GARY BARLOW: Music always works, I promise you that. I ve spent my professional life seeing the profound emotional effects that live music produces, whether that s on a single listener or a crowd.
Gary Barlow has landed a new BBC One music show, I’m With The Band .
The starry entertainment programme - which is co-produced by the Take That frontman and Penny Lane Entertainment - will see him bring together a supergroup of artists and musicians to perform classic songs from past and present and is inspired by his lockdown Crooner Sessions , which saw him duet remotely via Zoom with the likes of Sir Elton John, Ronan Keating, Queen s Brian May, Rick Astley, his old bandmate Robbie Williams, and more.
The 50-year-old singer has unveiled his all-star band for the show, featuring Jamie Cullum on keys and vocals, James Bay and Tom Fletcher of McFly on guitars and vocals, plus Guy Chambers (keys and musical direction), Mica Paris (vocals), Danya Fisher (bass) and Donavan Hepburn (drums).