Progress Live Squee Pic Spam

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Friday, after a mere seven day wait, the Take That Progress Live Blu-Ray landed on my desk. It was going to be a busy weekend, and I should have crashed early, but I couldn't wait to see this:



I have got to love a fandom where this is our canon. *g*

Needless to say, it's a brilliant concert, and I enjoyed it immensely. And I couldn't resist putting together a massive pic spam of some of my favourite pics from the tour.


First, some solo pics of all the boys, starting with Captain Barlow.


Robbie!


Howard in the ticker tape storm.


Jason gets two pics, to make up for the dearth of him in the Making of doc.


Smiley!Jason.


I may have gone a bit nuts with the pics of Mark. I make no apologies.

First, Adorable!Mark.


Serious!Mark during Kidz, which is without a doubt the best set piece they have ever staged.


Bass-playing!Mark during Underground Machine, my second favourite number of the concert. (Mark, Jason and Howard do Tai Chi!)


Posing!Mark in his wacky Shine outfit.


Caterpillar-riding!Mark. Because all pop stars need a giant pink caterpillar to ride.


There were no pairing preference that went unsatisfied during the show. And I've got photographic proof of most of them.

Robbie and the Captain. Awwww.


Howard and Mark.


Robbie carrying Jason. (Alas, on DVD night there was no carrying, but there was lifting.)


Barlowen!


Howard and Jason in troubadour mode during Shine.


Willowen!


More Willowen, because who can resist that smile?


But in the end, it's about all of the boys being together.


Group hug!

Comments

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

It IS on the DVD - that's where the youtube footage is from! *g* It's part of the special features - you have to play a rather silly 'game' the premise of which is 'devil!Robbie has infiltrated backstage, use the controller to shoot devil!Robbie but avoid shooting angel!Robbie' (paging Dr Freud, ahem) and when you 'shoot' him correctly you get various bits of footage and when you *win* and have killed Devil!Robbie you get him and Mark snuggling... (still paging Dr Freud). I don't have the DVD to hand to remind me which disc or exactly what menu option it is but I think it might be actually called 'games' on disc 2

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OMG! You mean I've been watching crappy YT footage when I could have been watching the DVD?!! Drat. (I did pull out my Knebworth discs after you sent me the YT link, but I didn't think to look for easter eggs or games. Silly me.)

I know what I'll be doing this evening after Le Ros goes to bed. *g*

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!

Why don't I have a Mark/Robbie icon?

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*hugs* Very welcome *g* and now you'll have a lovely quality source for the Mark/Robbie vid that, I know and fully appreciate you may not ever have time to make, but I know you must want to in your heart because seriously, EPIC ROMANCE *g*

I have about 100 'favourite things' about that footage, but one of them is that - if you listen carefully - you can hear that both of them are singing *harmony* rather than melody, because they're just singing what they learnt to sing with Gary (and as you will recall from 'Feel', they didn't exactly over-rehearse).

Why don't you have a Mark/Robbie icon?

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and now you'll have a lovely quality source for the Mark/Robbie vid that, I know and fully appreciate you may not ever have time to make, but I know you must want to in your heart because seriously, EPIC ROMANCE *g*

Such footage may have just been ripped to my vidding machine because I will make that vid!

There are certainly at least 100 things to love about that footage, and yeah, the fact that they're both singing harmony on the chorus is definitely one of them. (They certainly didn't over rehearse. In fact, after reading Feel, it's pretty amazing that Robbie didn't self-destruct during the Progress rehearsal period. I gotta figure Gary figured out some secret keep-Robbie-from-getting-bored-out-of-his-skull techniques to keep it all on track.) I'm also rather fond of the way Mark fits perfectly under Robbie's arm. Awwww.

I dunno, I need to find one....

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I will make that vid
THIS MAKES ME HAPPY \o/

The footage that exists for them is just... the emotion is just so powerful...

I love the bit in the app footage where Robbie says (with a kind of slight bewilderment like he's gone through the looking glass) 'And we're, like, warming up beforehand and everything. My warm-up's usually the first three numbers...') I don't know if he has managed to find some more self-discipline, or actually rather likes being told what to do when someone in authority says he *has* to (rather like a child). Or maybe Gary just put in a rule saying only *good* rehearsing band members get to play with Markie in the evening... *g*

That said, one of the benefits of being in a band has to be that you can just do what everyone else is doing so there's less pressure (e.g. spend all of Pray seeing what Howard's doing *g*)

Re: I dunno, I need to find one....

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I am formally making a commitment to produce a Mark/Robbie vid in the new year. The problem has been that I have time to either vid or write, and my writing muse has been throwing out the TT ideas faster than I can write them. But once the current batch of stories is done, I'm going to put the writing on hold and work on getting at least one TT vid done. Because, yeah, you don't often get to work with the kind of emotion those two show.

I do love when Robbie says "My warm-up's usually the first three number." Because of course it is. And it is interesting to speculate on what exactly has changed that he's managed the more disciplined regimen of a TT tour. Personally I like the only good rehearsing band members getting to play with Markie theory. *g*

And yeah, you can see how much more relaxed he is working with the band, where he doesn't have to carry every single moment with his own charisma and he can just, say, watch Howard for all of Pray. Or muck about with Mark whilst Gary is singing Eight Letters.

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Isn't it fab to have good quality footage of that moment? (I can't believe I had that disk sitting on my shelf for years before I realized it was there. ::headdesk::)

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I've had it favourited on YT since Halo pointed me to it, but yeah, the DVD version is sooooo much better. (And now I can put it in a vid in all its glorious awesomeness!)

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It takes me forever to vid these days, but I have vowed to get cracking on it as soon as I've got my takethatslash Christmas story done.

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I'm just hoping I get it done. It only needed to be a wee thing, but my brain has kicked lose an angsty plot that's probably going to take 10,000 to 15,000 words to do properly.

Stupid brain.

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I'm still working it out in my head, but let's just say it's a '90s AU with guest appearances from everyone, and whumping of both Mark and Rob in totally different ways. ::iz evil::

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Gawd, your icon. 0_0

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Hooray I have found my purpose in life *g* *hugs you*

Seriously I have worn out that bit of the DVD *g*