The Backstreet
Boys will kick off an extensive world tour in support of Black & Blue
(due November 21) with an eight-week North American run starting January
23 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Backstreet
Boy Brian Littrell explained to LAUNCH where the tour will take them. "We
are starting the tour the third week in January. I think we are starting
in the South and Florida and we plan to do the first eight weeks straight
in the United States as well as Canada," he said. "And then we will take
a little break and we'll go over to the Far East and tour over there for
about a month and a half. And then we'll take a little break. And then
we'll come back to Europe, and do Europe for about a month and a half.
And then we'll take a little break and hit South America. And we'll end
up this time next year in the matter of a blink of an eye, I'm sure."
Littrell added
that for the Black & Blue tour, the group will return to an "end-stage,"
rather than performing in the round like they did on the Millennium tour.
Jason Gelman,
New York, and Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
