quarta-feira, janeiro 04, 2012
DVD Progress Live
quarta-feira, outubro 05, 2011
terça-feira, outubro 04, 2011
Os Take That realizaram a maior digressão britânica de sempre
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.
quinta-feira, setembro 29, 2011
DVD Progress Live
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
sexta-feira, agosto 12, 2011
sexta-feira, junho 24, 2011
sexta-feira, maio 27, 2011
Take That: Progress Live Tour - The First Night
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’).
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
terça-feira, maio 24, 2011
Take That make tour Progress
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...
terça-feira, maio 17, 2011
sábado, fevereiro 19, 2011
Take That new tour details
sexta-feira, janeiro 07, 2011
Digressão dos Take That foi a mais procurada em 2010
Segundo uma pesquisa levada a cabo pelo site de troca de bilhetes britânico Viagogo, a digressão 2011 dos Take That foi o espectáculo mais procurado do ano pelos residentes no Reino Unido ficando à frente de nomes como Kings of Leon ou Lady Gaga.
Os Take That alcançaram então o primeiro lugar da tabela, os Kings of Leon o segundo e o grupo britânico JLS ficou em terceiro lugar seguindo-se Lady Gaga e Michael Buble. Bon Jovi, Muse e Black Eyed Peas marcaram também presença no top 10.
sexta-feira, dezembro 10, 2010
Datas adicionadas em UK estão esgotadas
Duas das novas quatro datas anunciadas para Inglaterra, já estão esgotadas. Os bilhetes foram colocados à venda no dia de hoje, 10 de Dezembro.
Sunday 12 June 2011 Manchester Manchester City Stadium (Sold out)
Monday 4 July 2011 London Wembley Stadium (Sold out)
More info http://www.takethat.com/live
terça-feira, dezembro 07, 2010
Progress Live 2011: New UK Dates
The biggest selling tour in UK history just got bigger as Take That add four brand new dates to their record-breaking Progress Live 2011 UK Tour, Presented by Samsung.
Due to extraordinary demand, Take That today added four brand new dates to their Progress Live 2011 tour:
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 for all four new dates go on sale at 10am on Friday 10 December.
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.
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."
The extra date added at London's Wembley Stadium see's Take That break another record by becoming the only act ever to play eight dates at the Stadium, a previous record held by Michael Jackson who played seven nights on his 1988 Bad World Tour.
The new dates announced today will be the final dates added to the tour schedule.
quinta-feira, dezembro 02, 2010
quarta-feira, novembro 03, 2010
segunda-feira, novembro 01, 2010
Officially sold out
domingo, outubro 31, 2010
Take That batem recorde de Michael Jackson
O grupo vendeu mais de um milhão de bilhetes em menos de 24 horas. Os 'sites' e as linhas telefónicas foram abaixo.
Os sites foram abaixo e as linhas telefónicas ficaram entupidas. A procura de bilhetes para os concertos que marcam o regresso de Robbie Williams aos Take That foi tão grande que a Ticketmaster veio a público pedir desculpa aos fãs. Foram mais de um milhão de ingressos em menos de 24 horas, o dobro daqueles que foram vendidos para os espectáculo do suposto regresso de Michael Jackson aos palcos, na O2 Arena, Londres.
"Estamos sem palavras, realmente e totalmente chocados. Esta é a notícia mais surpreendente para todos nós. Vender um milhão de ingressos num dia é assombroso e achamos que vamos estar em choque por alguns dias", escreveram Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange e Howard Donald em comunicado.
Os bilhetes para os concertos de apresentação do disco Progress, que sai no próximo mês, foram colocados à venda na sexta-feira às 09.00. E o caos começou imediatamente, com os vários sites que deveriam disponibilizar ingressos a ficarem completamente entupidos. A Ticketmaster, por exemplo, teve 20 milhões de visualizações, enquanto a operadora telefónica BT teve um tráfego três ou quatro vezes superior ao habitual.
Além dos espectáculos já agendados para 2011, a banda anunciou mais 10. Esta é a primeira digressão com os cinco cantores desde 1994, um ano antes de se terem separado. Robbie Williams fez uma carreira a solo de sucesso.
25 dates are now sold out
