Mark Owen on the Take That songs he avoids playing

Mark Owen on the Take That songs he avoids playing

This Sunday, Mark Owen will set off on a solo tour of the UK - the first time he's taken to the road without his Take That bandmates in almost a decade.

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The star says his shows will be a "celebration of my whole career" as he turns 50, looking back at his boy band beginnings, the hippy psychedelia of his solo debut album, and even his "Tom Waits phase" in 2013.

But there are some Take That songs he's scared of putting on the setlist.

"I couldn't play Sure, because I'd have to do the dance moves," he laughs.

"It's the same thing with Pray. As soon as I hear Pray, my arms go up to the side," he says, involuntarily doing the choreography as he speaks.

"They come together, the moves and the songs. So I couldn't do them."

Owen is speaking backstage at July's Latitude Festival where, it's true, Sure and Pray are missing in action.

If his performance at Henham Park is anything to go by, his headline shows are more likely to include latter-day Take That classics like Shine, Rule The World and These Days.

Not without coincidence, they're all songs where Owen has a writing credit. (In the band's early days, Gary Barlow was the self-imposed writer-in-chief, but they became more collaborative in their second incarnation.)

"There was a point in my career where I thought, oh, I can't do Take That songs [live]," he says. "But then, when I think about it, I'm like, I can, because I wrote on them. It's all right."