Ronan Keating has revealed that Bozyone’s subsequent two stay exhibits are more likely to be their final – bringing their complete of farewell live shows to 3.
The Irish boyband initially shaped in 1993 and scored 5 UK quantity ones within the Nineties, together with 4 UK primary albums.
Made up of members Ronan Keating, Stephen Gately, Michael Graham, Keith Duffy, and Shane Lynch, the group went on hiatus within the yr 2000 after seven years.
Ronan went solo for some time, touchdown quantity ones of his personal, earlier than the band reformed in 2007 to file new music – their 2010 album Brother additionally topped the UK charts after Gately’s tragic demise, aged simply 33.
The group cut up once more in 2019 after what many believed was their ultimate sequence of exhibits, which the vocal group known as the Thank You & Good Night time Tour.
Now, in a shock transfer, that tour has been prolonged eight years after it started, with two extra live shows set to happen at Arsenal FC’s Emirates Stadium in June 2026.
On June 5 and June 6, Ronan, Michael, Keith, and Shane will take to the stage as soon as extra for what Ronan is strongly insisting are Boyzone’s final ever public live shows.
He advised Vernon Kay on BBC Radio 2: ‘It’s a farewell tour. There’s no new music. We’re not getting the band again collectively once more. We’re not touring the world over.
‘There are presents coming in left, proper and centre to go to Asia, to enter Europe. It’s a blanket no – that is it,’ including: ‘It could be extremely unhealthy for us to do it.’
Ronan continued: ‘We’d take a large step backwards in our lives. And to come back away from that then, there’d be numerous work on rebuilding ourselves individually to the sturdy folks that we really feel we at the moment are.’
He continued: ‘All of us have our personal lives and careers away from the band, however we are able to come again for that week. It’ll be spectacular. We’ll placed on all of the fireworks and make it magic.’
The Life is a Rollercoaster singer, 48, promised that there can be ‘tears’ however pledged to ‘exit on a excessive’, including: ‘That’ll be our ultimate chapter written.’
Ronan’s newest feedback have come seven years after the band introduced their second cut up, asking followers to ‘elevate the roof one final time’ forward of what they described as their 2018-19 farewell tour.
When questioned over a thirtieth anniversary reunion in 2023, Ronan insisted the boys weren’t planning on getting again collectively, referring to their 2019 farewell as ‘the ultimate chapter’.
In an interview with The Scotsman, Ronan stated that the demise of Gately in 2009 ended the band for him, and that he had struggled to just accept Boyzone as a four-piece.
‘For me the band ended when Stephen handed and I’ve by no means been capable of come to phrases with the band as a four-piece. We went out on a excessive after 25 years. We wrote that ultimate chapter.’
Nevertheless, the success of their No Matter What documentary in 2025 seems to have modified their minds, and tickets for the 2 exhibits – priced between £60 and £150 – are already going quick.
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