viernes, 27 de marzo de 2009

Oh Oh Yeah

Robbie IS ready to rejoin Take That

British boyband TAKE THAT is set for a full reunion - ROBBIE WILLIAMS has finally confirmed he is ready to rejoin the band.

The five singers have not performed together since Angels hitmaker Williams quit to pursue a solo career in 1995.
The four other members - Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Mark Owen, and Howard Donald - disbanded the group in 1996, but reunited for a hugely successful tour ten years later.

A full reunion has always looked unlikely, as Williams has frequently been engaged in a war of words with the rest of the band since his departure.

But Williams has apparently patched up his differences with his former bandmates - and announced he is ready to rejoin the group.

He tells U.K. newspaper the Daily Mirror, "I'm in regular contact with them and it's looking more likely by the week. The lads all seem up for it. I think it would be fun.

"Let's see what happens, but my head's in the right place, so the timing could be right if Gary calls. I think it would be fun. It would be good."

source

Nuestro Jason de cada día

jueves, 26 de marzo de 2009

¿Take That en Italia?

Acabo de ver en la página lastfm que Take That actuará el 29 de Abril en Milan. Yo sinceramente dudo que sea verdad pero, si finalmente actuan por esas fechas en Italia, no me estrañaría nada que tambien actuaran en el Primavera Pop. ¡No perdamos la esperanza!

miércoles, 25 de marzo de 2009

Nuestro Howard de cada día

Howard y Jason @ Pacha, Munich


Entrevista a Gary

 The catharsis of Gary Barlow

Take That break even Michael Jackson´s ticket sales records in England. The Brit tells us in an interview why he is a summiteer/reaching fo the stars in other areas as well.

Focus: Mr Barlow, Take That´s new single is called "The Garden". How does your own garden look like?

GB: I´m ashamed to admit that I´m a typical city slicker. And my wife is even worse. She only has to look at a plant and it dies. If we didn´t have a cleaner there wouldn´t be any real plants in our house. To be honest: I think that gardening is a waste of time. I´d rather spend time in my studio or in the kitchen.

focus: Are you more of a beach type then? Where do you like to relax the most?

GB: Oh no, I´d be very restless if I was left on a beach. I spend my holidays going skiing. We are leaving again next week. My children like it, too.  I persuaded then to go skiing when they were very little, these are really fun holidays. And the best thing is that nobody recognizes you in a skiing outfit, it´s anonymous.

Focus: It´s quite a way to go from a ski slope to the Kilimanjaro! Two weeks ago you managed to reach the peak. Where did the idea come from to climb the highest mountain in Africa?

GB: I met Richard Curtis last year for lunch. He is the founder of the biggest, British charity organisation "Comic Relief".  It´s unique as every pound they get will be spend on charities in Africa and Great Britain without any deductions. He was very worried that it could prove to be difficult to convince people to donate money because of the credit crunch. And I thought: It´s not enough to ask. You have to do something that people will give you  money. I then had this crazy idea to climb to the top of the Kilimanjaro. A friend of mine has done that and he wasn´t as fit as I was. I managed to convince 8 other celebs of various backgrounds to join me. Normal people, no athletes, Radio DJs, TV hosts....

Focus: ...former boyband stars - and I´m not talking about you, Mr. Barlow.

GB: (laughs) Yes, Ronan Keating from Boyzone was one of the group! I have known him for years. We are good friends.

Focus: For how long have you prepared that climb?

GB: We have spent more than 6 months doing cardio training, which means a lot of walking and running. We got our boots in November. It is very important to walk/run in them a lot before climing the mountain. The boots must fit perfectly, because you spend seven days a week in them, 9 to 10 hours a day.

Focus: What hurt the most while walking for such a long time?

GB: Unfortunately I had pinched a nerv during training. I had to go to a physiotherapist and it was only getting better very slowly. Apart from that I didn´t really feel any pain. I thought it was more of a mental challenge. To wald for such a long time without having anything interesting to see, that was tough. As soon as you leave the rain forest behind you, there are only stones. It is very meagre and foggy. And the higher you get the less oxygen is in the air and the slower you walk. The slower you walk the longer it takes to reach the daily destination. And you fear the evenings, because you spend them in a tent at minus 15 degrees Celsius. Therefore you wear every single piece of clothing you can find in your backpack while being in your sleeping bag. It was just horrible.

Focus: Especially for someone who is not too keen on camping anyway....

GB: I had never been camping before. But one thing is for sure: I don´t ever want to see  a tent again in my life!

Focus: What was so horrible about it?

GB: It smelled horrible, it was dusty, I hated it. I did not wash myself for a week up there. Our toilette was a hole in the ground. It just was tough.

Focus: And do you find your inner self while walking constantly?

GB: (thinks about it? I have found out a couple of things about myself up there. I have always defined myself by my job in the music industry. I have always thought that that was me. And it just isn´t so. I am a very confident person when it comes to my job and I think that I am good at what I am doing. I have lots of ideas and have a good feeling. I am a very positive person. But: Take it all away. Take away the career. And then put yourself on that mountain, walking and sleeing in those horrible circumstances. I was just unhappy – unhappy fort he whole time. I couldn´t find anything positive about the trip. And I was really scared. I was scared every day about what weh ad to endure, how high we would climb. And I didn´t have any courage. That really shocked me!

Focus: That means Mr. Barlow is a wimp....

GB: Yes, I am. During the last  night in which we were walking I was scared to death fort he whole time. There were five girls in our group. All the girls were tougher than me.

Focus: Demons coming alive?

GB: I don´t really know. But I think that we are not challenged that much in life. Definitely not me. I didn´t even have a real job before Take That. I had never encountered a real challenge in my life. Something which challenged me to the core. And that was what it did to me. I had to use every little bit of energy and will-power to get to the top.

Focus: And now that you have succeeded, are you any braver?

GB: I don´t know. I only know that it was like giving birth to a child every day. And when we were at the peak every single one of us felt brilliant. We made it!

Focus: There is a video of you on YouTube: arm in arm with Ronan Keating at the top of the mountain. Ronan wished you had never convinced him to come along. And you didn´t look that happy either....

GB: The magical moment was right before that: I was standing at the very top, took a deep breath and said in the direction of the sky „ I thank the Lord that everyone of us made it. And that we collect lots of money.“ That´s all I wanted to achieve. To collect as much money as possible to charitable causes.

Focus: Why did you have the need to conquer such a challenge at all?

GB: I wanted to do something that did not have anything to do with music, that is far away from the band and that would do some good deed for some people. It might be different here, but I am a big star in England. People listen to me when I say something. I think that the four of us are examples. I thought that it would be great to get a very positive message across. I am very, very proud of myself that I achieved this. Because it is far away from my comfort zone.

Focus: To be honest, I didn´t think that you are such a sportive pserson...

GB: Well, I´m definitely not!

Focus:  Why didn´t you take your TT boys with you?

GB: I had asked all of them. They thought that it wasn´t something fort hem.

Focus: Well, then your band colleagues are the wimps!

GB: (laughs) Exactly!

Focus: And what is next? Mount Everest? The Camino de Santiago?

GB No, never again. THat was enough of a challenge for a lifetime.

Focus: But you are going on a big „Circus-Tour“ in England in June, for which Take That has already sold 1,1 million tickets. That is even more than Michael Jackson has sold for his comeback concerts in London. How much does this success has to do with the history of the band? One associates friendship, arguements, forgiveness and taking of a second chance with Take That....

GB: Oh yes, that plays a big part. THe fans experience our success and our failures. It is the history of the band that makes these experiences important to me. Without them I wouldn´t bet hat passionate about it. Today the band means so much more to me than back then. We are very close to each other and take care of each other. It has never been revealed to the outside world how close we are now. We often talk about having a camera team following us for a year. That would be fun. But at the same time I´m saying this I know that it will be much more fun for us when there are no cameras around.

Focus: How do you try to control your ego when you play with the thought of trying a solo career again? Or are you healed from that idea?

GB: I can promise you here and now that I will never again release a solo album! The band is brilliant and I love to be creative with the band. I never have the feeling that I could do better without them. I love to be on stage with them. That ist he key to everything. It is brilliant to have the support of the other three guys. And to be hones: If I were to do something outside of the band, I´d be  more interested in finding and helping new artists. I´d rather do that than release my own album.

Focus: It is astonishing how you took your second chance to straighten out your image. Due to former statements by Robbie Williams one saw Gary Barlow as the dictator with the big ego. Today you are more popular than ever. Without the second chance with Take That your life had probably been a little bit sad?

GB: Maybe. But you know, it has to take a lot to break me. It was an important part of my growing up. When I talk about my ego I think about the end of the band. My mind and my ego were out of control. But then I had to see how it is to be dumped by the label. Even if my private life at that time was wonderful, I had married and we had a baby,my career was more than over. It was very educating to see how it is when people don´t want to be associated with you any longer. It´s like that when it´s very hot and then very old. It´s like a virus or a disease. It is very shocking to realize. But I think it teaches you something. You have to fight to get back to life when nobody wants to phone you anymore. It´s a lesson. And therfore I never go on stage or to an interview in a bad mood. I enjoy every moment.

Focus: You have become very humble.

GB: Yes, very.

Focus: And are delighted to be seen as a very nice guy today!

GB: Not to be recognized as what you really are hurt the most. Everybody asked me: „How come people don´t know how you are?“. But that was part of the boyband concept, nobody new who we were, because we were kept apart from everything. It is nice to be oneself this time.

Focus: After the Brits this year you have given a concert with Chris Martin from Coldplay, Bono from U2 and Brandon Frasor from the Killers. Do you feel accepted by these artists?

GB: (sings the refrain of „Human“ by The Killers) Actually it´s all Chris Martin´s fault. Coldplay cover BfG all the time. I phoned me up and asked me whether I´d come to the Brits. And I  told him that I´d come to their dressing room to show them how the song is really done. Chris loved that idea. And that´s what happened. The gentlemen were very talented and have been happy like small children. And when they asked me to repeat that at their concert later that evening, I said yes. But to be honest I only wanted to meet Gwyneth Paltrow. I didn´t care about the singing.

Focus: But she is married to Chris Martin and you are married, too, Mr. Barlow!

GB: That doesn´t matter. She is so beautiful!

Focus: Your album is called „Circus“. What do you associate with that word? Do you think of your childhoood?

GB: We always had a little circus in our village. I often went there with my parents. I still can smell the strange odeur of the camels thinking about it. I don´t have nice memories about it. I think that the modern circus is so much better.

Focus: Are you talking about the shows by Cirque du Soleil?

GB: Exactly! I have watched the beatles „Love“ show four times in Las Vegas. I have watched „O“ 11 times. And the third Cirwue du Soleil show I love is called „Ka“ in the MGM Grand hotel. It´s amahing. Just imagine there would be a Cirque du Soleil show with Take That songs – that would be fantastic.

Focus: What about your plans about a TT musical. There already is a „Never Foget“ show by one company.

GB: I have never seen that one. But our manager watched it and like it. I think that we ´d love to do something like that. But at the moment there are more film companies asking whether we would write songs for their films. We found that very inspiring. Not only me, all four of us. These things are really good for TT. You feel like a hamster in a wheel  when you only do promotion and touring as it was back then. To do a small project or a smal concert on the side gives us the possibility to make it more intersting. WE are all very creative at the moment. Everyone of us has great ideas.

Focus: What are you going to do at Eastern, Mr. Barlow?

GB: I will just eat chocolate. That´s the plan. All day long.

Focus: But then you are going to gain weight again! Do you still struggle with it?

GB: Oh yes, to eat chocolate is vile. I have to pay attention. When I have chocolate days, I have to do training. That´s what I have learned, it´s important to be active.  I have never done any training back then, that´s new for me and has helped me a lot in the last four years. I have three children and have to stay healthy. I want to see them grow. It´s worth it. And it is an additional challenge that the other three are so skinny.


Thanks to Kadilawei (TTOF) for the translation

Entrevista a Jason y Howard

Small bellies, beautiful Swedish women and forbidden questions: fem.com had Howie and Jason from Take That to interview. 

 
With a flat hand and full force proposes Howie on a chocolate Easter bunny on the table, picks apart the gold paper and grinning into the round: "Chocolate, girls?"  We meet with Howard Donald and Jason Orange shortly before their big "Wetten, dass .." appearance in a Munich hotel - and the fronts are clear: We will be at least as required, as the Take-That-boys . Because the two can´t hear no longer the lukewarm interview questions, after more than 19 years of media Tam tam. Jaosn is sitting in a blue-white-shirt on the sofa, Howard is also dead straight - he must also, as his checkered shirt stretched over the belly. . A lot has happened since the separation of the 1996 . Let's go. 

Guys, how is it for you, to be here again in the land of Take-That-Mania?

 Jason: It's cool!  Somehow nobody believed us, all journalists who ask us to think that 'Clearly, they are on promo tour, which need to say' - but we find it really great. We are sleeping in the coolest hotels, the people around us are really cool, the food is great and the thing with the PR schedule, we completely chillig to. Do Germans not find it good because they are always so critical with Germany? 

We love it. Are there any special moments, memories, connected with Germany?

 Howard: I have a house in Munster, I had so many beautiful moments here, I like the German lifestyle, I stand totally on the food, hey, and the girls are building nicely. 

Picture Pretty girls?  How does the typical German fan look?

Jason: (ponders) Today it is no longer just say so. Then, in the nineties, there was already a picture, but now they are older and became adults. Some of them are now mothers who are comimg with their daughters to the concerts. 

Howard: I always wonder what is going on in their heads act, if they wait for us  before the hotels or TV stations,That's all crazy,  make that  them happy? 

At that time, they have "Babe" created what the fans are screaming now?

Howard: It's funny, but they do not scream anymore. Everything is much calmer, almost quiet.  "Circus" is also an album that appeals to many girls, and  nowsome are coming  come with their boyfriend, in order to see us live. There is no longer so much screaming. 

In which country are the beautifulst fans?

Howard: Germany has a pretty good selection, at least my girlfriend is also German. ) The Swedish women are a class of its own. (Laughs) 

What is the next tour planned?

Howard: Of course erstmal Sweden! (Laughs) No, not true, do we draw the first UK tour, then we must look further.  The tickets have sold very quickly, the madness. 

Will it be "Circus" on stage?

Howard: Sure, in the end we will have a bunch of wild animals on stage, which we lt jump into the audience.. No nonsense, first the album titel reflects in the setlist again, we keep everything else still secret. 

Considering you´re T-shirts?

Howard: Yes, but behind the stage.  Do you really see? (Laughs) 

Jason, you're so quiet.  Howie, you can describe him in one sentence ?

Howard: He's great.  He is trustworthy, sensitive, a Sexgod.  No, really, if I were a girl, I would love him completely. 

 Your turn Jason: Howie in one sentence.

Jason: Howie's crazy. . Reliable. A great singer. 

Jason, you're single.  Howie, how must be the perfect woman for him?

Howard: She must have patience.  I think he is more on brunette at the moment. (Jason shakes his head and calls that he had nothing against blondes.) It may not be superficial, they must have what spiritual, a kind of hippie girls. Jason looks really not only on the exterior, which, it is equally important that others also fit. 

Where you find your women, Jason?

Jason: I meet all the time what. That is really not so difficult in England because we are not really recognized.  I always meet good women, directly on the street, in the coffee shop.  In the nineties it was all much hysterical.  As guys, we have even thought of: Go now, go and tell everything to take what works. .Now we make our job a lot calmer - and we are still good women on the way. 

But the right you haven´t meet ?

Jason: thousand rights.  But I am wrong. 

That sounds sad.

Jason: Yes, I'm really poor turn.  A poor Sexgod. 

What is the most boring question, which you will be asked in interviews?

Jason: Are you 'Back for Good'? (Bored yawns) 

Howard: The question about Robbie just annoying. Boring. 

Thanks to schnappering (TTOF) for the translation

domingo, 22 de marzo de 2009

Howard & Jason Pacha Munich

Un Remember: Take That Paris Launch Party

Take That en la radio alemana FFH



Atención al "regalo" final para los oyentes.

Take That: Back for Good - Alemania

Take That: The Garden - Alemania

The REAL video: The Garden

Sólo podemos decir una cosa: this is the video we should have been given!

Jason llegando a Berlín



Gracias lilmj82 por el link

viernes, 20 de marzo de 2009

Regalos Takies


Con un poco de retraso, pero aquí subo los regalos takies de mi cumpleaños.
Mil gracias a Jenny por el libro que cuenta la verdadera historia de como Mark y Gary se conocieron formando Cuttest Rush. XD

Y a nuestro "topo" londinense que me envió el calendario de este año y la revista Attitude con la portada de Mark.


Nuestro Howard de cada día

Aquí "cobran" todos


Gary y Jason no se podían ir de rositas

jueves, 19 de marzo de 2009

The Garden

El single estará a la venta mañana, 20 de marzo, por lo menos en Alemania.


Fuente: http://www.take-that.de/

The best picTTure ever

Edito:
Si alguien quiere mandar sus 5 fotos favoritas podéis hacerlo al email del blog,blogforgood@yahoo.es, de esta manera podemos ir subiendo las fotos que nos enviéis cada una, hacemos las votaciones para cada foto y si van coincidiendo algunas de las elegidas, hacemos un ranking de Top foTTos. Asi que..a buscar en los archivos takies! Mientras nosotras iremos pensando como hacer lo de las votaciones y demás. :)

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Chicas para darle un poco de vidilla al blog, entretenernos un poco y de paso deleitarnos la vista, se me ha ocurrido que podríamos elegir la mejor foto de los chicos.

En principio he pensado que podriamos subir cada una nuestras 5 fotos favoritas y las demás dar una puntuación de 1 a 10 a las fotos que haya subido cada una. Una vez que se acabe el plazo que propongamos para subir fotos y para puntuar seleccionamos las 5 fotos más votadas y hacemos una encuesta para elegir una única foto ganadora.
¿Qué os parece la idea? ¿Alguna sugerencia?

Cierto...


Para Jenny

(Noe, me permito editar para valorar la gravedad de estas imágenes)

Chocolato xD
Y justo cuando pensábamos que no podía ser peor:



Pongamos banda sonora a este festival de los horrores

Take That en Italia III

Video

Take That en Factor X Italia II

lunes, 16 de marzo de 2009

Kilimanjaro documentary







Take That en Suiza: The garden y Patience

Videos aquí

Take That en Holanda

Behind the Scenes: Comic Relief with Robbie williams

Robbie en Comic Relief!

ROBBIE WILLIAMS - SKETCH FOR COMIC RELIEF 2009

Help Comic Relief by Downloading "Up all night"

Source: Take That Official Website

There's a new twist to the music industry's involvement with Comic Relief this year, it's called Music Relief.


For a 48 hour period from Red Nose Day today Friday, 13th March to midnight on Saturday, 14th March, if you download a song from the UK Top 40 singles chart you'll be doing your bit for charity.


This means that during this time 20p from each download of Take That's new single Up All Night will go to Comic Relief! Do your bit for Red Nose Day by visiting Music Relief on iTunes: www. itunes. com/musicrelief

Nuestro Howard de cada día

domingo, 15 de marzo de 2009

The Garden live

Aquí podéis descargaros la canción del video de The Garden en directo.
De momento no he podido editarlo para dejar la canción solamente, pero mientras nos vale para escuchar esta gran actuación como se debe: en el ipod a todo volumen.

http://rapidshare.com/files/209650991/TakeThat_The_Garden_live.mp3.html

De momento sólo puede bajarse el archivo de mp3 10 veces, cuando caduquen las descargas volveré a subirlo.

Take That en Holanda - Fotos




Take That - "The Garden" live at "Mooi Weer De Leeuw"

viernes, 13 de marzo de 2009

TV Update

There are three opportunities to get your Take That TV injection over the next couple of days!

First up, there’s an unmissable documentary on tonight charting the ups and downs – literally! – of Gary’s Mount Kilimanjaro climb. Find out how he got on with the other celebrities, what life was really like at high altitude and all the behind-the-scenes gossip. Tune in to BBC1 at 8pm to catch it.

Then tomorrow night, prepare to be thoroughly spoilt with two Take That performances on Comic Relief. Watch them perform their stunning album track ‘The Garden’ on BBC1 at 9.45pm, then switch over to BBC2 to enjoy ‘Up All Night’ at 10.15pm.

Fuente: Take That MySpace

jueves, 12 de marzo de 2009

Gaz nuestro de cada día


Williams to support FAC

Former TAKE THAT singer ROBBIE WILLIAMS was among a host of stars backing the launch of a lobby group aimed at fighting for the interests of musicians and fans on Wednesday (11Mar09).

A range of leading U.K. musicians met in London for the inaugural meeting of The Featured Artists' Coalition (FAC) - set up to provide acts with a greater voice in major decisions in the music industry.

Williams was joined by stars including Billy Bragg, Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, singer KT Tunstall and Travis frontman Fran Healy at the meeting.
A statement released by the newly-formed group reads, "The FAC will fight to ensure that interests of artists and fans - without whom the music industry would not exist - are not compromised by under the table deals between multi-national corporations."

Source


Hallazgos takies

Buscas en google música house para bajártela, for free, of course.
Y.. ¿qué encuentras por "howard Donald house"...?

a- su última dj session
b - información takie
c- la casa de howard donald en google maps.

Respuesta correcta: C


Pasen y vean.

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/62487/

Gaz nuestro de cada día

martes, 10 de marzo de 2009

Robbie Williams embraces his feminine side in Little Britain sketch for Comic Relief

Looks like Robbie Williams has really embraced his feminine side during his time in the pop wilderness.

The ex-Take That star, 35, goes all girlie for Comic Relief this Friday in a special sketch with Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams




Fuente: Mirror.co.uk Celebs

Nuestro Robbie de cada día