Overview
Unroll your posters, dust-off that secret diary and get ready to rock your body right: the Backstreet Boys are bringing their latest world tour Down Under in 2023. Get ready for another hefty dose of 90s nostalgia, too, given that you can now see the huge boy band and the vastly dissimilar blink-182 in Australia and New Zealand in the near future.
With the sheer number of popular 90s gigs, nights and tours happening over the past five years or so, plus the remakes of childhood favourites like The Lion King and Aladdin, this is the run of shows that was always going to happen — and it was already supposed to. The targets of all your teenage affection were meant to hit our shores in 2020, but we all know what got in the way.
Instead, Backstreet's back — alright — in 2023. Get ready to belt out the lyrics to 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)', 'As Long As You Love Me', 'I Want It That Way', 'Larger Than Life' and 'Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely' when the famous five — aka AJ McLean, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson — head to Australia and New Zealand in February and March for a very nostalgic arena tour.
Hitting up stadiums in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland, the Backstreet Boys will also be performing songs off their 2019 album DNA, which debuted at number one on the charts when it was released and features Grammy-nominated single 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart'.
Fingers crossed that they also break out tracks from their new festive record A Very Backstreet Christmas, even though it won't quite be the season when the tour gets here.
Either way, we know you'll most likely be there for the 90s and early 00s goodness. You've got a few months until the band gets here, so that's plenty of time to relearn the moves to 'Everybody' over summer.
BACKSTREET BOYS DNA WORLD TOUR AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 2023 DATES:
Saturday, February 25 — RAC Arena, Perth
Tuesday, February 28–Wednesday, March 1 — Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Saturday, March 4–Sunday, March 5 — Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney
Wednesday, March 8 — Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
Saturday, March 11 — Spark Arena, Auckland
The Backstreet Boys DNA World Tour heads to Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2023. Tickets are on sale now via Live Nation.