| 20 January
2001: A Day in THE SUN for Gertraud and Gary |
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 Congratulations
to Gertraud Struz in Austria, who has had her day in THE
SUN! Her birthday wishes to Gary appeared in the Public
Notices section of the North West edition today.
Good to see something
nice about Gary in that paper! Well done Gertraud, your dedication
to Gary and his music is to be admired!.
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| 20 January
2001: Happy 30th Gary! |
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Today marks a milestone
for Gary, as he reaches his 30th Birthday. We would like to
join you all in wishing Gary a very Happy Birthday, with many
happy returns. Here's hoping that this special year will see
him return to his fans, we have all missed him very much these
past 12 months.
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| 6 January
2001: News from Australia! |
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Many thanks to Blanche Sawbridge in Tasmania,
who informs us that Australian boyband Human Nature have
released a song called "Whatever You Want", which they
co-wrote with Gary. They thank Gary in their credits and said
that they enjoyed working with him.
We have written to Blanche
to ask how we can get hold of a copy, will let you know as
soon as we here back.
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| 30 December
2000: Updates! |
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30th Birthday Celebrations
We have just updated the Events
Schedules with details of our 30th Birthday Celebrations.
We hope to see as many of you as possible to help us celebrate
Gary's big milestone!
2001 Thatters' Odyssey - Tickets on Sale 1 January 2001!
Tickets for the 5th Anniversary TAKE THAT fans' Reunion go
on sale on Monday, 1 January 2001. Please CLICK
HERE for details.
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| 10 December
2000: Thank you so much! |
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We are happy to announce that a good time
was had by all at our 3rd Annual Convention, held this past
weekend in Birmingham.
A full report will be up in the Events
Section in the New Year, once we have all the evidence (er sorry,
photos and vidoe) back. Needless to say it was yet again an
eventfull time, many thanks to everyone who came along. We are
definitely looking forward to both the THATTERS REUION in April
and the GB FANS 4th Annual Convention next year.
Our numbers may have been down this year,
but certainly the spirit was definitely up - despite a very
quiet year on the Gary front.
We raised a total of £955.51 for
Rainbow Trust, which will be sent out to the Trust, once
all cheques have cleared! Thank you to everyone who took part
in the Auction, but especially Debra Woolfenden and Steve Lal,
who certainly kept us all with baited breath during the Auction
for the photo album, which eventually went to Debra for the
sum of £296! She also managed to come to an agreement with Steven
that if he made a £50 donation to the Trust, she would copy
pictures from the album for him. A grand total of £346.00!
The My Commitment T-shirt raised
£55 for the Trust. A full list of all items and amounts raised
will be available shortly!
Thank you once again to everyone who came,
didn't we have a great time? It was great to re-live those wonderful
memories of last year's tout.
Even though Gary wasn't
there in the flesh, he was in spirit. Our wonderful cabaret,
Dave Nicholls, gave his all and went down a storm. We certainly
hope that Davey goes on to bigger things, he has a wonderful
voice and his renditions of Gary's songs were fantastic.
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| 21 November
2000: Get your CD Now! |
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We have heard back from Seth, who is willing
to buy as many "I'll Take You There" CDs from the radio
station as he gets orders for. However, you only have till 3
December 2000 to get your order in to Seth at schizophonic26@hotmail.com.
Please
email him for further information. He is doing this at no
profit to himself, all he asks is the cost of the CD (10 US
Dollars), plus post and packing. The 10 Dollars does direct
to the Radio Station in aid of Kidd's Charity.
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| 16 November
2000: A newly discovered recording! |
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Thanks to Seth on the
GBML Mailing List for
informing everyone of the availability of a previously unknown
Gary recording. Once again GBML comes up trumps with fans
giving great news!
Seth found a local radio
dj in the USA had written a song for his special charity KIDD's
Kids Charity. The song is called "I Want to Take You
There" and was written by Kidd to raise much needed
funding for his charity. Gary dropped by the radio station
on a visit to Dallas in 1997 and agreed to record a version,
which was then put on to CD.
The song is wonderful
and beautifully sung by Gary. Seth has informed us that the
CD was actually released back in 1997 and there are very few
copies left, so obviously this is quite a rare item indeed.
We wrote to Seth to ask for details of where we can perhaps
find a copy of this CD, but regretfully he informs us that
they are all but gone, as it is now 3 years since it went
on sale. He is hoping to be able to get hold of a copy for
us and we will let you know if he is able to find any more
copies. We hope to put a sample on this site shortly, once
we have bought our own copy - or maybe if Seth agrees for
us to lift 15 seconds worth from his recording!
Many thanks also to Ang
from GBML for the wonderful job he does in bringing fans together!
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| 11 November
2000: Official Fan Club Newsletter |
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Thanks to Claire, Nick
and Suzanne for informing us that they have received their
Official Fan Club Newsletter today! We haven't received ours
yet, but it's good to know that it is finally on its way.
Nick informs us that
it is 5 pages in content with only one mono-colour picture,
which is on the front.
We are looking forward
to seeing the new Newsletter - this means that all Members
should have it within the next 7 days, allowing for postal
delays etc.
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| 10 November
2000: Y2K Convention - Auction News! |
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We certainly have some
wonderful items for the Auction, we have so much in fact that
we will be dividing it between this year's Convention and
next year's - otherwise we will be auctioning into the wee
small hours of the morning! The Items we have so far are as
follows:-
Donated by Gary/GloBe/Mike
12M 11D Calendars from last year's Tour
1 Forever Love Mug
1 Silver ID Bracelet - engraved Gary Barlow
Navy T-shirt 12M 11D on sleeve & GB logo
Khaki "My Commitment" T-shirt
White T-shirt with GB Gary Barlow on front
3 Black Forever Love T-Shirts
1 Khaki T-shirt with pic of Gary on front
1 Black O/R Tour T-shirt
1 White T-shirt with pic Gary on front
1 White Stronger T-shirt
Currently with
Gary for signing
A selection of Various Pictures
OR Album CD in Presentation Box (donated by Gertraud in Austria)
3 OR Albums
3 OR Wall Friezes
1 10 x 8 Full Colour 1998 Tour Pic (donated by Estelle Burrows)
OR BMG Headed Paper (donated by Gertraud in Austria
Other Lots put
together by Sharon and Jan
12M 11D Travel Alarm/Calendar (donated by Gertraud)
Set of 4 Gary Table Mats
2 Gary Fridge Magnets
Photo album of Gary's career (from TT to present)- photos
donated by fans around the World
Plus more items on their way!
Our special thanks must
go to Gary, Kristina and Mike, for the wonderful things they
have sent for this very worthwhile cause. We are informed
that Gary is well and enjoying his new family.
Special thanks also
to those wonderful people around the world who have shared
some of their precious photos with us to put together the
photo album - which is a true "one off".
We are hoping to get
some pics up for you on the site soon, once Sharon has managed
to get her digicam fixed
For fans abroad, we
realise it is difficult for you to come along to the Convention
to get the chance to bid for these wonderful things, so we
will be saving one or two items for a special auction for
fans outside of the UK.
This auction will take
the form of a postal bid, which means you actually write in
to us with your bid - so we have your name and address to
prove that you are someone living outside the UK. More details
about this will follow once the Convention is over. We didn't
want you to feel left out.
We are looking forward
to seeing as many of you as possible on 9th December, for
a truly wonderful day to remember.
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| 7 November
2000: Y2K Convention - Wonderful News! |
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Our very sincere thanks
go to Gary, Kristina and Mike for the wonderful items they
have donated for our Auction in aid of Rainbow Trust.
Some of the items are unique, one off samples. We are truly
grateful and gob-smacked. Gary has also kindly agreed to sign
a number of items we have sent in to GloBe as auction items
and raffle prizes. A full list of the items donated for the
Auction will be up on this site shortly.
This Auction is being
held at our Y2K Convention on Saturday, 9th December 2000
for those fans attending. If you would like to join us for
this exciting event, tickets are still on sale and you
have until 25th November to get your ticket. This
is your chance to get hold of some truly unique Gary merchandise
and raise money for this very worthwhile Charity, plus have
a very good time doing it! We look forward to hearing from
you.
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| 28 October
2000 - Fan Club Hotline Updated |
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Mike updated the Fan
Club Hotline (0906 3633330) on 23 October, to inform
everyone that the Newsletter is now at the printers and he
is hoping to have it sent out within the next 10 days! He
goes on to reassure fans that all concerns presented to him
will be addressed in the Newsletter. There will be a range
of options for members to go for. This is not a sign that
the fan club is closing, it is just a streamlining in line
with Gary's career at the present time. Members will soon
have the Newsletter to judge for themselves, we are really
looking forward to it!
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| 27
October 2000: LIE TO ME CDs
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You will note that we
have deleted all references to the above, with the exception
of the email from Mr White, which we believe needs to be left
here in order for you to decide what to do with regard to
ordering the LIE TO ME CD.
For our part, we decided
to cancel our order for the CD, as we feel that it is unlikely
to be released by BMG now that they and Gary have parted company.
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| 26
October 2000: An Email from Music Selection
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We received the email
below today from Music Selection. We are totally puzzled by
their reaction, because we have only expressed our concerns,
and those of other fans, about the fact that they are advertising
n CD which has never been released and accepting orders for
it.
We must apologise to
everyone for putting up the first message, but we acted in
good faith - believing that no company would advertise a product
it did not actually have in stock. We were naive, but please
be assured that we will be far more careful in future! We
are cancelling our order with the Company, because it is unlikely
that the CD will ever be available at the present time.
Here is the email for
you to judge for yourselves.
"I was directed to your
site in reference to some remarks about our company which
have been placed on your site.
First I must clarify
that the information on our site www.musicselection.com
is provided to us by the record companies and their distributors.
The Gary Barlow cd's best we can tell have not been released
thus far, however the companies we download the data from
insist it will be in the future, thus if we were to edit the
file or remove it their system would then put it back on when
we do our next download.
Also we have not given
any of the fans "fobbed" as you have stated. Since our staff
are trained to explain why an item is taking so long.
MusicSelection.com Inc
has been in business since 1996 and was the first on-line
music retailer in Canada, we are well aware of the laws protecting
e-commerce customers and we strictly adhere to them. We also
subscribe to e-commerce insurance which further protects our
clientele against any wrong doings our company may do. To-date
this has never been used.
We find your remarks
very insulting to our company and we herby request that the
wording be change so your visitors do not get the wrong impression
about our company.
I will be editing our
files here to reflect what we have found on your site on these
items so future clients are not mislead by our suppliers.
Sincerely;
Ray White
President
MusicSelection.com Inc."
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| 13
October 2000: Congratulations to Lisa and Ian!
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We are pleased to report
that Gary is an uncle again! Lisa gave birth to a baby boy,
Liam Thomas, last Saturday, 7 October 2000.
Congratulations to the
proud parents, brother, grandparents and uncle!
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| 5
October 2000: Fan Club Hotline Updated
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Mike has today updated
the Fan Club Hotline (0906 363 3330) with the news
that there will be no further CDs made, but instead they will
be producing their first ever Newsletter, which will be sent
out to all members during the month of October.
The reasons for the
change are given in the Newsletter, but Mike will be ringing
Gary tomorrow (6 October) to finish off an interview regarding
the birth of the baby and how it feels to be a father. Once
this is done, the Newsletter will be completed and sent off
to the printers!
This is very good news
for those of us who have never had the time to listen to the
tapes and CDs! We can now sit down even on the bus and read!
Brilliant idea!
Mike has once again
kindly advertised our Convention on the Hotline, with full
details given - brilliant ad Mike! Many thanks Mike, we really
appreciate this - you are a true star!
So
watch out in your postboxes for that Newsletter!
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| 17
May 2000: Updates
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Global 100 Charts
Just to update you on the current Global 100 positions:-
Category Male: 26
Category Albums: 17
Category Website: 24 (Hottest Bullet)
These are all the latest listings from the daily unofficial
updates, not those actually shown on the official weekly charts.
Thank you to everyone who has voted for GB FANS, - we are currently
at No 30!
New Message from Mike Hrano
Mike has just updated the NEWS section on the Official
Website, informing everyone that he will be phoning Gary
shortly to begin work on the next "In Conversation with .
. .". You never know, he might have an exclusive, live from
the Delivery Room! (hehehehe - only joking!)
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| 1
May 2000: GB FANS website enters Global 100 official Chart
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Many many thanks to everyone who has voted
for us in the Global 100 'Homepages' chart we have made the
chart this week at No 60! Not bad for it's first week eh!
The main man himself is also No 60 in the 'Best Male' Charts
rising 15 places.
Please continue to vote for this website as
well as Gary to ensure that we stay in the charts as part
of the GB Campaign we want Gary's name everywhere! Remember
to register your name so that your vote gains more points...
Vote
For GB FANS @ Global
Vote
For Gary @ Global
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| 15 April 2000: Search News Archives
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The Webmaster has introduced a brand new News
Archive Search Engine!
Now rather than searching the entire website
for the news you are looking for - you can now narrow it down
and just search the news archives
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| 12 April 2000: A Message from Gary
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Gary has put a personal message to fans on
the Fan Club Hotline (dated 5 April 2000) - Tel: 0906 363
3330 (calls cost 60p per minute). This line is
available to UK fans only, but Mike Hrano has put a word for
word transcript of the message on Gary's Official Website
(http://www.garybarlow.co.uk>
in the NEWS Section, for all fans to read.
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| 27 March 2000: BRITISH TRIBES Update
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Just to remind you once again that Gary fans will be featured
in the BRITISH TRIBES programme this coming Sunday, 2nd April
at 10.00 p.m. SKY ONE!
Laurence Mifsud has contacted us to ask if
you will please let him have any feedback you may have on
how the show went. Please contact Laurence after the
show at Mastermiff@aol.com.
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| 25 March 2000: Vote your Support for
Gary!
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Many thanks to Sabine from Birgitte and Sabine's
Website who has informed us that Music 365 have a poll on
their website asking if Gary will "bounce back".
To register your vote, please go to http://www.music365.co.uk/
. The current result is 88% of people say YES!
Keep voting, show them that Gary is a force to be reckoned
with!
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| 25 March 2000: Gary and BMG/RCA |
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It has been reported in the Press that BMG/RCA
have released Gary from his contract. T here is a lot of speculation
and rumour about at the moment, and we do not wish to add
to it.
Mike Hrano has informed fans on The
Gary Barlow Official Website that
an official statement will be put on the site shortly. We
therefore suggest you keep checking the NEWS section
there, to get the OFFICIAL news direct from the man himself.
We would like to thank
Mike for keeping us all informed and look forward to hearing
from Gary and GloBe shortly.
Whatever the statement,
Gary knows he will always have his true fans around him. We
will always be here for you Gary - you are our SUPERHERO!
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| 17 March 2000: BRITISH TRIBES Documentary |
| You may remember that we
advertised a tv company who were looking for Gary fans to interview
for a new tv programme called "TRIBES".
This is just to let you know that Laurence
Mifsud decided to do it and the programme will be shown on
SKY 1, Sunday, 2 April 2000 at 10.00 p.m. The programme is
called BRITISH TRIBES and features a 6 minute section, with
Laurence giving his views on the life and promotion of Gary
Barlow.
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| 5 March 2000: Heartbeat |
| Just to remind you to tune
in your VCRs for tonights broadcast of "Heartbeat".
The programme is being shown on ITV at 8.00 p.m. |
| 5 March 2000: Day 5 of Jan's Slim |
| Many thanks to everyone
who has written to Jan offering to sponsor her Slim in aid of
RAINBOW TRUST.
Today is Day 5 and so far so good. If you would like to help
Jan raise funds for this very worthy cause, please contact
her at janjan@merseymail.com
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| 29 February 2000: Heartbeat
Update - Caught by Surprise! |
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ITV's This Morning programme pulled a fast one
on us this week - they broadcast the behind the scenes at "HEARTBEAT"
today instead of Friday, 3 March, as advertised! For those of
you who missed the programme, we were able to tape it.
Gary looked really good, not like the newspaper photos which
made him look chubby! Bill Maynard, one of the regular actors
commented on what a "natural" Gary was and that he had taken
to acting like "a duck to water"! Well Done Gary!
Gary did a short interview with Susan Brooks
on the set and he really seemed to enjoy his acting experience.
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29 February 2000: Heartbeat
Update - Calling Norwegian and Scandanavian Fans! |
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We have received the following email from
Mich in Norway, who informs us that Heartbeat is shown in
her country:-
"I live in Norway. Could you please put
this out on your page? That HEARTBEAT is on Norwegian tv.
All the Norwegians I've talked to is sad coz its not on, but
it is - under a different name.
It would be nice if you put it out, so
all the people who have the tv station in Norway, and Scandinavia
gets the news!
The tv station is NRK and the time is
21:35 at saturdays."
Many thanks Mich, we are very grateful for
this information.
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22 February 2000: New G-Mail
from Gary |
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Gary did a new G-Mail on 21 February, announcing
that he is to become a dad! Well done to both Gary and Dawn
and congratulations from us all at GB FANS. To see the message
in full please go to The
Gary Barlow Official Website under G-MAIL.
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22 February 2000: Helping
The rainbow Trust |
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As many of you may already know, GB FANS has
followed Gary's lead and taken up The Rainbow Trust as one
of our Nominated Charities, the other being Radio Lollipop
(Children's Hospital Radio).
Jan has decided to aid her in her mission
to lose weight, she would go on a Sponsored Slim in
aid of The Rainbow Trust. We have contacted Claire Guthrie
from the Trust, who has now sent Jan official sponsorship
forms.
We are now looking for anyone who would like
to sponsor Jan to lose 2 stones. There is no set time period,
though Jan would like to have lost the two stones by the end
of August! If you would like to sponsor Jan (no matter how
small or large an amount), please contact her at janjan@merseymail.com.
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10 February 2000: Heartbeat
Update |
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According to newspaper reports, Gary has just
finished filming scenes for his appearance in the 150th episode
of Heartbeat. Apparently, he plays the part of a hobo (tramp)!
That should be interesting to see (hehehe),
The programme will be broadcast on Sunday,
5th March 2000 at 8.00 p.m. on ITV. There is a repeat on ITV2
the following evening (check tv guides for times).
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| 5 February 2000: Fans
Needed for TV Programme |
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We have been contacted by Granadamedia, who
are making a programme called TRIBES, which is looking at
the social culture of the UK. They are doing one of their
programmes on FANS and have asked if Gary fans would like
to take part. GB FANS has decided not to take part in the
programme because we are very wary of tv/press after the Big
Breakfast fiasco.
However, the programme makers assure us that
this is not a mickey take, they are looking for fans who consider
themselves to be huge Gary fans, but who also like a bit of
fun and don't take themselves too seriously. If you are interested,
please contact Michaela at:-
michaela.delarabond@granadamedia.com
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5 February 2000: Official
Website Problems |
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It seems that there is a server problem with
the Official Website at the moment. Many of us can't access
the site. We have emailed the Webmaster to find out the reason
for the problem, but it may well be it is just a crash and
the site could be back on soon. Please keep on trying to access
it at http://www.garybarlow.co.uk.
We hope it's not off for too long.
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| 3 February 2000: New
Single/Heartbeat |
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Many thanks to our intrepid reporter, Debbie
Cresswell in Nottingham, for sending us a copy of a reply
she received from BMG in response to an enquiry she made.
BMG state that the song All that I've Given
will be heavily featured in the episode Gary will be recording.
They go on to say that because of this, All that I've Given
may well be the next single, rather than Lie to Me.
No definite decision has been made yet, but a single is still
on schedule to be released.
We had heard that the planned release date
was 27 March 2000, if we hear any news, we will let you know.
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1 February 2000: Eastenders
Plays Gary! |
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A big WELL DONE to the Sound team on the BBC's
EASTENDERS (a soap over here in the UK). All that I've
Given Away was played in the background as two of
the characters (Sandra Di Marco and Jackie Owen) where chatting
away in Ian Beale's cafe. Don't ask us the dialogue of the
scene, we were too busy listening to the music!
Good to hear that someone at the BBC has good
taste, playing a song from the album! The programme is repeated
on Sunday for anyone who missed it first time around.
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28 January 2000: New G-Mail
from Gary |
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Gary has just written a new G-mail (28 January 2000). Please
go to Official Gary
Barlow Website in the G-MAIL section. Good to hear from
Gary again.
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25 January 2000: Gary Tops
"Evans" Poll |
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Great News! Gary has topped the Evans "Sexy Singers" Poll
with a staggering 10,335 votes! Congratulations and well done
to everyone who voted. The poll has now closed.
A very far away 2nd is Robbie williams with 2,128 votes
3rd is Ricky Martin with 602.
Please visit the Poll website at http://www.dorothyperkins.co.uk/promostores/cgi-bin/vote-results.cgi?sexysingers
for full details.
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14 January 2000: Gary Marries
Dawn! |
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We are delighted to announce that Mike has confirmed the
stories that Gary and Dawn have finally married. They were
married on Wednesday, 12 January 2000 on the paradise island
of Nevis. Our congratulations to Gary and Dawn. All our love
and best wishes for a long and happy life together.
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11 January 2000: Upgraded
Discussion Forum |
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We have a brand new upgraded Discussion Forum in the Interactive
Area which we think you are going to love so check it out
now! It has some brillliant features such as :-
- An option for a digest version of the forums being sent
to you via email
- Email notification when someone replies to your posts
- New smilies for the fun of it, plus some great emotion
icons to let us know how you feel even before we read your
messages!
- New to this version is the search function allowing you
to search quickly through messages to find what you are
looking for.
Visit the Forum today
and re-register! |
| 7 January 2000: Tour
Merchandise on Sale |
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Mike Hrano has updated the Latest News
on The
Official Gary Barlow Website. The Fan Club have a special
sale of Tour Merchandise at greatly reduced prices. Please
visit the site for full details. There are some great bargains,
including the 2000 Calendar and a seclection of t-shirts..
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