Michael Hann

Yesterday once more

Plus: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets reminds us that no one else ever sounded like early Pink Floyd

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  • Take That

    O2 Arena, and touring

  • Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets

    Roundhouse, and touring

Being old is big business in live music nowadays, in a way it wasn’t even 25 years ago. When Take That were still a boy band in the early 1990s, as opposed to a man band, the idea that in middle age they would be one of the most successful live groups in Britain would have been laughable.

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