Take That fans show Patience

Updated 19.57 Fri Mar 02 2007

Keywords: music, Take That

Take That fans queued overnight in Manchester to snap up tickets for the band's latest tour.

Fans snapped up 370,000 tickets in less than three hours, with the initial 22 dates sold out in under two hours and six more shows added at 11am sold out by noon.

"It is really surreal to hear the news from the UK" - Mark Owen

Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald and Jason Orange have enjoyed a successful reunion, and their single Patience was voted best song of 2006 at the Brit Awards.

The band are currently on a promotional visit to Japan.

Mark said: "It's really surreal to hear the news from the UK.

"We are all totally overwhelmed, and also a bit nervous. We're trying to celebrate but we're all a bit jet-lagged."

The boys will play dates in Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, London and Manchester in November and December.