Take That’s Huge Summer Tour Takes Over Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium [Photos]

Fresh from a sold-out UK arena tour (read our review of the Leeds show), British pop sensations Take That took their This Life tour out to stadiums across the UK with V13 catching the stadium run on the opening night at the Riverside Stadium, home of Middlesbrough FC.

Continuing to join the Mancunian headliners was Essex pop favourite Olly Murs, who is now a few weeks into fatherhood and, as always, has this crowd up and dancing with a mix of covers and his own huge pop hits. Over the years, Take That has had many different crowd-pleasing support acts joining them on tours like this and, as alluded to in my review of the Leeds show, the choice of the cheeky Essex lad couldn’t be a better fit.

As for the pop machine that is Take That, their humungous production rolls into Middlesbrough for the opening run of dates across various football stadiums and, judging by the packed arena, this juggernaut of British pop shows no sign of slowing down.

Promoting their This Life album, the group’s set list is stacked out with the perfect mix of new songs like “Windows” and, for this hardcore Take That fanbase, an absolutely mouthwatering array of iconic British pop hits. From “Shine” to “Patience” to “Greatest Day” and “Relight My Fire,” the set list reads like an A-Z of their greatest hits while the show, switching to a static walkway for the outdoor shows, has everything the arena show had but bigger.

For this huge, hardcore Take That audience, their love affair with Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, and Mark Owen shows no signs of diminishing and even as the group is still wrapping up with “Never Forget” and “Back For Good,” many of those fans are already looking ahead to the next dates on the tour.

For more information on the rest of the dates of this tour, head over to the official Take That website.

Set List:

1. Keep Your Head Up
2. Windows
3. Giants
4. Days I Hate Myself
5. Everything Changes
6. Sure
7. Shine
8. A Million Love Songs
9. I Found Heaven
10. Pray
11. Forever Love
12. Clementine
13. Speak Without Words
14. Patience
15. The Flood
16. Get Ready for It
17. March of the Hopeful
18. Brand New Sun
19. This Life
20. Greatest Day
21. These Days
22. Time and Time Again
23. Relight My Fire
24. One More Word
25. Hold Up a Light
26. Back for Good
27. You and Me
28. Never Forget
29. Rule the World

Take That (w/ Olly Murs) @ Riverside Stadium (Middlesbrough, UK) on May 24th, 2024

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