AJ McLean has revealed his tour secret is tea.

The Backstreet Boys singer is currently on tour with the band, and will then do a solo tour straight away, but plans to keep going by drinking tea and sleeping as much as he can.

He said: “I’m just trying to get plenty of rest and make sure I eat right. Drink lots and lots of tea and just try to take just good quality care of myself.

“Fortunately for me I don’t drink or party any more so that’s the really big upside for me, but I still have to get plenty of sleep and just try to pace myself.”
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BACKSTREET Boys not only rocked their bodies, they rocked the Odyssey Arena on Monday night when they played their first ever gig in Belfast.

The Odyssey crowd are a notorious species, with their passion for music and noise at shows by some of the world’s top artists well renowned. This, however, was on another level.

The world’s biggest selling boyband were in town for their first taste of life in Belfast, and it didn’t disappoint.

Fifteen years after forming, Backstreet Boys are still going strong, and they came out fighting, quite literally, as they began their two-hour spectacle.

Opening the show in a giant boxing ring, they belted out ‘Larger Than Life’, and the heavyweight champs of the boyband world, Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, AJ McClean and Howie Dorough, proved themselves worthy of the title.
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THE Backstreet Boys certainly had it “going on” as they rocked Glasgow’s SECC last night.

The bestselling boy band of all time proved they’ve still got what it takes – and that Backstreet’s well and truly back.

OK, with youngest member Nick Carter now 28 they are no longer boys but it didn’t stop them performing energetic dance routines while singing live before thousands of young and not-so-young fans.

AJ, Brian, Howie and Nick didn’t appear to miss former fifth member Kevin as they kicked off their live show with the intro to Eye Of The Tiger before storming into 1999 crowd-pleaser Larger Than Life in a custom-built boxing ring on stage.
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Here’s something to diarise. Sun International will present POSI+IVE, a fusion of music, fashion, art and cuisine with a world-class line-up of talent led by the Backstreet Boys and Latino heart-throb Marcos Hernandez, taking place at Sun City from June 13 to 15.

POSI+IVE is a unique collaboration between leading local and international fashion designers, musicians, artists and acclaimed chefs, resulting in a three-day extravaganza which raises funds for Sun International’s HIV/Aids initiatives – Tapologo Aids Hospice, Noah, St Michaels and Missionvale Care Centre.

This will be a three-day interactive festival, bringing a broad spectrum of artists, fashion designers, chefs and musicians together.

The Backstreet Boys will be performing two shows in the Sun City Superbowl on June 14 and June 15.
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