*Spoiler* review of the Love Tour

Boy bands are not what they used to be. Or maybe they are what they used to be. Exhibit A: the Irish boy group Westlife, former home of Brian McFadden, who is now Mr Delta Goodrem. At their Sydney concert on Tuesday the boys repeatedly covered the songs of their former competitors. They opened what they called their "tribute to the past" by singing the 1997 Backstreet Boys hit, Everybody, then covered other songs from the prepubescent New Kids on the Block, Take That and the British group BoyZone. "I did not think it was good that, out of the first four songs they sang, three were covers," said one boy band fanatic, Alexandra Kirby. And in a bizarre twist for the audience - of mostly teenage girls - Westlife then dedicated their song You Raise Me Up to none other than the radio shock jock Alan Jones. It looks like McFadden got out just in time. Pop is well and truly eating itself. http://blogs.smh.com.au/sit/archives/2007/03/in_town_the_past_is_their_prim.html