[新聞] An Interview with Take That
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An Interview with Take That
11 years after the most dramatic split in the history of pop so far,
Take That will play their comback album “Beautiful World” on Oct.
26th at the Wiener Stadthalle. Gary Barlow (36), Mark Owen (35), Howard
Donald (39) and Jason Orange (37) talk about the comback tour, the
"new” feeling about being a “proper” band, their old sins and the
former band mate Robbie Williams in this interview with Krone.at.
Krone.at: How do you manage that your concerts don't look like the
concerts 10 years ago?
Gary (laughs): Cause we are not looking like 10 years ago…
fortunately! Also we are not only playing our old songs,
but new material too. Apart from that: It isn't
sufficent just to sit there and to showcase oneself.
We want the audience to go overboard and we are trying
to guide the people through all kinds of feelings. When
we get off the stage totally exhausted, it was a good
show for us.
Krone.at: What's the difference, when you are together on stage
nowadays?
Mark:The biggest difference is that we are more creative now. When we
play a concert these days, it’s a complete other feeling. You are
feeling the moment, it wasn’t like that back then. We are more
solid now, the whole show is it actually.
Jason: A lot of is happing inside your head too. When I did a concert
15 years ago, I kept on talking to myself through out the whole
show, how brilliant I was. I was a show-off, almost a
exhibitionist. (laughs) “Look up to me, I’m a popstar!” God,
we did everything to make the girls scream. And it felt so
natural, it was totally okay back then. But now we are moving
towards the audience and we enjoy the pleasure of our fans.
Probably we were honest to our fans for the first time during
the reunion tour.
Krone.at: I told a female friend of mine, that you are together as a
band again, that you are recording a new album and that you
will go on tour once again. She said: “They can’t do that!
Not after I almost cried out my eyes for more than one year?
– should I go through it once again as a grown-up?”
When you recorded “Beautiful World” for what did you fear
more: for the work together with the “old” band mates or
for the reactions of the “old”following?
Gary: I would say for the second one. We were pretty afraid of the
reactions. Maybe the memory is better than the reality. Howard
comes up with it constantly, for example. We left them. We were
on top, the crowd still wanted us, when we decided to split up.
We quit with a No. 1! Surely when we came back we risked our
reputation. We put it all on the line. Why did we take those
risks? But I think, if we weren’t able to bring something good
with us, we wouldn’t come back.
Krone.at: Your album “Beautiful World” hit it big. Were you stunned
by the prompt success?
Mark: When you are recording an album, you want the people to like what
you do. And I had high hopes, that the people would like it. I
expected to sell 200 pieces of “Beautiful World” – I’m just
talking in relations right now. But we sold 1.000 pieces, if you
know, what I mean. I’m proud of this album.
Howie: I’m proud of making the album on our own. Actually, it was the
first time, that we all contributed all the same. I really
honour Gary’s songwriting – but I have no problem to take our
old golden records off the wall in order to make room for
“Beautiful World”. This album is giving me more self confidence
and self esteem than any album we made before.
Krone.at: How much did marketing experts, sales figures and decisions
taken by people outside the band influence Take That back
then? I mean, I’m sure you had to do things, which you
probably didn’t want to do!?
Gary: Yeah, you can say that again! We had to do a lot of things during
those days, which we didn’t do voluntarily. I would say about 70
percent of our actions and decisions were taken by our former
manager. He controlled, manipulated and intervened; but Howard
said it before, the great thing is: We are the bosses now! I
didn’t come back to get told what to do.
Krone.at: Let me have an example for these “things”…..
Gary (thinks about it briefly): I can't remember something concrete
at the moment. However wouldn’t it be better to let bygones be
bygones?
Krone.at: I understand. Is there more pressure nowadays?
Gary: No, it’s easier these days.
Howie: Somehow I have the feeling that we never had a chance to make
decisions. To decide about photo shootings, interviews like this
one and about everything affecting the future is simply great.
Gary: Maybe it wasn't that bad, that someone guided us back then. Of
course we had to gain a lot of experiences. Now we are doing it
for so long, everything we haven’t seen yet, isn’t mostly worth
seeing.
Krone.at: After getting the offer to make the new album, who was the
most reluctant one?
Mark: You can't put it that way. We got an offer to make the album and
we were all in the same boat. We got a certain amount of money
for the record deal and put it on a banking account. We didn't
touch it, started the recording and made an agreement: If only
one of us disagreed with everything produced so far, we would
stop and pay the money back to the record company. Luckily it
never happened.
Jason: When we got the offer, we were in an extraordinary situation.
We weren't and aren't in need of making the album to get money.
In addition the record company was taking a certain risk too.
Bad music,a bad comeback album would have ruined our reputation.
Krone.at: Do you remember you first reaction when Robbie Williams
released "No regrets”? When he explained the meaning of
the song, in which he settles a score with Take That?
Gary (wrinkles his nose and folds his arms): I only heard this song
two years ago. Never heard it before. I didn’t live in England
back then. (thinks briefly) Well, it's Robbies story, very
dramatic. But it’s a good song and I can understand the
perspective.
Jason: The first time when I heard the song I was jealous. I thought,
it must be a real relief for Robbie. I was jealous because I
still wasn't able to feel relieved.
Mark: He got rid of us, he separated from us.
Jason: Yeah, but I wasn't able to do that at that time. Although when
I talk to him now - and we hear from eachother almost every week
- I have the feeling, that he wasn’t able to get completely
rid of Take That then. Back then, at times we didn't talk to
eachother, I saw him perfoming it on TV and simply thought:
Congratulations!
Krone.at: Let's summarize: Actually you are back together because you
just couldn't separate from Take That and you didn’t sing
a song like “No Regrets”?
Gary: Yeah – it's weird, isn't it?
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