Take That tease release date for their 10th album
Gary is calling it their "next wave of music"
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Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald, better known as Take That, joined Ken Bruce on Greatest Hits Radio to talk about their huge new Netflix documentary, bringing back their 'Circus Live Tour' and the all important new music including an album, due for release this year.
The trio also opened up about the reason for doing this new documentary explaining they wanted a "truthful documentary" that covered the "whole story up until now in one piece."
Watch Take That's full interview on Greatest Hits Radio:
Take That: 10th album
There have been rumours for some time about Take That's 10th album, and with the inclusion of a new song at the end of their documentary, fans are super keen to find out more about the new music.
Speaking to Ken on Greatest Hits Radio, the band confirmed they have been writing for some time and plan to go into the recording studio in a few months.
When asked if there was an album coming out soon, Gary confirmed there was, saying: "Absolutely. You know, we've been at it for about a year now. We write away and what we tend to do nowadays is spend a lot of time writing and a short time recording.
"And so, we're going to be recording in April an album for Christmas, I think."
Mark went on to explain it was important they were happy with the music, saying: "The main thing for... I think, all of us this year is making the right record, because that's where it all stems from. I think if we get the music right, it leads on to other things.
"So we're excited about going in the studio and doing that."
Gary then added: "I think this is the start of our next wave of music now. And we just felt like just something brand new at the end (of the documentary) would be a really nice thing to leave the audience with, to bring it right up to date."
Take That Netflix documentary
Nearly 18 months after it was first announced, the band's documentary, simply called Take That arrived on Netflix in January, and the band opened up about why it was important for them to go right back to the beginning.
The three-part series features archive footage of the band from the 90s, and as Gary explained, it's been a long time coming. "It all sort of happened about three years ago," he told Ken.
"We were in tour rehearsals and it's a good time for our managers to bring people to see us, because we usually say yes to everything when we're in tour rehearsals. We just want to get back to the work!
"So they brought Netflix in and they thought it would be a great documentary telling our story. They talked about the way they wanted to do it and the way they wanted to present it. We quite liked it and we said 'yes'."
He continued: "And then we didn't hear anything for about 18 months and we actually thought they'd gone on and gone to some other band and decided to do it with them.
"But then they started sending us little bits and pieces and we thought they did a really good job of it."
Howard then opened up how he found loads of old tapes and handed them over to the production company, as he wanted it to be a "truthful documentary on us".
He explained: "I kind of dug out loads of VHS and Hi-8 tapes from back in the 90s and literally handed them over to them. Hence why when the people see this documentary they really believe that they've seen everything on Take That, but they actually haven't because there's actually stuff on there, when we watched it and we surprised us thinking wow didn't even know that even existed so..."
While the documentary covered the band throughout the years, Ken asked if they had any creative control, but Mark admitted they didn't, explaining: "Everybody kept saying afterwards that, 'Oh, I'm surprised that you allowed that' and we were like, 'Oh, we didn't know we had a choice!'"
He went on to say: "I think we were excited to have the whole story up until now in one piece. We'd had a few documentaries before, but one of the things that we were really excited about was it was going to bring you from the very beginning right up to date."
'Circus Tour'
Last year, Take That surprised fans by announcing they would be going on tour again in 2026, however in an unexpected turn of events they were going to be repeating their hugely successful 'Circus Tour'.
Gary explained: "It's funny, because this is a different tour for us, because we are repeating a tour, which we did in 2009. It's always been popular with our audience and we had the idea a couple of years ago, should we bring something back? And we'd found out that no one else has ever done this before, so we are, we're bringing the Circus back.
"And the nice thing for us is we're sort of doing the same show… Often when we get into rehearsals, we're still worrying because the show's not quite ready, as this show is, we know what it is. So we've just got to go in there and be part of it."
Reflecting on their fans over the years, Howard added: "Going 35 years, we've seen… A lot of the teenagers, from 12, 13, 14-years-old, and now all of a sudden the mothers and they're bringing their daughters along or they're bringing their children along, and now their children are teenagers and it's... You see a lot of men, you see a lot of men at our concerts now. I don't know if it's because they're being dragged along by the wives!"
Take That will be going on tour in May, June and July across the UK and Ireland and their Netflix documentary is available to watch now.
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