I’ve got a confession to make: I love One Direction. It’s always been a bit difficult for me to admit my adoration for boy bands. I remember being a passionate Human Nature fan back in the ’90s, and swearing up and down that they weren’t a boy band; they were a vocal group. Somehow that made my love so much better.
I still not sure One Direction have the vocal chops of my beloved Human Nature, but they take me back to my youth, a time when bands like New Kids on the Block, Take That, East 17, Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, Boyzone, Westlife, and yes, Human Nature were burning up the charts. Boy bands seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur, but I think there’s always a place for a bunch of cute boys singing on a beach with their shirts half unbuttoned.
We can expect the sort of mass hysteria we haven’t seen since Justin Bieber touched down when these cutie-pie Brits perform the following shows in April. I might just be screaming along with them. Tickets go on sale from Ticketek next Friday.
13 April 2012 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
16 April 2012 – Hisense Arena, Melbourne
18 April 2012 – Convention Centre, Brisbane
Image source: Fiona McKinlay @ Wikimedia Commons