Copenhagen July 16th
We are truly devastated to have had to cancel tonight's show in Denmark. This is the first show that we have ever had to cancel in our career as a band. It was a horrible decision to make and one we agonized over.
On Friday night, Rob suffered serious food poisoning from something he had eaten after the show. He was violently ill all night and well into the morning. At 10am this morning, he decided to relocate to his dressing room at the stadium, in the hope that he could recover and prepare for the show. Doctors visited him twice during the day and despite prescribed medication he was still vomiting at 4pm this afternoon. The doctor insisted that he was not fit to perform tonight.
The five of us then had a decision to make: Should we go on with the show without Rob or should we cancel altogether? What would be fairer to our fans? What would people want? It was a very, very difficult decision. In the end we felt that as this tour is about the five of us being back together, and about celebrating that reunion, it would be wrong to go ahead with the show. We also knew that no matter how hard we and our team worked, in the short time we had to make the necessary changes to this hugely complicated and technical production, the show could never be what we wanted it to be, and nor could it be what our fans expect and deserve from us.
We are now back at our hotel and still cannot believe what has happened. Rob is still very unwell, and we are all just focussing on getting him better so we can put on our show in Amsterdam this coming Monday.
We would like to say from the bottom of our hearts that we are truly sorry to all of you who have bought tickets for tonight's show.
Thank you for your continued support.
Love Mark, Gary, Jason, Howard and Rob
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Rule The World
Greatest Day
Hold Up A Light
Patience
Shine
Sgt. Pepper’s VT
Let Me Entertain You
Rock DJ
Come Undone (Take A Walk On The Wild Side)
Feel
Angels
The Flood
SOS
Underground Machine
Kidz
Pretty Things
Million Love Songs/Babe/Everything Changes/Back For Good (piano medley)
Pray
Love Love
Never Forget
Relight My Fire
Eight Letters
The new album "progressed" will be released in Holland on June 10th.
Btw did you all hear the new single "Love Love" on radio 3fm?
The DJ announced it as the new "Killers" single as that is a very popular band among the 3FM listeners. After the song was finished enthousiastic messages came in like "I hear the new MegaHit", "what and amazing song!" and than Giel said it was the new Take that and that he really liked the song.
This is wonderful news for the guys as Giel is a very popular and respected radio DJ with good taste in music!
You can listen to it here, the last 3 minutes after "Ace of Base"...
Giel playing "Love Love"
Later in the evening Koen and Sander played the record too and said it's an amazing record too :)
More news and probably amazing stuff is on the way and we will surely keep you informed!!
Keep checking back!!!
TV-reporter looking for Take That-fans in Sunderland For Germany's international TV broadcaster -
Deutsche Welle TV, DW TV -
I am in Sunderland on the 27th of may and would love to meet some Take That-fans.
DW TV is planning a longer report about the start of Take That's tour.
So: who's there and/or who is even living in Sunderland or Newcastle or nearby and wouldn't mind meeting a camera-crew? If you (and/or your fan-friends and/or fan-mum) is interested, send a mail to mathias.stamm@dw-world.de.
I hope I meet you in Sunderland...
Best from Berlin,
Mathias