Max SteventonTake That have announced the return of their stadium tour The Circus Live, promoted by SJM Concerts, for summer 2026.
The tour will begin at St Mary’s Stadium (cap.32,000) in Southampton on 29 May and will include stops at Coventry Building Society Arena (40,000), Sunderland’s Stadium of Light (60,000), Hampden Park (50,000) in Glasgow, Cardiff’s Principality Stadium (74,500) , Etihad Stadium (55,000) and London Stadium (62,500) before finishing at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium (60,000) on July 4. Tickets go on sale on September 26.
The original Circus Live tour in 2009 broke UK records as the fastest-selling tour in history, selling over 600,000 tickets in under five hours and attracting more than one million fans across the UK and Ireland. That production featured fire-breathers, stilt-walkers, clowns, acrobats, tap dancers, and a 30-foot mechanical elephant that carried the band through the audience.
Support for all UK dates will include The Script, who also supported the original tour, and Belinda Carlisle.
Take That said. “The Circus tour was one of our favourite experiences as a band and, in the years since, we’ve talked many times about how much we’d love to do it again one day. Well, that time has come! We’re so excited to welcome audiences old and new across the UK and Ireland to the spectacle of The Circus Live next summer. See you out there!”