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

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I do wish there was a lot more Mark in Feel. But yeah, I'm glad Mark apologized, and that he's in there as much as he is. And I love that he's Rob's go to guy whenever anything TT crops up.

GROUP HUG BACK!

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Rob is not entirely likable in Feel. Smart, interesting, yeah, but also very clearly damaged. And the animus he has towards Gary is extreme. It is truly amazing they managed to patch things up between them as well as they have.

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I do admire the way he's entirely willing to expose all aspects of his personality, likable or not. And I can't honestly say whether I like him better now or then. (I was lucky enough to see him at the Opera House here in '99, and it was an utterly fantastic show. He takes charge of the audience like no other performer, and I enjoy the anarchic stage energy he's go when he's solo.)

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I've seen him twice solo. Once at Glastonbury in '98, where I had no idea who he was or what this Take That thing was all about, and in spite of the fact that we'd decided to watch his set from our tent, way up the hill from the main stage, he was fantastic. And then when he came to Toronto to play that small club, and he was out of this world, in spite of coming on three hours late because he'd got food poisoning. (He really does need to watch that food poisoning thing, doesn't he?) He clearly has the most natural charisma of the lot of them, and the least amount of discipline.

Fantastic that you got to see Progress. (I seriously toyed with flying over to see it, but the only dates when I was free were Dublin and Copenhagen, and it's a good thing I didn't try for Copenhagen.) But yeah, I'd also be a midget surrounded by amazons. (There's a reason I love Mark best. *g*)

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Glasto was amazing, but we went in a year that was rainy and muddy and we kept having to talk each other out of just taking the bus back to London. (There was ten inches of mud everywhere. I totally destroyed the boots I brought and it took ages to walk anywhere because I literally kept getting stuck in the mud and the Big Guy would have to pull me out.)

He came to Toronto to promote The Ego Has Landed, the North American release that cut together Life Through a Lens and I've Been Expecting You. Millennium was the big single at the time.

I don't actually find him at all sexy, but I love him as a performer. (Howard Donald is probably closest to my ideal guy, though Mark is the one I adore most.)

But old looking.

Heh. To me, he's a baby. *g*

I'm totally going the next time! I've already started a "Get Zed to TT in 2013" fund. And yeah, they need to start work on that next album. Surely they've had enough of a break. *g*

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Glasto can be survived, but you need to plan carefully:

Put your tent on the side of a hill. (The people who camped on the flat areas near the stages ended up with 4 inches of water in their tents on Friday morning, I kid you not.)

Bring a good old Canadian Tire plastic/rubber rain poncho. (We took high end treated nylon ponchos from MEC. The waterproofing wore off in hours and we spent the weekend cold, wet, and miserable.)

Bring wellies. Really high wellies. (I brought my Doc Martens lace ups, which very quickly got totally destroyed. And then we spent the weekend chasing rumours of which vendors had got wellies in.)

Go with someone who has your back and can pull you out of mud if necessary.

That said, it was an awesome experience (where else could you see Pulp, Blur, Nick Cave, Robbie and just a ton of other bands all in one place in one weekend) and I would totally do it again. I have dreams of taking my daughter when she's old enough.

OH I CAN SEE WHY YOU WOULD ADORE HIM MOST YES I CAN

I thought you might. *g*

If I were the TT boys, I'd be taking a year off. Though I have to admit, I'm really, really hoping that Kim Gavin brings them in to do something for the Olympics closing ceremony.

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I'm still fond of Blur, but Pulp were my real BritPop love.

I don't know that taking Le Ros to Glasto would be sweet or insane. (I can just envisage me giving the teenager version of her a big lecture not getting drunk, high or laid at Glasto.)

See, I live in hope that Mark's dislike of being unemployed will lead him to do a solo gig one day. (I would kill to see him solo.) Kim Gavin is indeed supposed to be doing the closing ceremonies. Danny Boyle is on tap to do the opening ones. Should be interesting.