After record bosses slammed his solo efforts bleating about new love Delta Goodrem, Brian McFadden is begging a Backstreet Boy to write him some songs.

The Irish crooner, who quit Westlife last year, has turned to BB Nick Carter for, er, a rockier sound.

We hear, Bri, 25, heard of Nick’s songwriting collaborations with former Motley Crue hardman Tommy Lee and tracked down the blonde singer’s US number.

A spokesperson for Nick told 3am: “Brian called Nick out of the blue and asked if he could write for him for his next album. Nick doesn’t know him personally but he remembered him from Westlife.
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A Backstreet Boys concert in full swing at the Chronicle Pavilion on Tuesday night was shut down after an electrical transformer blew and cut off power to the outdoor amphitheater and the surrounding area in Concord.

The band had been playing for more than an hour when the lights went out, said Aaron Siuda, spokesman for Bill Graham Presents.

“The band was nice enough after the power went out to get back onstage and sing a cappella through a megaphone,” Siuda said. “It actually sounded pretty good. All the fans sang along.”
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As a young teen I had all their memorabilia, CDs, pictures and anything else I could get my hands on. Now at 21 years old I am not afraid to admit it: I am a Backstreet Boys fan. Yes, it is true and I have practically grown up listening to the music of Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson. I’ve been to seven of their shows over the years and, having pin-ups of them all, I have enjoyed their music over the years, to the dismay of some of my friends and sometimes to my own dismay.

Yet something about being an adolescent girl and liking a group is so much different than being a grown woman and enjoying the same music that has been part of the most influential years of my young life.

With throngs of screaming female fans, I recently found myself once again swept into the Backstreet concert scene, this time as not only as a fan but also as a reporter. Being older and I suppose wiser, I prepared myself to be thrown back into my younger teen years.
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A sea of waving green glow sticks and ear-piercing screams welcomed a reunited Backstreet Boys back to the Valley Friday night at Dodge Theatre.

Though the venue holds quite a few less fans than the venues the band used to sell-out in a matter of hours during it’s prime in the’90s, the 5,000 seat building was packed.

Surrounded by an arsenal of neon green lasers, the group walked down a lighted staircase to open their Never Gone tour with a spirited version of ‘The Call,’ off of quintet’s 2000 release Black & Blue.

Despite the smaller crowd, the noise level generated by the band’s rabid fans during the group’s 110 minute set was just as deafening as it was during their heyday and the band ate it up. All five members seemed genuinely humbled by the crowd’s excitement and dedication.
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Backstreet’s back. But are they still alright?

On Thursday night, the pop vocal quintet (using the term “boy band” is pointless, considering members are now 25-33 years old) returned to Orange County for the first time in four years and brought the house down.

Although Backstreet Boys can’t pack ‘em in like they used to (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater was only about three-quarters full and the lawn was empty, despite this being the group’s only Southern California appearance), fans who turned up were wildly enthusiastic.

The female-centric crowd was dominated by tweens, teenage girls who sported identical homemade T-shirts and waved glow sticks, older mothers and their college-age daughters and young women who dragged their boyfriends along (one guy behind me sat forlornly in his seat as the entire row was standing). Loud shrieking continued throughout the 1 hour, 45-minute concert.
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