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Manchester manband Take That are back with their new live tour - and thousands of fans in Sheffield were the first to see it at the weekend. Their new This Life on Tour sees the band's Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen perform a host of new tracks as well as a selection of their biggest hits from their three decades in pop.
The show opens as if they are in a retro TV show, with the boys emerging from a a giant TV box on stage to perform newies Keep Your Head Up and Windows. It then takes fans through an epic retrospective of their music career - including classics from their 90s boyband era like Sure, Everything Changes and I Found Heaven.
Unusually for a Take That tour, there is no big dance crew - instead the three singers are allowed to shine across a variety of stages on a split set. But fans can expect plenty of colourful costume changes, as well as rain, fire and plenty of confetti.
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Olly Murs is the support act for the tour, and has been winning lots of praise from fans who have seen the show on its first two nights at Sheffield's Utilita Arena. The tour now moves on to Leeds for four nights, before two shows in Dublin, six nights in London and three in Glasgow.
Then, the boys will make their triumphant return to Manchester for the start of an epic run of homecoming shows at the city's new Co-Op Live Arena. They play their for five nights from May 7 through to May 12, before returning again for two more shows on June 11 and 12.
If you're heading along to the tour, here's some more info about the show, including the anticipated timings and the setlist after those first shows.
National critics have been among the first to post reviews
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