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Take That review – oddly packaged pop still packs a wallop
There’s some magic amid the cheese as the trio revisit a stacked catalogue of hits – and gamely give their old choreography a go
The trio emerge dressed like youth pastors by way of Balenciaga for a downbeat start to the show, but soon nudge it up a gear with crowd favourites nestled among the new material. The eras section, which comes with enthusiastic narration, a fake phonecall bit and never once mentions Robbie Williams or Jason Orange, is a fun if incomplete history of Britain’s most unlikely boyband. Photograph: RHM ProductionsThere is still no question that beyond the 90s stuff, Shine is an absolute roof-raising banger (despite the urge to buy discount products from big box retailers hanging over it), and The Flood comes into its own on the stage, crackling with energy.
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