New Kids On The Block confirm HMV gig

Pop supergroup New Kids On The Block have confirmed their first UK performance in over 15 years at their instore appearance and signing at HMV 150 Oxford Street, London on Monday 8th September at 1.00pm.

Jordan, Joey, Jonathan, Donnie and Danny will take the stage at HMV to perform 3 songs, answer fan questions and sign copies of their new album The Block. This will be the first chance in over 15 years that fans will have a chance to see the band together again, performing live. For full details go to www.newkidsareback.com.

The instore will mark the release of their brand new album The Block which features collaborations with some of the biggest names in pop music today. R&B superstar Neyo features on Single, the follow up to the first smash hit single Summertime. Other collaborations include Grown Man with the Pussycat Dolls and uber producer Teddy Riley, Put It On My Tab with Akon, Big Girl Now with NY electro-pop diva Lady GaGa and Full Service with their musical heroes New Edition. Other highlights include Sexify My Love, Dirty Dancing and Click, Click, Click - the track that Donnie credits as inspiring the band to get back together.

London's hit music station, Capital 95.8, announced the one-off performance live on their breakfast show this morning and will be the only radio station to offer it's listeners the chance to be there and to meet the band. On air presenter Lucio will attend the event to MC.

In the two weeks after announcing their first US arena tour in nearly 15 years, these Boston boys sold a whopping 300,000 tickets, selling out additional shows at a rate of 6000 tickets a day. Following this US hysteria the band announced a UK and European tour to take place in early 2009 with details to follow soon.

In the late Eighties and early Nineties, brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood created a cultural phenomenon, selling over 70 million albums as well as countless concert tickets, t-shirts, lunchboxes and fluffy slippers all over the world. Their repertoire included the back-to-back international number one albums, 1988's Hangin' Tough and 1990's Step By Step, and a series of R&B-pop hit singles like 'You Got It (The Right Stuff)', 'Cover Girl' and 'Step By Step'. At one point earning more than Madonna and Michael Jackson, NKOTB won two American Music Awards in 1990 for Favourite Pop/Rock Band, Duo, or Group and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for Hangin' Tough.

Summertime is released on Interscope through Polydor on 1st September
The Block, the first NKOTB album in over 10 years, follows on 8th September

www.newkidsareback.com