night making it really feel like the 90s.

From that point on the two boybands alternated on the stage for the first part of the show. Surprisingly this worked very well with the crowd getting into the rhythm of the show with ease. At the end of each song the lights went down and it actually became fun trying to figure out where the boybands would enter onto the stage. From NKOTB we heard hits such as their 2008 comeback Summertime, The Block’s Dirty Dancing and classic You Got It (The Right Stuff). Backstreet Boys selected The Call, early hit Get Down (You’re The One For Me) and Larger Than Life as their first songs of the evening.

After alternating for the first third of the show the boybands then took it in turns to perform longer sets consisting of several tracks. This also gave them opportunity to utilise The O2 Arena to the fullest. Backstreet Boys entered into the audience to find girls to take on stage and sing I’ll Never Break Your Heart whilst NKOTB ran up-and-down the arena stairs singing Tonight and hugging their adoring fans.

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IT’S been a long time between drinks for New Kids On The Block fans, but the long wait is finally over. More than two decades after the trailblazing boy band first graced our shores, they will return for a joint Australian tour with The Backstreet Boys.

But a lot of things have changed since the heady days of 1992. For one thing, all the members and their fans are old enough to legally drink. On that previous tour the band requested a hospitality room be set up at venues for fans’ parents. The Hangin’ Tough Tour backstage rider asked promoters to provide parents with coffee and doughnuts at minimal charge.

We have a feeling that this time around many members of the audience will be parents themselves.

New Kids On The Block and The Backstreet Boys play at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on May 23.

Source: CourierMail.com.au.

NKOTBSB would love to do another world tour but need to take a break after they finish up the current one.

NKOTBSB want to do another world tour.

Although the supergroup – comprised of pop heavyweights New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys – are only on the UK leg of their series of concerts with dates still to come across Europe, Asia and Australia, they are enjoying themselves so much they would love to tour together again, after a well deserved break.

NKOTB’s Donnie Wahlberg exclusively told BANG Showbiz: ”After we finish up the European leg of the tour we head off to Asia and Australia and then we’re going to take a much needed break. Backstreet Boys are going back into the studio after July 4 to make a new BSB record. This is a tour that we are all enjoying so much so if at any point down the road an opportunity arises for us to do this again then NKOTBSB will rise to the occasion again. We’ve all had fun doing this so who knows. This whole concept, it just works so we’re there!”

The band’s concert at London’s The O2 arena on Sunday (29.04.12) will be streamed to cinemas across Europe by Myscreenevent.com using HD camera technology and they admitted they wish it wasn’t live because they would love to be able to sneak in to some screens to see the fans reaction.

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If it’s good enough for every other 90s band, then it’s revivial time for the New Kids On The Block too.

Back in their heyday, they had arenas full of crazed teenage girls screaming in excitement. Believe it or not, it’s been a whopping 26 years since the New Kids on the Block released their first single.

For the Backstreet Boys, it’s been 16. And now, not to be outdone by a series of staggeringly successful comebacks from the likes of Take That, Spice Girls and Steps, the ultimate boyband heartthrobs of the 80s have joined forces with their 90s-dominant musical brothers to form a cheesy pop supergroup.

This frightening beast – nicknamed NKOTBB – has taken the world by storm, selling out dates across the US and Canada as Joey McIntyre, AJ McLean, Jordan Knight, Howie Dorough, Jonathan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Littrell, Danny Wood and Nick Carter try to prove they still have the moves.

Now, they are hitting the UK, bringing two generations of unapologetic pop fans together in one place.

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