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It's Take That and panty at the hotel

TAKE THAT have had worse years.

Their album Progress has shifted nearly 2million copies and their tour is sold out.

The lads and their families are now swanning about in Barbados preparing for their special New Year's Eve gig - an unpaid favour for a friend.

GARY BARLOW, JASON ORANGE and MARK OWEN were all smiles on their hotel balcony, especially Mark after his wife EMMA flashed her undercrackers at him.

HOWARD DONALD was mucking about in the sea with missus KATIE HALIL.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS can't make the gig due to family commitments but I'm sure Mark will find somebody else to play in the pool with.

Fuente: The Sun

Take That Progress Track-By-Track - Happy Now

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Take That Progress Track-By-Track - Pretty Things

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Take That Progress Track-By-Track - Wait

Take That Progress Track-By-Track - SOS

Take That Progress Track-By-Track - The Flood

Mark Owen and wife Emma back on track for good

After what was surely an annus horribilus for Take That star Mark Owen and his wife Emma, the pair's marriage which was rocked by affair revelations looks to be firmly back on track.

Owen, 38, admitted to 'maybe 10 affairs' behind the back of wife Emma, 33, during their five-year relationship, after checking into rehab to fight his addiction to alcohol.

But now it seems all that is a distant memory as the star was all smiles with wife Emma as they left a restaurant in South West London.

He has since promised actress Emma, 33, a fresh start and friends say they’re working through their troubles.

A source told The Mirror: 'Things are looking up for them, which is great as they make a super team.'

Mark and Emma married last October and have a son, Elwood, three, and a daughter, Willow Rose, one.

A glamorous Emma showed off newly blonde hair, and wore a slick of red lipstick as she enjoyed date night with her husband.

And Mark looked less haunted than he has in recent months, as he battled to save his traumatised marriage.

The 38-year-old was forced to come clean to flings with girls on tour and an affair spanning five years with accounts manager Neva Hanley, 24.

And after being thrown out of home by his devastated wife Emma, Owen entered a clinic to be treated for his drinking.

His 33-year-old wife had demanded he get help, and Owen has sought professional therapy as well as relying on the support of his bandmates Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Jason Orange.

Fuente: DailyMail

Take That: Style icons for older men

The mature Take That have reinvented their sound – and given their wardrobe a serious overhaul. They're now the perfect fashion role models for men over 40

The extraordinary Take That revival has taken everyone by surprise. Five middle-aged men, who don't play instruments, have generated the fastest-selling tour in UK history and the fastest-selling album (Progress) of the century and they've been almost omnipresent on TV, appearing on the finals of both Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor. But one aspect of their appeal has passed without much comment: the flattering cut of their trousers.

Take That have proved that it is possible for men beyond the first flush of youth (Robbie Williams is the youngest of the group at 36, Howard Donald the oldest at 42) to dress fashionably without looking silly. Successfully reforming a teen group with a maturing audience, making them appear age-appropriate, relevant and pointedly unembarrassing, is one of the holy grails of pop culture. It's hard enough writing a new hit and getting the sound just right. Getting the strides just-so is even harder.

And winter proved to be absolutely perfect timing for the Take That reunion. The fact that the weather turned bitterly cold just as the band announced their tour dates meant that coats, scarves, hats, beards and boots featured in every photo and press conference.

Forget the stirring, anthemic chorus of The Flood and Robbie's funny marching-on-the-spot dance – the management's real masterstroke was to market Take That as a boys-to-men band who wear heavy, double-breasted Lanvin coats, leather-soled All Saints boots, who aren't frightened of polka dots and bum-freezer jackets. Males who can confidently mix Top Man with Mad Men. These are the clothes of an older and more thoughtful, craggy-faced Take That, who have loved and lost and cried and been to rehab and steadfastly refuse to dance in unison any more.

Summer isn't flattering for men in their 40s. It's callous and exposing. Sunlight streams through thinning hair. Harsh shadows act as a cruel grout in crow's feet. Clothes are flimsy and perfunctory. Worst of all, if you happen to be Jason Orange, 40, you simply can't look wistful and vulnerable in clam-digger shorts and a Superdry polo shirt. Winter – which is all about layering, camouflage, buttoning up and introspective insulation – is much more forgiving.

Take That's stylist, Luke Day, arguably the most influential figure in menswear right now – he's fashion director at GQ Style – knows this well. "Since I've been working with the group, I don't think we've ever done anything that's involved sunshine," he says. "Winter is just better for older guys. And generally speaking, I don't think colours work too well on men either. Dark tones make them seem more serious and an older guy always looks good in a big coat, fur and scarves."

Working closely with Mark Owen, the band's most forthright fashionista, Day has developed the Take That Mk III look: Westfield Ginsberg meets millionaire vagabond meets Shoreditch dad, with subtle elements of 70s-era David Essex and that nice, floppy-haired, corduroy chap off BBC1's Flog It. And in doing so he has not only provided the perfect day-into-night, on-and-off stage capsule wardrobe for the band but also a series of workable reference points for the older, still fashionable civilian male. It's an easy rather than edgy look, which looks good at a gastropub Sunday lunch and won't embarrass the kids on the school run.

The TT3 look has its roots in 1995. Just before the band's first breakup, with Robbie still clinging on, they released what many critics consider to be their finest four minutes. Back For Good was a quantum leap towards musical maturity; it was the band's Careless Whisper, their Better the Devil You Know. It was also their biggest overcoat record so far. Most significantly, it was evidently freezing and absolutely chucking it down in the accompanying video. "They looked like a bunch of adorable wet labradors, didn't they?" says Day.

There would be a few unfortunate hiccups with tailcoats along the way, but here was a band who would never put on studded leather gilets again. Fast-forward 15 years and the band have settled into their various styles with an ease and comfort that suggests that the next world tour might be conducted from rocking chairs. The image of Owen taking a therapeutic walk across a tidal causeway as part of his recent rehab in their recent documentary, Look Back, Don't Stare, wearing a billowing, knee-length cardigan, is the band's most poignant fashion moment so far.

Does the modern pop group always have a stylist present these days? "Honestly, a lot of the time we'll wing it, stylistically speaking," insists Luke Day. "One of Mark's really big roles in the band is a sort of second stylist and he takes a lot of interest in his clothes," says Day. "Often he'll get out of the car wearing an outfit and then wear exactly the same thing on stage. We keep it cool and stay away from anything too theatrical."

The overly cuddly, fussy, circus-y clobber of the Take That Come To Town TV special was, says Day "a mistake".

"I don't have a problem with a boy band becoming men," says Gary Kemp, guitarist of the recently-reformed Spandau Ballet. "But I think as an older guy, you do have to always be aware that being in a band is, essentially, quite a childish thing to be doing."

When they announced their first tour last year since their 1990 split, Kemp's band, all in their mid-40s, thought hard about their clothes. "We knew that you have to look like a gang but you can't all wear the same thing . . . or look too disparate. There has to be some sense of dressing up otherwise you'll look like roadies."

Wisely, Spandau Ballet didn't opt for kilts. "You have to be age-appropriate and period-appropriate. Nodding to contemporary fashion but not looking like idiots. You can't wear what you used to back in your heyday. You have to move on. That said, because we are older there is always a danger of looking slightly conservative. It's quite a tricky balance."

Making Take That look good, says Day, isn't hard, now that they're happy with their constantly evolving wardrobes. He does most of their shopping, knows what they like and what will suit them. "They are all slim with pretty decent figures. Clothes tend to sit well on them."

Williams keeps a wooden last at Lobb of St James's, bespoke cobbler to the royal family. Gary Barlow is probably the most conservative while Owen likes Lanvin, Dries Van Noten and is "partial to Gucci and Margiela". The band tend to agree that they are all a bit too old for drainpipes these days, so Donald is happy to wear cropped, carrot shaped strides from Top Man. Or John Vavartos, depending on his mood.

And those wintry, all-enveloping, broodingly thought-provoking scarves? "Yes, well," says Day, sounding peeved. "One Direction started nicking the scarf thing, so we had to ease off on those."

How to get the middle-aged Take That look

• Simple palette of black, grey, navy blue. Dark tone on dark tone.
• White T-shirts are acceptable for contrast and accenting, but no happy reds or sunny yellows.
• No logos.
• Lots of layers.
• Knitwear in thin, figure-hugging merino wool.
• Woolly hats pulled low over ears.
• Sturdy, lace-up workwear-inspired boots.
• Sensible, slightly boyish side-parted haircuts.
• Facial hair (but no Craig David/Ali G topiary).
• Labels: All Saints, Top Man, Martin Margiela, Burberry, Gucci, Lanvin, Spencer Hart, John Varvatos.
• Blazers should be short bumfreezers, such as those by American tailor Thom Browne (long jackets are ageing).
• Trousers can be cropped but not too tight (drainpipes look desperate on older men).
• No leather – it looks tragic on over-40s.

Fuente: The Guardian

Look back, don't stare: Review

"I learned to be a pop star before I learned to be a man. I didn't know how to sing that well, I didn't know how to play any instrument. I didn't contribute a thing to the writing. It could just as well have been someone else. Apparently, I smiled the right way. I won the smile competition in Oldham when I was 5 or 6 years old; apparently that was my training." This sober confession from Mark Owen, the British-born singer-songwriter, is the key to understanding "Look Back, Don't Stare," a documentary that follows his band, Take That, as they record their reunion album.

According to the tagline, this is "a film about progress," a wordplay on the title of the new album, "Progress," but the linguistic quip misses the point. This is a film about masculinity, or to be more precise, about men who have finally found their masculinity.

I never thought of "masculinity" as a word that might surface in the context of Take That; that it might provide an alternative perspective to "teenage-girl idols," "kitsch," "toys," "commercialism," "manipulation," "marketing machines" and "ego." Certainly not after the album cover of "The Circus," which was released before Christmas two years ago and featured the band members, then still without Robbie Williams, dressed as acrobats wearing clingy, striped sailor shirts as if they were getting ready to make the usual jokes about sexual orientation.

The plot underlying "Look Back, Don't Stare" is of course the reunion of Robbie Williams with his old friends who still bear a grudge. His departure at the height of the band's success, his decision to embark on a solo career that positioned him as the talented and charismatic member of the band, the dirt he made sure to spread about Gary Barlow and the others whose solo careers flopped while he was packing stadiums and selling millions of albums, left accounts that sorely needed to be settled. Particularly painful was his absence from a television program that sought to get the guys together and eventually prompted Gary, Mark, Howard and Jason to hook up again.

Robbie's condescending attitude toward the band from which he sprouted is a key juncture in this relationship. It also marks the moment when things turn around. From that point on, Robbie's career starts sinking while the resurrected Take That emerges improved, mature and more popular than ever. When Robbie comes groveling to those who shaped him, it is an admission of his failure and a major victory for Take That. This is how the wayward son who thought he was better is brought back to the fold. A film crew is invited to document the rapprochement.

The main difference between then and now is that Robbie does not come back to the band he fled, the consumer product that was totally crushed by producers, managers and public relations executives. He returns to a band which for the first time in its history is holding itself accountable for results and functions as a real band that knows what it wants of itself. This band is hungry for success, it has a mission, and it has independent control of its artistry. Even more important in the context of "Look Back, Don't Stare" - it has the dynamic of a band.

In this respect, the film is not different from "Some Kind of Monster," which followed events in Metallica's studio room, and "No Distance Left to Run," which followed the return of Graham Coxon to Blur. A band is a band is a band; whether it is dressed in black, freaks out over distortion and sings about justice for all and children's nightmares, bangs out Britpop anthems or prides itself on choreography, disco innovations and shrieking female fans. In all three band films, there is an internal struggle between the two leading creative forces, yin and yang: the megalomaniac with his feet on the ground - that could be Lars Ulrich, Damon Albarn or Gary Barlow - and the complex negative counterpart with the wounded ego - that could be James Hetfield, Graham Coxon or Robbie Williams - who, like Homer in "The Odyssey," just wants to go home.

The greatness of "Look Back, Don't Stare" is that it is a human drama of conflict with great emotional complexity but not only that. It succeeds in doing what until now seemed impossible: it makes you appreciate Take That.

Fuente: Haaretz.com

The Flood - Actuación en Alemania

Royal Variety Performance - The Flood & SOS

Especial Robbie Williams

Actuaciones del fin de semana

Strictly Come Dancing - The Flood


Strictly Come Dancing - Back for Good


X Factor - Never Forger


X Factor - The Flood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKEmfoqrU_8


X Factor: Take That forced to change song after Simon Cowell row

Take That were forced to change their final song of the night after a last-minute row with Simon Cowell.

They had been due to perform Kidz - complete with 50 dancers dressed as police in riot gear. But X Factor supremo Simon demanded that the song be pulled because of the student tuition fee protests. A show source said: "He was worried the performance might annoy people. It was too close to what went on last week."

After a tense stand-off, the band agreed to sing The Flood for a second time this series.

Fuente: Mirror

Wagner and Take That in X Factor final return

Take That and Wagner are reportedly set to reappear on the X Factor stage for the show's grand finale this week.

ITV bosses have a star-studded line-up planned for the final, including Robbie Williams, who is rumoured to perform with One Direction, and Rihanna, who will reportedly be sharing the stage with Matt Cardle.

Liverpudlian Rebecca Ferguson is expected to duet with Christina Aguilera, while controversial finalist Cher Lloyd will be performing with either Avril Lavigne or Black Eyed Pea - and friend of Cheryl Cole - Will.i.am, The Mirror reported.

Robbie will also be returning to the stage with the rest of Take That following the group's successful performance earlier in the series.

However, the reappearance of Brazilian singer Wagner with the rest of the finalists is causing equal amounts of excitement and anxiety among insiders.

A source told the newspaper: 'People are really looking forward to Take That coming back on the show, but to be honest they are not so happy about seeing Wagner again.

'He caused a lot of problems, so we just hope he is on his best behaviour this time around and doesn't clash with Matt or anyone else backstage.'

Since leaving The X Factor, Wagner has been caught up in a row over benefits. The Brazilian is due to be investigated for his eligibility to claim incapacity benefits following his energetic dance routines on the show.

Fuente: Metro

Take That confirmed for Brit Awards

Take That have been confirmed to perform at next year's Brit Awards.

The 2011 ceremony - which has undergone a significant revamp - will be the first time in 16 years that the Progress group have performed as a five-piece at the yearly event.

Plan B will also take to the stage at next year's show, reports PA. No other artists have yet been announced.

The Brit Awards 2011 will take place at The O2 in London on February 15.

Fuente: DigitalSpy

Nuestros Take That de cada día

Jason Orange Juice Facebook (thanks Olga)

Take That must have spent a fortune in B&Q ahead of tonight's Royal Variety Performance

The manband's backing dancers will be drenched in bodypaint while they prance about on stage at the London Palladium.

Blokes in the audience will be snapping up those little red binoculars to get a closer look. They'll have plenty to gawp at, as Take That have never done a show with so many dancers.

A source said: "The lads always put on a spectacle and this will be no different. A top bodypainting stylist is on board and the dancers are going to look out of this world."

It'll be interesting to see what PRINCE CHARLES and the rest of the royals think of the naughty artwork from their posh seats.

Luckily for the lads, they won't be getting the paint treatment. No amount of cash could get them in the buff again - although ROBBIE WILLIAMS pulled a moony for 20 quid the other week.

GARY BARLOW insisted their days of peeling off were well and truly behind them at the press conference to announce the Progress tour.

It's a shame this wasn't the case before they filmed that Do What You Like video. I've refused to eat squirty cream ever since.

Fuente: The Sun

Fans angry as Take That reschedule tour date

There’s good news and bad news for Take That fans today.

The good news is the boys have added more dates to their already huge tour (it’s the biggest selling tour in UK history, fact fans). They’ll be playing the following new dates and locations...

Friday 27 May 2011 Sunderland Stadium Of Light

Saturday 28 May 2011 Sunderland Stadium Of Light

Sunday 12 June 2011 Manchester Manchester City Stadium

Monday 4 July 2011 London Wembley Stadium

Tickets go on sale on Friday at 9am from all the usual sources

The bad news is that an existing tour date will have to be rescheduled to fit in with the new shows. A statement on the boys’ official website reads; “In order to accommodate an extra date at Wembley, it has been necessary to reschedule the planned show on Sunday 3rd July for Thursday 30th June. The promoters apologise for the inconvenience this may cause but tickets remain valid for customers who have already bought them for Sunday 3rd July. Anyone who cannot make the rescheduled date is eligible for a full refund from their point of purchase.”

While Take That themselves have apologised to fans; “We are really sorry to have to move the dates in London but we'd heard that there was a lot of disappointment from those not being able get tickets and this was the only way that we could fit in another show. We hope everyone understands and look forward to seeing you all next year."

However this attempt to placate fans who’ve bought tickets for the 3rd hasn't seemed to work. Outraged fans have expressed their anger on the official Take That website. One fan called Sarah Linpop ranted...

“I am FUMING that they have moved the Sunday 3rd July date to Thurs 30th June!

I am travelling from Manchester for this concert and have paid £200 for a hotel room that is non-refundable!

I understand concert dates being cancelled due to ilness etc, but come on Take That, this is not fair. I know not everyone got tickets but why are you now punishing the ones who did? This date change will have costly implications on people and simply offering a new date or refund on the ticket price is insulting!

People don't want refunds on tickets - we bought them because we wanted to see you - on the date we bought! Tickets are like gold dust why would we want refunds?? But at the same time, you are taking advantage of us just expecting us to turn up to a different date just because it has been poorly organised by your Management/Promotors. Come on, it doesn't take a rocket-scientist to tell you that demand would be high!

By all means, put on extra dates, but why you feel the need to inconvenience fans who bought tickets in good faith and who have made plans is unforgivable.

I have spent THOUSANDS on you over the years and feel totally let down over this. Money is very tight but you are my one luxury. Have you totally lost touch with reality and realised just what affect changing this date will have on people?

I will be pushing for fans rights on this and will not let this drop! I have spoken to you Manager, Jonathan, and your solicitors in the past and fully intend doing the same again!

Shame on you Take That!”


While others have left similar disgruntled messages


"Angela Brown
07 December 2010 at 10:00:49

Just great! we've booked and paid for hotel accomodation 5 of us have booked the time off work, now we have to hope we can change it all. Makes me want to not bother going to be honest.

Louise Parry
07 December 2010 at 09:58:28

I have 3 children, a friend who is a teacher and can't take time off and a friend who is on holiday for the rescheduled Wembley date - we are now frantically trying to find a way we can still get to see you guys:(

Josette Kenney
07 December 2010 at 09:56:59

Agree with the above comments wholeheartedly, I thought when you purchased a ticket you entered into a contract and to just change it is so bad, we will have to go to the new date as there is no chance of getting tickets for another time, bad move on Take that's part now I have to have two days holiday instead of the one for this event.

Jennifer Puttock
07 December 2010 at 09:55:44

I can't get over how RUDE this is quite frankly. I paid good money for Sunday tickets so that I could organise babysitting for my little boy and so that we didn't have to take any time off work to come and see you for the third time and now you've moved it to mid week. I don't want a refund but I do expect a decent discount. SORT IT OUT."

Are you angry about Take That changing their tour dates, or do you think people are complaining about nothing?

Fuente: Heatworld

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Take That star Mark Owen selling house in bid for fresh start with wife Emma

GROVELLING Take That singer Mark Owen is selling his £1.6million home to save his marriage.

The move comes after his wife Emma said it held “too many painful memories”.

Mark, 38, has admitted to 10 affairs and a long battle with alcohol during their five-year relationship. He has since promised his actress wife, 33, a fresh start.

The three-bedroom house in Wandsworth, South London, has been on the market for six weeks.
A source said: “They are desperate to shift it. Emma says she can no longer live there as it’s a constant reminder of bad times.

“Mark realises he has been a fool and will do anything to save their marriage.”

They couple have already put in an offer on a £1.8million home in South London.

Mark and Emma married in October and have a son, Elwood, three, and a daughter, Willow Rose, one.


Fuente: Mirror

Ticketmaster info: Take That at Wembley Stadium on 3rd July 2011 - Rescheduled

We have been informed that Take That at Wembley Stadium on the 3rd July 2011 has been rescheduled to the 30th June 2011.

The Promoter and band have asked us to pass on the following statement:

"Dear Take That ticket holder

You successfully purchased tickets to see Take That at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 3 July. However this date is now not happening and has been re scheduled to a new date. This concert has been re arranged to take place on Thursday 30 June 2011 at Wembley Stadium and we have transferred your ticket to be valid for this new date. Your ticket will be sent to you as normal a couple of weeks before the show.

Please note that in order to accommodate an extra date at Wembley, it has been necessary to reschedule the planned show on Sunday 3rd July to Thursday 30th June. The promoters apologise for the inconvenience this may cause but tickets remain valid for customers who have already bought them for Sunday 3rd July and you do not have to do anything as your tickets will be automatically transferred to the new date. If the new date of Thursday 30 June is inconvenient, you are entitled to a full refund from your point of purchase. The offer of a refund is valid for 30 days. You will now be seeing the first Take That show at Wembley Stadium on the Progress Live Tour.

The band commented "We are really sorry to have to move the dates in London but we'd heard that there was a lot of disappointment from those not being able get tickets and this was the only way that we could fit in another show. We hope everyone understands and look forward to seeing you all next year."

If you have received an email regarding the above information, but have not booked for this event, please disregard and accept our sincere apologies for any confusion caused.

Fuente: Ticketmaster

Four Extra Take That UK Tour Dates Added

Take That's record-busting ticket sales a few weeks ago hit the press when tickets to the Progress Live 2011 Tour sold out in less than a day. Whilst thousands of you did get tickets, there were many of you who weren't so lucky, but we're hoping that you shall go to the ball when four additional dates go on sale this Friday!


New dates added to the UK leg are:
Friday 27 May: Sunderland Stadium Of Light
Saturday 28 May: Sunderland Stadium Of Light
Sunday 12 June: City Of Manchester Stadium
Monday 4 July: Wembley Stadium

These will be the final dates added to the tour schedule so make sure you're up bright and early and your phone and computer are powered up and ready to go.

Important information about Sunday 3rd July show at Wembley

In order to accommodate an extra date at Wembley, it has been necessary to reschedule the show that was planned to take place on Sunday 3rd July to Thursday 30th June. The promoters apologise for the inconvenience this may cause to you, but tickets remain valid for customers who have already bought them for Sunday 3rd July.

Anyone who cannot make the rescheduled date is eligible for a full refund from their point of purchase.


Take That said:“We are really sorry to have to move the dates in London but we’d heard that there was a lot of disappointment from those not being able get tickets and this was the only way that we could fit in another show. We hope everyone understands and look forward to seeing you all next year.”

Fuente: Take That

Take That to play 'Strictly' semi-final

Take That have been confirmed as the special guests for next weekend's Strictly Come Dancing semi-final.

The fully reunited boyband will play their latest single 'The Flood' and classic '90s hit 'Never Forget' on the BBC One reality show.

Strictly airs over three shows next weekend and it kicks off on Friday at 9pm on BBC One.

Fuente: DigitalSpy

Adakini Ntuli: "Take That's Howard Donald tried to gag me over nine-year affair"

This is the woman Take That’s Howard Donald tried to gag over their illicit nine-year affair.

The millionaire star went to court and got a draconian “super-injunction” to stop beautiful singer Adakini Ntuli from telling anyone about their relationship... even her own mother.

Now after a bitter court battle lasting months, we can exclusively reveal how dad-of-two Howard, 42, cheated on BOTH mothers of his two children with single mum Adakini, 39, after meeting her in a nightclub 10 years ago.

But last month her lawyers persuaded the appeal court to modify the “catch-all” court order. The fact that the affair took place can now be reported so long as intimate details remain private.

Leer más: Daily Star

Robbie Williams to miss Take That gig

Poor, poor Robbie Williams No sooner has he been reunited with his four, long-lost chums, he’s cruelly separated from them over the festive period.

After I revealed Take That would be performing at the Universal bash in Barbados on New Year’s Eve, I’m told Rob, 36, has been forced to miss it due to “long-standing family commitments” – leaving Howard, Jason, Mark and Gary to go it alone.

“Long-standing family commitments?” A euphemism, if ever I’ve heard one, for “the missus will impale him where the sun don’t shine” should he go with the boys.

Fuente: Mirror

Take That 'Land $3 Million Bonus'

British band TAKE THAT will ring in the New Year (11) with a massive pay day - they're reportedly set for a $3 million (£2 million) bonus and will celebrate with a special gig for record company bosses.

Robbie Williams recently rejoined the group for an album and an upcoming 2011 tour, marking their first full shows with the original line-up since the Angels hitmaker left in 1995.

Now they're set to put on a massive concert in Barbados on New Year's Eve (31Dec10) as part of a private party for bosses at record label Universal - and they will pocket a huge end-of-year bonus ahead of their reunion tour, according to Britain's Daily Mirror.

A source tells the publication, "The lads have had arguably the best year in their 20-year history, and bosses wanted to celebrate with a truly memorable party. It's all top secret.

"No one's been told the precise venue yet - just that it will be beach-side, somewhere on the west coast. The boys are really looking forward to it and will use the evening to showcase some ideas for next year's tour.

"They won't just be standing up and crooning a few ballads. It's going to be a huge production, no expense spared."

Fuente: Contacmusic

Entrevista en Dinamarca

Entrevista de Take That (¿o debería decir Robbie acompañado por Mark?) en Dinamarca:

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La polémica está servida en el minuto 18. Después de que Robbie halague a las fans danesas, la presentadora dice:
Presentadora: And that's not only things you say in every country?
Robbie: No, I don't like Spain...

Take That Win Battle Of The Boybands In UK Chart

TAKE THAT have proved their staying power at the top of the UK albums chart after fending off competition from fellow boybands JLS and WESTLIFE to make it two weeks at number one.

Progress, the British band's first record since reuniting with original member Robbie Williams earlier this year (10), shot to the top of the countdown last week (21Nov10) and they maintained their position for a second consecutive week despite JLS' Outta This World making a strong debut at two.

Irish pop stars Westlife are another new entry at three with Gravity, while Susan Boyle's The Gift slips one spot to four and Rihanna rounds out the top five at five.

Meanwhile, in the U.K. singles chart, The X Factor Finalists 2010 have landed first place with Heroes, while Ellie Goulding's cover of Elton John's Your Song climbs up one position to two.

JLS' charity song Love You More falls two spots to three.

Fuente: Contactmusic

Guerra de nieve en Suecia

Promoción de Progress en Holanda

"The flood" en directo + Entrevista.

Entrevista en "Vreporters"

Mark llegando al hotel después de unas compras

Promoción de Progress en Suecia

"The flood"

Entrevista a Gary y Robbie en el programa "Skavlan" aquí (A partir del minuto 12:00)

Avance de la entrevista de Tony Aguilar

Take That hold on to number one spot as JLS and Westlife join album charts

The reformed boyband flew into the number one spot last week with their first album since Robbie Williams quit the band fifteen years ago.

Their album sold 520,000 copies last week and therefore scored the biggest first week sale in 13 years.

However, there is no chart battle quite like that of the boybands and JLS and Westlife certainly aren't giving up without a fight.

X Factor runners-up JLS' second album Outta This World is on course to take the second place closely followed by Irish boyband Westlife's new entry with Gravity, according to the Official Charts Company.

Meanwhile, Susan Boyle's second solo album The Gift is also gracing the Official Album Chart's top five having dropped down one place to number four, as is Rihanna's high-flying Loud album which has fallen three places to take the fifth spot.

The Official Charts will be announced by Reggie Yates between 4pm and 7pm on Sunday.

Fuente: Metro

Take That en Le Grand Journal

Take That en el programa francés de Le Grand Journal, para verlo, pinchad AQUÍ (video correspondiente a LA SUITE 1).

Mark y Robbie en Callejeros Viajeros

Robbie Williams y Mark Owen, componentes de Take That mandan un saludo a Callejeros Viajeros.


AVANCE VIDEO

Take That en X Factor Italia

Agenda oficial de la promoción europea

Nov 23rd - X Factor - Italy

Nov 24th - Le Grand Journal - France

Nov 25th - Skavlan - Sweden (Scandinavia)

Nov 26th - The Voice of Holland

Nov 27th - Benissimo - Switzerland

Dec 2nd - TV2 Good Evening Denmark - Denmark

Dec 4th - ZDF Wetten Dass - Germany

Dec 10th - Late Late Show - Ireland

Dec 17th - RTL Hape Zauberhafte Weihnachten - Germany

Fuente: www.takethat.com

Nuestros Take That de cada día

Entrevista de Take That en Radio Deejay

En el siguiente enlance encontraréis los vídeos de la entrevista de esta mañana en Radio Deejay (Italia):

Radio Deejay

Y esta noche estarán en X Factor de Italia.

Los chicos en Radio Deejay (Italia)

Más fotos aquí

M&Ms and Take That

Take That breaking records (so funny!)

22/11/2010 - Radio 1 Live Lounge

Take That & Wives

Take That en Radio 1 Live Lounge: The Flood & Pray

Progress nº 1 en UK batiendo records

Five-piece Take That make record-breaking Progress

Take That have set a new sales standard with their latest album Progress, which has achieved the biggest opening week sales of any album for 13 years – the Official Charts Company has confirmed.

To top the Official Albums Chart, Progress sold almost 520,000 copies last week, the highest one-week total for any album this century. The last album to sell more than 500,000 copies in a week was Oasis’s Be Here Now, which sold 663,000 in its first chart week in 1997.

In turn, JLS lead the Official Singles Chart, their Children In Need single Love You More arriving firmly at Number One - a fourth Number One single for the X-Factor 2008 runners-up – whose second album, Outta This World, is out tomorrow (November 22).

Fuente: The Official Charts Company

Progress nº 1 en iTunes España

En tan solo dos días Progress ya encabeza las listas de ventas de iTunes. El puesto nº 1 es para la edición normal y en el puesto nº 2 está la edición deluxe, ¡el mismo álbum ocupa los dos primeros puestos de la lista!

En singles, The Flood se mantiene en el nº 3 de iTunes y ayer entró directamente al puesto 24 de la lista de los 40 Principales.

Progress ya es nº 1 también en Irlanda y pronto se publicarán las listas de UK, que con toda certeza también lideraran.

Este lunes sale a la venta el álbum en formato físico en España. ¡Haceos con vuestra copia y llevemos a los chicos a lo más alto de las listas de venta de la próxima semana!

MSN exclusive interview

MSN exclusive interview - Take That part one

MSN exclusive interview - Take That part two

MSN exclusive interview - Take That part three

MSN exclusive interview - Take That part four

Children in Need 2010: The Flood & Never Forget

Take That en Children in Need esta noche en BBC1

Esta noche los chicos cantarán The Flood y Never Forget en Children in Need 2010. El año pasado nos emocionamos al verlos juntos en un escenario por primera vez en 14 años, ¡pero esta vez veremos a los cinco de Manchester en acción! Podrás verlo en http://hackedcabletv.com a partir de las 20 h (hora española) en BBC1 ...(seleccionar el canal en menú izquierdo). Enjoy! :)

Take That en X Factor de Italia

Take That actuará en el programa X Factor (Rai2) de Italia el 23 de noviembre.

Finalmente lo possiamo annunciare ufficialmente: i Take That saranno gli ospiti d'onore della puntata finale di X-Factor Italia, che andrà in onda su RaiDue Martedì 23 Novembre!

Fuente: Take That Italia

Take That's Howard Donald Loses Legal Fight

The Court of Appeal has lifted a super-injunction preventing the naming of Take That's Howard Donald in connection with a legal fight with a former girlfriend. But the Take That band member has won an order restraining publication of confidential information by a former girlfriend.

Mr Donald was granted the injunction by Mr Justice Eady in April after receiving a text message from musician Adakini Ntuli. The message said: "Why shud I continue 2 suffer financially 4 the sake of loyalty when selling my story will sort my life out?"

The super-injunction prevented not only the media reporting details of a relationship the Take That singer had, it also stopped the media reporting a legal fight was going on which involved him.

Before solicitors became involved, Ms Ntuli, a single mother of two children of whom Mr Donald is not the father, had hired publicist Max Clifford and was talking to the News Of The World.

She wanted to sell her story.

However, while part of the super-injunction has been lifted, the part preventing her from selling her story is still in place.

A spokesman for the Take That star said later: "Howard Donald successfully obtained an injunction earlier this year against a former girlfriend who threatened to sell a story about the intimate details of their relationship to the press. He did this to protect his children from this kind of story and because he believes that what took place in private should remain private and not be exploited for financial gain. His former girlfriend appealed this decision. Howard is pleased therefore that this morning the Court of Appeal has upheld the injunction he won."

Fuente: Sky News

Q Magazine: Behind The Scenes

Progress becomes the fasting selling album of the century

Yesterday, Take That's brand new album Progress was released. Today, it has become the fastest selling album of the century.

Progress achieved staggering first day sales of over 235,000, making it the biggest first day sales for an album since Oasis released 'Be Here Now' back in 1997.

Here's what the Official Chart Company's managing director, Martin Talbot, had to sayabout this remarkable achivement : "This is a phenomenal achievement from an already phenomenally successful band."

The first single to be taken from the album, The Flood, entered the charts at the No.2 spot last week, giving the guys their sixteenth Top 5 hit single.

A big thank you goes out to everyone who has bought the album and single so far!

Fuente: Take That

Online surge for Take That album

Take That's new album has become the biggest pre-order release of the year, Amazon.co.uk said.
Progress, the band's first album since reuniting with Robbie Williams, has received twice as many online orders as any other album released this year.

It has also been pre-ordered more times than any other Take That album, including the 2008 release The Circus, which is Amazon.co.uk's seventh biggest-selling album of all time.

Fuente: ThePressAssociation

Nuestros Take That de cada día

The Flood live @ X Factor

¡And the winner is...

*redoble de tambores*... Ana Cuevas!

¡Enhorabuena!

Muchas gracias por participar. Esperamos que disfrutes mucho del documental.

Mañana nos pondremos en contacto contigo para darte tu entrada.

Look back, don't stare: A film about Progress

SorTTeo

Si te mueres por ver el documental de Take That "Look back, don't stare" pero te has quedado sin entradas ¡esta es tu oportunidad!

Nuestra amiga Ana tiene 2 entradas de sobra para la proyección del documental en Madrid y ha decidido sortearlas a través de Blog for Good.

Participar es de lo más sencillo, sólo tienes que seguir los siguientes pasos:

1. Hazte fan de del grupo "Take That blog for good" (si no lo eres ya)
2. Escribe en el muro del grupo la razón por la que quieres ir a ver el documental.

Los fans que publiquen las razones más originales serán los ganadores y recibirán sus entradas el mismo día de la proyección en la entrada del cine.

*Concurso cerrado*

The full English: Entrevista a Gary

Gary Barlow can’t even begin to explain his excitement at having all five Take That members back together, he tells BRIAN BOYD

ROBBIE’S LYING on the floor, Mark is on the phone, Howard is stretching his back and Jason is dozing. Gary, though, is pacing around the room, breaking off slabs of organic chocolate, looking over his shoulder and then shoving them into his mouth. He studies the wrapper intently. “This is dead-posh chocolate. I’m usually a Cadbury’s man.” He breaks off another big chunk, then hides what’s left of the bar under a magazine before thinking better of it and putting it back in his pocket.

We’re in the penthouse suite of a London hotel. The soap opera that is Take That is back. Fifteen years after Robbie Williams flounced out and five years since their revival as a four-piece, the band that was only ever meant to be a short-lived UK version of New Kids on the Block are about to release what their record company claims, in an avalanche of exclamation marks, is the album of the decade.

Barlow – who at 10 years of age, watching Depeche Mode singing Just Can’t Get Enough on Top of the Pops, decided it was a pop star’s life for him – is unusually stolid. He displays none of the theatrics or melodrama of his band-mates. For someone who has turned notions of love, loss and regret into some of the best pop music of the past 20 years, he can sound like a middle-management drone.

“It probably comes across that way because music is all I can do. I can’t ever work a till at Sainsbury’s, so I’ve always been the ‘we have to understand how the music business works’ one in the band, because there’s nothing else out there for me,” he says. “You should see me when I arrive for work. When I get out of the car to go into the studio I really have to tell myself, ‘Don’t run! Don’t run!’ because I’m that excited. I can’t wait to get into that building. I love being able to go in and make music and produce and write songs. I love that feeling of what I’m doing now in the studio is going to make a difference to the charts.”

He pulls his chair up closer and says: “I can’t even begin to get across how exciting doing this album as the five of us was. There was so much energy. We were all dying to make this record; we had waited all this time to do this, to have Rob back again.”

The album, Progress , is a grown-up electro-pop affair with none of the lighter-in-the-air power ballads of old. It’s bleepy and synthy – not too far removed from anything by The Killers and Scissor Sisters. It’s like a boy band having a knee-trembler with Krautrock up a back alley.

“Normally I write on a piano; this was written on a laptop,” he says. “Nobody knew we were all working together again. We only announced in July that Robbie would be on the album, but by that stage we had spent six months sitting around a laptop in a studio. And we were a new band, literally a new band: we changed our name and everything, and the plan was to release this under our new name, The English. We figured there’s been Take That Part 1, and there’s been Robbie solo, and then there’s been Take That Part 2, so let’s just drop all that and call ourselves The English.

“Having a new name meant we weren’t going, ‘Oh, that doesn’t sound like That That, the fans won’t go for that,’ during the recording. That’s why it’s such a different sound for us. Being The English let us be something else musically. This was supposed to be our side project, our cool-music album. We did a bit of research about renaming ourselves and asked around, and all we got back from people was, ‘What? We’ve waited all this time for the five of you to get back together and you’re going to call yourselves something else?’ so we sort of gave up on the idea and went back to being Take That. But reluctantly so.”

Before all that, there was a group therapy session. When Williams walked away, or was sacked, in 1995, there was a lot of name-calling and finger-pointing in the press; it soon escalated into an all-out war between Barlow and Williams. “A lot of bad stuff happened, really bad stuff, and I hadn’t actually set eyes on Robbie for more than 10 years when we found ourselves in Los Angeles two years ago, mixing the Circus album,” he says. “He lives in Los Angeles, so we just, in a sort of impromptu way, invited him down to say hello, and I remember him walking into the room and I could barely look at him. On the surface it was all matey-matey stuff, but for me it was like meeting someone I’d never met before. To be honest I found it hard, and I sort of sat back and let the others talk to him. I think Robbie thought I was sat there steaming with anger. I wasn’t. I had dealt with all that stuff – well, okay, not all of it. But I had dealt with him saying all those things in public about me.”

On the way out Williams invited them all up to his house the following night. “That’s when it all happened,” says Barlow. “He took the lead and said to me, ‘Look, I’ve got things I’ve got to get off my chest with you,’ and I said, ‘That’s good, because so do I.’ For the next hour or so we apologised for what had been said and agreed that the whole thing was really insignificant. We ended up laughing about it. But we both needed the apologies – and we both got them. It was absolutely group therapy, and that allowed us to get back together again. But I had resented him at the time for leaving the band, because I knew it would split us up.”

When the band split it was taken as a given that Barlow, the only songwriter in the band, and a gifted one at that, would be the George Michael figure, strolling into a glittering solo career, and that the other four would be Andrew Ridgeleys. “It really didn’t turn out like that, did it?” he says, smiling grimly and reaching for the chocolate again. While Williams went on to become one of the most successful British solo artists of all time, Barlow, “the musical genius behind Take That”, was ignominiously dropped by his label and put out to pasture.

“I was depressed, very depressed,” he says. “The weight was the most noticeable thing. That was the worst bit. I was getting a bit immobile, actually; it was that bad. I had problems even walking. My wife encouraged me to see a doctor. He said that I was in the obese category – and I wasn’t just slightly obese, I was well into the obese category. He sent me to a dietician, who enrolled me in a gym, and it was so depressing being at the bottom of this mountain that you’ve got to climb. I didn’t seek help. I did it the old-fashioned way: I ate less and went to the gym. It came off slowly, and if there’s one thing I know it’s that I’ll never go back there again. There was a lot of pain, and everywhere I seemed to go I’d be tormented by that bloody song,” he says, referring to Williams’s Angels.

“It was really hard for me, but I think people get it wrong. They think that it was because Robbie was so successful and I wasn’t. But that wasn’t it; it was because my life had been ripped away from me. Music is all I can do. Music is it for me. The thought of, Christ, is this it for me? was hard, very hard. I was just thinking, I’ve worked all these years and now it’s all been taken away from me. That was the depressing thing.”

He stares out of the window for an eternity. “If you think about someone who does what we do, we spend our whole life going, ‘Is that any good? Do you like it?’ We’re constantly giving up ideas and wanting them to be accepted and loved by everyone. And if you lose your confidence you’re putting yourself down at the very first step. But the confidence is back now. I’d like to say we know what we are doing, but we don’t. You can’t in this business. You just go in and guess: ‘Is it great? I think it’s great.’ It’s never as planned as it looks. But the excitement now for us is that the new stuff is progressive and different. There’s even talk of us playing Glastonbury!”

He looks over at his bandmates. “I remember meeting them all for the first time, 20 years ago,” he says. “I’m not the same person now, and they certainly aren’t. So much has happened individually and collectively. What was that you said earlier? It’s like a soap opera. It certainly feels that way. But this episode is different: it has a kind of magic about it.”

Faster, higher, stronger

Billed as the biggest tour in UK and Irish history, Take That’s live shows for next year have already smashed box-office records (a million tickets were sold on the first day of availability).

“We have our own circuit now when we play live,” says Barlow. “We don’t go and do festivals in Belgium, because they’re not for us. We’d rather put on our own event where we know how much people are paying for car parks and Diet Cokes. I hate the idea of doing some festival and they’re ripping off all the fans and the band doesn’t even know about it.

“The new show will have the theatricality of the Circus tour, and we’ll split it up each night so that you’ll have us as the old five-piece, then you’ll have Robbie doing some solo stuff, then us as a four-piece, then us as the new-five piece. We’re just trying to integrate all of that into one show now.”

Fuente: Irish Times

"I am a supersonic specimen"

Video promocional de Progress en España

Los chicos en Radio 2