Take That’s frontman Gary Barlow has announced that the ‘Patience’ hitmakers will return to the studio to record new material in 2022. Take That have not released new music since 2017 and are hoping to impact the music world once again with new material. Take that were formed in Manchester in 1990 and were a five-piece band with frontman Gary Barlow OBE (Singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and television personality), Howard Paul Donald (Singer, songwriter, drummer, pianist, dancer and record producer), Robbie Williams (Singer and entertainer), Mark Owen (Singer and songwriter) and Jason Orange (Singer, dancer and actor) who made up the band lineup.
The band achieved success with 12 UK number 1 hit singles, 28 top 40 singles, 17 top 5 singles and 8 UK number 1 albums in the UK Official Charts, with hit singles “It Only Takes a Minute”, “A Million Love Songs”, “Pray”, “Could It Be Magic”, “Relight My Fire”, “Babe”, “Never Forget Where You’re Coming From” and “Sure” from their many hits.
William’s left the group in 1995 to pursue his solo career and the remaining band members Barlow, Owen, Orange and Donald remained as a band until they disbanded in 1996. The quartet regrouped in 2005, went on tour in 2006 and released their first album for 11 years A Beautiful World. The album reached number 1 in the UK Official Album Charts and the band’s comeback single “Patience” from the album also provided them with a UK number 1 hit single.
The quartet became a trio when Orange decided to leave the group in 2014. Williams has reunited with the group throughout the years and the band have remained as a trio with Barlow, Owen and Donald now making up the group’s lineup. The trio went on to release studio albums III in 2014, Wonderland in 2017 and their greatest hits collection album Odyssey in 2018. Barlow is also a solo artist whilst remaining the band’s frontman and is set to release his first-ever solo Christmas album The Dream of Christmas on November 26th. The singer insists that although he is set to release his new album the band is his priority and said “It’s a different head I put on to be in Take That” “It’s my No1 thing”
The singer said that the band has not yet started recording any material and were unaware of the length of time that it would take them to return to the studio following their 2018 album Odyssey. Barlow in reminiscing of his time writing music with Owen and Donald said “I’d love to just sit in New York for two months and write with Mark and Howard”. “We wrote good songs together and that is always fun”
Both Owen and Donald have been quiet of late leaving frontman Barlow to fly the musical flag until their return to the studio next year. Barlow was set to embark on his Music Played By Humans Tour named after his 2020 solo album of the same name. The tour was postponed in June due to the Covid 19 Pandemic and the singer is now set to perform during his UK All The Hits Tour with 2006 X-Factor winner Leona Lewis as the singer’s special guest. Lewis announced recently that she is set to release her Christmas album Christmas With Love Always this Friday, November 19th.
The release of Barlow’s and Lewis’s Christmas albums will no doubt see them battle in the charts, for the Christmas number 1 album following their upcoming tour. Barlow’s All The Hits UK Tour kicks off the day after his Christmas album release, on November 27th in Belfast and ends in Newcastle on December 18th. Barlow has also been announced as head judge for the new upcoming show Walk The Line replacing Simon Cowell. Take That followers will have to wait a bit longer before hearing new material from the trio and can enjoy Barlow’s new music, tour and upcoming TV show until then.
More spoilers – I love it when you get to see your ideas for the first time. The amazing Misty Buckley designed our new show. We’re very excited to see it built and looking amazing next week – not long now folks https://t.co/XigETrItoM pic.twitter.com/pLXr7H0UQi
— Gary Barlow (@GaryBarlow) November 14, 2021
See the tracklist for Gary Barlow’s The Dream Of Christmas album below, listen to and pre-order the album here
The Dream of Christmas
Sleigh Ride
Wonderful Christmastime
How Christmas Is Supposed To Be (featuring Sheridan Smith)
This Christmas
Come On Christmas
My Dear Acquaintance
Winter Wonderland (featuring Puppini Sisters)
The Colder It Feels (featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason)
Merry Christmas Everyone
A Child’s Christmas in Wales (featuring Aled Jones)
See the dates for Gary Barlow’s All The Hits UK Tour below and find tickets here
27/11/21 SSE Arena- Belfast
28/11 3Arena- Dublin
30/11 P&J Live Arena- Aberdeen
01/12 The SSE Hydro- Glasgow
02/12 Arena-Sheffield
05/12 Motorpoint Arena- Cardiff
06/12 Motorpoint Arena- Cardiff
07/12 Motorpoint Arena- Nottingham
09/12 AO Arena- Manchester
10/12 Resorts World Arena- Birmingham
11/12 First Direct Arena- Leeds
13/12 M&S Bank Arena- Liverpool
15/12 International Centre- Bournemouth (Extra date added)
16/12 The O2- London
17/12 The O2-London
18/12 Utilita Arena- Newcastle
