Mark Owen Chats To ilikemusic.com

As Mark Owen embarks on the next phase of his recording career, it's becoming clear that perhaps for the first time, everything that's passed before his eyes can now be included in his life as a pop singer. The terraced streets of Oldham where he grew up in a small council house can be in there. The euphoria and the unreality of his days in the original, best, and most loved British boy band, Take That, can be drawn on. He can use those years up at his Lake District home, spent talking to the wildlife and wrestling with songs. The insides, upsides and downsides can all go in there, and even the surreal madness of celebrity reality TV can be embraced and adapted.

It would be wrong to say that Mark Owen has grown up. He's far too idealistic and in love with the possibilities of song, and still way too cute for that. What has happened though, is finally, after the seismic lifequake that occurred in his early twenties, his past and his future have met in the middle to produce a brilliant new energy. In 2003 fate and Mark's own good karma have conspired to return him to the centre of pop with a set of songs and a positive outlook that can turn on the lights anywhere there's a jukebox, radio, sleazy venue or roaring stadium. "It definitely feels like a new start," says Mark. "I know I was in Take That before and I did a solo album, but I think the gap in between has been a good thing for me, because I'm hungry and I'm excited."
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