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I'm a little disappointed he didn't dress a little nicer. I mean, this is a big deal! He could have worn something a little snazzier than jeans!!
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Here's the setlist from the Proms website:

 

1.Morning Sun

2.Come Undone

3.Blasphemy

4.Starstruck

5.Feel

6.I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen

7.Supreme

8.Deceptacon

9.No Regrets

10.Won't Do That

11.You Know Me

12.Angels

13.Millennium

14.Video Killed The Radio Star

It is on 11.50 on BBCNI according to my NTL? All different times it seems :lol:

 

Bloody cheek not showing it all. I want you all to see the full amazing gig and all the hilarious chats he had with the audience. :lol:

 

What was the interview like?

I'm a little disappointed he didn't dress a little nicer. I mean, this is a big deal! He could have worn something a little snazzier than jeans!!

 

He could have wore his PJ's ...they are all the fashion these days ...so count ourselves lucky :lol:

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Wow, just wow Robbie :wub:

 

I'm glad you could all hear the songs and they sounded good aswell on the radio. The atmosphere was amazinggg.

 

I'm even more exited about the new album now.

 

He was so full of love about Bary Garlow aswell :lol: Called him his new best mate. At the end of No regrets he said................I guess the love we once had is officially ALIVE, we're all getting prepared for a get together with Take That me thinks.

Bodies as an opener was brilliant!! Usually I don't wanaa hear anything else but Let me entertain you but this time I didn't even think about that song :wub:

 

He dedicated Won't do that to his girlfriend Ayda, she looked really happy and of course she could sing all the lyrics to that song -_- :lol:

 

Truly an amazing concert, pity it was just one and an half hour instead of 2, once i'm into Robbie I never het enough innit :wub:

 

Ohhh and he has new tattoos on his arms :smoke:

 

 

Welcome back :wub:

 

 

Glad you had fun tonight. What's the new tattoos of?

It is on 11.50 on BBCNI according to my NTL? All different times it seems :lol:

 

Bloody cheek not showing it all. I want you all to see the full amazing gig and all the hilarious chats he had with the audience. :lol:

 

What was the interview like?

 

 

The interview was done early September....a lot :) has happened since

Welcome back :wub:

Glad you had fun tonight. What's the new tattoos of?

 

I coudn't see it very well as he had long sleeves, sometimes bits popped up though :lol:

 

I am suprised you are not impressed with the new stuff Nada :o There is nothing remotely weird or Rudebox-like about them.

 

I'm not really crazy for new songs in just two reasons, some of them are too slow and with no chorus which can stay in your head right now!

 

But, Eternity is slow, and I like it. That's why I said I have to hear songs a few more times.

 

And this is definitely 100 times better then Rudebox, and I'm not disappointed, and I thought I'll be.

 

One thing tells how I like things so far, I can't wait for new album. And I wanted new album even before 30s of songs, but since I heard them, I want it so much more.

Nice to read your impressions Nicky. :D :cheer:
The gig has just started over here. I wonder what songs they will show for the 45 minutes. They will prob just cut out all the chat (which had the whole cinema laughing throughout :lol: ).
I dont believe it. They have to skipped the amazing Morning Sun and Come Undone. And the part before Starstruck where he did the George Michael dance was very funny. Eugh, this better be shown in full at a later date or on DVD.
They have bloody skipped Blasphemy as well. That and Morning Sun were two of the highlights of the whole thing. How annoying for those who didnt see it in full.

OMG, even the bloody MIRROR - the 3AM BITCHES, have praised the performance. I am in shock :o http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/1...15875-21762014/

 

I am very annoyed that most of the highlights from the show (imo anyway) were not shown on BBC. I mean, FFS, Morning Sun, Come Undone, Blasphemy, Wont Do That, You Know me (the second bloody single). It is beyond ridiculous imo. Those songs mainly captured the gigs brilliance. What was shown on TV were not the best parts whatsoever and it should not be judged on that. Obviously it was still nice to see it on TV, but I am annoyed for those who did not see it in Cinema that they did not see the best parts. It better be availavble to view on youtube or something tomorrow in full.

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ROBBIE WILLIAMS AT THE ELECTRIC PROMS, ROUNDHOUSE,NW1

 

 

For the least straightforward of pop stars, the least straightforward of comebacks. Being away for three years has undoubtedly done Robbie Williams’ profile the world of good. When we last saw him in this country, it was for the Rudebox album which, as Williams noted, was “welcomed like a ginger stepchild”. Rudebox sold “only” 4.5 million copies, which, compared with his pomp — seven-times platinum for 2002’s Escapology — was a considerable downturn.

 

The British king of pop had made an album that was, to his constituency, unforgivably experimental — all drug confessions, beat-boxes and Eighties hip-hop — and then followed it up with an extended investigation into UFOs in a frankly boggling Radio 4 documentary. He’d tipped over from “loveable pop eccentric” to the kind of person who corners you at closing time and tells you he’s been probed by a Grey Alien, ie, lost that vital pink cowboy hat-wearing, hen-night massive.

 

But since then, Take That have reformed, UK pop has taken a turn for the weird — Amy Winehouse’s hair; La Roux’s hair, come to that — and Britain is more inclined to re-embrace one of its more eccentric singles-practitioners. Williams’ much-heralded appearance on The X Factor wasn’t the dream re-entry to the pop stratosphere: sweating, wild-eyed and struggling with a stage door that wouldn’t open, he came across less like a returning pop hero, more like someone who’d just nicked a jacket from Zara, and was worried about being stopped by security. The subsequent, eyebrow-raised tabloid coverage suggested that he might need to spend a longer spell on the subs bench before finally returning to the pop pitch.

 

But at last night’s gig at the Roundhouse — the first of Radio 1’s Electric Proms season — Williams showed no such nerves. In jeans and a swagger, Williams launched into the current No 2 single — Bodies — like a man who had not only paid for his Zara jacket, but could slap his credit card down on the counter and say: “I’ll buy all 1,560 stores, thank you.” Williams’ core appeal is a finely-calibrated balancing act between supreme self-confidence and teenage vulnerability, and as he introduced Feel — “I’m sure my aunt’s looking down on me now. She’s not dead; she’s just really condescending” — he not only aced his core appeal, but introduced about as fine a piece of pop as has been in the Top Ten in the last ten years. And when he revealed his new tattoo — a Take That logo on his wrist — while explaining that he’d recently shown it to his ex-bandmates, expecting an emotional reaction, only to have them all sigh “What a dick”, you could feel dozens of pink hen-night hats being taken out of storage, in advance of the now-inevitable Take That reunion.

 

But the majority of his set-list was an oddly tentative choice for a man with 29 Top 20 singles available to stuff in the back of the net. We had six songs from the new album, an album track from Swing When You’re Winning, and only with a finale of Angels, Millennium and a cover of The Buggles’ Video Killed The Radio Star, did he finally play like a multi-platinum stadium star, giving a small venue in north London the surprise of its life.

 

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Deborah Letts wrote:

 

Robbie Williams is back. And Thank Goodness for that. The press have had a field day with him and it hasnt been right. He has come back and broken more records. He is the UKs Best entertainer and the public and press should Welcome him back with open arms. He showed us once again that he has a presence that is still very much needed in the Music Industry and has once again showed me and others that he is one of the UKs greatest Showman and there really isnt anyone out there better than him. Simon Cowell has said he is one of our great Entertainers. He has fantastic new material and a back log of truly remarkable music. Embrace the Return of our Son Mr Robbie Williams. Welcome back Robbie You did good. You have been missed . Stand tall and dont listen to all this awful press youve been having. You are truly remarkable. A great Showman.

 

Times Online UK

 

 

 

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ROBBIE GETS RAVE REVIEWS

 

By Daily Express Reporter THOSE of us lucky enough to get tickets for Robbie Williams’ come-back gig last night could see no sign of the debilitating stage fright that has famously hampered the singer’s love of entertaining.

 

 

Commanding the stage with a superstar’s swagger, a confident and at times emotional Williams proved he is as slick a showman as he ever was.

 

His first live UK gig since his Close Encounters tour of 2006 follows a bizarre performance on ITV’s X Factor which grabbed the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

 

A wide-eyed and sweating Williams – who has a history of drug problems – was later forced to deny that he was high.

 

But at last night’s one-off gig, which was the opening night of the BBC’s Electric Proms, Williams kicked off with his latest track Bodies – number two in the charts – and proved his return to form as a worthy hit-maker.

 

During a controlled and near seamless performance there was little hint that this 35-year-old former member of Take That had ever belted out a boy band’s ­ballad.

 

 

 

Robbie Williams performing on stage at the BBC Electric Proms

 

Instead he treated the rapturous crowd at London’s Roundhouse to plenty of vintage Robbie anthems, and some hot new material from his soon-to-be released album Reality Killed The Video Star.

 

Notably the star, dressed down in jeans and a shirt, did away with his trademark opener Let Me Entertain You to debut forthcoming sure-fire hits including his next single You Know Me, electro-pop track Starstruck and the “grower” Deceptacon.

 

Gushing love song Won’t Do That, dedicated to his girlfriend Ayda Field who was in the audience, broke many a female heart at the intimate Camden venue.

 

And there was plenty of evidence that the troubled star had been working on his demons.

 

Before launching into No Regrets he spoke of his reconciliation with his former Take That band mates, and in a shock revelation, even announced: “I’ve got a new best friend and his name is Gary Barlow.”

 

Despite his glittering 13-year solo pop career Williams has revealed in his official blog that after his three-year hiatus, “getting back into the swing of things has felt somewhat alien”.

 

The star revealed ahead of the gig that he was unsure if he would be able to mask his crippling nerves – but last night he clearly did just that.

 

Robbie is back.

 

 

Source...UK EXPRESS

 

 

 

 

 

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ROBBIE WILLIAMS, ROUNDHOUSE LONDON

 

It takes Robbie Williams all of four minutes of his comeback gig – an event being beamed live to 200 cinemas across the world – to mention The X Factor. He makes a joke about John and Edward, but it's clear the programme is playing on his mind. You can see why: his grand return was all going so well until he got himself mixed up in Simon Cowell's dark kingdom.

 

It was certainly a peculiar idea to release Bodies, his comeback single, the same week as the latest effort from last year's X Factor winner Alexandra Burke: as he was keen to point out last night, Bodies attained his biggest first-week sales since Rock DJ, but Burke comfortably outsold it to take the No 1 slot in the charts.

 

You might have thought they were on firmer ground by getting Williams to sing live on the same show, but apparently not. He put on a defiantly odd show, during which he seemed to spend as much time shaking hands with the audience as singing, which gave the whole thing the air a frenetic royal walkabout with the new Robbie Williams single playing in the background.

 

The tabloids, overlooking the point that his defiant oddness might be what makes Williams infinitely more interesting then your average pop star, were quick to declare his comeback a busted flush: Mummy, Who's That Strange Man On X Factor, demanded one headline, next to a picture of Williams looking about as mad as it's possible to look without being strapped to a hospital trolley.

 

Perhaps Cowell was trying to knobble the competition by slipping something in the X Factor green room Evian: the following week Whitney Houston looked like a woman who'd been waiting for a bus in the rain only to find herself bundled into a car, whisked to a TV studio and shoved out onstage in front an audience of millions.

 

Certainly last night, Williams bore little relation to the figure on television a couple of weeks back. For a man who now apparently suffers from stage fright so acute that he has no plans to tour for the foreseeable future, he seemed entirely confident and in control.

 

From the balcony of the Roundhouse, he seemed exactly as his fans remember him from before he retired to America, grew a vast beard (now removed) and devoted his time to hunting UFOS: a peculiar combination of strutting and facial tics that imply his success is a joke in which his audience are complicit.

 

Clearly nothing had been left to chance – behind him onstage there was a string section, harpist, three guitarists, three keyboard players, six backing vocalists (one of whom was Lol Creme, formerly of 10CC) but whatever efforts were made clearly paid off.

 

The songs from his forthcoming album Reality Killed The Video Star slotted perfectly alongside No Regrets and the grand finale of Angels – Morning Sun, an elegiac post-Oasis ballad designed to get stadiums full of arms waving in unison – seemed a pretty representative example.

 

It all went according to plan but equally, it was not too slick to be genuinely enjoyable. Williams pretended to choke up before performing his old hit Feel. It was, he said, his auntie's favourite song, "and I'm sure she's looking down on us now." As the audience awwwed sympathetically, he added: "She's not dead, she's just really, really condescending,", his defiant oddness rather pleasingly intact, even in a moment of triumph

 

 

The Guardian UK

 

 

 

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS CONQUERS NERVES AT THE ROUNDHOUSE, POP STAR PUTS THE X FACTOR DEBACLE BEHIND HIM FOR LONDON COMEBACK CONCERT

 

After a shaky start, Robbie Williams put his comeback nerves behind him and gave a super-confident show at the Roundhouse last night, his first full concert in London for three years.

 

Normally a stadium performer, he wanted a more intimate venue to make his return, having admitted to suffering from stage fright in recent years. A crowd of 3,000 - among them Sir Ian McKellen, Will Young and Ant and Dec - turned out for the concert that kicks off the BBC's Electric Proms series.

 

First he had to put that recent X Factor appearance behind him, still the subject of tabloid chitchat. As Caitlin Moran writes in her Times review of last night's show (see below), Williams's appearance on Simon Cowell's TV show was a disaster: "sweating, wild-eyed and struggling with a stage door that wouldn't open, he came across less like a returning pop hero, more like someone who'd just nicked a jacket from Zara, and was worried about being stopped by security".

 

But after a slow start at the Roundhouse with Bodies and Morning Sun he warmed up with the first of his golden oldies, Come Undone, and with the crowd singing along, he was soon back in the groove.

 

By the time he performed his final set of Angels, Millennium and a cover of his producer Trevor Horn's big hit, Video Killed The Radio Star, the X Factor, the stage fright, the idea that he might need more time out - they were all history.

 

"He looked like he absolutely loved it," 35-year-old Kirsty Stirling told a BBC reporter afterwards. She should know - she's seen Williams live 35 times.

 

WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING

 

Andy Gill, the Independent: "Previously, there has been a distinct tendency for Robbie Williams shows to become simply an opportunity to bathe in the star's oceanic self-regard... But as the show progressed, his more chummy, blokeish side prevailed in self-deprecating chat about his greying hair and his rapprochement with Take That... Despite my own deep-seated antipathy, even I was impressed by the easy assurance with which Williams made light work of a risky gamble."

 

Alexis Petridis, the Guardian: "Williams bore little relation to the figure on television a couple of weeks back. For a man who now apparently suffers from stage fright so acute that he has no plans to tour for the foreseeable future, he seemed entirely confident and in control."

 

Caitlin Moran, the Times: "When he revealed his new tattoo ‹ a Take That logo on his wrist ‹ you could feel dozens of pink hen-night hats being taken out of storage, in advance of the now-inevitable Take That reunion."

 

 

 

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The reviews are simply amazing are'nt they. My favourite music critic Neil McCormick gace it a brilliant review :yahoo:

 

Robbie Williams at the Roundhouse, review

Robbie Williams reminded pop what it's been missing with his Electric Proms performance at the Roundhouse. Rating: * * * *

 

By Neil McCormick, The Telegraph

Published: 9:22AM BST 21 Oct 2009

 

“This is not X Factor, is it?” asks Robbie Williams, with cheeky insouciance. If he felt he had something to prove after his strange, nervous TV performance, it doesn’t show. His live comeback after a three-year break was casual, charming, friendly and utterly imperious.

 

Looking trim and fit, Williams told stories, cracked jokes (usually with himself as the butt), led the crowd in comedy dance routines and belted his way through a set of songs, old and new, so catchy and clever and full of personality they reminded everyone precisely why he has been champion of the British pop scene for so long.

 

Williams new producer, Trevor Horn, led a 38-piece band augmented by an orchestra. Against this lush backdrop Williams’s vocals do all that is required of them: deliver the song so that you believe it.

 

A singalong Come Undone, on which he leaves all the rude words to the crowd, demonstrates the strange appeal of Williams, a family favourite who can lead an audience in a chorus of self-loathing, singing: “I am scum but I’m you son.”

 

“I’m still your son.” Williams shouts excitedly, as ever pitched between a sentimental need to be loved and the conflicting, impish desire to provoke.

 

There’s a lot of new material tonight, but nothing to scare his record company. On the epic, Beatlesque Morning Sun, Williams delivers the couplet: “Message to the troubadour: the world don’t love you anymore.”

 

“I thought it was about Michael Jackson,” Williams confesses, “but it’s actually about me again.” The message really is that nothing has changed, skipping swiftly past the electro experiments of Rudebox, Williams has returned to the template he established with his original collaborator, Guy Chambers: meaty, mainstream pop with twists of lyrical wit, irony and imagination. There is even a new Williams-Chambers composition tonight, a strings and piano ballad Blasphemy. It might seem ridiculous to say this of someone so popular and successful, but Williams is critically underrated as a songwriter.

 

He has a real affinity for melody and a sharp, lyrical edge with a penchant for puns and catchy phrases.

 

Williams is unashamedly naff, but get past that and there’s real heart and art. After the misfire of X Factor, tonight Williams seized his chance to remind pop exactly what it’s been missing.

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Live review: Robbie Williams at the Roundhouse

Alex Bilmes 21 October 2009 11:45

 

A lot of tosh has been written about Robbie Williams since his appearance on ITV's The X Factor ten days ago, with various invertebrate journalists and "industry insiders" (other invertebrate journalists, usually) gleefully writing off his comeback on the strength of one calamitous TV spot. Few of these naysayers have heard the album Robbie is shortly to release, and even less can be said to be acting from the purest of motives. Much of the negative comment is motivated by anger at missing out on interviews or promotional tie-ins. It's always this way: give an interview to The Sun, risk being slated in The Mirror; giveaway a CD in the Mail on Sunday, risk a vituperative hatchet job in the Sunday Times.

 

Newspaper readers can be forgiven for not spotting the joins, though, and noxious press coverage ahead of an album release - even such obviously lazy hackery - can be damaging, as Robbie discovered in 2006 when Rudebox, his last album, was effectively strangled in the womb by a single negative notice in the Sun. That's not just the fault of journalists: the British public doesn't need much encouragement to kick a man when he's down, and in Robbie's case the nation piled in like cowardly ruckers in a closing-time car park.

 

Still, The X Factor was a strange choice of venue to reboot his career. Robbie is a hugely charismatic and talented entertainer but he's also awkward and restless, forever battling between sincerity and sarcasm, and it's that strange and combustible combination that makes him so compelling. The X Factor is not at home to oddness and irony. It does neither sincerity nor sarcasm. Instead it seeks to create bland facsimiles of pop stars, witless Whitney and Mariah knock-offs who might enjoy brief success, like current incumbent Alexandra Burke, before disappearing. The song Robbie performed, new single "Bodies", has a propulsive Frankie thud and a challenging lyric. The X Factor audience would rather watch underprivileged kids warble tunelessly through "I Believe I Can Fly" before bursting into tears. It's worth noting that Whitney herself came a cropper the week after Robbie, her own comeback performance being somehow upstaged by Cheryl Cole's solo debut. This is the popworld in which we now live.

 

The fact is that "Bodies" is Robbie's fastest selling single since Rock DJ, in 2000. But this encouraging news is lost amidst crowing over the fact that Burke's single, an almost dementedly unremarkable stomp, sold even more. Someone at Robbie's record company needs to rethink this strategy of scheduling releases against products of the Simon Cowell hit factory. They may not like it, but they can't win.

 

All eyes, then, on last night's show in north London for the BBC's Electric Proms, Robbie's first concert for three years. I don't know what it looked like to the many thousands watching on TV and in 250 cinemas across Europe, but from the floor of the Roundhouse, it seemed a powerful and conclusive restatement of the qualities that made Robbie Britain's biggest, brightest pop star of the Nineties and Noughties.

 

From the moment he took the stage, backed by a 38-piece band led by producer Trevor Horn, as well as an orchestra, Robbie was in control. He looked lean and hungry and, crucially, comfortable in his skin. Here was a man among friends, and he rewarded us with a set that included plenty of new material - "Bodies"; the Beatlesy album opener, "Morning Sun"; the lovely "Deceptacon" - but also Robbie standards "Come Undone", "Feel" and, inevitably but no less magnificently, "Angels". All this punctuated by Robbie's trademark showbizzy rambles. At one point he demonstrated "George Michael dancing", encouraging the audience to have a go. At another he dedicated a song to his Auntie. She'd be looking down on him tonight, he reckoned. "She's not dead," he clarified. "She's just really, really condescending." You don't get that kind of punchline from Leona Lewis.

 

By the time of the final encore, a brilliant version of Horn's "Video Killed the Radio Star", the headlines were already written: Robbie's back, and not before time. If we're prepared to give it the chance it deserves, the album will be a huge hit (I've heard it; it's terrific) and The X Factor fiasco and attendant rubbishing won't even be a footnote.

 

 

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