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Time Out London interview

Take That are about to wow London on their biggest and boldest tour yet, arriving at Wembley Stadium on June 30 2011 for eight shows. But will this tour also be their last? Time Out's editor corners them in Dublin's Croke Park Stadium to find out…

They'd have you believe, would Take That, that this is all normal, run of the mill. Just a group of friends, backstage, about to play a concert. Just, you know, hanging out. One of them, Mark, is busy making pasta for two of the others, Howard and Robbie. Gary is making a business call, Jason smiling for a photo. Robbie's wife, Ayda, is there, and two of their eight dogs are running around the place. Just a group of friends, spending time together. Except this is Croke Park, Dublin, capacity 77,000, and this is the biggest tour Britain and Ireland have ever seen.

Some facts and figures about Take That's 'Progress' tour: 1.76 million people in UK and Ireland will see them perform live this summer. The band will play a record-breaking eight nights at Wembley Stadium. That record was previously held by Michael Jackson, who played seven nights there on his 1988 'Bad' world tour. Two hundred and eighty-seven people are on the road at all times with an extra 160 local crew in each city. The show and performance are so elaborate, so detailed, that in an empty stadium, it takes 48 hours to build the stage and set. At each date, a field kitchen is constructed where 14 chefs and catering staff prepare more than 1,100 restaurant-quality meals per day. Oh yeah, and on the stage with them is a huge robot which has been given the nickname of 'Om'. Om is 20 metres high and weighs 25 tonnes. It took 14 weeks to build him.

As Dublin is about to find out, in four and a half hours' time, this tour is taller, wider, camper, more roboty and, yes, way bigger than any we've ever seen. Now, you did remember to get yourself a ticket, didn't you?

Incredibly, when it's all over, this tour probably won't be remembered for its hugeness. Instead, it will be remembered primarily for being 'the tour that Robbie Williams was on'. Robbie rejoined the band officially in 2010, some 15 years after leaving the group ('I was sacked, I didn't leave,' he will protest later onstage) for, at first, a period hanging out with Oasis, then rehab, then a series of huge-selling singles and albums, then more rehab, then a flop album followed swiftly by a pledge to stop touring for good. One constant theme throughout this whole period was Williams's disregard for, or, at times, downright loathing of, his time in the band. He'd tell the audience at the Brit Awards that he'd always been the talented one of the group. He'd perform the band's biggest hit, 'Back for Good', on his solo tours as an aggressive, confrontational, thrash hate song. While sitting on a motorised toilet. It's a wonder Take That wanted him back at all, but they did and the resulting album, 'Progress', is their best one yet, and ended up being the bestselling album in the UK last year. But Williams's history of live-show burn-out in his solo career made a tour of 'Progress' seem unlikely.

So how did they get to this point? What happens now? And why the hell can't Howard Donald and Robbie Williams make their own bloody pasta?

At just after 4pm, Mark Owen walks into the friends-and-family lounge beneath Ireland's biggest sporting venue. Mark is softly spoken, fragile and badly burnt by the press fallout from things that happened on the last Take That tour. In March last year he admitted to multiple one-night stands on the band's 2009 tour, 'The Circus'. In an interview with The Sun, he blamed his heavy 'party boy' drinking for the affairs. He checked in to rehab the next day. Mark is married with two young children. Personally he's been through a tough time. Professionally it's a different story.

He was often a creative bystander in the group's early-'90s boy-band days, but the reformed Take That now feels as though it is largely formed around Mark's lyrical themes, imaginative ideas and outlandish performances. He plays a leading role in a band he was once a pretty-boy frontman for, but appears to still have insecurities about his position. He also thinks way too much about stuff. All of this combined makes him a cautious interviewee.

When you were all planning this tour, what did you want to achieve? What questions did you ask yourselves?
'We just wanted a tour that did justice to the reunion, to Robbie playing with us again. But how do you play it? Do we sing on Robbie's solo songs? Does he sing on the songs we've made as a foursome? It wasn't easy.'

How is Robbie dealing with being back? The rumours had it that he didn't want to tour at all…
'It's great to see him perform with such passion. Because speaking to him a year and a half ago, you'd get the impression that he wouldn't do it. He thought he wouldn't be able to get on stage again. He'd fallen out of love with it all. The spark's back, he's bouncing around. We feel so blessed that he's back with us - it's such a joyful thing, it really is.'

Certain aspects of your behaviour on the last Take That tour have been well documented since. How are things different this time around?
'Well I've been going home a lot! I've been doing the shows then going home to see my kids. I never did that before. I always thought that the mentality was “When you go on tour, you go on tour”. I've realised now that it doesn't have to be like that. Life needn't be that one way or another. So we finish here in Dublin tomorrow then I go home for a few days. I don't feel as disconnected from my family now. When we're doing the dates and I'm off-stage I just spend a lot of my time on my own being quiet. Our head chef guy is teaching me some recipes too, so I'm cooking stuff most nights.'

And the temptations you succumbed to after shows previously - how do you pull yourself away from them now? What's replaced them?
'Green & Blacks organic milk chocolate! The world when you drink is different to when you don't. So different. There are different habits when you drink. I would come off stage and start drinking. Just head to the bar. That's what everyone does when they finish the show. Then you realise you don't need to go to the bar. You just don't need to go there.'

Were the tabloid revelations the thing that made you stop?
'They'd already stopped, to be honest. [Goes very quiet] It's difficult to talk about all of this...'

I understand…
'[Interrupting] I don't know whether you do understand because I have a wife and two kids and actually it's nobody's fucking business. My wife will read this interview, and her friends will. And we've dealt with it. I don't want to make her feel sick again, you know? Because I did make her feel sick and she's just starting to not feel sick after a year and a half and… [Starts welling up] I don't want to make her feel sick any more. I feel the most peaceful I have ever felt. I'm the luckiest… [Trails off].

'This tour for me is a lovely cap on it all. I'm not looking beyond this, at this moment in time, not with the band. It's a chance to say thank you to 1.8 million people, thank you for sticking by us through the last 20 years for all our shit, these five fucking idiots, because that's what we are are, all our shit that we've gone through they've stuck by us. Then I want to go home and spend some time with my kids and my wife and look after them for a bit.'

You were about to say how lucky you feel. Is this because you realise that you could have lost all of that?
'You realise none of this is worth anything without them. None of it. If I don't have them… there's no point to any of it.'

Have they been out on tour with you?
'They came to Sunderland. My wife is coming out for virtually all of the European leg too. Elwood watched his first show, Willow watched half. Elwood loved the robot!'

What happens after this? You make it sound, with some of the things you say, that this is you bowing out?
'I don't know. I don't know. In my head at the moment… I just want to get through this at the moment. If there's stuff that we can do, we'll do it. If something happens that means there's a reason to carry on we will. If we come up with songs we think people will want to hear we'll do them. If someone comes up with an idea that's about putting money in the bank then no…'

How's the next year of your life panning out in your head?
'The mind's a funny thing. I hear it in my head sometimes: “What are you going to do when this tour finishes? Gary's got 'The X Factor', Robbie's got a solo record, what about you? You're gonna get left behind again?” I hear that voice. And I go: “No, I'm not.” I'm going to enjoy myself, I'm going to take my time. One of the hardest things to do is nothing. That's what I'm going to try and do when this tour ends. Nothing. Achieve nothing.'

The band's security guard comes to fetch Mark. He's needed elsewhere.

'I'm sorry for snapping at you,' he says, then adds quietly: 'Sorry if I offended you.'

Gary Barlow wanders into the room. He starts talking about Owen, unaware of what we've just been discussing.

'Look at him, still trying to hog the headlines! Mark - the head judge is here!'

It's 4.45pm now, the doors to the stadium have just opened and Gary Barlow is already talking about the thing Time Out was told he wouldn't be talking about - his new role as head judge on 'The X Factor'. Mark leaves for his tenth fag of the day and his fourth coffee.

Gary Barlow is a whole different ball game to Mark Owen. Louder, more self-assured and patently not someone who overthinks anything. 'I leave that to Mark,' he says, quite correctly. Seen as the controlling, creative figure in the band in their early days, a role which meant he bore the brunt of Robbie's ire in his time away from the band, Barlow has relaxed into a far more democratic role. But it is still his band really, and with his boundless energy and inability to stress about any of the madness Barlow is an important figure in a group full of eccentrics. Life hasn't always been peachy - when his solo career fell apart in the late '90s he turned to drugs and suffered from depression. But it's this tough time that has made him so determined to enjoy every second of his renaissance. Including taking on a second role as a primetime ITV1 judge. Talking of which, and seeing as how he brought up the subject…

Throughout much of this tour you've been judging 'The X Factor' contestants during the day and singing live at night and you seem to be dealing with it…
'Workwise, they're pretty tough those days, but from a mental situation - which I'm often driven by - as I'd sit there on the helicopter being taken from “The X Factor” to a gig, I think: This is life at the top; this is as big as it gets. You won't find me complaining about that 'cos I know what it's like to be out of work with nobody interested in you, and it's shit.'

Apparently you're the tough-guy judge?
'Apparently I am! I don't know how it comes across but if they're no good I'll say I'm not interested. But I'm going to be tough on everyone, especially the acts I'll be looking after. 'Cos it's serious, this. It's bloody hard to make a living in music and I don't want to dress it up for anybody. Our responsibility is to mentor these people properly and we put through the ones that not only deserve a place but are also mentally prepared to take it on. They're plucked from nowhere, they're put into this spotlight - and “The X Factor” spotlight is bigger than any other. You see the slightest sign that they can't deal with that… well, you can't use them.'

Reports at the time of the Manchester gigs alleged that your female fans were getting so drunk they were becoming a burden on the city's ambulance services. Your fans are all drunkards: fair or unfair?
'I looked around and there were a few lairy people at those Manchester gigs. They come for a good night out and however they want to conduct themselves, well, it's up to them, really. I'm not bothered - as long as they're not causing too much trouble, not hurting one another, I'm fine with whatever they do.'

It has a knock-on effect though, doesn't it? Police in Glasgow are now saying that if your fans get drunk at the gig then try and get on a train home they could be arrested.
'Really? [Laughs] Right, well I hope they've extra staff on.'

Everyone was expecting Robbie to choke at some point. How has he been?
'Amazing. Never seen him like this before.'

Were you worried he'd change his mind?
'I was at the very start. 'Cos he did change his mind a couple of times! The touring was always the icing on the cake. We thought: If we can get this album done and away - great. Then if we tour… well, that would be amazing. And Robbie was just not looking forward to doing it on tour. He liked being with us and enjoyed spending time with us but the tour side of it seemed like a no-no. He has issues with the touring thing because of what happened before. Self-doubt and the rest. But there's been no issues at all. Me and Mark watch him every night do his solo bit from the side of the stage and we say, “Well, we've done our job here.”'

Gary is a little bit more sure on what his plans will be over the next year and a half. But his plans don't feature a new Take That album. He'll be producing Robbie's next solo album, performing a Children in Need concert in November, then in 2012 he's musical director for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee gig ('I'd prefer it with the band, but if it turns out they don't want to do it I'll do something on my own'). And he has his eye on a slot at the Olympics closing ceremony ('If asked, we'll do it'). Something tells me they'll ask.

Howard pops in to the lounge for a quick chat. The oldest of the band, and a father of two, Howard was recruited primarily for his dancing skills, but his singing on fan favourite 'Never Forget' and tracks on their more recent albums have meant he's increasingly been regarded as a lead vocalist in his own right. Howard is sure about his plans for the next 18 months: he's going to learn to fly a plane.

'I'm going to be doing my private pilot's licence. I ordered a plane last year' - he announces this with all the casualness of someone telling you which toppings they plumped for on their pizza - 'from America, and it's an amphibious plane so it can land on water and land. That doesn't arrive until 2013, so I've got to learn how to fly one before it arrives! It's always been one of my ambitions to fly a plane. Can't wait.'

The concert that night is a triumph. It's a spectacle unlike any other the country has seen. Even Om the robot - who is supposed to unfurl to his full height as the show progresses - works, and he has been temperamental on five dates already (including one memorable night in Manchester when Howard got stuck on top of him and had to be rescued by ladder). Dubliners go home happy. I go back to London, where the tour is heading now. Wembley, Gary makes clear, isn't just another date. Or eight dates. It's the ultimate date.

'You enjoy the hometown gigs, the Irish gigs, all of them,' he says. 'But I think as a venue Wembley is the one everyone dreams of. As a kid the TV show you would dream of was “Top of the Pops”, and the gig you would dream of was Wembley Stadium.'

But is it the end? Almost certainly not, but no one is giving me concrete evidence that plans for the future are being made. Maybe they're just too shattered (and exhilarated) to make plans. The only pattern emerging is of a group of people unable to see how they can top what they're doing now. And, frankly, how can they?

Fuente: TimeOutLondon

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Mark Owen's big Take That tour panic

MARK OWEN's been getting through more pants than usual - as nerves kick in ahead of TAKE THAT's Progress tour.

The band will play the first of 36 sell-out stadium shows this Friday.

Mark admitted: "A few weeks ago I had a pre-tour panic, a bit of a meltdown, which I went through for a couple of days.

"Not much sleep, but I came through the other end and I've been all right since.

"But we're confident with it now and I think the show's going to be brilliant."

You can't blame him for getting jittery - this is the biggest-selling UK tour ever.

The first show is at Sunderland's Stadium of Light, where Mark, GARY BARLOW, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, HOWARD DONALD and JASON ORANGE will do four dates.

Then they play the City Of Manchester Stadium, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, Hampden Park in Glasgow and Villa Park in Birmingham.

The UK dates climax with a record-breaking eight-night run at London's Wembley Stadium, from June 30.

The concerts, which also take in Dublin and six other European cities, will be the first with Robbie since he quit in 1995. It sounds like he can't wait to make up for lost time.

Mark said: "We're having to hold him back. Rob says, 'Come on guys, let's get on with it'.

"We've all got enthusiasm to do a great show and that's what we've always prided ourselves on."

Mark hinted that has led to the odd spat during rehearsals, being held in an aircraft hangar north of the capital.


Speaking to Music Week magazine, he added: "There are certain members of us who push the theatrics more than the others and it's trying to find that happy medium where everybody's comfortable.

"We're like kids really. We're all a bit excited about life and the tour and I'm really proud of what we've achieved. I hope everyone enjoys it."

The band's 2009 Circus tour was truly spectacular.

The lads rode a giant mechanical elephant alongside acrobats and clowns in what must be one of the greatest stadium shows ever performed on these shores.

But their new tour should be more than a match.

We'll find out on Friday...

Fuente: The Sun

Follow that bike!

MARK OWEN must want to join the ROBBIE WILLIAMS and GARY BARLOW slimming battle.

The singer didn't get a car with the rest of TAKE THAT, instead riding his nan's bike to rehearsals. But where was his skid lid?

Mark, Gary, Robbie, HOWARD DONALD and JASON ORANGE were at The Arc in London's Wandsworth to practice for the Progress tour.

What they are planning is so top secret that workers were banned from using camera phones. But fans clocked them coming and going, with one grabbing Howard for a pic.

The 27-date UK tour sold out in moments. No pressure then...

Fuente: The Sun

Mark Owen Donates Take That Tickets To Charity Auction

Take That star Mark Owen is boosting a drive to raise $2.4 million (£1.5 million) for a special school near his home by donating 10 executive concert tickets to its charity auction.

The British singer is a patron of The Rainbow Charity, which runs an educational establishment for autistic children in south west London.

Organisers are striving to raise funds so they can provide lessons for even more needy children - and the Shine singer was happy to help out by donating five pairs of tickets for Take That's upcoming sold-out show at London's Wembley Stadium in July (11).

A statement on the charity's official website reads, "Our patron, Mark Owen has kindly donated us 5 pairs of executive tickets from the band's personal ticket allocation, for the Sold Out Take That Progress Live 2011 gig at Wembley on Tuesday 5th July 2011.

"The tickets are for executive seats - not widely available to the general public - so snap up this golden opportunity to watch the gig from the comfort of the best seats in the house and place your bids!!"

The tickets will go up for auction on eBay.com on 30 May (11).

Fuente: Contactmusic

Take That - Owen Sells Home

Take That star Mark Owen can finally make a fresh start with his wife following a cheating scandal which rocked their relationship a year ago (Mar10) - the pair has sold its marital home.

The British singer stunned fans last March (10) by confessing to 10 affairs behind his partner Emma's back, as well as revealing he has been nursing a secret drinking problem for more than a decade.

In a bid to move on from his personal issues with Emma and their two children, Elwood, four, and Willow, two, Owen placed the couple's home in Wandsworth, south London on the market.

And now it has emerged the couple sold the property last month (Feb11) for less than its estimated value of $2.6 million (£1.6 million), reports Britain's The Sun.

Owen originally bought the house in 2006 for $1.9 million (£1.2 million).

Fuente: Contactmusic

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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 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

Mark Owen almost quit Take That

British singer MARK OWEN almost quit TAKE THAT at the height of his personal problems this year (10) - because he couldn't face going back to work.

The pop star stunned fans in March (10) when he confessed to a decade-long booze problem and admitted cheating on his longtime partner Emma Ferguson, who he married in late 2009, with at least 10 different women.

Owen entered rehab in a bid to address his problems - and admits he considered walking away from the group altogether.

But the star, who will embark on a massive tour next year (11) with the full Take That line-up, decided to stick with his bandmates because he didn't want to "let them all down again."

Speaking in upcoming documentary Take That: Look Back, Don't Stare, about the band's reunion with Robbie Williams, Owen says, "Drink and me equals not good, really. There was a time when I was, like, 'I can't ever go in a studio ever again, I can't do this. It's just not who I am or what I've been doing'.

"And then I thought, 'Well, you know it's quite selfish, we've come this far now and done all this work. Don't let everybody down. You've let everybody down enough - you don't want to let them all down again'."

And Owen is adamant he is a changed man following his rehab stint, telling Britain's Radio Times, "In rehab, I was able to look at my behaviour, at who I was and who I wasn't. I'd kind of become this person I didn't really recognise. How did that happen?"

The documentary is due to air in the U.K. on Saturday (13Nov10).

Fuente: Contactmusic

Mark: "I've saved my marriage"

Serial cheat Mark Owen has spoken for the first time of his joy that his battered marriage has survived.

The Take That singer's relationship with Emma looked doomed after he was forced to confess to 10 affairs earlier this year.

Mark, 38, admitted that it had been a "very difficult" time but the pair had turned the corner and were ready to stay committed. He said: "I do want us to grow old together. I do fancy her. Those feeling are there."

Mark summed up his emotions in a song he had written called What Do You Want From Me. Among the telling lyrics is the line: "I like to think of us moving on. I still think I'm in love with you."

He admitted: "My hope for me and my relationship with Emma is in that song. But it's difficult because of what it brings up."

The relationship has been on the rocks since March, when Mark confessed to being unfaithful with 10 women.

He had married Emma, 32, mother to his children, Elwood, three, and one-year-old Willow Rose - just six months earlier in a Scottish castle.

The singer said he was "deeply sorry" for his infidelities but Emma removed her wedding ring and refused to talk to him. Mark, whose interview is in Q, out next Tuesday, then checked into the Priory and vowed to stop boozing.


Fuente: Mirror.co.uk

Mark Owen's secret lover opens her heart about their on-off five year affair

Sitting side by side, they grinned broadly as the announcement was made. Take That were back together – all five of them – squeezed on to a sofa at their record company offices. It was as if the past 15 years had never happened. Like good Northern lads, they toasted their reunion with mugs of tea.

Gary looked pensive. Howard gave the thumbs-up. Jason declared life ‘wonderfully strange’, Robbie giggled and Mark Owen smiled and said it was ‘like a dream’. Across the country, women in their 30s offered up small prayers of thanks.

Not so long ago, Neva Hanley would have shared the upbeat mood. She would have looked forward to the new tour and the VIP tickets she would inevitably secure. If friends asked, she would tell them she knew one of the backing dancers. It always worked before. Then, she would hover on the sidelines and wait for the telephone call asking her to her lover’s room. But that was then.

Today, the 24-year-old views the coverage of Take That’s reunion with dismay. In March, it was revealed that Neva and married father of two Owen had conducted a five-year affair. While he had publicly courted his now wife, Emma, he secretly bedded Neva.

In fact, he admitted, there were ‘at least ten’ other women.
In the aftermath, Neva fled the country, working for a charity in India. She returned to Britain only on Monday.

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Mark looks happier than ever after Take That announcement

Mark Owen stepped out today looking happier than ever following the announcement that Robbie Williams would be rejoining former band Take That.
The 38-year-old singer, who wore a summery blue striped cardigan with jeans and boots, looked excited as he waved to fans in Clapham, south London.
Last night, Robbie confirmed he would be making Take That a quintet once again as he rejoins the group for a £50million album and tour next summer.

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