Back For Good After the dramatic break-up from ten years ago Take That came back rock hard with the bestseller Beautiful World. The follow up is called The Circus. Are he men really 'Back For Good'?
Gary Barlow and Jason Orange are sitting in a london hotel room which overlooks a garden which is bathing in an un-british sunshine, looking bored.. We decide to shake up(awake) the lazy men, before we make a small tour through their career by using their own Take That-songs.
I have to admit that your music doesn't really does it for me, but my sister cried for a long time after your break-up appeared on the news in 1996.
Gary: "We are very sorry. Hopefully we can make it up with The Circus."
Don't worry. she was only 4 years old, she cried practcially the whole day.
Jason: "Haha, good one!"
Good, then we can start.
RULE THE WORLD
Gary: "We where very nervous for the comeback from two years ago. Did we wait too long? Did we wait long enough? We didn't want to come across as hasbeens who want to make a quick buck. The life behind the scenes is much more important. Howard and I have children who get what's going on. They think it's cool to visit a show with 60.000 visitors who come to see their dads. And that's something that I think is really cool, because there will be a time - possibly very quickly - where they will be embarassed for us."
Jason: "Then we'll have them banned from the venue"
BABE
Jason: "The current success is not because the 15year old girls from back in the day now have money. We still have a quite a young audience. Probably girls who got to know Take That via their mums. Our music has a much broader audience now anyway, because it got better. Not each song, but generally speaking. It all connects a bit more then before now."
EVERYTHING CHANGES
Gary: "The turnover in the music industry is said to have decreased by 40%. But when U2 releases an album, then the records do get sold all of a sudden. The really good albums succeed. Everything that used to sell less then 100.000 times, doesn't sell anymore. For new artists it's difficult, but not impossible. Take Duffy for instance, she might have even suprpassed us this year."
Jason: "It's really about quality. The fact that we've sold such a ****load of albums isn't just due to our fanbase."
Gary: "95 procent of the music of the Universal label is ****. It's the 5 percent of big artists who keep the label going."
Jason: "Whether we would survive now without having had our history? Not a chance, no way., haha. Now we can consider ourselves lucky that we have that background. In this day and age where a computer is out of date after a week, you really have a big advantage with a past like the one we have ."
BACK FOR GOOD
Jason: "Nice one"
Gary: "We agreed not to look forward too much. Until July 2009 our diary is filled thanks to the tour. And that's far enough for us. I don't think there will every be a pressconference again where we weep whilst announcing our split."
Jason: There is no pressure to make an album every two years anymore. If we want to make music, we'll got back into the studio. Isn't that a wonderfully privelaged position to be in?"
NEVER FORGET
Jason:"Yes we've made peace with Robbie Williams. There is contact, but for both sides it's not an item to get him back into Take That. Maybe in a few years, but I think that the reader prefers your answer, Gary."
Gary: "we where in Los Angeles to mix The Circus and to record the video for Greatest Day. Rob came by about 4 times. There isn't really much to tell. I've spoke to Rob two years ago, that was the first time since we separated. For me that was the 'big meeting' We where in a band together for six years. In those years our lives drastically changed, so it was a big deal. Hopefully we'll once be on stage again."
COULD IT BE MAGIC
Jason: "Yes it's a big coincidance that Britney Spears released an album with the same title in the same week. Well, not completely the same. We've got a The in front of Circus."
Gary: "That's the big difference. It's never easy. You think that you've got everything sorted and then this happens. Very inconvienent. We had been working on it for about 5 months, we had a song with the title, the artwork had been photographed in circus style. But on the other hand: Who cares?"
