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 Dec 17 2023, 07:26 AM
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So lovely lovely Teddy!!
And yes, looks like on his young father 
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Dec 19 2023, 07:29 PM
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I hope Robbie accepts nothing less than a Knighthood
 Sir Robert Williams has a nice ring to it  Marcus Rashford and Robbie Williams given huge boost ahead of New Years Honours reveal Later this month, the King's New Year Honours list will be published with a number of high profile names set to sit alongside the outstanding achievements recognised from people across the United Kingdom Marcus Rashford and Robbie Williams lead the list of famous faces tipped to receive New Years Honours later this month, according to a bookmaker. In a recent survey carried out by Ladbrokes LIVE, participants revealed they would most like to see Manchester United and England footballer Rashford recognised further for his services to vulnerable children in the UK after he campaigned for free school meals. And Robbie, who released album XXV earlier this year - marking 25 years in the entertainment business - is a popular choice to be honoured for his services to popular music. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news...-given-31706667 This post has been edited by Sydney11: Dec 19 2023, 07:29 PM |
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Dec 20 2023, 12:15 AM
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He can pin it on his manhood.
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Dec 20 2023, 09:56 AM
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Head on over to the Robbie Williams Rewind Podcast & listen to Lucy & Matt interview Robbie's guitarist Tom Longworth - link below
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/speci...i=1000639165967 This post has been edited by Sydney11: Dec 20 2023, 10:01 AM |
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Dec 20 2023, 03:40 PM
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Really enjoyed the interview with Tom Longworth on the Robbie Williams Rewind Podcast & his experience of playing in the band, his song writing & travels with Robbie & the band around the world. Alex ,you will enjoy his story about playing in Moscow in the Soccer World Cup
& last of all a little chat about Robbie's new album which we hope will be released in 2024Links to podcast below - Web: https://bit.ly/3GRp47i Apple: https://apple.co/3RRtOQo Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RRaZ03 YouTube: https://bit.ly/3TwfMF8 |
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Dec 21 2023, 08:03 AM
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Robbie Williams has started to 'respect' himself as a performer: 'I just thought I was lucky!'
Robbie Williams has only just started to "respect" himself as a performer. The 49-year-old pop star shot to fame as a member of Take That in the early 1990s before breaking out as a solo artist with hits like 'Rock DJ' and 'Angels' but admitted that up until this point in time, he always just thought he had been "lucky" with his career. He is quoted by The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column as saying: "I'm just beginning to become fully formed as an entertainer. Whatever I was getting away with appealed to a great number of people because they bought tickets, came back and saw it again. It’s all been bluff and b******* all my life. "This year is the first year as a 49-year-old where I respect myself now. Before, I just thought I was taking the p*** and being lucky." The 'Candy' hitmaker recently opened up about the personal struggles he has endured throughout his years in the spotlight in his self-titled Netflix documentary and admitted at the time he still suffers from imposter syndrome as he still feels like that teenager who auditioned for a place in a boy band. He said: "I'm terrified... There's still a bit of me going, I'm still Rob from Stoke-on-Trent. I'm still 16. It's one of those moments where I think I'm going to be found out." At the time, Robbie explained that reliving his trauma for the cameras had been a "nightmare" and was like watching himself in a car crash. He told The Saturday Times: "It’s like those nightmares where you don’t know what’s happening and you can’t remember anything and you’re terrified. It was like that all night. "Oh I've got them all! Dyspraxia, dyslexia, ADHD, neurodiversity, body dysmorphia, hypervigilance… "It was like watching a crash you were involved in, but in slo-mo. [Making the documentary] was like enduring your mental illness at a very, very slow pace, over a very, very long time. And it’s a niche thing to experience, you know. There aren’t many support groups for it. When they asked me to make the documentary, I came up with a jingle for it. ‘Trauma watch!/ Trauma watch!/ Have a trauma watch!/ I was in Take That then I left Take That/ Then I did drugs and I got real fat. They didn’t use that in the end." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/cel...cky/ar-AA1lPsp7 This post has been edited by Sydney11: Dec 21 2023, 08:03 AM |
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Jan 6 2024, 02:51 PM
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Been catching up on some podcasts on Robbie William Rewind this morning . Thoroughly enjoyed the Joe Pearman interview & the ins & outs of what went on with making the Netflix documentary .
Also listened to the interview with his Aussie collaborators Flynn & Tim , exciting times ahead I think music wise https://podcasts.apple.com/ng/podcast/robbi...nd/id1585054016 |
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Jan 20 2024, 08:42 AM
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Robbie Williams launches you festival
LMA, the music, media, and performing arts institution co-owned by Robbie Williams, today announced a new student festival, named You Festival. The first edition takes place at M&S Arena Liverpool, Jan. 22-23, with Williams on site on both days running a Q&A, as well as a panel. Other speakers include comedian John Bishop, as well as members of Bastille, Don Broco, and The Courteeners. Guests from companies including EMI, ITV Academy, Channel 4, Primary Talent, Kilimanjaro Group, One Fiinix Live, YouTube, Soundcloud, Scruff of the Neck, Beggars Group, Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe, and more are also involved in the program. LMA aims to stand out from other media institutions and universities by offering, in its own words, “unrivaled connections and links with the creative industry.” You Festival is its’ “latest initiative to provide invaluable insight and experience to students that helps bridge the gap between finishing education and entering the industry.” There are no tickets on sale for the You Festival premiere, which is open exclusively to lmA students this year, which may change for 2025. Robbie Williams, co-owner of LMA, commented, “You Festival is the latest exciting chapter in LMA’s ongoing mission to motivate and connect the next generation of pop stars, performers and creatives. I can’t wait to get on stage with friends and colleagues I have known for years and share our knowledge and experience with the LMA students.” Richard Wallace, CEO of LMA, added, “We are thrilled to announce the You Festival, taking place at the M&S Bank Arena Liverpool. You Festival is about creating opportunities for the next generation of talent and connecting them with industry. The ambition of YOU Festival is for creatives from all over the world to attend the annual event, showcase themselves and connect.” Founded in 2009, LMA has campuses at the Metquarter Liverpool, and Here East London. It offers degrees in Acting & Performance; Dance Performance; Digital Film & TV Production; Digital Games Arts; Music Performance & Industry; Musical Theatre. https://news.pollstar.com/2024/01/19/robbie...s-you-festival/ This post has been edited by Sydney11: Jan 20 2024, 08:42 AM |
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Jan 21 2024, 07:30 AM
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Robbie Williams, 49, enjoys dinner with Joan Collins, 90
 Robbie Williams cut a casual figure as he stepped out for dinner alongside Joan Collins in Beverly Hills on Friday. The Let Me Entertain you hitmaker opted for a red and black checked shirt and tan-coloured Chelsea boots as he left the Cipriani restaurant alongside his wife Ayda Field. The singer, 49, completed his look with a black baseball cap after reuniting with his friend Joan Collins and her husband Percy Gibson. The actress, 90, looked glamorous as ever in an all black ensemble and black jacket adorned with elaborate silver ferns. The star looked in great spirits as she elevated her height with a pair of black leather boots and added a pop of colour with a bold red lip. Holding her black leather clutch bag in one hand, in the other she held hands with her husband, 59, after the couple celebrated their 20th anniversary last year.  While Robbie and Joan may seem like unlikely friends, the pair were linked through Joan's late goddaughter, Milica Kastner. Milica, 49, who was the daughter of American film producer Elliott Kastner and British celebrity interior designer Tessa Kennedy, died of terminal cancer in March 2021 after she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and stage 4 uterine sarcoma - a rare cancer of the uterus - in February 2019. Posting a tribute on Instagram at the time of her death, Joan wrote: 'May you #restinpeace my beautiful brave #goddaughter @milica_kastner. You fought a great fight and I admire you so much for your strength. You are with the #angels now and you have always been an #angel.' Robbie and Milica became close friends after the film producer moved in next door to the Take That star when he was living in Notting Hill. The pair also reportedly had a pact to marry if they had not found partners by a certain age. In a self-written piece for Tatler, Milica penned: 'From that first Notting Hill night Robbie and I met, we were inseparable, like brother and sister. 'I ended up moving to Los Angeles in 2001 and lived there with Robbie for two years.' Milica also revealed that during her pregnancy with her son Jack people assumed the baby was Robbie's. 'While in LA, I became pregnant to one of my eldest brother’s friends, Cary Woods. When I moved back to London, pregnant with Jack, everyone thought the baby was Robbie’s – but we were, and always have been, just friends.' And it seems Robbie is still friends with Milica's godmother as they reunited for the evening. As Joan opted for a more dressy look, Ayda, 44, kept it casual as she donned a pair of blue denim jeans with a black jumper adorned with embroidered bunches of flowers. Meanwhile the couple were also joined by Tommy Hilfiger who cut a dapper figure in a open collared white shirt, navy quarter zip and blue gilet. he fashion designer, 72, was joined by his second wife Dee Ocleppo, 57, who he married in 2008. Dee cut a chic figure in a navy pin-striped waistcoat-style top and light blue jeans while she also threw a black winter coat over her shoulders. The actress wore the jumper over a white shirt patterned with unicorns and completed the look with a white Prada handbag and black-framed glasses. It comes after Joan sent fans into disbelief at her age after the star's dazzling appearance at the 2024 Emmy Awards in downtown Los Angeles on Monday.Joan graced the stage alongside Taraji P. Henson as the two presented the award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology series. The actress put on a glamorous display as she dazzled in a pale blue gown emblazoned with sequins which she teamed with a pair of matching opera gloves. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/other/r...-90/ar-BB1gZoG6 This post has been edited by Sydney11: Jan 21 2024, 07:30 AM |
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Jan 22 2024, 12:19 AM
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Thanks Tess.
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Jan 25 2024, 05:59 PM
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ROBBIE WILLIAMS’ YOU FESTIVAL TURNS M&S BANK ARENA INTO INDOOR CAMPSITE
LMA, a music, media and performing arts institution co-owned by Robbie Williams, welcomed more than 2,500 of its students to the inaugural YOU Festival at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena (cap. 11,000). The event, which took place from 22-23 January, featured conferences, panels and workshops from the likes of John Bishop, members of Bastille, Don Broco and The Courteeners. By night, the arena turned into an indoor campsite with more than 200 eco-friendly cardboard tents, a solution LMA devised to offer affordable and safe accommodation to attendees. The arena also featured evening activities including performances from LMA Level 6 students, cinema screens, a silent disco and an indoor funfair. LMA has announced a six-year partnership with the M&S Bank Arena for future festivals. More than 100 industry specialists hosted workshops in music, film and TV, dance, acting, gaming and musical theatre. Industry guests included those from YouTube, Sky, Soundcloud, EMI, ITV Academy, Channel 4, Primary Talent, Kilimanjaro Group, Scruff of the Neck, Beggars Group, Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe, Fremantle UK and Little Dot Studios. The final panel of the event featured Michael Loney (manager of Robbie Williams), Richard Wallace (chief executive of LMA), Simon Moran (managing director of SJM concerts) and Lucas Green (COO of Banijay). LMA CEO Richard Wallace said, “LMA has always placed a huge importance on exposing our students to those in the industry. But we wanted to go one better, to create something that genuinely brings you in the same room as these people, allows you to chat, to be spotted, and to really be inspired.” https://accessaa.co.uk/first-edition-of-rob...ndoor-campsite/ |
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Jan 30 2024, 01:22 PM
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Hard to believe this podcast is 5 years old. I really enjoyed it .
I think Robbie would have made a very good therapist  , such a great communicator ..This post has been edited by Sydney11: Jan 30 2024, 06:11 PM |
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Feb 2 2024, 11:43 AM
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I would be lying if I said I fully understood what this is about . I find it odd that it's not mentioned on RW.com website plus I am always wary when I see the word crypto. Maybe more will be revealed soon   https://lightcycle.city/rbmc/ This post has been edited by Sydney11: Feb 2 2024, 11:44 AM |
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Feb 7 2024, 10:18 AM
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There is still no mention of this event on RW.com so not sure how genuine it is tbh
  https://light-cycle.io/ This post has been edited by Sydney11: Feb 7 2024, 06:28 PM |
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‘I spend less time self-sabotaging’: Robbie Williams and Joe Lycett on making art
The pop star and comedian discuss their artwork, social media and how Williams came of age in a classic Birmingham club  Joe Lycett and Robbie Williams were brought together by Instagram. Last August, Williams posted a painting of a small, saintly looking child (not him), and captioned it with an account of how he had once made the mistake of reading the comments below a Mail Online piece. “It was hellish,” he wrote. “The person (me) they were describing was the most horrendous person that ever walked the planet. I was crestfallen.” At this point, Williams thought the best plan would be to read some comments about people who “are good, salt-of-the-earth folk”. So he looked up a piece about Ant and Dec. “Surely to God no one can hate Ant and Dec,” he thought to himself. But no. “The second comment said: ‘I hate these two almost as much as I hate that fat c*** Robbie Williams.’” Among those who replied to his post were Alan Carr, Piers Morgan, and Lycett, who said it made him laugh out loud – and so began their (possibly somewhat unlikely) friendship. The comedian also paints and makes ceramics (you can see his “after Hockney” portrait of Harry Styles, a rude vase he may – or may not – have designed for H&M, and several other works on his website); in 2018, his sculpture Chris was accepted by the Royal Academy for inclusion in its Summer Exhibition. By September, Lycett had visited Williams at home in west London, at which point they discovered how well they got on, and how similar their art is. Williams’s Inklings illustrations, like Lycett’s huge acrylics, have a pop art sensibility that pokes fun at celebrity culture and the so-called wellness industry. For this interview, Lycett and Williams talked over Zoom. Lycett, who is 35, was at home in Birmingham, in a pink room with a big cupboard in which he houses some of his beloved outlandish stage outfits; Williams, 50, was in London, where he lives with his wife, Ayda Field, and four children (one of whom appeared fleetingly on screen). Their conversation touched on dating, artificial intelligence and the nature of fame, as well as some scabrous celebrity gossip that it would probably be extremely unwise to repeat here. Joe Lycett: You started posting art on Instagram last May. Is that right ! Robbie Williams: Yes. I’ve been doing stuff [making art] since 2006, but I hadn’t put anything out there. But then I had this joke about the Olympics/the Ozempics [the weight-loss drug], and for some reason I was worried. I thought: “I must put this out there now, or someone else will either steal it or think I’ve stolen it.” I wasn’t planning on following it up but I got such nice comments – and that fed my ego. I thought: “I’m going to do some more of these. People are pleased with me.” As of today, that joke has had 15,746 likes. I don’t do photographs of me on tour any more, really. It’s all the art. Before this, I didn’t really do social media. I’ve always been puzzled by it. I exist in a very 90s personality, one who doesn’t get it at all. JL: Hang on. Aren’t you on Twitter ! RW: No, I’m not on Twitter [now known as X]. It would ruin my career. The last time I was on it, I did a tweet that said: “I quite fancy getting into shoplifting. Has anyone got any good suggestions for shoplifting?” The person who runs Gail’s, the bakery, said: this is awful. This is a pop star who lives in a bubble. How dare he? I saw the backlash, and I was, like: “I don’t think Twitter is for me.” I got my fingers burned JL: But that’s increasingly what it’s like out there. It’s weird for me because when I was starting out as a comedian, before I had any recognition, I had maybe a few hundred followers, and I would use it to try out jokes. It was a kind of writers’ room, all these half-baked ideas. But looked at retrospectively, with a few more followers, it’s a writers’ room full of danger. But the shoplifting stuff, that’s interesting. Are you familiar with the artist Foka Wolf [the Birmingham billboard prankster ]? He has a whole strand of work about shoplifting; he says it should become more normalised. You’re in a similar space. RW: I’ve just had a look at his Insta page, and I already like it. But I’m Robbie Williams, so I’m in a certain box. I’m in a pop star box, and if the pop star starts acting differently from the way a pop star should, then it causes confusion, which I like, but it might also get me cancelled. JL: One thing I’ve noticed about your art is that nearly all of it is funny. Is that something you feel you can’t do through your music? I mean, there are elements of humour in your lyrics, but they’re more amusing observations than punchlines. RW: OK, so when I was 10, and at primary school, we camped in north Wales for seven days. At the end of the holiday, we were allowed to go into town and some people had some pocket money and some people didn’t; I didn’t. Anyway, we were in the shop, and I saw this poster on the wall. It was of a train that had crashed because a bridge had collapsed. It was the 1890s or something, and there was this man with a big top hat on, and he was looking at the scene, and it just said [what he was thinking, which was]: oh shit, oh shit. I thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever seen, and I stared at it for ages and ages. There was also this book, again when I was about 10, of funny things people had written on walls. I guess both those inspired me to do what I’m doing now. I don’t know if there’s something about not being able to be funny in my music; it’s not like I’m burning to do more funny lyrics. But in this medium, I’m still that 10-year-old. JL: Even in my world, if you’re a musical comedian, people roll their eyes a bit. Music isn’t the place for funny. RW: It’s kind of like a prop gag, isn’t it? Where I peaked with this (funny lyrics) was my song Rudebox [from 2006]. It was meant to be whimsical and silly, but it was just deemed silly and was vilified. JL: It’s sort of what you were talking about before: about being in your box. Doing something different isn’t allowed. RW: I’m a big fan of surreal, of whimsy, and I don’t think the music world takes to silly very well. It’s either Barbie Girl, which we all get is silly, or it’s not understood or appreciated. JL: Comedies never win Oscars. RW: Neither do action films. But I enjoyed the last Mission Impossible way more than I enjoyed Oppenheimer. It was incredible escapism. But it won’t get anywhere near the Oscars, because action is deemed a lesser art form – which is why I went on my Instagram with one of my signs on a stick outside the Beverly Hills Hotel that said “Give Tom Cruise an Oscar already.” Just give him the frigging Oscar, you pretentious clowns. JL: Do you think he was appreciative of that ! RW: Well, I haven’t heard from him. But I really meant it, and I will forgive Tom Cruise anything because he’s amazing. So it’s all good. JL: At what stage did you decide to get in touch with me? What was the trigger ! RW: The trigger was seeing you on television and liking what you do, and then it was to do with my art, and me thinking: “Oh, Joe’s doing this too.” So I reached out. People do reach out on social media, don’t they? It’s the artistic equivalent of sliding into someone’s – what’s it called? – DMs. I missed the whole sliding-into-DMs-phase, because I’ve been in a relationship with my wife for 18 years. Thankfully, I’ve never had to deal with that. JL: It is dangerous. I’m also, as you know, in a long-term relationship now, so I don’t need to worry about it. But when I was [single], I didn’t slide into people’s DMs. It was using Hinge and Grindr and those apps, and people would screenshot and then post the chat you were having with them. I’m not a good flirt, so people seeing my blurts was… RW: Yeah, that’s abusive and unkind. JL: So, the art… RW: Yes. I’ve got these Inklings that I do. I’ve got 2,500 of them, but not all of them are Instagram grid-worthy. I post every day, and now I’ve got slight anxiety that I’m going to run out of good ones to put up, but I am enjoying the process. I’ve got to draw some more, or come up with other things to put on the grid, and since I am an addict [Williams has struggled with drugs, alcohol, food and prescription drugs], I guess I’m addicted to social media right now. There’s your headline. JL: [Laughing] Well, I concur. Because I think Instagram has made me more prolific as an artist. You get that dopamine hit from the response, and you want more of that, so you make more art. There was a piece – the one I spent the longest time on. It was a painting of Jenny Beavan [the Oscar-winning costume designer], who I live with when I’m in London. I spent ages on the folds in her jeans and it got much less engagement than stuff that had taken me 10 minutes. I found it frustrating. It was annoying. But still, without Instagram I would probably make a lot less art than I do RW: I also spend a lot of time on my captions, which have become diary-like, and what I noticed was that nobody was talking about my Inklings. They were responding to what I’d written. I was feeling like my Inklings were being ignored! I put a PS on one of my captions: can someone say something about my Inklings please? JL: Yes, I’ve been writing silly blocks of text – flights of fancy essentially – about where the paintings come from, and you’re right, they become bigger than the post itself. But when you’re making art, is there a mental health benefit too ! RW: I was with Vic Reeves in, probably, 1995, and he told me that he creates something every day, and I remember thinking: “If only I was talented, I’d do that.” And now I find myself creating something every day, and escaping into creation in my mind, and the more time I spent doing that, the less time I spend self-sabotaging, or thinking about all the anxieties of life, the foibles of being me and inside my brain. JL: I read somewhere that one art experience per month can add up to 10 years to your life – and it doesn’t have to be good work; there is no correlation between the quality of the work and the benefits RW: Wow. In that case, I’m going to live until I’m about 130. But it’s so gratifying and I’m so lucky to have the time to do it. It gives me dramatic purpose and I feel very, very fulfilled. I don’t know how I existed without doing this. When I was trying to put an album together, you have a couple of days writing songs, and then you might do nothing for a couple of months, and I don’t know what I did with myself in between. I got on the plane back from Hong Kong recently, and it was a 14-hour flight, and I spent 12 hours of it creating this jacket [a patchwork garment he’s designing]. I didn’t switch on the TV. JL: The art changed for me when I had a chat with Mr Bingo [the illustrator and artist]. He gave me the idea of selling prints of my work in lockdown, and now it has become another revenue stream for me. It’s a bit of a machine, rather than the mental health thing it was. RW: I’m addicted to the win – and how is the win measured? Eventually I will make my Inklings available to buy. It’s not just the money going into my bank account; it’s more to do with people liking them. I don’t suppose you’re allowed to say that as an artist. But if I’m not going to be lauded as a credible artist, I’ll choose to be a commercial one instead. JL: I haven’t asked you about your exhibition in Amsterdam. How’s it going ! RW: Really well. It felt really good. Instead of having an existential crisis, which is what usually happens, I just thought: I don’t know what this means, but it’s nice. JL: I did an exhibition last year with my mum [Helen, a retired graphic designer], and what was strange about it was you have all the build-up, like you have for a gig, the same kind of nervousness, the build-up of adrenaline. But there’s no performance. The showing-off has been done already. RW: I didn’t have any nervousness. The exhibition isn’t going to facilitate the future of my children and our lifestyle. I did read some comments from the museum, and they were all very nice, apart from one that said, ‘People spend years studying fine art and they can’t get anywhere and Robbie Williams does some doodles and he’s in a museum.’ JL: We’ve got to finish this in a minute, and we should talk about Birmingham before we do. You grew up in Stoke, I know, but I am wondering if you have any links to Birmingham, especially to do with art in the city. RW: Well, the only thing that comes to mind is Miss Moneypenny’s, the club. It was pivotal for me. I went from being this good boy in a Catholic school in Stoke to being this person who had just bombed a gram of speed and had three E’s in my pockets, dancing in my Vivienne Westwood bondage trousers and shirt with a high collar and tie that had the same gingham pattern. I went with a bunch of people from Warrington who would rent a van, and they would pick me up at a service station, and off we would go. JL: Wow! I’ve literally never heard of it. I can’t believe I don’t know it… it’s got its own Wikipedia page. RW: I remember spending a lot of time in gay clubs. For the first 18 months of Take That’s existence, we did gay clubs. I had the best time, because you weren’t in fear of your life. The love and acceptance that I found there, I will always be grateful for it. JL: I feel the same. Any city I go to, they’re a safe space for me: a haven. RW: Anyway, I’m away for two weeks, and then I’m back in London. I’d love to see you then, Joe. I do really enjoy your company – and hopefully neither of us will be cancelled after this appears. JL: Yes. Fingers crossed! Robbie Williams’s first solo show, Pride and Self-Prejudice, is on at the Moco Museum in Amsterdam until 8 July Late Night Lycett airs Fridays at 10pm on Channel 4. The book Joe Lycett’s Art Hole is published later this year and is available to preorder now https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/...ting-exhibition This post has been edited by Sydney11: Sunday, 08:44 AM |
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That's an unlikely pairing!
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