Posted May 27, 201114 yr A review of the first show here; http://www.dawbell.com/news/take_that_prog...the_first_night And the setlist: 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 I think it's atrocious, personally. Edited May 27, 201114 yr by Swagger91
May 27, 201114 yr Im very suprised with RTW starting it off and no happy now included. Back for good cant be confined to just the piano medley, it must be the full song followed by pray surely! its their biggest ever single. the setlist might change in europe anyways, songs like 'sure' and 'the garden' were big hits out there Edited May 27, 201114 yr by jay727
May 27, 201114 yr Its not a bad set list at all but im very very surprised they would open with rule the world, its to epic to start the night off with i think.
May 28, 201114 yr yeah exactly, especially when they then go into greatest day...it all depends tho it might fit what happens at the start, hard to tell until i go to the wembley show. love love is at 58 on itunes now tho...up about 30 odd places
May 28, 201114 yr Author I think it's an awful setlist, it's in support of a HUGE 2 and a half million selling album and reunion that people have been waiting 15 years to see. So instead of creating a tour centered around that and celebrating all their music as a five piece both old and new, they've chopped it up into blocks with the four piece TT performing tracks from their older albums, followed by a solo Robbie show and then a handful of Progress album tracks stuck at the end with a medley of a few classics. What exactly was the point of Robbie rejoining if they're not going to perform as a band? Now obviously I haven't seen the show yet, and maybe it works, but from looking at that list it's a complete failure for me. Edited May 28, 201114 yr by Swagger91
May 28, 201114 yr I just watched the fan video of them opening with ''Rule The World'' and the crowd goes mental, singing along with them. I'm happy with the setlist. Swagger91, it's been known from the start there would be TT4, Rob and TT5 sections, so it's nothing new for me. Edited May 28, 201114 yr by Luthien
May 28, 201114 yr Author Swagger91, it's been known from the start there would be TT4, Rob and TT5 sections, so it's nothing new for me. I know, we all knew it was coming but it looks even worse than I thought it would be.
May 28, 201114 yr I know, we all knew it was coming but it looks even worse than I thought it would be. I'm sorry you're unhappy with the setlist. I can only tell you that the reactions on Twitter have been amazing, people were thrilled with the show, completely ecstatic. Maybe you'll like it better once you see it come to life on stage.
May 28, 201114 yr yeah exactly, especially when they then go into greatest day...it all depends tho it might fit what happens at the start, hard to tell until i go to the wembley show. love love is at 58 on itunes now tho...up about 30 odd places delighted that love love is climbing.
May 28, 201114 yr Eight Letters, as much as I love it, seems like a bizarre closer, I'd definitely be waiting for another encore if I'd just seen that performed last.
May 28, 201114 yr Ah good, i can leave 5 minutes earlier from the gig. What an odd anti-climax end! why would u leave before the end? you'll get stuck in traffic whether u leave early or an hour later
May 28, 201114 yr Author Eight Letters, as much as I love it, seems like a bizarre closer, I'd definitely be waiting for another encore if I'd just seen that performed last. It has a very odd opening and closing IMO :unsure:
May 28, 201114 yr Ya i completly agree, i love eight letters but its strange they are closing the show with a song that wanst even a single.
May 29, 201114 yr About Eight Letters closing the show, from the Telegraph interview: The show ends with Eight Letters, the final song on Progress. “It’s rather an exposed song; them all singing their hearts out, and saying: ‘We’re together, whatever it takes and whatever we’ve said about each other in the past – but we’re together because we love each other.’ The effect, says Devlin, “is almost spiritual. It sounds corny, but I don’t think it will feel it.”
May 30, 201114 yr Initially the first setlistI read didn't list Eight Letters, so reading later it is on the list I'm not fussed it ends the show, I disapointed "What Do You Want From Me" isn't on the list , I felt it would of been a great live track, What I can't undestand is the underwhelming opening, My first TT live show was 1993, I have been to every tour since, I've never known them to open like that, Still from the reports I've read, and when you read the Guardian giving it 5* , it all works, Roll on Villa Park & Wembley.
May 30, 201114 yr Author Initially the first setlistI read didn't list Eight Letters, so reading later it is on the list I'm not fussed it ends the show, I disapointed "What Do You Want From Me" isn't on the list , I felt it would of been a great live track, What I can't undestand is the underwhelming opening, My first TT live show was 1993, I have been to every tour since, I've never known them to open like that, Still from the reports I've read, and when you read the Guardian giving it 5* , it all works, Roll on Villa Park & Wembley. That's the one track from Progress I'm most disappointed they're not performing. It would have been EPIC live in a stadium.
May 30, 201114 yr I would love to hear Mark performing ''What Do You Want From Me'' live, but maybe he's not too keen on it because it's too personal and revealing.
