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There were 2 videos with the full concert, but I can't find them for some reason. I didn't have the patience to look at the whole video, but the bits I saw were more than enough for me :) Robbie is lucky he's got some promo lined up, cause his single is not doing well on iTunes. I think it won't make top 10. PS: The videos have been deleted.

You can skip the first minutes, he's not doing much singing :)

Never said Robbie used auto tune during his Apple concert - on the contrary, I said he sounded awful...precisely because he keeps deluding himself that he can sing. yeah, I know that most of the papers believe the sun shines out of Robbie's...throat. How can they not? A man with the hand in his underwear on stage...gold for papers! But since I made a habit of writing on this forum that most journalists are highly biased imbeciles, I won't start backtracking now :P I like to be consistent :) And yeah, we know: Robbie is loaded with money from all those albums he's selling around the world. If this album is gonna be no 1, he's gonna beat Elvis's record...I guess that makes him better than Elvis, in your eyes?!

There's an electronic sound on Robbie's voice on this song - Mark's voice usually has it too. Whatever it is, it hides his shouting, which is good. On that Apple concert, he was beyond awful. His voice is really ruined, he's very lucky for those backing singers of his. I want a pure sound too. That's why I love so much SISYL, cause you can hear Gary's voice so clearly; a singer's instrument is his voice and if he hides it behind a ton de effects, what's the point?! To be honest, I can't really tell which one I hate most - Hey Boy or PLAR. But considering my point of reference, I don't think it makes much of a difference which one wins :) I'd probably have to compare the instrumental parts on both of them, to be able to make my mind up, cause the lyrics are equally rubbish.

I think Robbie's lyrical fountain may have dried, cause it's samey-samey lately and, tbh, the lyrics in these 2 new songs are as clever as those in Hey Boy- no, excuse me, worse :) The arrangement in Party Like A Russian is a bit catchy, but the song goes nowhere, imo. Glad he finally discovered auto tune, though :P I have no doubt he'll sell well, regardless of what he puts out there - let's face it, his fans aren't gonna fix their hearing all of a sudden :P Bitchy comment ended, I promise :)

Gary said there would be a tour before summer and then the GH album at the end of the year. I see no reason why they couldn't pull it off. I imagine they would do a GH tour in 2018.

Gary said there would be a tour before summer and then the GH album at the end of the year. I see no reason why they couldn't pull it off. I imagine they would do a GH tour in 2018.

That sort of tour would be a dream come true for me :wub: But nobody is asking them to go to those lengths - I understand that there are people who go to their concerts and want to hear the hits - so, they could do some/most of them and still include 5-6 new songs and change them up with every new tour. We could have had a live performance of a lot of tracks had they included at least 2 of them in each tour set.

I don't particularly like Nigel MS, but the guy did a much better job at promoting TT and their music in the 90s than their current management is doing at the moment. At least Nigel wasn't afraid to take some risks - making them sing BFG for the 1st time at the Brits - and it usually paid off.

I don't understand why they'd be so reticent of singing 2 unheard songs - they have nothing, absolutely nothing to lose. It's not like they're doing a 2 hours concert full of new songs. It's 10 minutes at most - the worst that can happen is that people don't really connect with the song and that's it. But considering how beautiful CMH and WYBTFM are, I see no reason for people not to enjoy them. As much as I love their hits, I simply cannot hear them anymore; they've been done to death.

No, sorry, but I simply cannot bear to hear one more time Patience, GD, NF, BFG, RTW, Shine or any of the other songs they've performed a zillion times. They should just perform the new single and something they've never sung before. I'd be over the moon with WYBTFM. Why on earth wouldn't they go for it, they have absolutely nothing to lose by performing something else than their usual stuff once in a while?

Unfortunately, that's how things are at the moment. A top 10 hit would be a success for TT. Unless you're Taylor, Adele, Justin Bieber and a few select others, you have no chance of reaching no 1 in the 1st week of release. Ariana Grande is considered to be a hit with the young audience and her single, Side to Side, has been stalling at 6 on iTunes for some time now. James Arthur was no 1 or 2 on iTunes on the 1st week of his single release, but barely made top 10 in the official chart. If TT manage to get a top 10 hit and a no 1 album, with good sales, I'll be more than happy. Simon might not like Gary right now - well, he never did -, but, from what I know, Gary is really liked by the itv bosses (I bet they'd swap Simon in a second for Gary :P) and that may still count for something. I hope TT gets a slot on XF. I'm not sure a Strictly performance would help sales considerably. Speaking of XF, it's really interesting to see how just one person can make such a big difference. Almost everyone thought that the panel with Gary, Nicole, Sharon and Louis worked and the judges had chemistry; now that Gary has been replaced by Simon, people have started saying that they don't like Nicole anymore (I always said that her likeability was linked to her banter with Gary), that Sharon is almost mute and doesn't interact with anyone (she was very lively and vocal when she was sitting next to Gary); not even the banter between Louis and Simon is that funny anymore. People may have disliked Gary on the show, but he's proving to have been an unifying factor and he set the tone of the show.

Taylor Swift is releasing at the beginning of November, according to rumours. If that's true, Robbie's gonna have major competition. I agree - TT can't afford to lose the 4th quarter sales and the XF promotion. They can keep on promoting on Let It Shine next year, if they want to, to increase sales, but they need to release this year. I don't think the studio time Gary posted about is necessarily linked to the new TT album. Gary is usually in a studio, doing one thing or another. As for Robbie, for his sake, I hope he shows more modesty in the future singles than in this one.

Party Like A Russian- Sept, 30 and Love My Life - Oct, 21. In the past, the single had to be sent to radio 4-6 weeks before release, but, with the new rules, I'm not sure anymore. TT needs a certain period before release for the single to build up some streaming.

Dylan, here you can hear the whole song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DRFploU4so Can't stand Robbie's new single - I got an irrepressible need to vomit after the first lines, when he proclaimed himself "the saviour of the world". The chorus is somewhat catchy, but the rest is cr**. Sorry for the bluntness, but his arrogance is repulsive. Robbie is #40 on iTunes, but that's not surprising. We'll have to see if the single remains stable till its release. If all the pre-orders are placed now and then the single starts slipping, it's doubtful it will achieve a good position on release day.

:lol: :lol: :lol: You got that right, Dylan. All I saw when I read that was his image last night with his pants down and the hand in his underwear :lol: But you're right. Rob has a very good management and PR and he knows how to use promotion to his advantage. From what I heard, he has a new collab with Kylie too, which means he has another big name to work in his favor. I think his album sales will be good, probably better than TT's. His 1st single, Party Like A Russian, will be released on Sept, 30 and his 2nd single, Love My Life, on Oct, 21. Maybe TT should consider releasing more singles too before the album.

If he weren't busy with his own antics :lol: So far, we have had stories about him having his teeth picked by the make-up artist during breaks :lol: , winking and blowing kisses at fans...he seems to be enjoying himself :) Plus, there was a hilarious exchange between Gary and Dannii: Dannii confused: "Why are they (the audience) all cheering?", the bast*rd Barlow: "Because I smiled" :lol: :lol: :lol: You're right. That's what Gary has said, that the story of the musical isn't about TT. But it's all still very confusing about the music part. "The talent show will search for five singers to form a group to star in a nationwide stage show, called ‘The Band’, featuring Take That’s music." “One of the unique things about Glee was the covers of popular songs,” she said. “They became the soundtrack to people’s lives, as well as the characters on the show. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/let-...4b028e52a122660

It's still better than never :P All Gary has said was that there wouldn't be any Vegas shows next year.

What I gathered from all the articles was that, while the musical isn't about TT in particular, it wouldl feature TT's music and the songs would be covers. In her interviews, Dannii Minogue has spoken about how some of the best musicals were based on covers of great songs, which lead me to believe that this musical will be in the same vein. That's why I assumed that people would be singing various covers of TT songs on the show. Otherwise, if the score is original and TT is in no way related to the musical, then I don't really see the need for Mark and Howard's involvement in the show.

It will start airing at the beginning of January. Apparently, nobody has sung any TT song so far :(

Apparently, Gary has said that there won't be any Vegas shows next year. Maybe 2018?

Yeah, they'll get it out in November and they'll tour it before summer and, at the end of next year, there'll be the Greatest hits album. They've been working in NY for the new album.

I was really really bored today and, after having seen some heartbreaking life stories, I realized that All That Matters is about something much deeper than love (if there is such thing). https://vimeo.com/183127778

I couldn't help myself - I love the song too much :P https://vimeo.com/183106282

There's supposed a The Girls cast album this year or next year - really looking forward to it. Tim and Gary are a good pair, just like Gary and Eliot. I can't imagine what it's like to work for years for a project that you don't know whether will reach an audience or not. My fear is that the "critics" don't start tearing the show apart like they did with FN. With FN too, the previews got great reviews, but, once it reached Broadway, for some reason, many of them did a u-turn. It was nice to see, yesterday, that Mr B still has some selling power - after those few seconds clips of Let Me Go on Lorraine, the song reappeared on iTunes and it climbed in top 700. If a few seconds on a not so watched show can do that, imagine what the upcoming exposure can do for Gary and TT.