It said in the Sunday papers that there were going to be 3 dates at Hampden. Obviously they just want the additional hype of '2 sell out shows. 3rd date added' type of thing. :wacko:

As I have always enjoyed Robbie live AND I enjoyed TT live last year I am assuming I will enjoy the Progress tour?

 

altho may need a trip to loo if he sings Angels :puke2:

 

Well I can bear witness that there's always a mass exodus to the loos whenever Gary sings a slow solo or Jason unmoors his Wooden Boat. I know! I was there in the queue!

 

Kath

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

 

Jason's what? I didn't even know he sung anything. ***Off to You Tube*** :P

Oh my :mellow:

 

 

I see what you mean :lol: I expect that would have been a very long queue :(

The secret is to find a song that you detest but everyone else adores. ;)

 

I do increasingly find myself sitting at concerts planning my toilet breaks with military precision. My exit and entrance route. Whether I'll have time to collect a vodka and packet of smoky bacon from the bar on my return journey etc etc. The music is secondary now. I believe 'tis a sign of getting old. -_-

Oh my :mellow:

I see what you mean :lol: I expect that would have been a very long queue :(

 

'Twas. However ... nerves aside ... Jason has a lovely voice (actually ... a lot nicer ... and original sounding ... than Rob's or Gary's) but the song was a bit dire! However .... his How Did It Come To This ... was bloody fabulous.

 

I just think the whole thing is a bit of a hoot at the moment. I know I'll get tickets so I'm not bothered ... its just what I choose to do with them. Should I see them (I am curious) or should I get some profit from the tickets? Decisions, decisions, decisions.

 

Kath

Oh you'll go. No question. ;)

Oh you'll go. No question. ;)

 

Don't be so sure! Just as much as Gary and co can see a dollar! So can I! If I can squeeze the price of a weekend break to Amsterdam out of a seat at a (very probably raining City of Manchester concert) then I most definitely will! My love of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Anne Frank, canals, Brown Bars and all things Dutch far outweigh my fleeting romance with a fly-by-night boyband!

 

Kath

Don't be so sure! Just as much as Gary and co can see a dollar! So can I! If I can squeeze the price of a weekend break to Amsterdam out of a seat at a (very probably raining City of Manchester concert) then I most definitely will! My love of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Anne Frank, canals, Brown Bars and all things Dutch far outweigh my fleeting romance with a fly-by-night boyband!

 

Kath

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Why not make it the weekend of the TT gig in Amsterdam then? Stadium looks as good, if not better than the City Of Manchester. B)

http://www.onlineticketexpress.com/images/event_images/Ajax%20Stadium.jpg

 

 

I suspect some more international dates will be announced if/when the six sell out.

 

 

 

Robbie hoping to make amends with Croker gig

Irish Independent

 

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HE last time Robbie Williams played Croke Park he had a "shocker".

 

Now, newly reunited with his pals in Take That, he will have a chance to make amends when the quintet return next June as part of their first tour with Robbie back in harness.

 

The group confirmed the 20-date tour, Progress Live 2011, at a press conference in London yesterday.

 

The last time the five-piece performed together was in 1995.

 

Robbie revealed his own memory of an "under par" show he played for 78,000 fans at GAA HQ in 2006.

 

Scary

 

"There was something wrong with me. I could remember walking up to the stage and saying to my mate Johnny I never felt like that before. It was really f***ing scary. Croke Park was waiting for me. I couldn't understand what was happening to me or my body.

 

"Then I was on stage and I felt absolutely shocking. I thought I felt so shocking, surely this was coming out to the audience and I was sure I was doing a bad job," Robbie admitted.

 

"It sorted itself out but it was terrifying at the time."

 

The 37-year-old singer claimed that the monster show was a catalyst for him giving up live performances until he rejoined Take That last July.

 

"The fact is I haven't done any concerts since then," said Williams.

 

The 2006 show also saw Williams promising the 78,000 fans that he would return to Ireland and play a free concert. "I will get around to doing that at some stage," he added.

 

A happier memory for Williams was a 2003 show he performed in the Phoenix Park.

 

"That was absolutely mental. I could see it still in my head now. The audience was so big it seemed to turn around in a bend. It was raining but I thought the whole of Ireland was behind me," Robbie said.

 

"There are no rumours this morning, just the fact that Take That are going back on tour," said Gary Barlow. Progress Live is billed as a "feast for the imagination, charting the evolution and progress of Take That and Robbie Williams".

 

The summer stadium tour includes four nights at Wembley Stadium in London after it kicks off next May. It will also see Williams perform songs from his solo career.

 

The newly restored group makes its comeback with a single 'The Flood' and album 'Progress', both due next month.

 

Tickets for the June 18 show go on sale this Friday at 8am.

 

- Ken Sweeney in London

 

Irish Independent

TREK THAT

The Sun

 

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ROBBIE WILLIAMS has always been obsessed with UFOs - and his sci-fi influence is rubbing off on TAKE THAT.

His old mucker MARK OWEN compared his man-bandmates to characters from Star Trek during their press conference yesterday to announce their first tour as a five-piece since 1995.

It was an impressive spectacle at London's uber-posh Savoy hotel - with cameras flashing and hordes of women getting over-excited.

Watch the press conference below.

 

 

Robbie took centre stage, sitting in the middle of GARY BARLOW, MARK OWEN, HOWARD DONALD and JASON ORANGE - and he immediately resumed his role as the "cheeky one" in the band.

He identified Gary as "skipper", Mark the "cute one", Howard "the body" and Jason "the dancer".

But Mark had a more fitting analogy, which played up to Robbie's fascination with aliens.

He said: "Gary is definitely Captain Kirk. I've always fancied myself as Scotty. Howard is Bones, Jason is Mr Spock. That makes Robbie a Klingon - but a nice one."

Captain Gary said the lads have yet to decide on an angle for the tour. But when I grabbed him afterwards he said the show would be out of this world.

He said: "Put it this way, if we pull off what we are trying to pull off, we will change stadium shows for ever. We brought theatre to stadiums last time but this is going to be on a different scale."

The band's The Circus tour cost £100million when it went on the road last year and there are plans to dig deep this time round, too.

Gary added: "We always spend a lot. It's the one area we shouldn't be sensible about.

"We've got to give the crowd what they want. We haven't decided on a support act yet. I tell you who I like - TINIE TEMPAH.

"He is f****** brilliant that kid. I tell you what - look out the world."

The 14 UK dates on the Progress Live 2011 tour will be amazing if they match The Circus show.

The boys kick off at Sunderland's Stadium Of Light on May 30 and will do an epic four dates at Wembley Stadium.

They will also play six separate shows across Europe. But more dates are a certainty once these shows sell out.

Gary said: "There will probably be more. There should be.

"Luckily it's not a massive touring year next year. The last time round I think there were quite a few out - I think U2, COLDPLAY, OASIS. I'm looking forward to it.

"There will be something for everyone in the show."

The band's website takethat.com crashed yesterday due to sheer weight of traffic while Ustream, who streamed the press conference, notched record figures.

Major ticket retailers are preparing for a surge of Take That fans on Friday when tickets go on sale at 9am. They are bolstering their bandwidth and servers.

It's exciting stuff as the boys are really looking forward to touring with each other again. Gary said: "It is actually weird how much of a role we have all slipped back into. It is almost identical to what it was.

 

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"Robbie's cheek is still there - he just doesn't change. Foolishly I wrote a song once called Everything Changes, but I must have been wrong.

"There have been no arguments. Not one cross word, nothing.

"We've learned to accept each other as a four and I think Rob has been part of a few band meetings now and I think he was quite taken aback by how truthful we were with each other.

"He is loving the security of being in a band and that's what he would always love." The boys will continue to share a dressing room and will get their families involved as much as possible, providing they can get kids out of school.

It will be a real celebration of all their work - even Robbie's solo material, which he will be performing.

Robbie said: "I'll be doing a bit, the lads will be doing a bit and then we'll be doing a bit."

I heard a whisper yesterday he'd be getting at least 40 minutes of the show, a massive slice.

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But he won't be featuring on tracks Take That made as a foursome, such as Greatest Day, Patience and Shine. The boys were on great form - it was a pleasure to see them all so happy. Robbie was in his element, especially when he delivered the dates like JAMES ALEXANDER GORDON, the football scores announcer on BBC Radio 5 Live. He even managed to fend off a cheeky question from a foreign reporter. Robbie was asked whether he would have re-joined the band if he "was still getting No1 singles"?

He replied: "The greatest hits album was No1 in 14 countries. My last album sold more than Circus.

"At the risk of sounding like a sourpuss, f*** off."

The juggernaut is back on the move and it's going to be a brilliant ride again.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...r-official.html

 

So Rob is getting at least 40 minutes according to Smart Gordon. More than I expected tbh - perhaps they are going to do 2.5Hour gigs? Or 3hour plus like Macca and The Boss? :lol: Obviously in Europe Rob's solo set is probably need to be extended to an hour or so leaving room for the likes of Millenium, Bodies, Supreme etc

 

I predict the following :smoke:

 

Rob Solo:

 

LMEY

Come Undone

Rock DJ

No Regrets

Shame

Feel

Angels

 

TT4

 

Greatest Day

Up All Night

Shine

Said It All

Hold Up The Light

Patience

Rule The World

 

TT5

Could It Be Magic

Everything Changes

Relight My Fire

Pray

A Medley of older songs

New song

New Song

new song

new song

new song

The Flood

Back For Good

Never Forget

Interview with Rob and the lads from the Irish show Xpose. Amusing watching him try and answer the question about the free Dublin gig he promised. That is something that is never going to go away. Gary and Howard got a good laugh about it too :lol:

 

http://www.tv3.ie/xpose.php

 

 

Robbie Williams unleashes foul-mouthed rant about Glastonbury

http://www.radiocity.co.uk/Article.asp?id=...&spid=20272

 

Outspoken Robbie Williams has launched a foul-mouthed tirade against the UK's biggest music festival.

 

The 36-year-old, who recently rejoined Take That after a 15-year split, blasted Glastonbury, branding it "a s***hole full of d***heads".

 

The singer unleashed his rude rant during an interview with the reformed band at Liverpool's Radio City 96.7.

 

When asked about the possibility of the group playing Glastonbury in future, Robbie scoffed: "Absolutely not.

 

"There's going to be no Glastonbury, not for me."

 

Robbie, who headlined the event main stage in 1998, added: "They pay you about five pence to be honest."

 

Bandmate Mark Owen jumped to the festival's defence and said: "I would love for us all to go to Glastonbury.

 

"I'm going to get a caravan and convince all the lads to go and have a day out."

 

Fellow Take That member Jason Orange even tried to convince Robbie that Glastobury was a "spiritual place" to which the Stoke-born star retorted: "It's a sh*thole full of d*ckheads."

 

Newly-wed Robbie, who married partner Ayda Field in an intimate ceremony in Beverly Hills in August, kept his language cleaner when talking about the upcoming Take That tour.

 

The five-piece will play 17 dates across the UK and abroad from May to July next year, tickets for which go on sale on Friday.

 

When asked about his legendary dance moves by breakfast show host Simon Ross, Robbie joked: "It's just shifting weight and falling about.

 

"There were times when I used to dance at 23 or 24 and I used to think 'Yeh I'm doing it like a dancer would.

 

"Now I'm 36 and I'm like your dad. Every time I try to move now I look like an idiot!"

Aaaah Robbie. I've missed him mouthing off. :wub:

 

 

:unsure: can anyone get the seetickets.com page to load tonight? I think the site is down

I can get on the site ok :unsure:

:cry: I can't

 

Page won't load

Well, I'm absolutely drained and exhausted :drama:

 

Spent all my lunchtime today and my home time since 3.00pm trying to get bloomin' TT tix ( for a work colleague and then for a friend). So much for a stress free day not bothering about having to get tickets.

 

And what a shambles. Don't know how many times I got through to the 'buy' stage only for the server to crash. Is there a specific reason why tour tickets for every venue need to go on sale at the exact same time? Couldn't they have put the Wembley tix on sale today, the Glasgow ones tomorrow etc etc ? Absolute madness. :angry:

 

 

Anyway, at 17.50 this evening I secured 2 seats for Hampden. Via the Ticketmaster Germany site no less. I gave up on the UK one. :arrr: I think they are rubbish seats but meh. I don't care. If she doesn't want them I'll sell them on E-Bay for 5,000 quid each. ^_^