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UK/Europe Tour: Progress Live (2011) (with Take That)

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No Regrets - all 5 singing together someone has tweeted 10 mins ago

 

Show must still be going on

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From the review I won't need to worry if I get stuck in traffic and get there a wee bit late :lol:

 

 

It's finished btw. On Sky News now

Can't wait to see the setlist :w00t:

 

 

Any word on the PSBs? :unsure:

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Didn't see anything about PSB on Twitter, but then again, I can't

get my head round how to use Twitter properly anyway :wacko:

 

I wonder how many songs on the set list.

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Robbie's solo slot, 4 songs that wouldn't of lasted 40 mins as rumoured then

 

or did he sing 5 :unsure:

 

TT 5 piece, there's two songs I like, one I don't recognise :lol: one is sort of ok, and one I can't stand

 

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Let Me Entertain You

Rock DJ

Come Undone

Feel

Angels

 

 

(the standard set list) :rolleyes:

You're right though. Even 5 wouldn't take 40 minutes would it? :unsure:

Great review here and full setlist. Sounds rather exciting :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

 

Don't click if you don't want to know!!!!

 

 

From

http://www.dawbell.com/news/take_that_prog...the_first_night

 

Take That: Progress Live Tour - The First Night

 

 

Take That kicked-off their Progress Live 2011 tour tonight Friday May 27th at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light in spectacular fashion. The tour, one of the most highly anticipated music events of the summer, is the first time the band have toured as a five-piece since 1995. The awesome live show celebrated their biggest hits from the last two decades, saw Robbie take to the stage to perform songs from his incredible chart-topping solo career and revealed an amazing set which includes a fully operational 20 metre tall man the band have nicknamed ‘OM’.

 

 

 

Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen took to the stage at 8.30pm to start the show to a deafening crowd reception starting as they meant to finish, with their biggest hit to date ‘Rule The World’. They then delivered four more of their biggest songs as a four piece including: ‘Greatest Day’ (including a huge yellow confetti canon blast), ‘Hold Up A Light’, ‘Patience’ and ‘Shine’ (which saw the band joined onstage by an Alice in Wonderland style dancing cast of dancing trees, roller-skating bees and huge caterpillar).

 

 

 

Next four became five, as Take That briefly united onstage ‘virtually’ through a huge video screen to sing their own version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; creating the bridge between the first two parts of the show.

 

 

 

Robbie Williams then kicked off his solo set with a stadium thumping ‘Let Me Entertain You’ which had the crowd jumping off their feet. His set proceeded through his own classics: ‘Rock DJ’ (where he climbed into a glass chariot to be pulled around the stage by dancers in roller-skates), ‘Come Undone’, ‘Feel’ (which saw him winched out to the audience) and of course finishing with the amazing ‘Angels’.

 

 

 

Before the five are reunited properly onstage a group of ominous looking Shaolin monks adorned in red cloaks swinging lanterns walk from the B-stage to the main stage to introduce their arrival. Take That then sing the song that marked their historic return; ‘The Flood’. For this the dancers performed an amazing routine taking place on a wall of water while the band sang from the highest part of the stage.

 

 

 

Robbie threw himself off the top for the finale of ‘The Flood’ to the floor via suspension cables before the band break into an explosive version of ‘SOS’ from their record breaking album ‘Progress’. This is the point where the audience are first introduced to a huge mechanical man who is revealed from behind the stage and slides out in a sitting position for the guys to sing ‘Underground Machine’ (again from ‘Progress’) to rapturous cheers from the audience.

 

 

 

The band then move to the B stage to perform ‘Kidz’ where they start an old skool dance-off involving Jason and Howard, flanked by human chess pieces dressed in black and white. ‘Pretty Things’ is performed back on the main stage with Gary and Robbie being lifted up by OM’s hands as a beautiful ballet dancer flits between the two stages.

 

 

 

Next the band share a few laughs with each other and the audience about old times before gathering around a piano for a medley of ‘Million Love Songs’, ‘Babe’, ‘Everything Changes’, ‘Back For Good’ and ‘Pray’ the final song for which they get up and do the original dance routine while the crowd go crazy.

 

 

 

Gary, Howard, Jason, Mark and Robbie then begin what has to be one of the high points of the show: new XMen single ‘Love, Love’ featuring twenty dancers in gas masks flanking the band on either side of the main stage, while the mechanical man moves out into the middle of the stadium (carrying the band), with an awesome futuristic landscape on the VT behind which takes up the entire back wall.

 

 

 

As the show draws near to its finale the band break into ‘Never Forget’ as OM reveals his full height (20 metres) and the band then finish with ‘No Regrets’, a fiery performance of ‘Relight My Fire’ (with Robbie singing Lulu’s part) closing the show with Gary Barlow leading on the beautiful ‘Eight Letters’ (also the final track on ‘Progress’).

 

 

 

Take That’s Progress Live 2011 tour became the biggest tour in UK and Irish history when a record breaking 1.34 million tickets were snapped up in less than 24 hours of going on sale. The band smashed their previous box office record set in 2008 with The Circus Live Tour selling a total of 1.76 million tickets overall, more than doubling their own record for sales in a single day. 850,000 tickets went on sale at 9am on October 29, 2010 and throughout the day the band added a further 11 dates to cope with demand.

 

 

 

Between them, Take That and Robbie Williams have sold over 80 million albums, had 14 number one albums, 18 number one singles, played to over 14.5 million people live, won 20 BRIT Awards, eight MTV awards and five Ivor Novello awards; and the list goes on. The band’s critically acclaimed 2010 album, ‘Progress’, has now sold in excess of two million copies.

 

 

 

Full set list for Progress Live Tour 2011:

 

Rule The World

Greatest Day

Hold Up A Light

Patience

Shine

Sgt. Pepper’s VT

Let Me Entertain You

Rock DJ

Come Undone (Take A Walk On The Wild Side)

Feel

Angels

The Flood

SOS

Underground Machine

Kidz

Pretty Things

Million Love Songs/Babe/Everything Changes/Back For Good (piano medley)

Pray

Love Love

Never Forget

Relight My Fire

Eight Letters

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source-With thanks to this Website here

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Glad I got tickets now

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Sounds epic!

I want to get my hands on the DVD now :lol:

Looks like I may have to make space for a live show sometime this summer. (my supervising professor won't be happy with it :rolleyes: )

 

Definitely doen't sound any forgettable... Progressed will fly to the top of the charts with all this talk on the show storming the media the following days.

You must watch this. Robbie doing LMEY last night. You can't see Rob in this clip at all but I'm posting just so you can watch the wee guy in the left foreground dancing away by himself happy as Larry. Persevere. He gets better as it goes on.

 

Brilliant!

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

 

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You must watch this. Robbie doing LMEY last night. You can't see Rob in this clip at all but I'm posting just so you can watch the wee guy in the left foreground dancing away by himself happy as Larry. Persevere. He gets better as it goes on.

 

Brilliant!

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

 

:lol: :lol: That guy is brilliant! love the moves

 

 

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Glad I got tickets now

 

 

Me too :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: I can't wait, trying very hard not to look at the

video spoilers, but it's not working :lol: I wanna go now! :yahoo:

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