I really really wanted to buy a ticket, but there was no insurance policy, as far I as I checked. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will be able to still find tickets in June. Still, I had my album pre-ordered, so that does not impact his record sales.

Gary will be on Strictly on 29 November!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pzm1

Great promo slot for him and I can see him performing incredible as uts a perfect fit for strictly.

Gary Barlow has reflected on his mixed fortunes as a solo artist in a new interview with Music Week.

 

Hopes are high for the Take That songwriter and current Music Week cover star's fourth solo album Music Played By Humans, which was recorded with an 80-piece orchestra and comes out via Polydor on November 27.

 

Barlow pulled in Michael Bublé and Colombian artist Sebastián Yatra for the record's Latin-infused lead single Elita, while his new single Incredible has been licensed for the Argos Christmas TV commercial. Other guest stars include James Corden, Barry Manilow, Alesha Dixon and Beverley Knight.

 

“I really think this is the first solo album I’ve made that’s not been under duress, actually,” laughed Barlow, speaking in this week's cover story. "It was a doorway to making an album full of musicians. I wanted this album to be absolutely packed with players. Then, weirdly, all this has happened where we’re not allowed to be near anyone anymore and it’s been so strange. I listen to it and just think, ‘Thank God I did it before all this started.'"

 

Barlow first went it alone after Take That split in 1996. But the performance of his chart-topping 1997 LP Open Road fell below expectations - selling 297,424 units to date, according to the Official Charts Company - particularly when compared with then rival Robbie Williams, whose own solo debut Life Thru A Lens moved 2,105,561 copies.

Open Road's 1999 follow-up Twelve Months, Eleven Days (33,120 sales) limped in at No.35 in the UK, leading to Barlow being dropped by BMG and spending half a decade out of the spotlight prior to Take That's enormously successful 2005 reunion.

 

“When I think back to [Open Road], I was leaving the band and everyone was like, ‘You’ve got to be the next George Michael’ so I was like, ‘Oh, shit’ and that was a panic," Barlow told Music Week. "Then the second album was a complete disaster because I partnered with Clive Davis, who loved everything about me except my songwriting, so that was quite a big problem."

 

After Take That's record-shattering 2011 Progress stadium tour with Williams, which sold more than 1.8 million tickets, Barlow released his first solo album in 14 years - 2013’s double platinum Since I Saw You Last (723,202 sales).

 

“The third one was great, but I was doing it to almost exorcise the other two from my system because it was such a damaging experience, especially that second one," said Barlow. "It took me years to get my confidence back after that.

 

"So when I did Since I Saw You Last it was a lot of fun, but it was almost like an exorcism rather than a release of a record. This is the first one where I’ve gone, ‘I feel like I can do whatever I want here.'"

Also, Gary’s Night at the Museum is confirmed as the 6 Dec

Gary is also performing at the Royal Variety on the 29th Nov

33,120 sales for such a wonderful album is disappointing.

Through all years since it's release it has garnered next to no interest.

 

I actually think 12 months is my fav GB album! So yeah, strange so few bought it

I think it's still my fave aswell its between that and since I saw....those sales are awful though, I was sure it would be much closer to silver by now.

Tour pushed back until November!

It was irresponsible to schedule the tour from the beginning. They did it to sell the records, not a style I like

I think that’s a bit extreme.

I knew the tour would be pushed back, i really dont know why they went ahead advertising it as everyone knew this would happen, i know it drums up album interest but paying for tv adds for something that wouldn't happen doesnt make sense. I doubt many tickets sold as people would have known this would have happened.

I doubt it was done to sell the album. Gary could have announced the tour for 2022 and people would still have bought the tickets.

Anyway, hopefully, by summer, all this madness dies down and things can resume their normal course.

For my opinion it is irresponsible to announce a tour while countries go into total lock down. Therefore there must be a reason behind it and what else than selling the album? Only to delay the tour 6 weeks afterwards. I doubt that many people bought the tickets and neither would they for 2022 in these times and that is independent of Gary, TT, Robbie or even Taylor Swift. At least in Europe, USA maybe different. Fortunately this does not have an influence on the quality of the album. It will also sell without these tricks as Gary is a great song writer.

Not all people feel the same way about this pandemic, Elisabeth. Many of us still hope that politicians come to their senses, eventually. I would go in an instant, even today,, to Gary's concert. I just need an insurance that the concert goes ahead. I bought the album without the ticket, just as many fans did. Both Gary and TT have always had this way of selling the tour, so why is it only now a ruse on Gary's part?

If this is a trick to sell albums, then many artists do it. Every artist has a strategy. Unfortunately, Gary didn't have a wife going into labor to film this time :P

 

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqzb79zkmluym9u/S...un95Avq86i8Ih2E

The Sirius interviews are always the best.

Edited November 20, 20204 yr by milly

For my opinion it is irresponsible to announce a tour while countries go into total lock down. Therefore there must be a reason behind it and what else than selling the album? Only to delay the tour 6 weeks afterwards. I doubt that many people bought the tickets and neither would they for 2022 in these times and that is independent of Gary, TT, Robbie or even Taylor Swift. At least in Europe, USA maybe different. Fortunately this does not have an influence on the quality of the album. It will also sell without these tricks as Gary is a great song writer.

I actually agree on all your points.

1. Who's Driving This Thing - Gary Barlow

2. Incredible - Gary Barlow

3. Elita (Feat. Michael Bubl‚ & Sebasti n Yatra) - Gary Barlow

4. The Big Bass Drum - Gary Barlow

5. This Is My Time - Gary Barlow

6. Enough Is Enough (Feat. Beverley Knight) - Gary Barlow

7. Bad Libran - Gary Barlow

8. Eleven (Feat. Ibrahim Maalouf) - Gary Barlow

9. Before We Get Too Old (Feat. Avishai Cohen) - Gary Barlow

10. Supernatural - Gary Barlow

11. Oh What a Day (Feat. Chilly Gonzales) - Gary Barlow

12. What Leaving's All About (Feat. Alesha Dixon) - Gary Barlow

13. The Kind of Friend I Need (Feat. James Corden) - Gary Barlow

14. I Didn't See That Coming - Gary Barlow

 

Exactly half the songs on the standard edition of the cd have features, he could have almost went ahead and done a full duets/collaborations album.

Gary is the following a trend that is heavily dominant in the charts which is having a feature on a song.

It is an overused trait that shows a disbelief in the material and a fear of a solo release.