Take That Live

Take That Live (also known as the III Tour) was the ninth concert tour by English band Take That, in support of their seventh studio album III. The shows were announced on 8 November 2014.^[1] The demand for the tour led to all dates selling out as soon as they went on sale, with some dates selling out in pre-sale alone.^[2] Due to this demand, Take That announced extra dates to their tour.^[3] On 26 January 2015, a European leg of the tour was announced.^[4] It is their first concert tour since the Progress Live tour in 2011 and the first to feature the band as a trio following the departures of Jason Orange and Robbie Williams.

Take That Live

Tour by Take That
Associated album	III
Start date	27 April 2015 (2015-04-27)
End date	13 October 2015 (2015-10-13)
Legs	1
No. of shows	51 (total)
Supporting act(s)	Ella Henderson Lawson Nessi Emin
Take That concert chronology
Progress Live (2011) Take That Live (2015) Wonderland Live (2017)

The tour has received critical acclaim with many saying it is the band's most visually spectacular show to date. The tour opened in Glasgow at The SSE Hydro. The Pollstar 2015 Mid-Year Top 100 Worldwide Tour list revealed the tour as the 6th highest grosser, with a total of $60.8 million from 42 shows, and a total of 558,156 in attendance.^[5]

Opening acts

• Ella Henderson (except on 15 and 16 May)
• Lawson (on 15 and 16 May only)
• Nessi (on 2 and 4 October only)
• Emin (on 7 October, 8 October and 13 October only)

Set list

1. "I Like It"
2. "Love Love"
3. "Greatest Day"
4. "Get Ready For It"
5. "Hold Up a Light"
6. "Patience"
7. "The Garden"
8. "Up All Night"
9. "Said It All"
10. "Could It Be Magic" (contains elements of "Barry Manilow version")
11. "Let In The Sun"
12. "Affirmation"
13. "The Flood"
14. "Flaws"
15. "Relight My Fire" (contains elements of "Vertigo")
16. "Back For Good"
17. "Pray"
18. "Portrait" (only on UK and Ireland dates)
19. "These Days"
20. "Rule the World"

Encore

21. "Shine" (contains elements of "Mr. Blue Sky")
23. "Never Forget"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
Europe^[6]^[7]
27 April 2015	Glasgow	Scotland	The SSE Hydro	49,283 / 50,110	$5,285,250
28 April 2015
30 April 2015
1 May 2015
2 May 2015
4 May 2015	Belfast	Northern Ireland	Odyssey Arena	—	—
5 May 2015
8 May 2015	Dublin	Ireland	3Arena	—	—
9 May 2015
11 May 2015	Birmingham	England	Genting Arena	—	—
12 May 2015
14 May 2015
15 May 2015
16 May 2015
18 May 2015	Newcastle		Metro Radio Arena	—	—
19 May 2015
21 May 2015	Manchester		Manchester Arena	122,767 / 130,458	$13,253,100
22 May 2015
23 May 2015
25 May 2015
26 May 2015
28 May 2015
29 May 2015
30 May 2015
1 June 2015	Sheffield		Motorpoint Arena Sheffield	—	—
2 June 2015
4 June 2015	London		The O2 Arena	144,873 / 159,066	$15,955,600
5 June 2015
6 June 2015
8 June 2015
9 June 2015
11 June 2015
12 June 2015
13 June 2015
15 June 2015
18 June 2015	Manchester		Manchester Arena	^[a]	^[a]
19 June 2015	London		The O2 Arena	—	—
22 June 2015	Birmingham		Genting Arena	—	—
23 June 2015
24 June 2015	Sheffield		Motorpoint Arena Sheffield	—	—
26 June 2015	Newcastle		Metro Radio Arena	—	—
1 October 2015	Herning	Denmark	Jyske Bank Boxen	—	—
2 October 2015	Hamburg	Germany	Barclaycard Arena	9,156 / 11,452	$636,637
4 October 2015	Cologne		Lanxess Arena	—	—
5 October 2015	Munich		Olympiahalle	—	—
7 October 2015	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ziggo Dome	—	—
8 October 2015	Berlin	Germany	Velodrom	—	—
9 October 2015	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle	—	—
11 October 2015	Stuttgart	Germany	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle	—	—
12 October 2015	Zürich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion	4,895 / 13,000	$316,564
13 October 2015	Milan	Italy	Mediolanum Forum	—	—
Total				330,974 / 355,568 (93%)	$35,447,150

1. The score data is representative of the two shows at the Manchester Arena on 21–30 May and 18 June.

DVD release

On 12 May 2015, it was revealed that The O2 Arena, London show on 19 June would be recorded and made into a concert film. A one-minute and nine second trailer for the film was released on the groups YouTube channel. The trailer consisted of footage from the tour at earlier dates mixed with behind the scenes footage of Progress Live. The group released the recorded footage on DVD on 11 Dec 2015. This was confirmed by Barlow on Twitter. On 15 October 2015, it was announced that a DVD of the show will be released alongside an updated edition of III. Strangely, no Blu-ray release was announced, despite some tracks being shown in HD on a BBC Television special about the tour.

Band

• Musical Director, Keys, Guitar, Sax: Mike Stevens
• Guitars: Ben Mark, Milton McDonald
• Bass Guitar: Lee Pomeroy
• Drums: Donavan Hepburn
• Keyboards: Marcus Byrne, Bernie Smith

References

1. "Take That".
2. "Why Take That were the best band of 2014". Metro. 27 December 2014.
3. "Take That Add More Dates To 2015 Tour Due To High Demand – MTV UK". MTV UK.
4. . takethat.com. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015.
5. "Pollstar 2015 Mid-Year Top 100 Worldwide Tour" (PDF). Pollstar. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
6. "Current Boxscore". Billboard. 26 August 2015. from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
7. "Billboard Boxscore :: Current Scores". Billboard. 10 September 2015. from the original on 10 September 2015.