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    Take That's Howard Donald Calls His Boyband's Music 'Sh*t'

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    Howard Donald describes his boyband as ‘business’ as the singer claims he and bandmates spent at least $13.7 million to produce impressive live shows for their fans.

    Mar 26, 2021

    AceShowbiz –
    Howard Donald has jokingly branded Take That’s music “s**t.”

    The 52-year-old boy band star has confessed that his band’s songs – which include mega-hits “Back for Good”, “Relight My Fire”, and “Patience” – are not necessarily his favourite tunes as he revealed he is a lover of electronic music.

    He told the “Events That Made Me” podcast when asked which Take That songs are his favourites, “I don’t like any of them, they’re all s**t.”

    On what he is listening to, he added, “At the moment I’ve got 15 boxes of vinyl, all dance music from the late 80s and 90s, I’m sifting through – Beck, Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Human League, Gary Numan.”

    “I generally listen to a lot of electronic music – I listen to a lot of dance music.”

    The musician hailed Take That “a business” and said they invest millions into making their live shows impressive for their fans.

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    He said, “We’ve always said we want people to walk out of those arenas and say: ‘Wow. It was an amazing show. I got my $109 (£80) worth.’ ”

    “Production wise, you could spend anywhere between $13.7 million (£10million) – $20.5 million (£15million) producing a show like that.”

    “Then obviously you’ve got to do enough shows to get your money back, otherwise you would be doing it for free. And we are a business at the end of the day.”

    And Howard – who is joined in the group by Gary Barlow, 50, and Mark Owen, 49, in the current lineup – insisted you don’t have to be into the “Rule the World” hitmakers’ music to enjoy their performances.

    He added, “We never used to see guys at our show, and bit by bit the girlfriends would be bringing the guys, and the guys would have their arms in the air.”

    “They’ve come along because they know Take That’s going to deliver a performance – whether you like the music or not.”

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      Take That Delivers Classic Hits During Reunion With Robbie Williams

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      Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, and Howard Donald have reunited with their former bandmate and performed their classic songs for an online fund-raising gig on Youtube.
      May 30, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Robbie Williams thrilled Take That fans by joining his old bandmates for a virtual charity gig on Friday night, May 29, 2020.
      The “Angels” star teamed up with Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, and Howard Donald, for the Compare The Meerkat concert on YouTube, and joked about his late arrival as he tried to beam in from Los Angeles, where he is self-isolating with his wife, Ayda Field, and their kids.
      “I’m here now,” he joked as he appeared onscreen. “Last time, I was 15 years late.”
      Robbie left the band in 1995 but he has rejoined for occasional performances – the last one in 2018.
      He joined the trio for a performance of band classics like “Back for Good”, “Shame,” and “Never Forget”, while wearing an eye-catching pink leopard print blazer.
      The bandmates also chatted about their lockdown experiences, with Donald revealing he’s tired of reading children’s stories to his kids.
      “I’ve read more books than in my life,” he grumbled.
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      Fans were clearly stoked to see the quartet back together even though another former bandmate, Jason Orange, was a no-show, with many taking to social media to rave about the virtual reunion.
      One fan tweeted, “Free Take That concert, this is the best evening ever,” while another user added, “Loved watching you all together again, was a real tonic I needed. Thanks guys.”
      Robbie previously joked about hiring a private detective to track down Orange.
      Speaking on his “At Home with The Williamses” podcast earlier this week, he said, “None of us know where he’s gone. I should hire a private detective. He finds out where Jason Orange is, we inject him with a beeping thing, a chip, then we know where Jason is at all times.”

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      Take That Musical 'The Band' Is in the Works

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      A big-screen adaptation of the 1990s British popular boyband is in development and the producers are reportedly eyeing ‘high calibre names’ to play the lead roles.
      Apr 26, 2020
      AceShowbiz – A big screen adaptation of hit Take That musical “The Band” is in development.
      Danny Perkins, chief executive of the Elysian Film Group in London, told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper producers are working on the project during lockdown, with shooting scheduled to begin later this year 2020.
      “We’re putting it together, and once all the serious things settle down, we can get on with making it,” he said.
      The group is firmly behind the project, after stage show “The Band”, which was written by Tim Firth and produced by David Pugh, toured widely for two years from 2017.
      The plot centres on five 16-year-old schoolgirls from the north-west of England in 1992, obsessed with a fictional boy band, based on the “Relight My Fire” hitmakers.
      “A tragedy happens, then we jump forward 25 years to see the women those girls became and they realise they were fools to have been apart for so long,” Firth explained. “It’s about friendship and the power of the songs they loved. The band and the bits are secondary; it’s about the fans who loved them.”
      A number of “high calibre names” have been approached to play the women, although no signings have been made as yet.
      Take That, starring Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, and Mark Owen, formed in 1990 and enjoyed success until they disbanded in 1996. They later reunited in 2005 as a four-piece, without Robbie, and now perform with Gary, Mark, and Howard, following Jason’s departure in 2014.

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