Westlife 2002 Tour

Westlife 2002 Tour

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In 2002 Westlife toured Britain and Europe again, playing pretty much identical venues to the year before. The appeal of photographing exactly the same tour again was rather lost on me and consequently I took very few photographs. Those that I did take were almost all at a gig in Killarney in western Ireland which was tacked on to the end of the main tour.

While the tour was the same, the backing-band had changed considerably, now featuring Velroy Bailey on Drums, Mark Willis on Bass and Mark Walker on keys. Westlife had been rather put out, during a gig in Tel Aviv the previous year in which we performed alongside the band "Five",that "Five" (in their opinion) had a better band than them, and the changes were largely a result of their attempt to book "Five's"backing band for their own tour. Quite whether the move towards a more "R&B" influenced sound improved Westlife's lilting Irish balladeering is open to debate.

Technical Information
These pictures were taken with a Contax G1 rangefinder. I scanned the prints on an Epson 4990 scanner, and edited in Photoshop Elements.

Disclaimer
If anyone featured in these photos would like me to remove them then email me and I will of course do so.