Take That star and lead singer Gary Barlow will play in Belfast as part of a brand-new solo tour of Ireland and the UK.
The Songbook Tour 2025, is set celebrate an “illustrious” four-decade career, and will see him perform an array of songs from his back catalogue of hits with both Take That and as a solo artist.
The artist will play the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on April 22 and 23.
His two other dates in Ireland are the INEC Killarney on April 20, and the 3Olympia Theatre Dublin on April 25 and 26.
The tour will kick off at The Isle of Man on the April 17, with 41 dates around the UK and Ireland, including a string of outdoor shows in June where he returns to Scarborough Open Air Theatre and The Eden Project in Cornwall.
The 53-year-old, artist, who has 13 number-one singles, will visit several new venues, including Stockton Globe, Glasgow’s Armadillo and Halifax Piece Hall, giving his fans a unique opportunity to see him perform his biggest hits in an intimate setting.
The Songbook Tour will celebrate his status as “one of Britain’s most successful songwriters and record producers”.
As part of Take That, he has won eight Brit Awards and sold over 45 million records.
One of the band’s biggest hits, ‘Back For Good’, will celebrate its 30th anniversary in March 2025.
The track is still ranked as one of the UK’s favourite-ever pop songs having reached No.1 on its release in March 1995 and remaining top of the charts for four consecutive weeks, going on to become the band’s biggest-selling song of the 90’s.
Barlow is coming off the back of a worldwide tour with his Take That bandmates, playing sell-out shows in their This Life On Tour, which saw them sell over 1m tickets.
Their album of the same name, ‘This Life’, released in 2023, scored the band their twelfth No 1 album in the UK, spawning massive hits including ‘Windows’ and ‘This Life.’
The band also curated their very own four-day festival in Malta in October – The Greatest Weekend, where they performed their album ‘Everything Changes’ live, in its entirety for the first time since its release in 1993.
Barlow has also co-written and produced music for other renowned artists including Dame Shirley Bassey, Elton John and Robbie Williams, and most recently, he wrote the song ‘Running Wild’ for JIN from Korean super group, BTS.
Tickets for The Songbook Tour go on sale on Friday, November 29 at 9.30am from Ticketmaster.
Tickets for Belfast cost from £70 to £90 and tickets for Dublin cost from €61.35 to €106.75, and Killarney cost from €61.85 to €107.25.