{"id":366639,"date":"2011-04-04T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T09:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/pet-shop-boys-join-take-that-tour\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T09:54:16","slug":"pet-shop-boys-join-take-that-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/pet-shop-boys-join-take-that-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Shop Boys join Take That tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"65.257429718875\">\n<div readability=\"59\">\n                    <span><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/9d3d391betshopboys1.jpg.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"230\" alt=\"Pet Shop Boys\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    Pet Shop Boys will join Take That on their summer Progress tour<br \/>\n  <\/span><br \/>\n<!-- Empty - Wide embedded hyper -->                      <\/p>\n<p>Pet Shop Boys have been confirmed as the main support for Take That&#8217;s record-breaking summer Progress tour. <\/p>\n<p>Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will join the reformed boy band for the series of gigs starting on 27 May in Sunderland. <\/p>\n<p>Pet Shop Boys said: &#8220;We look forward to every night being a huge celebration of pop music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Robbie Williams said he was a &#8220;huge&#8221; fan of the band adding, &#8220;for me it will be an absolute joy to be able to watch them every night&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Great tour&#8217;<\/span>      <\/p>\n<p>Take That have been long-term admirers of the dance duo. <\/p>\n<p>Gary Barlow said: &#8220;Pet Shop Boys was the first CD I ever bought.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve followed their whole career and always loved their unique approach to records and live performance. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That combined with two lovely people means we&#8217;re in for a great tour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest ever UK tour, it&#8217;s the first time the original five members of Take That have toured together since 1995. <\/p>\n<p>With a total of 1.34 million tickets snapped up for the shows, the run finishes with eight sold out night at London&#8217;s Wembley Stadium. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/9d3d391betshopboys1.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/newsbeat\/12957769\" title=\"Pet Shop Boys join Take That tour\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pet Shop Boys join Take That tour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Pet Shop Boys will join Take That on their summer Progress tour Pet Shop Boys have been confirmed as the main support for Take That&#8217;s record-breaking summer Progress tour. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will join the reformed boy band for the series of gigs starting on 27 May in Sunderland. Pet Shop Boys said: &#8220;We look forward to every night being a huge celebration of pop music.&#8221; In a statement Robbie Williams said he was a &#8220;huge&#8221; fan of the band adding, &#8220;for me it will be an absolute joy to be able to watch them every night&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pet Shop Boys join Take That tour - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/pet-shop-boys-join-take-that-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pet Shop Boys join Take That tour - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Pet Shop Boys will join Take That on their summer Progress tour Pet Shop Boys have been confirmed as the main support for Take That&#039;s record-breaking summer Progress tour. 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