90s boy band icon announces enormous solo UK tour with more than 40 dates-Rebecca Sayce-Entertainment – Metro

After rising to fame in iconic boyband Take That, Gary Barlow will bring his latest solo tour to the UK next year (Picture: Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Gary Barlow has announced his mammoth new 2025 solo tour, his first in seven years away from his Take That bandmates.

The Patience hitmaker, 53, will perform a number of his hits from across his four-decade career as both a solo artists and from the Take That back catalogue.

The Songbook Tour kicks off in The Isle of Man on April 17 and will see Gary perform shows across the UK, ending in Thetford Forest on June 21.

Tickets for The Songbook Tour will go on sale at 9.30am on Friday, November 29.

Gary last hit the road in 2021 on his All the Hits Live tour which, as the name suggests, saw the musician perform a number of his biggest songs in venues across the UK.

It comes as the singer hit the road with Take That bandmates Mark Owen and Howard Donald for an extensive world tour which saw them sell more than one million tickets worldwide.

Gary Barlow is set to hit the road for the first time since 2021 (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

Take That – which also previously included Robbie Williams and Jason Orange – scored their 12th number one album in 2023’s This Life ahead of the world tour.

October also saw the band host a four-day festival in Malta, The Greatest Weekend, at which they performed their 1993 album Everything Changes in full for delighted fans.

Rock DJ superstar Robbie, 50, is also set to play a slew of shows next year and has even teased new music could be on the way.

Speaking about the tour in a statement, he said: ‘This tour is going to be my boldest yet – I can’t wait to see you next year.

It comes after Gary and bandmates Mark Owen and Howard Donald embarked on a huge world tour (Picture: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

‘There will be songs from the movie Better Man, and some new music too, but more on that soon.’

The tour will begin just a few short months after the release of Robbie’s biopic Better Man, which tells Robbie’s life story but with a CGI monkey in his place.

Yes, you did read that correctly.

Despite the unusual premise, Robbie has opened up about the emotional reactions of those around him who have seen the film, including former girlfriend Nicole Appleton.

Some of Robbie’s loved ones, including his former bandmates, have seen the film (Picture: Tim Roney/Getty Images)

‘I FaceTimed them all straight after the film and we all wept together,’ he told Deadline after Nicole, 49, watched the film alongside her sister Sophie.

He also spoke about his reservations over his former Take That bandmates watching the film.

‘Mark [Owen], reached out last week and was like, “Hey, Rob, me and the lads are all going to be in town. Can we see a screening of Better Man?” And I was like, “Yes. I’d love you to”, which of course I would,’ he continued.

‘‘I’m terrified because our relationship is so complicated and so healed that returning to the scene of the crime and talking in the way that I talked as a 17-year-old is bound to open old wounds for people.’

It’s not the only time Take That are set to hit our screens, with a Netflix documentary on the way charting the ups and downs of their astronomical career.

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