This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. I completely missed “ Take That Mania ” living in New Zealand; still, the chance to visit Malta to see them play seems pretty cool.
Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. “ The Greatest Weekend, ” as Gary Barlow, Mark Owend and Howard Donald are touting their Malta excursion, is set to be a four-day festival-style event with the band performing not one but two headline performances across the weekend from October 17 to October 19 2024. Advertisement Advertisement No, sadly I was living it up in Auckland as a pre-teen still enamoured with Nirvana , Foo Fighters and the like, with family members in the United Kingdom telling me about this massive boy band better than Boyz II Men , New Kids On The Block and Blackstreet combined.
Though I’d see some of their music videos, the pop cultural phenomenon didn’t make its way to the Southern Hemisphere, though admittedly I enjoyed their cover of “ Relight My Fire ” with Lulu and am not ashamed to admit I thought Mark Owen was the looker of the bunch. Am I right? But as I moved back to the United Kingdom in 1996, when the band broke up, I could kind of understand the commotion but wasn’t awar.