Mark has sung a new song, The Lantern, at a charity on 16. December.

 

Here is the first part:

and here the last part

. The background story of the song is given from the poster of the first part of the song on youtube: "Was lucky enough to be there last night. Amazing, beautiful song. Will never forget seeing it ( my wife was an excited amateur backing singer on the chorus). the charity that Mark was supporting is run by a lady who lost her son to myotubular and every year on his birthday, sends a paper lantern to the sky. Mark was so touched by the story, he wrote the song to perform at the concert - " Lantern".

 

Here you can read about the charity and the concert: http://www.myotubulartrust.org/ .

 

ABout the writers of the song is only my supposition that it was written from Mark Owen, Jamie Norton and Ben Mark ( as the last two supported him with the music background).

 

Mark supports a lot of small charities, mainly in the part of Lindon where he lives. For other one he made some pictures, but i think this one os the first where he did a special written song.

 

I suppose this song will be mainly on the liking of those who already likes Mark solo songs. For me, i like it very much. Just a little, powerful song.

Edited December 18, 201113 yr by IrisAlbastru

Thank you for posting this, im gona have a listen to it now.

I did wonder when Mark would dip his toe into the solo waters again now that Gary is dueting with Buble, judging and holding concerts.

If you really want to compare them here instead of discussing the song: The difference is that one has said he will not do something solo and one has said that he will continue his solo career. I wonder why it took so long, as he had his own fans (which for a matter, are or were not all TT-fans). Do not forget, Mark enterd again in TT directly from his own business, he heasn't waited for Gary to show him the way.

 

The difference is also how they choose to do charity, one with trompets and fanfare and one quiet, but i suppose more people are for the fanfare way. I wound't have written here about Mark supporting the charities, should not have been for the new song (like i said, he supported a lot other small ones, who bareley receive media coverage, apart from a small article in internet).

 

 

 

 

Edited December 19, 201113 yr by IrisAlbastru

Has any news on Mark recording new solo work resurfaced since this article or is he not going to bother with another solo album? I understand Mark has his own label and he was able to fund his later solo albums, my guess now is money is once again more plentifull as reforming Take That has financially been truly worth while. Therefore, Mark would have more disposable income for a better word to finance more solo work.

Yeah it's all gone quiet on the Mark solo material stuff

I would like to hear more from him solo, not at the cost of Take That though, i do still believe, mark has at least another solo album in him and a potentail best of.

Im not sure he has enough for a GH to be honest, possibly an album where say 5 tracks are from his back catalogue that did ok (clementine, child, 4 minute warning) and then 5/6 new songs maybe?

 

To be honest I reckon if he does anything he'll just release it through his website or through his label for free. I can't see him going on the promo trail especially with the baby coming and with the new TT material apparently being discussed at the moment.

I would be very interested to hear what Mark comes up with though if it does happen

Edited June 27, 201213 yr by jay727

He does have enough material for a greatest when all the singles that didnt chart are included but i think a studio album would be better at the moment, but i agree id say he will just do it through his web site and some free stuff.

The main problem with Mark is outside his very loyal fanbase most people will only know 3 of his singles at best, those 3 i believe are Clementine, four minute warning and Child, therefore a greatest hits would have an extremely limited appeal. However, i would say it is fair to say the same would apply for a new solo album as again would have a very limited amount of interest, when everything is considered maybe via his website is the best option and it incurs lower costs.

ya as mark had very limited success in his solo career it wont change now, he did have one or two reasonably big hits but outside child, clementine and four minute warning no one really knows the rest of his music.

At the time of the split I truly expected Mark to achieve greater solo success and did believe he would easily have some number 1 singles and a number 1 selling album. The complete lack of success for the Green Man album was a total shock. I do admire him for continuing with his solo material as he does appear to enjoy his solo music and i would suspect the sound of his solo music is what he truly likes.

Yeah especially as Green Man followed two number 3 singles, i mean that should have guaranteed at least a top 5 album. After the release of that album his career never got back to where it was (albeit a surge in popularity after Big Brother and IMO his best single 4 minute warning)

I was floored with shock at the time green man charted, i remember looking up the charts on ceefax (many moons ago) and seeing his position, and i was like what the hell has gone wrong, back in those days i had no access to midweeks so i was sitting there thinking will mark be number 1 so you can only imagine my surprise.

In my opinion, id say you were 1 of many thousands who was shocked by how quick Mark's solo career stalled. That said, he did manage to keep going although be it, it was down to him investing in his own music.

With Gary we know where it all went wrong, i wonder what went wrong for Mark?

Valuable point, i really cant answer that either, as to my knowledge he carried out alot of promotion at the time, maybe his style was just to different to Take That he he simply lost his audience.

It is obviuosly: his style was too different and his fans were at that moment too conservative in their expectation. His style is all together very different from TT style, more daring, more going for not very popular choices, not as MOR as TT are. Still now there are only small part of TT fans who really apreciate his style , so i don't see that changing in the future. Actually, i don't think he will release anything with chart options, to keep the TT fans happy that no failure will tarnish their pretty image about TT achievings :rolleyes: .

 

For me, i am more bothered reading that he works with Cole producer, as i was hoping for something more edgy and not so MOR and i was hoping he will take the same producer from HTMF era. I do not thing that electro-pop should be his way, but i let myself surprised...

 

He has many unreleased songs, apparently a full album was ready before Four minutes warning, but was not published, for not being friendly enough. Some songs, you might find her and there scatered as pre-production songs on the internet.

 

I still hope he will go sometimes in the future for film music or theater music (he done it before for a one man show performance, for example). He has great taste in orchestration, he can cover different music styles, so i see him going better in the instrumental direction. But as he hasn't asked me about my precious oppinion, low chance that he will thing about it by himself :lol: .

For me i agree in most about the sound been so different from Take That, but i have to say Child was easily something take that could have released with mark on lead vocal, i still think child was a fantastic debut and its a song i still enjoy, while it did well it deserved better sales. Clementine was a good follow up and charted well so on the back of those 2 singles i had fully expected to have done so much better than it did.

Indeed Child was and is a great song, very sweet and melodic.