ROBBIE WILLIAMS has always been obsessed with UFOs - and his sci-fi influence is rubbing off on TAKE THAT.
His old mucker MARK OWEN compared his man-bandmates to characters from Star Trek during their press conference yesterday to announce their first tour as a five-piece since 1995.
It was an impressive spectacle at London's uber-posh Savoy hotel - with cameras flashing and hordes of women getting over-excited.
Robbie took centre stage, sitting in the middle of GARY BARLOW, MARK OWEN, HOWARD DONALD and JASON ORANGE - and he immediately resumed his role as the "cheeky one" in the band.
He identified Gary as "skipper", Mark the "cute one", Howard "the body" and Jason "the dancer".
But Mark had a more fitting analogy, which played up to Robbie's fascination with aliens.
He said: "Gary is definitely Captain Kirk. I've always fancied myself as Scotty. Howard is Bones, Jason is Mr Spock. That makes Robbie a Klingon - but a nice one."
Captain Gary said the lads have yet to decide on an angle for the tour. But when I grabbed him afterwards he said the show would be out of this world.
He said: "Put it this way, if we pull off what we are trying to pull off, we will change stadium shows for ever. We brought theatre to stadiums last time but this is going to be on a different scale."
The band's The Circus tour cost £100million when it went on the road last year and there are plans to dig deep this time round, too.
Gary added: "We always spend a lot. It's the one area we shouldn't be sensible about.
"We've got to give the crowd what they want. We haven't decided on a support act yet. I tell you who I like - TINIE TEMPAH.
"He is f****** brilliant that kid. I tell you what - look out the world."
The 14 UK dates on the Progress Live 2011 tour will be amazing if they match The Circus show.
The boys kick off at Sunderland's Stadium Of Light on May 30 and will do an epic four dates at Wembley Stadium.
They will also play six separate shows across Europe. But more dates are a certainty once these shows sell out.
Gary said: "There will probably be more. There should be.
"Luckily it's not a massive touring year next year. The last time round I think there were quite a few out - I think U2, COLDPLAY, OASIS. I'm looking forward to it. There will be something for everyone in the show."
The band's website takethat.com crashed yesterday due to sheer weight of traffic while Ustream, who streamed the press conference, notched record figures.
Major ticket retailers are preparing for a surge of Take That fans on Friday when tickets go on sale at 9am. They are bolstering their bandwidth and servers.
It's exciting stuff as the boys are really looking forward to touring with each other again. Gary said: "It is actually weird how much of a role we have all slipped back into. It is almost identical to what it was.
"Robbie's cheek is still there - he just doesn't change. Foolishly I wrote a song once called Everything Changes, but I must have been wrong. There have been no arguments. Not one cross word, nothing.
"We've learned to accept each other as a four and I think Rob has been part of a few band meetings now and I think he was quite taken aback by how truthful we were with each other. He is loving the security of being in a band and that's what he would always love." The boys will continue to share a dressing room and will get their families involved as much as possible, providing they can get kids out of school.
It will be a real celebration of all their work - even Robbie's solo material, which he will be performing.
Robbie said: "I'll be doing a bit, the lads will be doing a bit and then we'll be doing a bit. I heard a whisper yesterday he'd be getting at least 40 minutes of the show, a massive slice.
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