MIGHTY CUTE; Kate Mansey catches up with that `nice young man' Mark Owen.(Features)

From: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) | Date: March 11, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Kate Mansey

IT'S hard to think of Mark Owen without thinking of Take That.

He has a second solo album, a new solo tour and his own record label. But 10 years on it's still `Mark Owen from Take That' speaking.

``Hiya, it's Mark Owen here,'' he says chirpily down the phone.

He asks how I am, if I've got over the flu that his manager told him I had. You could say he's a slick operator but speaking to him you begin to realise that, ...