Watch boyband Blue live this October 2026 in Dubai

Pop fans, this one’s for you. Noughties favourites Blue are heading to Dubai for a one-night-only concert later this year

The British boyband will take to the stage at the Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre on Saturday October 25, with an evening packed with throwback anthems.

Expect all the classics

Formed in the early 2000s, Blue quickly became one of the UK’s most popular pop groups. Made up of Antony Costa, Duncan James, Lee Ryan and Simon Webbe, the band built a huge folllowing.

The Brit-pop four-piece are probably best known for their anthemic early 00s hits All Rise, Too Close, U Make Me Wanna and Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (a collaboration with Elton John). What you might not know is that two of the band’s founding members Lee Ryan and Antony Costa actually met auditioning for a Simon Cowell manufactured group on the ITV UK show, This Morning in 1999.

One year later Costa created the foundations of Blue with his friend Duncan James, invited Ryan along to join the ensemble and then held auditions for the fourth leg of the quad-pod. That final member ended up being Ryan’s flatmate, Simon Webbe. The rest is history. All rise, all rise.

They’ve also picked up two BRIT Awards during their career, including British Breakthrough Act and British Pop Act.

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A Middle East tour stop

Dubai is one of several regional dates on the group’s upcoming tour. Before arriving in the UAE, Blue will perform in Kuwait City on October 22 and 23, and in New Capital Cairo on October 24.

More than two decades since they first formed, the original line-up is still performing together, with recent music reflecting their journey as friends and bandmates over the years.