domingo, outubro 09, 2011

Gary Barlow adere ao Twitter

Esta notícia é confirmado pelo facebook e twitter oficial dos Take That. Gary decide acaba de lançar a sua própria página.
Twitter oficial: http://twitter.com/#!/GBarlowOfficial

terça-feira, outubro 04, 2011

Os Take That realizaram a maior digressão britânica de sempre

Este ano, os Take That embarcaram na maior digressão alguma vez vista no Reino Unido e Irlanda, quebrando todos os recordes anteriormente conhecidos. A Progress Live Tour passou por 29 estádios do Reino Unido, o que resultou em mais de 1.8 milhões de espectadores.

Este ano, os Take That embarcaram na maior digressão alguma vez vista no Reino Unido e Irlanda, quebrando todos os recordes anteriormente conhecidos.

A Progress Live Tour passou por 29 estádios do Reino Unido, o que resultou em mais de 1.8 milhões de espectadores. Agora, todos aqueles que lá estiveram – assim como todos os que perderam o mais fantástico concerto a que o Reino Unido já assistiu – podem apreciar o espectáculo no duplo DVD e Blu-ray que será editado no próximo dia 21 de Novembro.
Os anteriores DVDs ao vivo dos Take That quebraram todos os recordes antes alcançados no mercado britânico de DVD: os últimos três entraram directamente para o 1º lugar e cada um ultrapassou o fenómeno de vendas atingido pelo registo anterior. Por isso, imagina-se que esta nova edição se torne rapidamente uma das mais populares prendas de Natal. «Progress Live» inclui o épico concerto da banda na íntegra, além de um disco extra composto por exclusivas imagens de bastidores, filmadas ao longo das 29 datas do Reino Unido – oferecendo assim uma oportunidade única de vislumbrar como é que uma das mais bem sucedidas bandas da história da música britânica vive a emoção da estrada.
Partilhando o nome com o do álbum, «Progress», que vendeu mais de 3 milhões de exemplares e marcou a reunião do grupo, a Progress Live Tour 2011 foi um das maiores e mais aguardados reencontros deste Verão.

Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen e Robbie Williams actuaram perante enormes multidões, em concertos completamente esgotados, tanto no Reino Unido quanto na Irlanda. Esta foi a primeira digressão levada a cabo pela banda, enquanto quinteto, desde 1995. E, para celebrar a ocasião, noite após noite, ao longo de duas horas e meia monumentais, os Take That passaram em revista os maiores sucessos de uma história incrível, que começou há 20 anos.

Esta enorme produção deslumbrou as audiências, com um espectáculo imparável e surpreendente. Havia abelhas de patins, uma gigante lagarta púrpura, monges shaolin, peças de xadrez dançantes, uma impressionante parede de água com mais de 20 metros, escalada por acrobáticos bailarinos em constante desafio de gravidade, e um robot com 18 metros de altura, cuja alcunha era OM, que descia até junto dos fãs.

O concerto era dirigido pelo «grande homem», uma imponente estrutura composta por cabeça e ombros, com lasers no lugar dos olhos, suspensa a 45 metros, no topo do palco, de frente para o público.

A Progress Live Tour 2011, dos Take That, tornou-se a maior digressão de sempre no Reino Unido e na Irlanda, recorde atingido quando 1.34 milhões de bilhetes foram agarrados num ápice, esgotando menos de 24 horas após o início da sua venda. Desta forma, a banda esmagou o seu recorde de bilheteira anterior, atingido em 2008 com The Circus Live Tour, somando um total de 1.8 milhões de espectadores e duplicando o seu maior registo de vendas em apenas um dia. 

«Take That Progress Live» em DVD & Blu-ray tem edição a 21 de Novembro. 

quinta-feira, setembro 29, 2011

Progress Live DVD

DVD Progress Live

Progress Live is set for release DVD and Blu-ray on 21st November!

The release will feature Take That's epic live show and a bonus disc featuring Making Progress Live; exclusive behind-the-scenes footage filmed across the 29 UK dates of the tour.

Tracklisting:

Disc 1
Rule The World
Greatest Day
Hold Up A Light
Patience
Shine
Let Me Entertain You
Rock DJ
Come Undone
Feel
Angels
The Flood
SOS
Underground Machine
Kidz
Pretty Things
When They Were Young Medley*
Back For Good
Pray
Love Love
Never Forget
No Regrets/Relight My Fire
Eight Letters

*includes A Million Love Songs, Babe, Everything Changes

Disc 2
Making Progress Live

domingo, agosto 14, 2011

Howard Donald: I hope Take That are Back For Good

"We want people to go home and go to sleep with a smile on their face, be blown away by it and hope a Take That ticket goes on sale again in a couple of years."

Howard Donald in The Sun

sexta-feira, agosto 05, 2011

Ego de Robbie Williams pede regresso à carreira a solo

Robbie Williams culpou o ego por querer voltar a uma carreira a solo. O cantor explicou que quer voltar a uma digressão em nome próprio, o que levará a que não possa actuar regularmente com os Take That.

“Os concertos têm sido verdadeiramente extraordinários, melhor período da minha carreira até agora, com aqueles rapazes. Partilhar isto com alguém é muito melhor do que fazê-lo sozinho, mas depois o ego quer, precisa de uma série de outras coisas e começas a preparar a tua própria digressão…os outros rapazes vão sair afastar-se durante um tempo e eu não sei muito bem qual será o futuro com eles. Mas temos que fazer isto outra vez, é tão divertido”.

Os Take That terminaram na passada sexta-feira a digressão “Progress” e prepara-se para lançar oficialmente o single “When We Were Young” no próximo dia 22 de Agosto.

Howard in Barbados

Take That's Howard Donald washes his goggles in the spray as he hits the beach following the end of the band's recent record-breaking tour.

Gary Barlow

official X Factor Promotional Shoot

sexta-feira, maio 27, 2011

Take That: Progress Live Tour - The First Night

Take That bring Sunderland to their feet, kicking off their 36 date European Progress Live Tour by unveiling a fully operational 20 metre mechanical man as the stage centrepiece!

Take That kicked-off their Progress Live 2011 tour tonight Friday May 27th at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light in spectacular fashion. The tour, one of the most highly anticipated music events of the summer, is the first time the band have toured as a five-piece since 1995. The awesome live show celebrated their biggest hits from the last two decades, saw Robbie take to the stage to perform songs from his incredible chart-topping solo career and revealed an amazing set which includes a fully operational 20 metre tall man the band have nicknamed ‘OM’.

Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen took to the stage at 8.30pm to start the show to a deafening crowd reception starting as they meant to finish, with their biggest hit to date ‘Rule The World’. They then delivered four more of their biggest songs as a four piece including: ‘Greatest Day’ (including a huge yellow confetti canon blast), ‘Hold Up A Light’, ‘Patience’ and ‘Shine’ (which saw the band joined onstage by an Alice in Wonderland style dancing cast of dancing trees, roller-skating bees and huge caterpillar).

Next four became five, as Take That briefly united onstage ‘virtually’ through a huge video screen to sing their own version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; creating the bridge between the first two parts of the show.
Robbie Williams then kicked off his solo set with a stadium thumping ‘Let Me Entertain You’ which had the crowd jumping off their feet. His set proceeded through his own classics: ‘Rock DJ’ (where he climbed into a glass chariot to be pulled around the stage by dancers in roller-skates), ‘Come Undone’, ‘Feel’ (which saw him winched out to the audience) and of course finishing with the amazing ‘Angels’.

Before the five are reunited properly onstage a group of ominous looking Shaolin monks adorned in red cloaks swinging lanterns walk from the B-stage to the main stage to introduce their arrival. Take That then sing the song that marked their historic return; ‘The Flood’. For this the dancers performed an amazing routine taking place on a wall of water while the band sang from the highest part of the stage.

Robbie threw himself off the top for the finale of ‘The Flood’ to the floor via suspension cables before the band break into an explosive version of ‘SOS’ from their record breaking album ‘Progress’. This is the point where the audience are first introduced to a huge mechanical man who is revealed from behind the stage and slides out in a sitting position for the guys to sing ‘Underground Machine’ (again from ‘Progress’) to rapturous cheers from the audience.

The band then move to the B stage to perform ‘Kidz’ where they start an old skool dance-off involving Jason and Howard, flanked by human chess pieces dressed in black and white. ‘Pretty Things’ is performed back on the main stage with Gary and Robbie being lifted up by OM’s hands as a beautiful ballet dancer flits between the two stages.

Next the band share a few laughs with each other and the audience about old times before gathering around a piano for a medley of ‘Million Love Songs’, ‘Babe’, ‘Everything Changes’, ‘Back For Good’ and ‘Pray’ the final song for which they get up and do the original dance routine while the crowd go crazy.
 Gary, Howard, Jason, Mark and Robbie then begin what has to be one of the high points of the show: new XMen single ‘Love, Love’ featuring twenty dancers in gas masks flanking the band on either side of the main stage, while the mechanical man moves out into the middle of the stadium (carrying the band), with an awesome futuristic landscape on the VT behind which takes up the entire back wall.
As the show draws near to its finale the band break into ‘Never Forget’ as OM reveals his full height (20 metres) and the band then finish with ‘No Regrets’, a fiery performance of ‘Relight My Fire’ (with Robbie singing Lulu’s part) closing the show with Gary Barlow leading on the beautiful ‘Eight Letters’ (also the final track on ‘Progress’).
 
Take That’s Progress Live 2011 tour became the biggest tour in UK and Irish history when a record breaking 1.34 million tickets were snapped up in less than 24 hours of going on sale. The band smashed their previous box office record set in 2008 with The Circus Live Tour selling a total of 1.76 million tickets overall, more than doubling their own record for sales in a single day. 850,000 tickets went on sale at 9am on October 29, 2010 and throughout the day the band added a further 11 dates to cope with demand.

Between them, Take That and Robbie Williams have sold over 80 million albums, had 14 number one albums, 18 number one singles, played to over 14.5 million people live, won 20 BRIT Awards, eight MTV awards and five Ivor Novello awards; and the list goes on. The band’s critically acclaimed 2010 album, ‘Progress’, has now sold in excess of two million copies.


Full set list for Progress Live Tour 2011:

Rule The World
Greatest Day
Hold Up A Light
Patience
Shine
Sgt. Pepper’s VT
Let Me Entertain You
Rock DJ
Come Undone (Take A Walk On The Wild Side)
Feel
Angels
The Flood
SOS
Underground Machine
Kidz
Pretty Things
Million Love Songs/Babe/Everything Changes/Back For Good (piano medley)
Pray
Love Love
Never Forget
Relight My Fire
Eight Letters

Take That - Love Love

terça-feira, maio 24, 2011

Take That make tour Progress

THERE won't be much room for TAKE THAT to have a kickabout backstage.

With only three days until their Progress tour gets under way, everyone is running around making final checks to ensure everything is in working order.

It sounds like GARY BARLOW, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, MARK OWEN, JASON ORANGE and HOWARD DONALD should give their production designer CHRIS VAUGHAN a wide berth anyway.

Last-minute tinkering from the band has left him in need of a stiff drink. He said: "I am numb from worry. If I stopped to think about it I'd be on a plane to Rio.

"We're desperately trying to make everything the band wanted to happen, happen. It is stressful, honing set design, people changing their minds and the show being tweaked some."

The shows have cost more than £15million to stage and are twice the scale of The Circus gigs, so it's no wonder he is anxious.

Kicking off in Sunderland on Friday, the boys will play 36 dates before finishing up in Germany on July 29.

There are 275 technicians and crew on board to make sure the gigs go off without a hitch, plus a whopping 110 trucks to ferry equipment around.

The roadies will have earned themselves more than a few pints once it's all over.

segunda-feira, maio 23, 2011

O mega palco da digressão de volta do Take That...


Pelo tamanho da estrutura, da pra ver que a coisa é grande, bem grande… o valor da produção, aliás, foi estimado em 50 milhões de Euros 

Take That com novo álbum no próximo mês

Os Take That anunciaram o lançamento de um novo álbum para o próximo 13 de Junho. “Progressed” é o nome do LP, que vai incluir oito novas faixas, incluídas num álbum duplo.

Entre os novos temas está incluído o actual single “Love Love”, que também faz parte da banda sonora para o filme “X-Men: First Class”. O vídeo para o single será lançado nas próximas semanas.

Alinhamento de “Progressed”:

When We Were Young
Man
Love Love
The Day The Work Is Done
Beautiful
Don't Say Goodbye
Aliens
Wonderful World

Este álbum é editado no dia 13 de Junho em Portugal, informação oficial da Universal Portugal

MyWay

quarta-feira, maio 11, 2011

Take That - Love Love live @ National Movie Awards 2011

Take That apresentam nova música


Os Take That apresentaram “Love Love”, o seu novo tema, a ser incluído na banda sonora do filme “X-Men: First Class”.

O realizador Matthew Vaughn escolheu a música depois de Gary Barlow lha ter apresentado. Os Take That já tinham trabalhado com o realizador em 2007 no tema “Stardust”, que incluía a faixa “Rule The World”.


quinta-feira, abril 07, 2011

Progress Sells Two Million

The Official Chart Company confirmed earlier this week that Take That's No.1 album, Progress, has officially sold two million copies! WOW.

Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy (or more!) and contributed to this absolutely awesome figure.

quarta-feira, março 23, 2011

Cantores dos Take That fazem aposta

Os cantores britânicos Robbie Williams e Gary Barlow, dos Take That, fizeram uma aposta em dinheiro, com um valor de quatro dígitos, para ver qual dos dois consegue perder mais peso.

A dupla, que tanto ganha como perde quilos com muita facilidade, decidiu adoptar uma dieta rigorosa para acabar de vez com o problema de excesso de peso e manter a linha.

“Se ele (Gary) come uma alface, eu como meia alface. Fizemos uma aposta séria para ver qual dos dois consegue estar mais magro para a digressão da banda”, comentou Robbie Williams.


terça-feira, fevereiro 22, 2011

ROCKET SHIP LYRIC

When darkness filled me with expectation.
Could not see things straight or find my angel
I was a lost soul without a road map.
And out of body experience


Then you held out your hand,
Like I hoped that you would.
Saying not to let go
Don't you dare let me go.
Then you asked me to stay,
No way, I couldn't move.
Then you held me so tight.

And it's making better now.
Almost human now.
I made it up some how.
It played with my head.



I'm feeling much better now.
Won't be under now.
I've got stars over my head.


I prayed for reinvention.
A final resolution.
A catastrophic consequences and solution
I was a wise man without a gold star.
A lonely soldier without a cold war.

Then you held out your hand,
Like I hoped that you would.
Saying not to let go
Don't you dare let me go.
Then you asked me to stay
No way I couldn't move.
Then you held me so tight.

And it's making better now.
Almost human now.
I made it up some how.
It played with my head.

I'm feeling much better now.
Won't be under now.
I've got stars over my head.

 
I've got you back here in my mind
To the mother ship I come.  
Like a rocket ship,
In the galaxy.
We were back where we belong.
 
And I'm not afraid....

I haven't felt quite this way, for so long now. 

I can't explain... anymore.

I've got you back here in my mind  To the mother ship I come.  
Like a rocket ship,
In the galaxy.
We were back where we belong.

And its making better now.
Almost human now.
I made it up some how.
It played with my head.


I'm feeling much better now.
Won't be under now.
I've got stars over my head.

http://forum.takethat.com/t/4185.aspx?PageIndex=3

sábado, fevereiro 19, 2011

Take That new tour details

I’VE often regarded Robbie Williams as something of a (s)Marty pants...
Which might go some way to explaining the theme of Take That’s hyped Progress 2011 tour – Back to the Future.

Until now, details have been as secret as the designer of Kate Middleton’s wedding dress.
But I can reveal that Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Robbie are planning the most expensive set ever by a British band.
It is inspired by the 1985 classic film starring Michael J Fox as Marty McFly (inset) and features “flying time machines” as driven by Marty, a Christopher Lloyd-style nutty professor and a special retro section with dodgy undercuts, stonewashed denim ’n’ all. I’m told: “U2’s 360 Tour in 2009 cost £61million and Progress may out-do even that.
“The guys are big fans of the Back To The Future movies and want a time machine metaphor to show how they’ve changed.

“What with Robbie rejoining, they also needed some way of skipping over the years he was absent.” It is understood the quintet will open the show in front of a 90s backdrop, playing the early hits. The middle section will see Robbie, 36, go it alone with his solo hits. Take That, sans Rob, are expected to play tracks from their Circus and Beautiful World albums, before all five reunite for the finale.
They are about to audition dancers for the shows, which kick off on May 27 in Sunderland. Adds my source: “The boys are keenly discussing every aspect of the tour and won’t decide on final details until just days before. But it’s bound to be spectacular.”
Buy Cheap tickets for the upcoming X Factor Live 2011 Tour , prices start at £27 and are available now..

Read more: Mirror

quarta-feira, fevereiro 16, 2011

Take That ganham Brit para melhor grupo britânico

A actuação do grupo foi um dos momentos altos dos Brit Awards

Os cincos músicos reuniram-se em 2010 para voltar a gravar, tendo editado "Progress", o álbum mais vendido no ano passado no mercado britânico.

A actuação dos Take That foi um dos momentos da noite de entrega dos Brit Awards, na terça-feira à noite, em Londres. O grupo, formado por Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald, Jason Orange e Robbie Williams, venceu o prémio de melhor grupo britânico.
Depois de terem arrecadado no domingo o Grammy de melhor álbum de ano com "The Suburbs", os canadianos Arcade Fire venceram na terça-feira o Brit de melhor grupo e disco internacionais.
O rapper britânico Tinie Tempah estava nomeado para quatro Brit Awards, mas só conquistou dois com o disco de estreia "Disco-very": artista revelação e melhor single com "Pass Out".
Os Mumford and Sons, que somavam três nomeações, venceram o prémio de melhor álbum britânico com "Sign No More".
O rapper Plan B foi eleito o melhor artista britânico masculino e Laura Marling na categoria feminina.

terça-feira, fevereiro 15, 2011

Brits 2011: Take That win best British group award


Take That ended an 18-year wait to be crowned the best British group at the 2011 Brit awards.

Take That brit awards 

Take That: Best British Group 2011
Take That Brits 2011
The boy-turned-man band won the prize – voted for by their peers at the Brits Academy – at the third time of asking

The group, now including Robbie Williams again, celebrated with a ‘randy riot’ performance of their single Kidz, which starred an army of riot police who stripped to their underwear around them.
It was the routine the Fab 5 were meant to perform at the X Factor final which was reportedly axed by Simon Cowell shortly after clashes between police and students over university tuition fees. 
Boys to men: Take THAT, Brits 2011!
 

Brit awards 2011: Take That win best British group 21 years after their debut

Take That at the Brit awards
Take That at the Brit awards. Photograph: Matt Kent/WireImage
 
It may only take a minute to fall in love, but to reach the zenith of your artistic career can take a while longer, as Take That have discovered.
After 17 No 1 hits, pop world domination, an acrimonious split and dewy-eyed reunion, the phenomenally successful boy-turned-manband were finally crowned best British group at the Brit awards, 21 years after their first performance on the cheesy late-night TV show The Hitman & Her.
Young pretender Tinie Tempah may have taken home more awards – the rapper received statuettes for both British breakthrough act and best single for the infectious Pass Out – but the night belonged to the veteran band.
The revamped Brits were styled as a music-centric event rather than the bacchanalian back-patting exercise of the past. And there was evidence that the 1,000-strong voting academy, which this year included music performers for the first time as well as the usual promoters, producers, publishers and retailers, wanted to celebrate "quality" music.
In perhaps the most telling illustration of the change, folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling accepted the award for best British female solo artist.
While her precisely written and haunting album I Speak Because I Can received critical acclaim, it peaked at No 4 in the charts and she has remained under the mainstream radar.
Her victory is just the sort of left-of-centre award that the new Brits chairman David Joseph was looking for when he overhauled the voting academy.
The same, too, could be said for folk band Mumford & Sons, who have proved that banjos are no barriers to mass appeal, and took home the most coveted award of the night, the best British album, for their debut release Sigh No More.
But the revamp of the awards could not deflect from the crowning of Take That, the peak of an extraordinary 12 months in which the group's most recent album, Progress, became the fastest-selling of the decade with first-day sales of more than 235,000, the highest since Oasis released Be Here Now in 1997.
Take That's accompanying tour – the biggest in UK history – sold out in minutes, and promises to be the most spectacular that "Thatters", as their fans are known, have ever seen.
The band split amid accusations, insults and alcoholism in 1995. Robbie Williams, ever the bad boy of the group, went on to achieve huge success as a solo act – and has won more Brit awards than any other artist. His debut album, Life Thru a Lens, went straight to No 1, and hits such as Angels lodged themselves firmly in the karaoke canon.
But after Williams's career hit the buffers, the newly-reformed four-piece Take That went on to have success without him with The Ultimate tour in 2006, and The Circus album and tour in 2008.
Gary Barlow, the main songwriter of the band, recently turned 40, joining Jason Orange who is the same age, and Howard Donald, 42, in the realm of fortysomethings. Williams and Mark Owen are not far behind at 37 and 39.
Take That's award – the first time they have been crowned best British band despite three previous nominations – comes eight months after Williams announced he was rejoining the band.
Plan B, real name Ben Drew, whose concept album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks went to No 1 in the UK, was named best British male solo artist for his blend of rap-punctuated soul, while Jessie J, who has exploded on to the pop scene in 2011, going to No 1 with Price Tag this month, took home the prize for best newcomer.
Canadian indie rockers Arcade Fire continued their good run, winning best international group and best international album, after taking home a Grammy on Sunday for album of the year for The Suburbs.
American rapper Cee Lo Green, singer of the hugely popular, if not charmingly titled, Fuck You (or Forget You, depending on your radio station), took home the award for best international male solo artist while Rihanna won best international female solo artist.
The Brits may have been all about the music, but proof that the awards still enjoy a little unadulterated bubble-gum pop came in the perfectly coiffed form of the teen idol Justin Bieber, who took home the award for best international breakthrough act.

Take That Kidz The Brit Awards 2011


Take That kick off Brit Awards

terça-feira, fevereiro 08, 2011

Agenda

12th Feb- Wetten Dass- Channel ZDF;
15th Feb- Brits 2011- ITV1 8.00 pm; 
18th Feb- Sanremo Festival (Italy) Channel Rai 1; 
21st Feb-KIDZ single release; 
18th March- Comic Relief 2011- BBC