Take That: The Circus - new album review!

Nov 27 2008 By Paul Cole

(Polydor)

makings of a stadium singalong amid its sawing strings, and Here (an unlikely songwriting collaboration with Turin Brakes) ends in a Beatley crescendo of sound.

The downside? Songs such as Julie and How Did It Come To This are cheesy, giggly hidden track She Said should have stayed hidden and Will Malone’s strings tend to be overpowering.

Not the Big Top then, but certainly a good show. It won’t matter to the faithful, of course.

They’re already rolling up, rolling up for The Circus, with a third show added at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena just last week.