Warning: Another post about New Kids on the Block

Ok, so I admit at this point that I am a "Blockhead"... and I don't mean the dipsy kind. (Don't judge me :-) This weekend I had a fabulous girls weekend with one of my great girlfriends from college. As part of that weekend I attended yet another New Kids on the Block concert... this will be my 4th in the past 3 years. (Click here and here to see my first 3 trips). Except this concert was even better because the Backstreet Boys were touring with them to make a combination of NKOTBSB!

Of course as a teeny bopper in the late 80's & early 90's I loved me some New Kids. I attended many of their concerts, had my room plastered in posters & magazine covers, purchased many t-shirts and big buttons, recorded every episode of Arsenio Hall and any other TV show that they appeared on and of course had all the cassette tapes, singles cassesttes and VHS tapes that came out.

As they started to phase out & new boy bands tried to replace them... (never will happen but that's beside the point)... the Backstreet Boys came on the scene. They were in a battle as best boy band in the mid-late 90's with NSync. But the BSB (Backstreet Boys) would be the only group that would even come close to my New Kids. I'm older, more mature at this point... still liking this group a lot & purchasing all of their cd's... but still just not the same.

Fast-forward to early 2008. There is "talk" that a new website is up & running at www.nkotb.com. What?! Are they coming back?????? You can imagine my excitement as all the memories came rushing back from the days of neon hammer pants and big hair. May 2008 the official announcement is released & NKOTB makes their first appearance as a group on the today show. I think I screamed like a little girl!

Who knew that this boy band from the 80's could make a come back & be successful and still running strong after 3 years. It's funny because all of those teen girls are now 30 & 40 somethings and I think this group is even more popular now than they were 20 years ago! They announced last year that they were joining with the Backstreet Boys and would start touring again in 2011. Cha-ching! Yep, that brings even more of a crowd and of course, I was gonna have to see them again.

Me & Darlene had a fabulous time and it was a GREAT concert! Probably one of the best one's yet. Maybe it's because it's been a couple years since I've seen them... maybe it's because I really needed a girls night out... maybe it's because we had awesome seats... or maybe all of the above. So, I forever will be a NKOTBSB fan and if they tour again, you can probably guess you'll be reading another post about a concert that I went to. :-)

These are my fellow Blockheads Misty & Jen, that have been to about as many concerts as I have.