February 15, 201015 yr Author Booo! Another GH? But once it is released, it is goodbye EMI :dance: :smoke: He said the other day he wants to release all his left over tracks from RKTVS soon, so he might just put them online or something later on this year. :dance:
February 21, 201015 yr But once it is released, it is goodbye EMI :dance: :smoke: He said the other day he wants to release all his left over tracks from RKTVS soon, so he might just put them online or something later on this year. :dance: ok, bring them as Bsides!
February 23, 201015 yr Author Williams camp praises embattled EMI Music Week Monday February 22, 2010 Robbie Williams’ co-manager Tim Clark has thrown his support behind EMI’s under-pressure management team as preparations begin for the final album in the Brit winner’s current deal with the major. A new best-of from the outstanding contribution recipient is being earmarked for a fourth-quarter release this year and could potentially include a recording reunion with Gary Barlow, who is back working with his former Take That colleague. Against the backdrop of work starting on the new retrospective, Clark is quick to praise the “remarkable job” he believes EMI has done with Williams’ current set Reality Killed The Video Star and, despite the huge financial problems facing the major, is convinced that operationally the management team has “turned things round”. “We think that from an operations point of view they’ve really got to grip with things,” says Clark, whose opinion of the current EMI regime has not always been favourable, once describing Guy Hands as behaving like a “plantation owner”. “We think the current team in the UK led by Andria Vidler, but with other extremely good people all around her and around the world, are really starting to get it right. From a financial point of view they’re making money.” Although EMI earlier this month posted an annual loss of £1.75bn and now needs to find £120m of new cash by June 14 to avoid Citigroup potentially taking it over, Clark is urging the bank to continue its support of EMI under the present Terra Firma ownership. “The thing comes down really to the debt and this comes down to something between Terra Firma and Citigroup. My own view is Citigroup would be mad at this stage not to keep EMI on as a going concern. It just would be bonkers,” he says. “They really are turning things round and it’s a choice between two painful courses really. Do you take EMI back and break it up, which is pretty painful, or do you write off some debt? I’m not a high financier so I have no idea what is going on between Terra Firma and Citigroup but I do think EMI are getting themselves out of the problems they’ve been in and I absolutely believe they should be supported in that.” While Clark says he, his IE colleague David Enthoven and Williams are “not in any great rush” to decide what to do once the existing EMI deal ends, he suggests the major has done itself “huge favours” in how it has performed with Reality Killed The Video Star. The album has sold more than 800,000 units in the UK and, among its many international successes, spent five weeks at number one in Germany. Clark adds work on the best-of will fully start in March, noting, “There’s not much we can say about it at the moment because it’s being put together. We don’t even have the tracklisting yet.” But he does confirm it will include new material, raising the possibility of a reunion with Gary Barlow. “It’s not much of a secret he’s been writing with various people, including Gary Barlow. That’s sort of out there but there’s nothing certain at the moment as we don’t yet have the songs to choose from,” he says. Meanwhile, Reality... returned to the Top 10 yesterday [sunday] on the back of Williams’ show-closing Brits performance, while sales of his 2004-issued Greatest Hits were around 150% up on the week. Virgin Records president Shabs Jobanputra says Williams’ Brits set “exemplified what a fantastic British artist is”. “He sung, performed and had real charisma; he’s a true British star and we don’t have many of those and that’s why he is so revered. How many artists could have stood there and represented 30 years of the Brits?” http://www.musicweek.com Courtesy of Pure Robbie and TRWS
February 23, 201015 yr Author Hmm, very interesting indeed. I am suprised he has praised EMI so much for their promo of RKTVS though - compared to the vast majority of other big albums around Xmas time, the advertising both on TV and especially when it came to billboards etc was very poor - all you have to do is look at the brilliant promo Michael Buble's album recieved from his record label. Under the circumstances though, I supose they did an ok job - certainly alot better than Rudebox. Interesting that there may be a possible Gary Barlow collaboration on it - I would've thought they would wait till next year for a proper album before releasing anything together - although I supose it could just be a solo Robbie track simply co-written by Gary. Although I don't like the sound of that either - as if it went to #1 (which there is a higher chance of happening due to more people perhaps not buying the album, like with Radio) I am sure Gary will be the one who will get the credit for it. Either way, Im more looking forward to hearing the left over tracks from RKTVS which Rob said he will release - Id like him to do it via the OS. I do like the article though - especially how it ends stating that RKTVS has returned to the top 10 an the GH recieved such a huge increase in sales, also the compliments of his Brits performance - and just the general positiviity in it. A well written article is very rare these days. :lol:
May 23, 201015 yr Author It's seems we are getting a new book as well and even better - written by the fantastic Chris Heath (who wrote the amazing book 'Feel') - can't wait :cheer: http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/1460236...ty/Product.html
