Posted January 23, 200916 yr Q Magazine is out now with the full Take That interview. It is well worth buying ... the only way to see what was said I suppose rather than the lazy 'out of context' route to it taken by The Sun. Gary is still the funniest! Norma
January 23, 200916 yr Author Is it more than Robbie story? Is it only a Gary interview or a full TT one? It is a full interview but sadly they do ask a lot of 'Robbie' questions. If you can't get access to the mag ... let me know and I'll start copy-typing bits of it here (you're not bothered about not getting the piccies are you?) I've not got much else to do ... and I like typing! :lol: Norma
January 23, 200916 yr LOL...then go ahead!!! :dance: Really curious about it!!! I will be grateful for your work (but if is too much or boring for you i can wait tiill someone will make a scan ) (and you can skip the Robbie part, i need to read that part only if it is actually other meaning as TheSun article has) Edited January 23, 200916 yr by IrisAlbastru
January 23, 200916 yr Author Well here's the introduction as an appetizer! Intro Four weary-looking Adonises peer out from their first floor suite down on to the London Street below and agree that the scene on the pavement represents old-school mayhem. Outside the Courthouse Hotel, a horde of female fans are crying out four names: ‘Mark’, ‘Jason’, ‘Howard’, ‘Gary’. They’re brandishing autograph books and old-style camera flash bulbs. It’s almost a quant sight. “The younger generation of fans come up and stick a camera phone in your face’, says the shortest of these Adonises, Mark Owen. ‘It’s very impersonal. I prefer the old-school crazy fans meself.’ The Courthouse has been requisitioned as the talent pen for the performers for tonight’s Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium next door. Rihanna and Leona Lewis are here with a phalanx of crack hair-care technicians. In the next door room, Pussycat Dolls ready themselves for their performance. But the most vociferous screams are reserved for Take That, the one-time kings of ‘90’s boy band pop now perched regally back on the throne they vacated for almost a decade. Take That formed in Manchester in 1990, years before Britpop muddied the pop waters. They were assembled by Svengali manager Nigel Martin-Smith, who had enviously noted the dominance of American boy band New Kids On The Block and decided he wanted his own homegrown version. Their story followed the traditional boy band career arc, complete with dizzying highs, depressing lows, internal bickering and premature burn-out, not to mention the added torment of watching wayward former colleague Robbie Williams become Britain’s most successful ever solo artist, as their own individual careers headed south. But no one – not even Take That themselves – could have foreseen a remarkable second act in which they have become the biggest band in the country once again. Three years after re-uniting for a hugely successful comeback tour, their latest album, The Circus, sold 432,000 copies in its week of release, the third highest first-week sales ever. They are set to sell out four nights at Wembley Stadium this summer. Today, the hysteria has been amped up further still: in this morning’s Sun newspaper, Robbie Williams is quoted as saying he is ready to lay aside his solo career and a burgeoning interest in UFO’s, and rejoin the band that made him famous. The latter shows just how much these former pop innocents have matured. Following Take That’s split, the bitter rivalry between Barlow and Williams was a pop star duel to mirror the Oasis/Blur face-off. Williams called Barlow ‘really f*cking dated’ and ‘stupid, selfish and greedy’. Barlow responded by labeling Williams ‘an absolute f***ing c*nt’. There were other, subtler digs. Take That announced their original split on 13th February 1996 – William’s 22nd birthday. In 2007, the day before Take That wer due to pick up an award for Best Single at the Brits – and, coincidentally, his 33rd birthday – Williams announced that he was entering rehab. Apparently, all that bickering is water under the bridge now. ‘I think we both accepted that we behaved badly in different ways,’ says Gary Barlow, eyebrows slightly knitted in concentration. ‘But yeah, we’ve found we can communicate.’ With three security guards securing the hallway outside, Take That gather around a large fruit bowl and high-end titbits in a first-floor suite. They exude street-level scruffbag ordinariness, laughing at the red, oyster-shaped sofa and all except Barlow showing an interest in the Ferrero Rocher. They may be the wrong side of 35, but each still possesses double-take good looks. Howard Donald is wry and self-deprecating and looks like he’s carved from stone. Mark Owen resembles a cut Walt Disney character, and sound like one, too. Jason Orange is an ethereal-voiced matinee idol who seems to have downloaded the angst-centres of Thom Yorke’s brain, fretting about his band’s role in the ‘aspirational, capitalist, want-more society’. But it’s Gary Barlow who’s the real surprise. The artist formerly known as Fat Gaz is mellow, thoughtful, svelte and glowing – he makes a credible bid as the most handsome in a quartet of proven hotties. ‘I think we all feel we are lucky, lucky b*stards to experience this again’ , says Barlow as flashbulbs and yelps fill the darkness outside the window. ‘To come back from the very bottom to this, it’s a great f*cking story. Norma Edited January 23, 200916 yr by Norma_Snockers
January 23, 200916 yr Author The next bit! On paper, it looks like it shouldn’t have worked: Nigel Martin-Smith re-mortgages his parents’ house to turn a decorator (Jason Orange), a bank clerk (Mark Owen), a vehicle painter (Howard Donald) and a bloke who once played support to Ken Dodd (Gary Barlow) into a boy band. Mark Owen: I don’t know what Nigel saw in us apart from Gary. I remember there were six of us in this audition. Nigel let this one kid go and the res of us danced around like MC Hammer. Then we went to British-Home Stores for a bit of lunch. Howard Donald: My parents thought it was mad. I was a vehicle painter and they didn’t like me walking away from £130 a week. My mum’s rent money came down because we only got £50 at the start. I had a £200 Fiesta. I said to Nigel, ‘Do you think I’ll ever earn enough to afford a Toyota Land Cruiser?’ He said ‘Year, you will’, so I stuck at it. Gary Barlow: I was making good money as a club entertainer. I was disappointed when Nigel said he was putting me in a band. I wanted it just to be me. But he played me New Kids On The Block and it looked OK. I thought: ‘Me singing, everyone else doing dance routines? I’ll try that.’ Jason Orange: I didn’t like Robbie because I thought he was cocky. (how perceptive of Jason – my words not Q). Gary I wasn’t sure about. Howard and Mark were from where I was from and they felt like my kind of people. Norma Edited January 23, 200916 yr by Norma_Snockers
January 23, 200916 yr jason got the nack of robbie quite quickly,,howard eh he ended up afording alot more than he could ever dream of
January 23, 200916 yr Author It is so funny when they get on to the 'naughty bits' on the tour bus ... it was just a competition between Howard and Rob though. Gary admits he was too much of a prude to take part in something so vulgar! Norma
January 23, 200916 yr it was on the tour bus that gary mark jason and howard also started smoking they used to smoke out of bordom sometimes on the tour bus and cadged cigarettes of robbie ps i hope ulrika can beat terry in the celeb big bro final but i think terry will win
January 23, 200916 yr Author The 'tour bus' incident was the infamous 'w anking competition' although it was only Rob and Howard that took part. And Rob came first .... what a surprise!!!! :lol: Gary admitted he was too much of a prude to take part (although I'd call him sensible, Mark would have been too innocent and Jason would have looked down his nose at the whole sorry affair!) Norma
January 23, 200916 yr ya you can see that although i would have thought mark would have taken part as he would be been quite innocent then,,mind you id say the odd fan often made it into the tour bus also which may have saved them on lets say certain hand positions!!
January 23, 200916 yr Author ya you can see that although i would have thought mark would have taken part as he would be been quite innocent then,,mind you id say the odd fan often made it into the tour bus also which may have saved them on lets say certain hand positions!! Well I'm sure I dont' know what you mean! :lol: :lol: Norma
January 24, 200916 yr LOL...about the discussion here last night. Why i have the impression that Mark only looked innocent? He was older than Robbie, actually :naughty: . Funny that after those funny years, Gary went to be such a family man! Thank you Norma.
January 25, 200916 yr SO, i got to read the whole intervies now in the off forum. Very nice one :naughty: . Like i see the things: Mark and Jason really want to do something with Robbie in the direction of a new song. Gary and Howard are very precautious with the thema. I have to laugh hard at the part with the Arctic Monkeys - i cannot really imagine Mark going furious to talk with them, but that they made up with the Glastonbury invitation is hilarious and so typical Mark :rofl: .
January 25, 200916 yr Author SO, i got to read the whole intervies now in the off forum. Very nice one :naughty: . Like i see the things: Mark and Jason really want to do something with Robbie in the direction of a new song. Gary and Howard are very precautious with the thema. I have to laugh hard at the part with the Arctic Monkeys - i cannot really imagine Mark going furious to talk with them, but that they made up with the Glastonbury invitation is hilarious and so typical Mark :rofl: . It was actually Gary who said he'd like to do something creative with Robbie though, rather than a performance. Anyway ... thank goodness Robbie has cleared the air on this and announced there will NEVER be a reunion of any kind. Perhaps now Take That can stop apologising. http://news.stv.tv/entertainment/71988-rob...ams-reunion-no/ I'm quite happy about that and very thankful to Rob for confirming it. And of course he'll sell more albums than them ... he's not only got his own massive fan-base but he also has the luxury of knowing that some Take That fans, massive ego or not, still love him. Rock on Rob ... he does realise though, the pressure is on ... his album has to be nothing less thatn 110%. I'm sure he'll do it though, the loveable little cheeky chappy that he is! :lol: Norma
