Что это значит?
В прошлом туре Джейсон забыл слова, а в этот раз забыл, в каком номере снимать штаны???

P.S. Так растерялась от увиденного, что аж забыла поблагодарить за новые фото. Pooh, спасибо, они чудесные!

I ran a thousand miles to be by your side...

Fraudsters preyed on fans desperate to get tickets for the band's sell-out Circus Live tour - which played to an audience of 250,000 over five nights at Old Trafford Cricket Ground last week with the last performance on Sunday.

They duped them into handing over credit card details on credible-looking websites, including takethattour.com, which have nothing to do with the Manchester group.

Promoters of the tour said the websites had no authority to sell tickets and they were continuing in their `pursuit' to shut them down.

Trading standards officers issued advice to fans and police said they were investigating after a mother-of-two told how she had been conned out of £230.

Now Bev Hughes, the MP for Stretford and Urmston, which includes the Old Trafford stadium, has called on the government and trading standards to take action.

She said: "This practice is clearly criminal and the offending sites should be shut down.

"I'm calling on the government and trading standards to investigate these sites and ensure that appropriate action is taken."

The Manchester Evening News began investigating the ticket scam after mum Navinder Leftwich, from Ashton-under-Lyne, was conned out of £230 on tickets for herself and daughters Jade, 10, and Alex, six.

Navinder, 37, who bought the tickets for Tuesday's Old Trafford show, said: "I just feel so sorry for the girls because they were really excited about going.

"The website looked very plausible - it had a padlock logo on it when I ordered the tickets, so I assumed it would be secure."

On the website victims were told tickets would be sent 10 days before the show or could be picked up at the venue on the night. But this has failed to happen and the website has been closed by those behind it.

A number of Take That fans have contacted the MEN to say they have been fleeced.

One fan who has lost £130 on tickets for her two children said: "All I ended up with was a piece of paper I printed off my computer which cost me £130. I know there are thousands out there like me. I have spoken to quite a few people in the same boat as myself."

Fans were also left out of pocket at shows in Coventry, Sunderland and Cardiff.

The Circus Live tour became the fastest-selling in pop history with 600,000 tickets sold in less than five hours and the Manchester shows have been be the biggest live music events ever seen in the area.

The chart-topping band - Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald - added extra dates to cope with demand.

Takethattour.com was set up overseas and it is understood the conmen behind it set up similar sites selling tickets for Take That shows and other major concerts, including Oasis. Concert promoters urge fans not to buy from unofficial websites.

A spokeswoman for SJM Concerts, which is promoting the Take That tour, said: "These websites are not authorised to sell Take That tickets. SJM Concerts and the Concert Promoters' Association continue in the pursuit to shut these down.

"This is a matter for the government who, despite constant requests, refuse to legislate against touting."

Registered

Fiona Sharkey, head of enforcement services at Manchester City Council, said fans should do everything they can to check the reliability of ticket websites.

She said they should look for contact details including a British phone number and address, as well as ensuring they are registered for VAT.

Many fake ticket sites are hosted outside Britain. Some of the Take That sites appear to have been set up in Hungary and Canada.

Professor Nigel Linge, a professor of telecommunications at Salford University, said domain names were easily and cheaply bought.

He added: "Internet fraud is global and it runs to millions of pounds."

A spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, said: "The vast majority of ticket suppliers give fans a fair deal.

"But unfortunately there is a small minority of unscrupulous businesses and individuals that give the rest of the sector a bad name.

"We're doing all we can to put the worst offenders out of business. Our Companies Investigations Branch has already wound up a number of companies that traded as secondary ticket agents.

"We're continuing to take action to tackle fraudsters who use the internet to con consumers.

"Anyone who feels they have been a victim of fraud or misleading sales should contact their local trading standards team who will be able to help."
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news....ket_con

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huzyvCFlFGA Pray - Mark dancing and smiling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGeXWcpkUTE Do what you like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpZ3o9Ckv9U Unicycling

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Somehow a fictional band of metalheads can still attract tens of thousands almost 25 years later

There can't be a rock band anywhere who haven't had a copy of This Is Spinal Tap on the tour bus. Not only is Rob Reiner's tale of a gormless heavy metal act neck-and-neck with Airplane! as the funniest film ever made. It's also so uncannily true to life that, ever since its 1985 release, actual rock dinosaurs have been squabbling over who is the real-life inspiration.

A quarter of a century on, Spinal Tap have arguably been superseded by the likes of Anvil, Steel Panther and The Flight of the Conchords, whose tele-vision series is a painfully funny expression of what it's like to be in a struggling band now.

The problem with writing a review of Spinal Tap live, a document – or, if you will, rockument – of a concert by a band who don't actually exist, is whether to treat it as a gig or a fan convention. The danger is that, when stripped of the comedy context, you're simply left with a third-rate band, and not a lot of laughs.

Most of Wembley is here to worship the Tap just for being the Tap. Bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), brilliantly, looks exactly like Derek Smalls would in 2009: identical to his younger self, but with grey hair and 'tache, and leather slacks instead of skin-tight nutcrushers. Similarly, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), the preening axeman who shows his versatility by parping tunelessly on an Alpenhorn, is thicker set but rockin', with the same look he always had, and David St Hubbins (Michael McKean, left) is still giving it the full Parfitt.

They're assisted by keyboard player Caucasian Jerry Vanston, death-defying drummer Gregg Bissonette and a backing singer dressed like an Australian's nightmare, and on purely musical merits they're surprisingly proficient. Playing the riffs from "Sunshine of Your Love", "Daytripper" and "Jump" all at the same time is a neat trick if you can pull it off. On "Big Bottom", they're even joined by some proper musicians: ELP's Keith Emerson on keys, The Sweet's Andy Scott and Justin Hawkins from The Darkness on bass.

The set spans all eras, from The Thamesmen's faux-Fab Four "Cry All The Way Home" through the weedy psychedelic of "Listen to the Flower People" and cock-rock classics such as "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" right up to new tracks like the brilliant "Saucy Jack" and climate change number "Warmer Than Hell" ("Satan went to Surrey, sweating like a pig ..."). "We premiered that at Live Earth," says Smalls, "and in all modesty we have to say it worked. Two years on, the Earth is still here."

For all the humour in the lyrics, it's the dialogue that we're here for. Like David and Nigel reminiscing about their native district of Squatney: "The whole area's gone now ... there's just a giant poster for Jersey Boys."

The funniest moment clearly was not scripted. Just as it was in the film, the song "Stonehenge" is scuppered by a prop malfunction. This time, a giant trilithon fails to inflate, and has to be wrestled erect by a team of dancing dwarf druids. "We never did get that right, did we?" sighs St Hubbins. "Worth every cent of the £10,000 ..."

A sum which is dwarfed, if you'll pardon the pun, by what it must have cost to put on the current Take That tour. Before the man-band, whose phenomenally successful second career has entered uncharted territory for a revived act, have even appeared, we're entertained by old-fashioned clowns. Suddenly, the performers huddle in a cluster of helium balloons, release the ribbons, and there they are: the reassuringly homely Gary Barlow, the impish Mark Owen, and the two pieces of stubbled mature beefcake, Howard Donald and Jason Orange, whom no one can be bothered to tell apart.

Old Trafford erupts, and so does the outlying area. The estates all around the stadium have thrown impromptu street parties, with fans perched on walls and peering through gaps.

For the first half hour, Take That's Circus tour is about as feel-good as you can get. It's essentially Britain's biggest hen party, but when I spot a green-haired punk in a Rancid T-shirt going nuts to "Pray", I realise just how far the foursome's appeal has spread.

There's a slump when they seek to prove they're a "real" band who can play their instruments, but once they ditch that idea we're back on course. It's a show that tracks their musical development from the oiled-up gay disco of the Nineties ("Relight My Fire") to the stompalong pop of the Noughties ("Shine") via their one moment of towering greatness, "Back for Good".

What they've gained, since their hiatus, is a redeeming sense of their own ridiculousness, plus a licence for pure smut. "Go on, Jay," says Barlow, as Orange strips to his boxers. "Play your one-note skin flute ..."

The hands-in-the-air hosannas that greet the chorus of "Never Forget" come as a shock if you didn't know which song it was, and are almost as spectacular as the pyros that mimic musical notes in mid-air.

This is what's known as a home win. Robbie who?
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en....91.html

Похоже на какую-то афтепати "Beautiful world". На фото вся их команда: музыканты, танцоры.
А Джей-то всё-таки не только минералочку пьёт

I ran a thousand miles to be by your side...

The equivalent of half the population of the city of Manchester turned out to see the band during their five nights which drew to a close last night. And by the time the 20 concerts are completed at Wembley Stadium on July 5 more than a million people in total will have seen the Manchester group making the tour the biggest ever seen in Britain and Ireland.

It also means that Take That have now been seen live in the Manchester area by more people than any other group.

They are already the most-seen band at the M.E.N. Arena after they played to more than 378,000 fans over 11 consecutive nights during their Beautiful World tour in 2007.

The Circus Live tour became the fastest-selling in pop history with 600,000 tickets sold in less than five hours and the five Manchester shows - seen by 50,000 people a night - are among the biggest live music events ever seen in the area.

Before the band took the stage for the last time on Sunday, Lancashire County Cricket Club Chief Executive Jim Cumbes and Commercial Director Geoff Durbin presented each member with customised Lancashire Championship shirt.
http://www.lccc.co.uk/index.php?p=news&id=2979
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