The Greatest Day - Take That Present: The Circus Live

The Greatest Day - Take That Present: The Circus Live
Take That live album
Publication (s)	November 30, 2009
admission	3rd and 4th July 2009 ( Wembley Stadium ) September 2009 ( Abbey Road Studios )
Label (s)	Polydor
Format (s)	CD, download
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	27
running time	2:02:36
occupation	Singing / piano: Gary Barlow Singing / drums: Howard Donald Vocals / guitar: Jason Orange Vocals / bass guitar: Mark Owen
production	John Shanks , Mike Stevens
Studio (s)	The Circus Live at Wembley Stadium: Tour recordings by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra: Smecky Music Studios, Prague , Czech Republic Mixing: Mix This! Studio, LA , USA Mastering: Whitfield Mastering London, London , England In Session at Abbey Road: Recording and mixing: Abbey Road Studios , London, England Mastering: Whitfield Mastering London
chronology The Circus (2008) The Greatest Day - Take That Present: The Circus Live Progress (2010)

The Greatest Day - Take That Present: The Circus Live is the ninth album by English pop - band Take That . It is the first of the band's two live albums to date. Parallel to the album, a corresponding DVD was released under the title "Take That Present The Circus Live". Both contain recordings from the band's circus tour as well as a subsequent acoustic session at Abbey Road Studios . The album sold over half a million copies in the UK alone . The live album was also the group's last project as a quartet before Robbie Williams returned for Progress (2010) .

Track list

CD 1

The Circus - Live at Wembley

1. Greatest Day - 4:18
2. Hello - 3:49
3. Pray - 4:00
4. Back for Good - 4:01
5. The Garden - 5:18
6. Shine - 3:46
7. Up All Night - 3:58
8. How Did It Come to This - 4:07
9. The Circus - 3:36
10. What Is Love - 5:55
11. Said It All - 4:07
12. Never Forget - 5:28
13. Solitaire - 3:20
14. Relight My Fire - 4:34
15. Hold Up a Light - 4:29
16. Rule the World - 5:42

CD 2

In Session - At Abbey Road

1. The Garden - 4:54
2. How Did It Come to This - 2:42
3. Greatest Day - 3:24
4. Up All Night - 3:22
5. Solitaire - 3:20
6. What Is Love - 3:42
7. The Circus - 3:47
8. Shine - 3:42
9. Rule the World - 3:54
10. Julie - 3:54
11. Said It All - 4:17

background

The Tour

Take That Presents: The Circus Live

by Take That

Presentation album	The Circus
Beginning of the tour	June 5, 2009
End of the tour	July 5, 2009
Total concerts (by country)	* 14 in England 3 in Scotland 2 in Wales 1 in Ireland
Concerts in total	20th
revenue	£ 40,560,000

Take That Tour Chronology

Beautiful World Tour (2007)	Take That Present: The Circus Live (2009)	Progress Live (2011)

Take That Present: The Circus Live (also known as Circus Tour ) was the seventh concert tour of the English band Take That on the occasion of their fifth studio album The Circus . The tour started on June 5, 2009 at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland and ended after 20 sold-out concerts on July 5, 2009 at Wembley Stadium in London . The tour became the fastest-selling in UK history: all 600,000 tickets for the originally planned eight dates sold out within five hours, with a dozen more concerts added as a result. This increased the number of viewers to over a million (1,014,000) and made the Circus Tour the band's most extensive concert tour to date.

Preliminary program

• Gary Go (all)
• James Morrison (June 5th / 8th / 16th / 17th / 20th / 26th; July 1st)
• The Saturdays (June 6th / 8th / 19th)
• The Script (June 10/13/21/23/28; July 3)
• Lady Gaga (July 4th / 5th)

Song list

1. The Adventures of a Lonely Balloon Part 1
2. Greatest Day
3. Hello
4. Could It Be Magic?
5. Pray
6. A Million Love Songs
7. Back for Good
8. The Garden
9. Shine (contains elements from Mr. Blue Sky )
10. Up all night
11. Wooden boat
12. How Did It Come to This?
13. Piano Medley - Love Ain't Here Anymore / Babe / Nobody Else
14. The Circus
15. The Adventures of a Lonely Balloon Part 2
16. What is love?
17. The Clowns Medley - Do What U Like / Promises / It Only Takes a Minute / Take That & Party
18. Said It All
19. Never forget
20. patience
21. Relight My Fire (contains elements from Vertigo ) {accompanied by Loleatta Holloway }

Encores

22. Hold up a light
23. Rule the World

Tour dates

date	city	country	venue
June 5, 2009	Sunderland	England	Stage of light
June 6, 2009
June 8, 2009	Coventry		Ricoh Arena
June 9, 2009
June 10, 2009
June 13, 2009	Dublin	Ireland	Croke Park
June 16, 2009	Cardiff	Wales	Millennium Stadium
June 17, 2009
June 19, 2009	Glasgow	Scotland	Hampden Park
June 20, 2009
June 21, 2009
June 23, 2009	Manchester	England	Old Trafford Cricket Ground
June 24, 2009
June 26, 2009
June 27, 2009
June 28, 2009
July 1, 2009	London		Wembley Stadium
July 3, 2009
4th July 2009
July 5, 2009

The albums

The album was released on November 30, 2009. No singles were released, but the fifth single from the previous studio album The Circus , Hold Up a Light , was also advertised for the live album. The Hold Up a Light video includes footage of the band performing at Wembley on July 3rd and 4th, 2009.

Take That Present The Circus Live
Take That video album
Publication (s)	November 23, 2009
admission	3rd and 4th July 2009 ( Wembley Stadium ) September 2009 ( Abbey Road Studios )
Label (s)	Polydor
Format (s)	DVD
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	32
running time	2:57:14
occupation	Singing / piano: Gary Barlow Singing / drums: Howard Donald Vocals / guitar: Jason Orange Vocals / bass guitar: Mark Owen
production	John Shanks , Mike Stevens
Studio (s)	The Circus Live at Wembley Stadium: Tour recordings by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra: Smecky Music Studios, Prague , Czech Republic Mixing: Mix This! Studio, LA , USA Mastering: Whitfield Mastering London, London , England In Session at Abbey Road: Recording and mixing: Abbey Road Studios , London, England Mastering: Whitfield Mastering London
chronology The Circus (2008) Take That Present The Circus Live Progress (2010)

A DVD of the full concert recordings, recorded in London on July 3rd and 4th, was released on November 23, 2009, one week before the audio recordings. The DVD reached number 1 on the music DVD chart and became the UK's fastest-selling DVD of all time with 82,414 copies sold within 24 hours of its release. The audio recordings made it to number 3 on the British album charts. With 123,000 copies sold in the first week, the album also broke the record for the fastest-selling live album since 1994.

The acoustic recordings

Both the DVD and the audio CD also contain live acoustic recordings from Abbey Road Studios in London ; the DVD also contains short interviews and comments from the individual band members between the titles.

Gary Barlow justified the decision for an acoustic session in Abbey Road on the DVD as follows: “Sometimes I have the feeling that we are hiding behind elephants and puppets and din and thunder and thunder and fireworks - and I love it when we get rid of this pressure, say, 'Let's just sit down and sing. Let's get back to the point where it all begins. Let's get back to that point before 80,000 people are watching. ' […] When I was 15, I took part in a songwriting competition. The prize was a day in the Abbey Road penthouse studio, where you could record your song and watch it processed. And I won. So I went down to London, we first went to the EMI headquarters in Manchester Square, today I think it's not there anymore, in the afternoon we came here, recorded the song, watched it being edited on the turntable . So one of my first experiences in the recording studio was here - what a start. After that it went really downhill ... "

Mark Owen commented on the song versions and the studio choice: “We didn't want to change the songs until they are no longer recognizable. The songs are still the same, just the version from Sunday morning instead of the Friday or Saturday evening version. It takes place the next day. [...] I love this place! Whenever I come here I feel at home. This is where I recorded my first solo album, Green Man , 1996 or something. I lived for a month in an apartment next door that belongs to the studio. There is still the same kitchen staff today; it's like going back to your old school. And it's a great studio. Not just for me on a personal level, but in general. The story in the walls of this house is gigantic. [...] When all hell is going on around you and you are in the middle of a big show, the attention is not always on the song itself. Suddenly I think about it again: What is the text of this song? What are we telling here? What did we write this about? There is something contemplative and reflective about it. For me, playing in small groups means above all that you find new ways to get in touch with the song and its meaning. "

Jason Orange added: “I feel more vulnerable, […] emotional about the songs when it's just the four of us and our musicians. It's so much more intimate, the songs seem to get a more emotional sound. "

reception

Despite an original ticket offer of 600,000 tickets (eight concerts), the tour was sold out in under five hours, it received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest sold-out tour of all time and ousted Michael Jackson's Bad World Tour (1987) from it Throne. Additional data was added, a total of over 1.2 million viewers saw the circus show, it became the band's largest tour to date and generated revenues of over 40 million pounds, with a considerable proportion being used in the organization of the tour itself (over a hundred Trucks of equipment and around 250 participants - technicians, drivers, dancers etc.) as well as the following Progress Tour (238 trucks, planned budget> 15 million pounds) was invested. (Their Guinness record was broken by themselves just a year later: the Progress Tour, which was larger from the start, was sold out on the first day with 1.3 million tickets in 25 concerts, and in the end it was almost 1.8 million viewers .) In addition to the setlist and performance, the wealth of ideas in implementing the circus theme was particularly praised. The recording also received a lot of praise:

Reviews

The album was consistently well received by critics and received positive reviews and ratings. from BBC News, the Sun and Daily Mail . Both the Times and Digital Spy gave the album four out of five stars in their reviews, and The Film Critics gave it eight out of ten. The Sun's reviewers called the album "exciting, different, with its own style of live music." BBC News said the album was "a fresh burst of power and energy that will keep fans happy while a new album is being written." Digital Spy criticized it as "quasi perfect," The Daily Mail wrote, "That Album comes up with an ingenious selection of new and old take-that hits - exactly what a fan would want. "

Commercial win

The Greatest Day sold 98,000 copies on the day it was released in the UK. The associated studio album The Circus was only able to sell around 35,000 more copies on the first day , both of which are record numbers. In Great Britain it reached number three on the album charts. So far, the album has sold 514,403 times in the United Kingdom alone (as of December 2011) and was awarded platinum by the respective authorities there, as in December 2009 in Ireland.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2009)	placement
UK album charts	3

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)	placement
British music charts	27

Awards

2009: Platinum ( UK ) for 514,403 copies sold at the time of award 2009: Platinum ( Ireland )  
 

Web links

Commons : Take That  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the band
• Official tour information, dates, tickets etc.

Individual evidence

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9. ↑ ^{a b} Take That Present: The Circus Live - DVD Filmkritik filmkritiker.com of November 12, 2009. Accessed June 21, 2017.
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11. ↑ ^{a b} Simpson, Dave: Take That Progress Tour - Sunderland Review In: The Guardian , May 28, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
12. ↑ World Record: Fastest UK Tour Ticket Sales GuinnessWorldRecords.com, October 29, 2010. Accessed June 21, 2017.
13. ↑ The Times review ( Memento June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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15. ↑ ^{a b} The Greatest Day - The Circus Live in the British charts . officialcharts.com. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
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