February 1, 201015 yr And a great month it will no doubt be with the Robster getting The Outstanding Contribution to Music BRIT, several TV performance both in the UK and around Europe and not to forget the wedding which is meant to be this month. And of course we will see the video for Morning Sun I assume. A busy month :D
February 11, 201015 yr Virgin Media Awards Cheryl Cole snatches back Hottest Female title 11th February London Evening Standard Cheryl Cole knocked her rival and last year's winner Una Healy from The Saturdays off the podium to snatch back her title as Hottest Female for this year's Virgin Media Music Awards. Meanwhile Pixie Lott narrowly beat JLS to be billed this year's Best Newcomer. With female artists firmly cementing their popularity across most categories, Lily Allen goes on to triumph over Lady GaGa and JLS to claim her prize for Best Track for the single The Fear. Take That, also triumphed, being crowned this year's Best Group and for the second year running band member Mark Owen got voters' hearts racing by winning the Hottest Male award. Ex band member Robbie Williams was named this year's Best Solo Male. Lady GaGa was runner-up behind Britney Spears to win the Best Solo Female award. However she hasn't gone unnoticed by the public for her eccentric yet addictive album The Fame, as she walked away with this year's Best Album award. British 1980s new romantics Spandau Ballet received a warm welcome back by their fans this year by accepting the Best Comeback award. Frontman Tony Hadley said: "Thanks to Virgin Media customers and of course all of our fans for supporting us and enabling us to have the best time back on stage together. The tour so far has been fun beyond belief." Finally, the ultimate Legend of the year award went, perhaps unsurprisingly, to the late king of pop Michael Jackson. This year, more than three million music fans took part online in what is thought to be one of the biggest music awards voted for by the public. To see a full list of the award winners, log on to: www.virginmedia.comp Virgin Media Music Awards Winners 2010: · Legend Of The Year: Michael Jackson · Best Track: The Fear, Lily Allen · Best Album: The Fame, Lady GaGa · Best Newcomer: Pixie Lott · Best Solo Female: Britney Spears · Best Solo Male: Robbie Williams · Best Comeback: Spandau Ballet · Best Group: Take That · Hottest Female: Cheryl Cole · Hottest Male: Mark Owen · Twit of the year: Britney Spears · Loser of the year: Kanye West · Shameless Publicity Seeker: Lady GaGa · Worst Track: Obsessed, Mariah Carey source TRWS
February 11, 201015 yr BRIT SPECIAL, ROBBIE The Sun http://i47.tinypic.com/1z2j2g8.gif ROBBIE WILLIAMS and fiancée AYDA FIELD head out of LA for the UK to prepare for the big day - the singer collects his Outstanding Contribution gong at the Brit Awards in London in six days. The handout is the last of the evening and it is traditional for recipients to come up with a pretty special performance to mark it. Last year the PET SHOP BOYS teamed up with LADY GAGA and the year before that SIR PAUL McCARTNEY delivered an explosive rendition of Live And Let Die. I'm looking forward to seeing what Rob comes up with. Meanwhile, brave Brits bosses have signed up COURTNEY LOVE, who's as mad as a box of frogs, to present an award. She joins a line-up of safe hosts, including CAT DEELEY and DAME SHIRLEY BASSEY. PR & TRWS
February 12, 201015 yr Courtney Love :huh: Oh god is she even going to be able to take simple stage cues? :lol:
February 15, 201015 yr Robbie Williams says `something big` is happening between him and Take That Read more: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/n...t#ixzz0fdU1mRV7 Robbie Williams arriving at BBC Radio Broadcasting House to perform some of his classic songs and new ones from his new album ' Reality Killed The Video Star' live in the BBC Theatre. Robbie arrived with his girlfriend Ayda Field who kept her hands well covered up to dismiss engagement rumours. Singer Robbie Williams has confirmed there is 'something big' happening with him and his former Take That band mates. The 36-year-old star left the band in 1995 and after their recent comeback, Williams now says there are plans for a reunion. He told UK newspaper The Sun: 'I could tell you all about it but they would kill me! Let's put it this way, something big is on its way!' :drama: Williams will be presented with his 16th Brit Award when he picks up the Outstanding Contribution award at the ceremony in London on February 16.
February 19, 201015 yr Possible movie? http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/r...pic-446871.html I'd say 'why not?' its as good a story as any. Norma Edit ... and after my recent encounters with film ... it just HAS to be more interesting than 28 Days Later. Edited February 19, 201015 yr by Norma_Snockers
February 23, 201015 yr http://www.musicweek.com/Pictures/web/f/s/t/Robbie_Williams.jpg Robbie Williams: win when you're singing 16:32 | Monday February 22, 2010 With eight chart-topping albums and multi-million units shifted in his name, it is hard to think of a more worthy recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Brit award than Robbie Williams. We look back at the ex-Take That man’s remarkable career which shows little sign of abating What a difference a year makes. Just 12 months ago, Robbie Williams was being written off by the nation’s critics. Fast forward a year and he has been honoured with an Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Brits. Last April, the massed music critics of the country seemed supremely sure of their facts. After all, they pointed out, Williams’ last album, Rudebox had flunked miserably, while his old bandmates Take That were now dominating the albums chart with The Circus. A closer look at the statistics, however, suggests that Williams was suffering from Jacko syndrome; a curious affliction whose symptoms can make a conspicuously successful artist look like an abject failure if he does not maintain his own previously huge levels of success. Robbie has sold more concert tickets in a single day (1.6m, for his 2006 world tour), won more Brit Awards (15) and sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo performer. Jacko Syndrome, however, means that Rudebox was rated a flop despite having debuted at number one in the UK albums chart, having become Europe’s fastest platinum-selling album of 2006 and having reached number one in 14 countries. It was a flop for being only the 18th best-selling album worldwide. That is the kind of failure most artists would give their eye teeth for. Since then, of course, he has released another album, the Trevor Horn-produced Reality Killed The Video Star which, EMI UK Ireland president Andria Vidler points out, “is well on the way to being triple-platinum within a couple of months of release and has already sold more than 1.3m albums overseas.” So maybe that Outstanding Contribution award is not a Brit too far after all. BPI chairman Tony Wadsworth says, “I’ve heard people ask why someone so young is getting an outstanding contribution award. Yes, he’s only 36, but Robbie has been a superstar for 15 years, which is remarkable by any standards”. Williams’ decade-and-a-half on top has been all the more remarkable because his achievements have always been subjected to intense scrutiny, much of it unflattering and some of it, even he would admit, self-inflicted. The boy from Stoke-on-Trent first tasted fame with Take That, helping them sell more than 20m records between 1991 and 1996. His well-publicised and acrimonious departure from the fold in July 1995 was followed by a period of relative inactivity because, although he was quickly courted by EMI, a clause in his former contract prohibited him from recording as a solo performer until Take That were officially dissolved. One vital step was to find a management team that would take him seriously, which he did in November 1996. “He came to our offices,” remembers his co-manager David Enthoven of IE Music. “We had a good long chat and recognised straight away that there was something very special about him. He really did have the aura and charisma of a star.” Enthoven’s partner Tim Clark, adds, “At our second meeting, he played us some rough demos which were great, but what really caught our attention was when he recited his poetry. We knew then that he had the makings of an amazing songwriter.” It was at this point that EMI A&R Chris Briggs first encountered Williams and realised almost immediately that he was dealing with much more than a pretty face. “He was living in a basement flat in Maida Vale,” remembers Briggs, “I went round there and he immediately started playing me music he loved. He jumped from Nat ‘King’ Cole to Neil Young to Dr. Dre, a fantastically varied range of styles, so right away I realised that he didn’t think in genres. He just thinks about what he loves. “He showed me an exercise book crammed full of lyrics. I opened it up and starting reading a couple and they were like ready-made songs." It transpired that much of Williams’ dissatisfaction in Take That had stemmed from the impossibility of having his musical ideas taken seriously in a band whose fortunes rested so solidly on Gary Barlow’s songwriting gifts. When Take That split in February 1996, Williams was free to start his own recording career but there were other problems that would surface from time to time throughout his solo career. In the first few months of his relationship with EMI, he spent time in rehab, recovering from addiction problems. “It’s on the record that he went into rehab,” acknowledges Briggs, “and that he had to be given permission to come out to make the video for Lazy Days.” There was debate within EMI about whether he had been a wise signing, but Briggs had already seen encouraging signs of his potential as a songwriter. “He had disappeared that Christmas,” reveals Briggs. “He was not happy. He’d fallen out with his girlfriend and just needed to get away. He called me from Dublin one night, quite drunk, and over the phone he sang me what he was then calling Angels Instead. The line that became the chorus hook was in there, but it was the middle eight.” Their spectacularly felicitous collaboration went on to spawn five number one albums, with Guy Chambers co-writing some of Williams’ signature smashes, including Rock DJ, Feel, Millennium, Let Me Entertain You, Angels, Supreme, No Regrets and Eternity. “From a retail perspective, he’s been one of our most significant artists in terms of sales during the past 15 years,” observes HMV head of music Rudy Osorio. “Many of us occasionally forget just how many fantastic albums Robbie has delivered since he embarked on his solo career – generating tens of millions in revenue for our industry – here in the UK and internationally." But back in 1996 it was not quite so clear cut. His first single was a cover of George Michael’s Freedom, chosen because it represented what he was going through. “Robbie didn’t care for it,” admits Briggs, “because it wasn’t one of his own songs.” Although Freedom provided that essential first solo hit, the next two singles were clunkers. Despite Briggs’ certainty that Angels was the biggest hit on the album, it had been held back. Tony Wadsworth, who had just taken over as chairman and CEO of EMI, explains why. “Robbie still wasn’t in the healthiest of states, as far as things like having the stamina to take on America.” Angels, finally released in December 1997, turned everything around, provided him his first Brit, going on to be voted the best song of the past 25 years by the British public and creating the foundation on which his multi-platinum career has been built. But even the success of Angels was tinged with emotional distress for Williams. “It pees me off,” he declared later, “because everyone thinks Guy penned Let Me Entertain You and Angels, but they’re my songs.” Chambers is the first to concede that, for all his own invaluable input to the process, Williams is a remarkably driven songwriter. “He’s very intense about his songwriting,” he says. “We would write constantly, on tour buses, in TV stations, wherever the inspiration came to him. Me And My Monkey on Escapology, for example, was written literally five minutes before we went on stage in Taiwan. He’ll go through a whole pack of cigarettes before we finish a song.” There is no denying that Williams works on instinct and that often, these instincts can set him on a collision course with those around him. For example, just after signing his massive new deal with EMI in 2002, he blithely stated that he had no intention of cracking the US; he announced onstage in France that he and Guy were gay lovers; and who can forget him inviting Liam Gallagher to join him in a boxing ring? “It’s his unpredictability that makes him so exciting,” laughs Wadsworth. “He’s an extraordinarily charismatic star but he also knows it’s all an illusion. He sees it for what it is. Besides, he’s still young and I believe he can still make it in America. Of course, he’d have to want to.” “There’s no denying that Rob is sensitive to criticism, and he is very ambitious,” reckons Briggs. “I think Rudebox underperforming definitely knocked him back a bit, so he’s genuinely very chuffed that Reality Killed The Video Star has been so well-received. And I think that goes back to the first thing I realised about him, which is that it’s all intuitive. It’s about his personal taste. If he’s not into a song he can’t do it with any conviction. As with most artists, he’s really pleasing himself first and foremost, and that’s when he’s at his best.” http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?section...1040153&c=2
February 24, 201015 yr Last week he was King Of The Brits - but this week it's bark to everyday chores in the States for ROBBIE WILLIAMS. And the singer's first job was to take the dog for a walk. Wearing a scruffy tracksuit, he looked a far cry from the sharp-suited Rob who scooped the Outstanding Contribution gong last week. But he seemed happy enough as he trotted round the block a few times with little Wally. I hope this isn't the first bit of exercise his hound has had in over a week. I'm sure it wasn't, otherwise his pockets would have been brimming with poop bags... Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...l#ixzz0gU1quKtG
February 24, 201015 yr Author http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/entertainment/m...robbie_williams Singer shares Brits stage with Robbie Williams By Rebecca Connop Price February 24, 2010 A SOUL singer from Stoke D’Abernon got to perform alongside one of his heroes at the star-studded Brit Awards ceremony. James Craise, a 23-year-old singer-songwriter and member of the ACM Gospel Choir in Guildford, was a back-up vocalist during outstanding contribution recipient Robbie Williams’ performance. Craise, who is being managed by the same production company that worked on Williams' latest album, said it was a brilliant night. He had to audition in front of producer Trevor Horn before being picked for the performance, and said: “Trevor’s quite particular about who he uses as musicians and singers, he doesn’t choose just anyone, so it was quite a big honour to be asked. “To sing with him and his band and to be backing up Robbie Williams was great. “He’s a lovely bloke, he’s really nice, he’s not over the top as he seems. "He’s just a shy bloke, the total opposite to what he’s like on stage.” Although Craise now lives in London, he grew up in Winston Drive, Stoke D’Abernon, where his mother Helen and sister Sasha still live. He is starting to write new songs and has launched a solo singing career. Craise, a former pupil at Therfield School in Leatherhead, said he got a buzz from being on stage. “I love it. The bigger the better. At the Brits, I was loving it, being there on stage, I just wanted to take the mic and do it myself.”
February 26, 201015 yr Author From http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking...t-14701109.html Amy Winehouse 'shunned Robbie duet' Friday, 26 February 2010 Amy Winehouse laughed off an offer from Robbie Williams to duet together, according to her father. Mitch Winehouse revealed: "I'm a bit worried about Robbie, next thing he'll be wanting to make a record with Amy - that's preposterous. He added: "Actually he said that once, he wanted to do a record with Amy. Amy said 'are you f*****g joking?" Cab driver Mitch rants about Robbie Williams and life in general on his online TV show Mitch Winehouse's Showbiz Rant on Liv (www.livingtv.co.uk). Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking...l#ixzz0ggK5kfLe :puke2:
February 26, 201015 yr What a pathetic person, especially as he uses his daughters fame for his own publicity. :lol: I recall The Sun or The Mirror running a story a couple of years back about a possible duet between them, but I doubt there is any truth to it. Rob has said he has no interest in dueting with any female , besides I recall Amy being quite complimentary about Robbie before so I think it is a case of this moron trying to look cool :lol:
