Posted April 22, 200619 yr Given that Take That start their Tour this weekend, I thought we may as well have a separate Thread for them. I haven't heard anyone on Buzzjack mentioning they are going to a gig but if someone is, feel free to post on here and let us know how it was. :) And you never know, Mr W may just turn up ..... :P Maybe. Or Not. :lol: ** I quite liked TT but I was too old at the time to admit it. :blush:
April 22, 200619 yr Author http://i3.tinypic.com/w2c7k6.jpg Here are the lads doing a show at the Radio 1 studios. You can listen to their performance at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/fe...special/1.shtml You will need Real Player for this. Take That Official Website can be found at http://www.takethat.com/ Edited April 22, 200619 yr by jupiter9
April 22, 200619 yr Lots of news articles today about TT and of course they mentioned the 'R' word. SATURDAY 22/04/2006 08:35:51 Full time return for Take That The 1990s boy band Take That are considering a full time comeback to the pop world. Gary Barlow, 35, speaking ahead of a 29 date summer tour, said during the preparations for the gigs the band had put their mind to writing some songs. "We`ve enjoyed getting ready for the tour so much we`ve started writing together. If it`s any good, we might be back for good." The band are getting ready for the first night in their comeback tour, at Newcastle Metro Radio Arena on Sunday. Their tour then takes in Birmingham, Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester, Wembley Arena, Dublin and Belfast. There are rumours that Robbie Williams will join the pop supergroup for a one-off performance at a Manchester date this summer. An estimated 300,000 people have snapped up tickets to their 29 shows in their summer tour. Each band member has been offered a reported £1.5 million to go back on the road. Tickets remain for Milton Keynes Bowl in June and a final few tickets have just been released for Cardiff Millennium Stadium.
April 22, 200619 yr 22 April 2006 TAKE THAT BACK.. WITH HOLOGRAM ROBBIE Kiki King, Eva Simpson & Caroline Hedley ROBBIE Williams WILL be joining Take That for every night of their reunion tour - as a 10ft hologram. His image will be beamed on to a giant screen to complete the original line-up, as part of the band's historic comeback in Newcastle tomorrow. Our insider tells us: "It's going to be amazing. And that's the whole team back together. What better way to give the fans what they want? "Robbie was always the cheeky one and it wouldn't be the same without him. We just hope he sees the funny side..." The band - Gary Barlow, 35, Mark Owen, 35, Jason Orange, 34, and Howard Donald, 37 - came up with the ingenious idea after failing to persuade Robbie to join them onstage. In fact, Robbie, who is now based in LA, said that "hell would freeze over" before he'd take part in a Take That reunion. But now he'll be there whether he likes it or not. Somewhat magnanimously, Gary - who Robbie branded a "w*****" in their recent TV documentary - said: "We'll be keeping a microphone for him backstage in case he does turn up... If Robbie's bored at home one night and we're playing somewhere and he wants to come along, we'll always have a space for him on stage." As well as singing their greatest hits, they will perform a medley of Beatles classics during a two-hour set. If it's anything like the one they did on their Pops Tour in 1994, it will be amazing. They opened the medley with I Wanna Hold Your Hand, and it included A Hard Day's Night, She Loves You, I Feel Fine, Get Back, and ended with Hey Jude. For the grand finale of Relight My Fire, they will be joined onstage by Lulu for the outdoor shows and Beverley Knight for the arena dates. And at the very end a waterfall will descend on the lads, who are promising to spray anyone in the front rows to help them cool down. We hear: "It will be like Singin' In The Rain - they'll do a little routine with umbrellas, too. It's a raunchy show that will have the girls screaming. Whether they get their kits off will depend on how well they do in the gym getting their six-packs back." Sounds like it's going to be a show we will Never Forget.
April 23, 200619 yr Looking forward to hearing all about what I'm sure will be a fantastic show tonight! :cheer: They sounded great on Radio 1 this week!
April 23, 200619 yr There is a feature in today's NOTW about the lads on the day of their opening show - Edited Titled Take That (all the way to the bank) its goes on to say that since splitting up how they have faired financially since. Gary Barlow is the richest of the 4 lads and is worth 30million Howard Donald, who took it the hardest when the group split is comfortable with about 4million Jason Orange who has been savy with property has 7 million. Mark Owen, the most popular member of Take That has faired the worse, having 5 million to his name when TT broke up, he is down to his last 1million after trying to launch a solo career. They all now stand to increase their income by huge amounts from today, they are likely to pocket £50,000 each per show. PS..Oh, and this one's made a few quid too! All that is a drop in the ocean compared to Robbie Williams. The Robster,32 signed a 79million record deal 3 yrs ago. He now has homes in LA London and Stoke and is worth 85million. He won't be on the UK tour...but then it's a gig he can definitely afford to miss. Thanks to me LOL and therobbiewilliamssite.com Edited April 23, 200619 yr by Susie
April 23, 200619 yr There is a feature in today's NOTW about the lads on the day of their opening show - Edited Titled Take That (all the way to the bank) its goes on to say that since splitting up how they have faired financially since. Gary Barlow is the richest of the 4 lads and is worth 30million Howard Donald, who took it the hardest when the group split is comfortable with about 4million Jason Orange who has been savy with property has 7 million. Mark Owen, the most popular member of Take That has faired the worse, having 5 million to his name when TT broke up, he is down to his last 1million after trying to launch a solo career. They all now stand to increase their income by huge amounts from today, they are likely to pocket £50,000 each per show. PS..Oh, and this one's made a few quid too! All that is a drop in the ocean compared to Robbie Williams. The Robster,32 signed a 79million record deal 3 yrs ago. He now has homes in LA London and Stoke and is worth 85million. He won't be on the UK tour...but then it's a gig he can definitely afford to miss. Thanks to me LOL and therobbiewilliamssite.com
April 23, 200619 yr Sorry for the double post, when I submitted it, it came up with an error, so I re-did it to find it had gone the first time. Scotty is there a way of deleting posts here? I couldn't find a way to get rid of one of them. :unsure:
April 23, 200619 yr Author Wonder if their first concert is finished yet? :unsure: Hope there have been no injuries. Over exertion at their age can be very dangerous. :lol: Can't wait to read the reviews. :dance:
April 23, 200619 yr Author From www.bbc.co.uk Take That back for reunion tour http://i3.tinypic.com/wa3k1v.jpg Boy band Take That's reunion tour kicked off in Newcastle on Sunday - 10 years after the band split. Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Howard Donald have embarked on a 29-date comeback tour, but bandmate Robbie Williams will not take part. Women reliving their teenage years were among the audience at Newcastle's gig. One fan, Julia Higgins, 35, of Chester-le-Street, County Durham, said: "Jason is my favourite, and I think he has still got the moves." She added: "I wouldn't have missed this for the world. I saw them in Glasgow in 1994 and I just had to see them again." I cried when they split up, but I hope they don't re-form An estimated 300,000 people have bought tickets for the tour which includes Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin, Belfast and Cardiff Millennium Stadium. London gigs were moved to Milton Keynes following building delays at Wembley. Newcastle gig-goer and pub landlady Vicki Armstrong, 34, said: "It is fantastic that they are back together, and we are going to see Robbie Williams live in September. "We just love Take That, full stop. £35 is definitely worth it." Her friend, Hayley Freeman, of Holywell, Tyne and Wear, was more cautious. She said: "I have loved them every since they first came out, and I cried when they split up, but I hope they don't re-form. They have got to stop now and do these tours every 10 years." The final concerts take place at the Milton Keynes Bowl on 24 and 25 June. Revived interest At the height of their fame, Take That became the first band since the Beatles to score four consecutive number ones. Their 15 UK hits included Relight My Fire, Could It Be Magic and Back For Good, and the band notched up 10 million album sales. Following Williams' early departure in 1995, the band split in February 1996. Robbie Williams went from Take That to become a huge solo star http://i3.tinypic.com/wa3nnd.jpg The last time Barlow, Donald, Orange and Owen performed together on a British stage was at London's Earls Court in August 1995. Public interest in the group was revived by an ITV documentary last year, and the release of a greatest hits album which made number two in the UK album chart last November. Each member, whose ages range from 34 to 37, has been offered a reported £1.5 million to go back on the road. The foursome are planning to record an album following the tour. "We've enjoyed getting ready for the tour so much we've started writing together. If it's any good, we might be back for good," Barlow reportedly said earlier this year. Edited April 23, 200619 yr by jupiter9
April 23, 200619 yr Author From Reuters Website Take That - back for good? Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:07 PM BST NEWCASTLE (Reuters) - Boyband Take That, minus its most famous member Robbie Williams, kicked off a comeback tour on Sunday, playing before a packed, mainly female audience at Newcastle Arena. A decade after the cuddly quintet split, four of the original five members have reformed, proving their lasting popularity when the tickets sold out in minutes when they went on sale in December. They have sold an estimated 300,000 tickets for nationwide tour, and it has been reported that each was offered 1.5 million pounds to go back on the road. Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen took to the stage late on Sunday to play some of their greatest hits. At their height in the early 1990s, Take That were hailed as the biggest thing since The Beatles, with a string of number one singles in Britain including "Pray", "Relight My Fire" and "Back For Good". They also sold an estimated 10 million albums. Their days were numbered when Williams, now a hugely successful solo artist, walked out on the band, and the following year, in 1996, Take That finally quit. It said on Sky News Active that women outnumbered men in the audience by 10 to 1..... :P
April 23, 200619 yr Author Thanks for those RockDJ. :) They look very smart. A lot smarter than Robbie in his boilersuit.... :lol:
April 23, 200619 yr They do indeed look very smart in those pics! I'm assuming they were wearing less clothing at some stage though! I'd rather not talk about the boiler suit, I find it too distressing LOL! :cry:
April 24, 200619 yr don't worry about the driving suit - I am dressing him for Dublin LOL. :) Mark is taking a leaf out of Robbie's wardrobe. Like the piping around the jacket. Good one Mark. Looks like they had a great night.
April 24, 200619 yr A couple of reviews..the show sounds brill to me.. Take That Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle Alexis Petridis Monday April 24, 2006 The Guardian As befitted an enterprise that sold 250,000 tickets in six days, Take That's reunion tour arrived shrouded in extravagant and apocryphal rumour. One tabloid claimed the show would climax with the remaining members of the 90s' biggest boyband performing a Beatles medley under a vast waterfall. Another suggested the tour had been organised as a kind of charitable enterprise for Mark Owen, down to his last million after putting his fortune into his solo career: as investments go, post-boyband solo careers are pop's equivalent of those emails you get promising unmissable stock opportunities in Nigeria. The most diverting story claimed the performance would feature a 10ft hologram of Robbie Williams. This seems remarkably sporting, given that the reunion tour's announcement gave Williams ample opportunity to indulge in his favoured pastime of upstaging his former bandmates, first by refusing to join in, then by trumping them at the box office: their's would be the biggest tour of 2006, were it not for the dastardly Williams' summer jaunt. The waterfall duly appeared - it looked impressive as the band members donned umbrellas and splashed around in it during Back For Good - as did the Robbie hologram. He sauntered virtually to the front of the stage and sang the introduction to their cover of Barry Manilow's Could It Be Magic? This tentative rapprochement may be surprising - the enmity seemed pretty fresh in the recent "official documentary" For The Record. But then perhaps Take That could afford to reference their most successful ex-member: before a note has been sung, the tour proved a success against the odds. Few artists in rock or pop depreciate quite like boybands. They are the Hyundai Accents of pop: a few years after their manufacture, their resale value is usually negligible. Not that long ago, you could have caught Take That's main competitors for early 90s teeny hearts, East 17, also touring with all but one of their original members, but you would have had to venture into the kind of chain pub that does a curry and a pint for £3 on Wednesdays to see them. The difference may be that, with the exception of Stay Another Day, you'd be hard-pushed to remember any of East 17's songs: by contrast, everyone of a certain age has Take That's Pray, Babe, Back For Good, It Only Takes A Minute and Everything Changes burned into their brain. They all got belted out in a set lacking the kind of longueurs that are standard with most live pop shows. The response was shrill hysteria, undimmed even by a new song called Today I've Lost You. It was hard not to be impressed: usually at reunion gigs, playing new material subdues the crowd as effectively as teargas. But despite a sequence that mocked the band's manufactured origins - "the boys must always be ambiguous about their sexuality" boomed a voice - Take That remained an anachronistic experience. You half expected Dan Cruickshank to appear onstage and explain to younger viewers what was going on here. The audience would probably scream at him as well. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Take That, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle It's time to stop mourning, girls: the helpline has finally closed By Martin James Published: 24 April 2006 A decade since they called it a day, Take That return with the original line-up complete with Robbie Williams. As you would expect, the appearance of the boy wonder causes a mass eruption of screams from the largely female audience. What is unusual though is the fact that, in a brilliantly Post-Modern moment, his presence is limited to a 20ft tall holographic image during the finale number, "Could It Be Magic". It comes as a timely reminder, though, just how big a deal it was when he quit the band, and very soon after they called it quits. It's a moment that sums up the artifice of a show where hits are knocked off like a factory assembly line and the whole concept of the boy band is parodied with knowing irony. When Take That announced they were to split just over 10 years ago, the reaction from the fans was so extreme that telephone hotlines were set up to help them come to terms with their loss. Given the over-zealous outpouring of emotion from tonight's crowd, however, it is debatable whether the counselling had any real effect. It's the concept of Take That upon which the foundations of today's disposable pop culture was laid. Just read the checklist: They were manufactured by a Svengali-like manager. Their ambiguous sexuality opened the way for them to be marketed at both teenage girls and gay men. Their personalities fit a formula; the cheeky one, the fat one that wrote the songs, the weird one, the girlie one and lastly the one that nobody noticed. And then there was the rule they laid down that the first member to leave would enjoy the greatest solo rewards. It's a formula the band know only too well. Even the introduction to this show sees them emerging from the "Band Manufacturing Room''. Obviously this ironic wink tells us much about the fact that tonight is all about the grown-up Take That. So "It Only Takes a Minute" is turned into a mature tango, while "Everything Changes" is converted into a touching guitar ballad. To the fans of Take That's anodyne pop the band were anything but disposable. Tonight, a decade since they last mattered, they are still able to sell out their arena stadium shows in only 30 minutes. Take That know that their strength lies in remaining exactly the same. So they play a set of hits, deliver a series of homoerotic dance routines and strike a series of poses for the mobile phone camera generation. Indeed during a particularly cheesy rendition of "Babe" they even get the audience to hold their phones aloft in a modern equivalent of the lighter. And as they deliver their impressive catalogue of hits the fans sing-along as if it was 1996 again. The atmosphere is rather like a super-sized hen party where the strippers may have attended (there's more than a touch of The Full Monty about the older Take That) but the groom has no intention of actually showing up in the flesh. It's time to stop mourning, girls, the helpline has finally closed, and if the awful Beatles medley doesn't make this that clear, surely nothing will. It's a section of the show which suggests Take That will be enjoying their next comeback tour in 10 years' time on board a cruise ship. ************************************ The Boys are Back In TOON IT was the gig fans had been praying ten years for – TAKE THAT Back For Good. The lads promised an amazing spectacle and I was in Newcastle to see them deliver exactly that. During the emotional return the boy band even apologised to screaming fans for splitting up. HOWARD DONALD told the adoring crowd: “This is absolutely beautiful. We’re speechless. We told you in ’95 we’d be together for as long as you wanted but we split up  we’re sorry. “We upset you and we upset ourselves as well. We are so proud of you and that’s from the heart. It’s a real celebration putting this evening on for you.†Spectacular ... lads act as robots in How To Build A Boy Band sketch And after months of speculation ROBBIE WILLIAMS joined former band-mates Howard, MARK OWEN, GARY BARLOW and JASON ORANGE on stage for their first gig  as a ghost-like hologram. He helped out his old pals by re-recording lyrics to Could It Be Magic before heading to South Africa to kick off his solo world tour. The boys had been so nervous beforehand that they banned people from rehearsals. But on stage it was like I had slipped right back in time to 1995. The non-stop, 90-minute gig was a War Of The Worlds-type spectacular of fire, wind and rain. Back For Good ... Take That perform in rain I had worried if the boys’ ageing legs could carry them through tough dance routines. Yet despite being almost 40 they looked like they were in their prime. I was tired just watching them, so goodness knows how they’ll feel after the last show in Milton Keynes on May 29. The lads later brought the gig up to date using a sample of GORILLAZ track Dirty Harry, which they mixed with Sure. Howard joked with the audience: “How are you? We haven’t seen you for ten years. I bet some of you have boyfriends and kids now?†BEVERLEY KNIGHT, wearing a red corset, replaced LULU for No1 Relight My Fire. What was heard ... Take That set list As flames burst across the stage, Mark emerged wearing a pair of red devil horns and a dancer, suspended from the ceiling, was doing acrobatics as flamethrowers and bikini-clad dancers pranced around the stage with the guys. Then came rain for the anthemic Back For Good, with the boys wearing the same chunky sweaters they did for the video. The four even poked fun at their manufactured past, acting as robots in tight white suits in a How To Build A Boy Band sketch. Everyone was on their feet for the grand finale Never Forget  waving hands in the air and singing back to the teenage crushers. Like a quality bottle of red wine, Take That have got even better with age. Never Forget? How could we, boys. http://www.thesun.co.uk Thanks to therobbiewilliamssite.
April 24, 200619 yr Well they always did know how to put on a spectacular show! It sounds and looks amazing. I particularly like the picture in the Mirror today where they are all lovely & wet performing under the waterfall :P I can imagine hearing Robbie's voice and seeing the hologram was quite a special moment as well!
April 24, 200619 yr I think is would be quite emotional seeing Robbie come forward as an illusion and then fade away from the scene. Well it would be for me. :) I'd want him to stay. LOL.
April 25, 200619 yr Well, I read they booed Robbie when his name was mentioned, then I read they cheered so not sure what to believe. All I know is that I won't want to be in the audience if they boo him.
April 25, 200619 yr 'Robbie WILL join us' GARY BARLOW has confirmed ROBBIE WILLIAMS will join TAKE THAT on tour – just as I told you. And I can also reveal it won’t be a one-off gig. I promised you ten days ago that Robbie would perform live with the boys at their Manchester homecoming. And, hot and sweaty off stage from their opening night in Newcastle on Sunday, Gary told me: “Robbie is doing more than one gig. “I don’t know which dates, but he has told MARK OWEN he is definitely coming back.†Robbie appeared as a hologram in Newcastle singing Could It Be Magic after he re-recorded his vocals. Gary added: “It was our idea to do the hologram and Robbie was well up for it. We worried people would be disappointed when Rob didn’t appear from behind the hologram, but it went down well.†The lads told me they enjoyed the first night so much they are planning a new album and a European tour next year. And JASON ORANGE revealed they want Robbie to collaborate on the CD. HOWARD DONALD, Gary, Mark and Jason have already written new tracks and want to release the material in time for Christmas. Jason said: “It would be great if Rob wrote with us. We let Gary write all the songs before and he walked away with all the money. “This time it’s going to be an equal split  as it should have been the last time around.†Robbie returns ... Williams will appear at gigs http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/548/cibm1tu.gif I heard the boys’ new single Today I’ve Lost You  written before the split in 1995  at the Newcastle gig and it was typical old school Take That. But Gary says the new album will have a fresh sound. He said: “After the tour we can put our full concentration into it. I want it to be released by Christmas. Another Christmas No1 would be perfect.†He added: “The opening night was fantastic. We did the right thing getting back together. If we are still enjoying it this much at the end of the tour we’ll be around for a few years yet.†Sounds like they really are Back For Good.
