I was lucky enough to be in the audience for the opening concert of Take That’s Beautiful World tour last night, at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast. As a massive and long serving Take That fan, I have been anticipating this concert for months, I even booked standing tickets so that I could get closer to the stage, or in truth, closer to Howard Donald.

I knew that I wouldn’t be disappointed by the boys, as long as they showed up and looked rugged enough, the £90 I shelled out on tickets would have been money well spent. True to form though, the boys didn’t just look the part, they sang the part, danced the part and performed the part. It was an amazing show, I think I even enjoyed it more that their 2005 comeback tour. Though I have to admit feeling my age when they started singing snippets of songs from the Take That and Party Album, even more so when I realised that I remembered most of the dance routines to Everything Changes and Pray.

But last night’s concert wasn’t a typical TT concert in many ways. Firstly I was surprised to find that Howard, (the really handsome one) took on a much larger singing role than he normally enjoys. In fact at one point it was mentioned that the band have been inundated with requests for Howard and Gary Barlow to perform a duet. They of course obliged and we ended up with a great version of Everything Changes. Read more & comment »

Well, here it is folks, the video for Rule The World, Take That’s proud piece of the Stardust soundtrack.

We’ve all been scratching our heads as to where this song can be found. It’s not on the Beautiful World album? Well, yes it will be. Following the trend for ripping off punters with a ‘deluxe’ version, Take That are planning to re-release Beautiful World as a deluxe edition including the much talked about track.

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Relatively unknown acoustic guitarist Kate Walsh has knocked Take That’s Shine off the top of the iTunes download album chart – but does not even own an iPod.

Kate is a true internet success story, she built her fan base simply by putting her music onto her myspace site and eventually managed to persuade iTunes to sell it. She has admitted to being as shocked as everyone else, that her homemade album has been downloaded from iTunes this week, more times than Take That or the Kaiser Chiefs’ Ruby.

Kate told The Times: “You end up looking at it every day to see if you’re still number one. I think I’m ahead of Elton.

“I don’t actually have an iPod yet. I hear they are quite good for ten hour flights.

“I set up my own record label called Blueberry Pie and just got the music out there. It’s pretty easy. Anyone can do it.”