{"id":1037092,"date":"2026-06-19T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1037092\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:40:23","slug":"take-that-at-etihad-stadium-live-as-doors-finally-open-for-first-the-circus-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1037092\/","title":{"rendered":"Take That at Etihad Stadium LIVE as doors finally open for first The Circus show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">As live music tours go, this one is pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Originally staged in 2009, The Circus Live broke UK records as the fastest-selling tour in history, with over 600,000 tickets sold in under 5 hours, and over one million fans attending the sell-out shows across the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The tour began on 5 June 2009 at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland and finished on 5 July 2009 at Wembley Stadium in London. First time round, it made a profit of \u00a340,560,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Now that&#8217;s my idea of a very nice day out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2_DBR_MEN_18062Cov_04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Take That bring the Circus Live tour to Manchester next.  Pictured here in Coventry.\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Take That bring the Circus Live tour to Manchester next.  Pictured here in Coventry.(Image: Emma Tranter)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_DBR_MEN_18062Cov.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Take That's Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald are wowing the crowds with The Circus Live reboot\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Take That&#8217;s Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald are wowing the crowds with The Circus Live reboot(Image: Emma Tranter)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_DBR_MEN_18062Cov_05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">(Image: Emma Tranter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As live music tours go, this one is pretty impressive. Originally staged in 2009, The Circus Live broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1037093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,62517,13890,269,711,13899,16,15],"class_list":["post-1037092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-etihad-stadium","tag-gary-barlow","tag-music","tag-pop-music","tag-take-that","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116777771252957241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}