[Closed] Anti- Take That!

It would be one of my worst nightmares, and I am a wife (well girlfriend) and daughter.

Mrs. Rickos loved them before Robbie rejoined. Now she refuses to go and see them again until he's gone.

Mine for starters. Lets hope it lives up to the expectations of MJ's spectacular comeback tour...

Thank you Domino! I knew all women couldn't have such moronic taste!

Actually I went to see their first tour as a 4 piece just after Robbie left. It was really very good. I think you should go to one of their concerts before rushing to be so rude!!!

My wife and I are off to see Biffy Clyro next - no-way you'd get her at a Take That gig.

[i]Actually I went to see their first tour as a 4 piece just after Robbie left. It was really very good. I think you should go to one of their concerts before rushing to be so rude!!![/i]

Never has someone communicated to me such nonsense. (phew, I was polite)

My wife loves take that, but hates Robbie.

Which is good news for me as she doesn't want their new album which means I don't have to listen to it in the car.

I would without doubt go if some one had a free ticket

A show like that with the logistics would be incredible to witness

Quite some of their songs too

Plum

On our intranet there are now hoards of people WHO USE CAPS A LOT screaming "I want a TT ticket!". Strangely enough the one straight after it said "I *need* a TT ticket!". I think the first has taken the latter's family as hostages and the ransom are tickets.

For interest only - are they doing security stuff so people can't sell on their tickets?

DezB - I'm strongly considering your advice on the other thread. So by the end of the evening the answer may well be Yes.

My wife and I are off to see Biffy Clyro

Hardly the last stand for cultural purity, either.

Go away plumber. Wrong thread. Music isn't about f^&%ing LOGISTICS.

That's the last time I'm nice here! 👿

Zokes, I plan on plagiarising your comment for the rest of the day 🙂

My wife's last gig was Muse at Wembley Stadium but her next gig is A-ha at Wembley Arena, but under no circumstances would she go see TT... I'll leave you to make your own verdicts on her music taste...

*skims last five or so posts.....*

DezB has the right idea, [url= http://wrongmusicblog.blogspot.com/ ]Wrong Music[/url] is the way forward.

You may laugh Soobalias - I've seen DJ Scotch Egg live me. Ah, the logistics ...

Zokes, I plan on plagiarising your comment for the rest of the day

Cheers 🙂

A word of warning though, posting it on your facebook status can upset a lot of people. However, it also outs those who you don't need to bother speaking to again....

the amount of money that they're charging for tickets and the projected profits of £250m are obscene, especially in the current climate.

i actually quite liked them in an ironic guilty pleasure kind of way but now i just think that they're a bunch of ****s.

Well, I'm a wife and I wouldn't want to go.
Saw Robbie a few years back cos a friend had a spare ticket.
It was OK but I wouldn't bother a second time.
Infact, I didn't know anything about the ticket sales/tour until a couple of facebook friends started kicking off cos they don't have tickets.

We're off to see Elbow in March. When I got the tickets I did a little dance, probably a mere shadow of the type of aerobics the fans of TT are doing when their conformation email comes through. But still, principles the same.

Des B

I hope that you could tell me which music event you have been to that doesn't involve logistics.

I've seen over 1000 paying gigs in the last 30 years and obviously after that amount of gigs I've pretty much seen it all. I also have done lots of sound and light gigs and its that that interests me much more than music these days.

Music is about everything from spirit, talent, inspirition and drugs to the valves in your amp to the air in the lorry drivers tyres.

I think I'll be the judge of why I would certainly go and see take that given the choice.

Regards

Plum

I was surprised to find my wife tried to get tickets but thankfully she didn't succeed!

Hm, hordes of brainwashed, deluded, adoring fanatical followers....

...and a logo like this:

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I'm just saying, like...

*must kill Ronan Keeting, must kill Ronan Keeting*

[shakes head] Sorry what was that? [shakes head]

Oh yeah, I'm coming to think that women with TT obsessions are not cool.

The wife actually got 4 tickets yesterday. I'm expected to attend, but might suggest she invites a friend who is a Take That fan.

If I do go, I shall be taking a sick bag for when Williams does the obligatory wounded swan routine (to make all the girls feel sorry for him). So contrived!

It must be tough being married to a very attractive model, having millions and toughing it out living an "A" lister's lifesytle in Beverly Hills!

Either he needs to stop bullshxtting his fans, or if he really is such a whimp, he needs to MTFU!!

[i]If I do go[/i]

Get off my thread and go join that part time gig-goer that calls himself plumber.

Me me me me me I think they are cr&& and as for their latest song being the best are people deluded! I hated them as a teenager too but then I've always been a social outcast 😉

I love take that

They're all so pretty

Plumber it wasn't a debate about WHY people do or don't want to go and see Take That it was merely a "who doesn't give a frig about TT concert" and I'm in that band. Not a slagging off other people's music tastes, I like Biffy and Muse, but I also like other extremes.
I'm with you Debz .... oooo I'm glad I didn't waste 8 hours of my life trying to buy tickets for some older money grabbing haz beans 😉

ourmaninthenorth - Member
My wife and I are off to see Biffy Clyro
Hardly the last stand for cultural purity, either.

No it's not about "cultural purity" - Munqe-chick's got it in one throw-away phrase - [i]money grabbing[/i]
That is all they have ever been about (just read the piss-poor lyrics ffs). There's no art in what they do, just commerce.
At least Biffy Clyro care about the music they make.

(And, come on Plumber - "pretty"?? Maybe Mark Owen could've been called that a few years back)

It's "mum music" as my lass calls it. You wouldn't be able to get her into a Take That, Westlife, Ronan Keating, Mick Bubble etc. concert with wild horses.

I cannot believe that apparently sane people in my office, including blokes, were paying > £100 a ticket from internet touts.

I can't contain my indifference

I've got a friend who's just splashed a grand on tickets for 7 of the shows. Whatever it's her money. I personally wouldn't watch them if they played in my back garden, but then she probably wouldn't go for a bike ride in a muddy field in the rain on a bike that cost a much as a car.

mine will not go as:
- dislikes the droning of theirs,
- would need to find public transport to and from the gig,
- would be ridiculed till the last breath of hers,
- there is too much cleaning to be done at home (ok, not quite true)

Hm, hordes of brainwashed, deluded, adoring fanatical followers....

...and a logo like this:

[img] [/img]

I'm just saying, like...

Did the UK just spend over £60M on tickets to see a pop show that lasts 2 hours?
Recession , double dip recession , credit crunch, spending cuts and prudence ( ok,ok prudence was the old regime). It all means very little when She absolutely MUST have tickets.
And the amount of man hours wasted on friday with sickies and people phoning from work / spending hours online trying obtain said tickets.
I would love to know the stats for the number of ticketss bought on credit. ^^^^^^ Rusty said " its her money ... or is it Visa's?
Well done to Take That for engineering a massive media frenzy and raking it in, do the same next year with a farewell 100 date world tour
and then you can all retire gracefully( hopefully)

Come on lads, if Fish rejoined Marillion we'd all be the same...oh just me then.

Everywhere I go I'm asked by the other Mums, 'have you got your tickets', I'd rather eat worms.

Rusty, you're alone in that, Fish, Marrilion, who cares? If Nirvana got back together with the original lineup it'd be something 😉

Everywhere I go I'm asked by the other Mums, 'have you got your tickets', I'd rather eat worms.

You know what you should do, right;

Turn up one day, then when they ask 'have you got your tickets', strip off naked, then bite the head off a puppy and hold it aloft above your head, letting the blood flow over your body, whilst reciting 'Hymn to Pan' by the popular early 20thC. childrens' writer Aleister Crowley:

[b]Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
O man ! My man !
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan ! Io Pan .
Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady !
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs and styrs for thy guards,
On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
To me, to me,
Coem with Apollo in bridal dress
(Spheperdess and pythoness)
Come with Artemis, silken shod,
And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,
In the moon, of the woods, on the marble mount,
The dimpled dawn of of the amber fount !
Dip the purple of passionate prayer
In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,
The soul that startles in eyes of blue
To watch thy wantoness weeping through
The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
Of the living tree that is spirit and soul
And body and brain -come over the sea,
(Io Pan ! Io Pan !)
Devil or god, to me, to me,
My man ! my man !
Come with trumpets sounding shrill
Over the hill !
Come with drums low muttering
From the spring !
Come with flute and come with pipe !
Am I not ripe ?
I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
With air that hath no boughs to nestle
My body, weary of empty clasp,
Strong as a lion, and sharp as an asp-
Come, O come !
I am numb
With the lonely lust of devildom.
Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
All devourer, all begetter;
Give me the sign of the Open Eye
And the token erect of thorny thigh
And the word of madness and mystery,
O pan ! Io Pan !
Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Pan Pan ! Pan,
I am a man:
Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
O Pan ! Io Pan !
Io pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Iam awake
In the grip of the snake.
The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
The gods withdraw:
The great beasts come, Io Pan ! I am borne
To death on the horn
Of the Unicorn.
I am Pan ! Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan !
I am thy mate, I am thy man,
Goat of thy flock, I am gold , I am god,
Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.
With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
Through solstice stubborn to equinox.
And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
Everlasting, world without end.
Mannikin, maiden, maenad, man,
In the might of Pan.
Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! Io Pan ![/b]

They won't bother you again.

Ever.

Take That? Uttershite for sheep and the hard of thinking.

My eldest daughter was well impressed when I took her to see New Model Army last year though.

I tried that ^

My lad has been to festivals, gigs - including NMA, Levellers, Justin Sullivan etc etc...

Now he is 9 he likes Jason Derulo, Tiny Tempah, Black Eyed Peas, Tinchy Stryder... 🙁

But then I think - fair play...he's rebelling!

I needed some black eye peas for a recipe once, but only had a bag of normal peas...so I punched **** out of it.

Din't really work to be honest. 🙁

ScXC; what logo is that? Can't work it out. I know I've seen it before mind...

The mighty Crass!

Ah yeah, a mate's got an album with that on it. Knew I'd seen it before somewhere.

Interesting scenario, Elfin. However round 'ere the response would be 'call the RSPCA and the Mental Health Team' but I'm holding on to that image... worms may be a safer bet.

Some worms are actually good for you and can help to alleviate things like allergies and that.

Not tapeworms though.

But maybe, if you had a tapeworm, if the other mums start up about 'have you got your tickets yet?' You could pull out yer tapeworm and strangle them with it.

Or threaten to strangle them with it.

But maybe it would be best to actually strangle them with it; put an end to their inane senseless witterings.

Needs must, you know?

@Hairychested, saw Nirvana a few times in the early 90s, and they were at best average although i admit it would be quite something to see a reunion given a certain members current whereabouts 😕

^ I saw Nirvana a couple of times - once at Edwards in Brum, once at Reading. Both absolute tuneless shite. 'Average at best' is being [i]very[/i] kind

Mudhoney on the other hand.....

Spot on sc-xc, saw them at the Astoria a couple of weeks (1991?) before seeing nirvana at the same venue. No contest. IIRC, hole were supporting mudhoney on that tour.

I think most of 'em have tapeworms already, for weight management and squeekiness. Perhaps I should go the worm route.......... May make me swifter on me bike too :lol:, but prob not.

Are they a bit posh? Apparently it's posh people what get tapeworms more. Dunno why. Maybe it's cos they eat organic meat or sumfink.

You don't want a tapeworm. They can grow up to several meters long. Make you feel quite listless and unwell, and always hungry. No, you're far better off with a nice roundworm or whip-worm or something like that.

Guinea Worm's what you really, really [i]don't[/i] want...

put an end to their inane senseless witterings.

Quite a dangerous thing to say for the STW inane-witterer-in-chief...

No [i]you're[/i] inane.

Nice one Elfin. This is the thread where nastiness is welcome. But aim it in the direction of Clarence-the-cross-eyed-moneymaker and his boys of shite, if you don't mind.

[url= http://http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/songs/song.php?filename=thelessonofthesmiths ]remember the lesson of the smiths, or take that, sort of...[/url]

No you're inane.

Irony alert...

oh my wifes obcessed with them, she goes twice every year, and i would'nt other theyre utter crap

its just 4 karaoke singers or 5, that can't even sing

that fat one and the little gay one have got to be the worst singers on the planet

From theboatman's (badly constructed) link:

[i]And remember the lesson of Take That
If a pile of pillocks pretend to like it, doesn't mean it's crap
And remember the lesson of The Smiths
Just because a bunch of ****ers like it, doesn't mean that it's shit

Oh yes, if you're dismissing things because they're in with some other crowd
You will be the one who's missing out
Don't wait for a retrospective, come on, get into it now
Or you will be the one who's missing out[/i]

What a load of utterly clueless bollox. Can't believe they had the guts to actually publish that lyric.