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Take That's sell out circus tour is making use of Skypower's expertise with our helium spheres. The 8m sphere is being used in the opening act of the performance and is used to take a performer up to 30m above the stage. The sphere uses 268 m3 of helium and is digitally artworked with the bands sky background used throughout the tour. Skypower is operating the balloon at Sunderland, Coventry, Dublin, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and Wembley over the coming weeks.

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Skypower are proud to have "worked in conjunction with Chris Vaughan and The Production Office Ltd" operating the Gas Balloon for the Take That “Circus Tour” in 2009.

The balloon was an 8m Helium Sphere, containing 268 cubic metres of the inert gas and combining the latest Hot Air & Gas Balloon technology; harnessed to an automated winch system giving precise control of the balloon enabling all of the performer lifts and balloon movements to be choreographed in time to the show.

Performers around the balloon calling their clown friends to come over.

The balloon canopy was digitally art-worked with the bands sky background as used throughout the tour. Skypower designed and operated the balloon used throughout the concerts in Sunderland, Coventry, Dublin, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and Wembley in the summer of 2009.

This project maximised the use of Skypower's expertise in ballooning and in the helium sphere sector. It was also a first for ballooning; a balloon had never been used as a focal part in a concert before and Skypower is pleased to have operated the gas balloon for Take That and in a concert of this prestige.

The clowns gather around the balloon masking Take That from the crowd

The balloon is part of the opening sequence of the concert; initially lifting performers and then for the reveal of Take That’s: Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Mark Owen & Howard Donald.

Masked by a mass of clowns in Blue Sky Clown Suits carrying clusters of Helium Balloons of varying sizes, the band are smuggled under the cover of the toy helium balloons to the Stage. All of the clowns gather around the base of the balloon, and some clusters of the larger helium balloons are attached to the gas balloon. As the clowns walk out from the balloon at the opening bars of Greatest Day they release bunches of toy helium balloons; some float off into the skies while the others rise up around the gas balloon.

The clowns gather around the balloon masking Take That from the crowd

This reveals the band, and the gas balloon then ascends up to 25m above the stage carrying a performer who floats over the stage while Take That play their first 5 tracks. In the 6th track water fountains eject over 6 tonnes of water from the stage and the balloon slowly descends back to the stage during the song, with the performer exiting the balloon, and the disconnection of the balloon basket, masked through the water fountains….
The Balloon then floats over the stage for the rest of the concert….

The clowns release their balloons, the gas balloon ascends revealing Take That. Let the music commence!!!

Take That - Circus Tour 2009 Facts

• 8m Helium Sphere
• Over 450 tanks of helium for the tour
• 268 Cubic meters of Helium
• Digital artwork used on the sphere