Boyzone have ruled out playing any more live shows after their final concerts next week.
The band have insisted that they "are not going to be a band again", after their two shows at London's Emirates Stadium, their first gigs on stage since their Thank You and Goodnight tour in 2019. Once their shows in London finish up, Boyzone have said they will never perform on stage again.
This was confirmed by bandmember, Shane Lynch in a recent interview to The Sun newspaper.
“This is the final chapter and I think it has to be", Lynch said. “You can’t follow up what we’ve just done. We weren’t meant to be here sharing a stage together again".
He added: “It is a pleasure to be doing this but look, whatever the future holds, we go away and we come back together in friendships and stuff and our paths do cross".
However, Lynch stated that these London shows will be the final curtain call for Boyzone: “But we are not going to be a band again. We are very much separate individuals".
Elsewhere, Lynch's bandmate Ronan Keating said that there is previously unheard music from Boyzone which will remain hidden as it was far from their best work.
“There are a lot of songs we wrote and recorded that have never seen the light of day, and rightly so, because they are s****", Keating said.
Looking ahead to these gigs in London, Boyzone have teased that there will be a "special moment" during the shows allowing them to pay tribute to their late bandmate, Stephen Gately, who passed away from an undisclosed heart condition in October 2009.
“I am finding this especially hard because I know Stephen would have been in his element next week", Keating said. “It is going to be very heavy on my heart next week. I will be carrying that. But there is a moment for him in the show. It’s a special moment, it’s Steo’s moment. It is going to be visually something".
“Steo would have lapped this all up, more than anything we had ever done as a band. It’s going to be hard".
Elsewhere, the band reflected on previous tours they embarked on in the wake of Gately's passing.
“We came back together in 2008 and we were flying. We were on the crest of a wave until we lost Steo", Keith Duffy said. “We toured again in 2011 but it was too soon after Steo passed".
“That tour was a disaster, not on a working level or on a business level but on an emotional level".
“We decided for the 20th anniversary in 2013", he added. “That was a nicer feeling than the one in 2011 because we had become more understanding of Stephen’s loss. Time is a great healer".
Boyzone will perform at London's Emirates Stadium on June 5 and 6.
