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October 26, 2005 - The Backstreet Boys performed live in concert at the Ahoy Stadium in Rotterdam, Holland on Thursday (October 13). Check out pictures from LFI.

October 26, 2005 - The Backstreet Boys performed live at the Forum in Assago, Milan during their 'Never Gone' world tour on Monday (October 10). Check out pictures from LFI.

October 26, 2005 - The Backstreet Boys made an appearance on the German program 'Wetten, dass..?' on October 1st. Watch the interview and performance here.

October 26, 2005 - The Daily Aztec reports that San Diego State School of Education lecturer Kathleen Holowach, an avid C-SPAN watcher, recently got the chance to participate in her favorite television series. Holowach won an essay contest on "Washington Journal," a C-SPAN show she watches every morning and was chosen to recite her poem, written to the lyrics of the Backstreet Boys' smash hit 'I Want It That Way', on the air. Read more and watch a replay of the program, with Holowach phoning in her poem and her daughter singing it at C-SPAN.org.

October 26, 2005 - Twenty minutes before they were due to perform to a sell-out crowd in Wembley, Nick Carter and Brian Littrell from the Backstreet Boys took the time to chat to Capital FM's Schooly on the phone. They talked about the excitement they had from touring the UK again and their new album 'Never Gone'. Listen to the 5-minute interview here.

October 26, 2005 - John Aizlewood of the London Evening Standard slammed the Backstreet Boys after the boy band's concert at Wembley Arena Thursday (October 20) in London, England. Aizlewood said the group were "an act in terminal, neglectful decline. Their choreography was sloppy, their harmonies under-utilised and their patter feeble: Nick Carter introducing 'Just Want You To Know with' 'does anyone here know what "sphincter" means?' was neither big nor clever." Read more.

October 26, 2005 - The Backstreet Boys performed in support of their new album 'Never Gone' at Wembley Arena Thursday (October 20) in London, England. Check out pictures here.

October 26, 2005 - Aftonbladet.se has a short clip of the Backstreet Boys performing 'I'll Never Break Your Heart'. The clip also features Sweden's 'Pop Idol' runner-up Darin discussing his new single 'Step Up'. Watch the segment here.

October 15, 2005 - The Backstreet Boys performed live in concert at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday (October 5). Check out pictures from Abaca and Intertopics.

October 15, 2005 - The Backstreet Boys brought their 'Never Gone' Tour to Stockholm, Sweden on September 28th at the Globe Arena. Check out pictures from WireImage.

October 3, 2005 - Digitalvideoediting.com profiled Encore Hollywood's role in creating the Backstreet Boys' latest video off the album 'Never Gone' entitled 'Just Want You to Know', which the company was asked to do their worst job possible. Aiming to replicate the look of a low budget rock documentary of the 1980s, artists devised a number of clever digital tricks to artfully degrade, corrupt and decay the look of the video. "The challenge was not in degrading the image; it was to degrade it in a consistent manner," explained compositor Dan Aguilar. "The video had to look bad in the same way from cut to cut." Read more.

October 3, 2005 - Anonymous writes "According to PerezHilton.com, Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter and his brother Aaron Carter partied and even drank together duing some brotherly bonding at The Concorde in Los Angeles on Friday night. Nick's other date was actress Bai Ling. Aaron was said to have had " two girls who looked like they were on trim spa" on both of his arms."

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