Posted October 12, 201014 yr From the Robbie book with MW thanks to Mikey :D Robbie readies his swing Music Week Robbie Williams’ co-managers Tim Clark and David Enthoven have revealed that the star is considering recording another swing album and one featuring songs from the musicals. The pair outline these potential future releases from Williams in a 168-page tribute magazine distributed with this week’s Music Week to mark his two decades in the industry. Robbie Williams – Celebrating 20 Years In Music 1990-2010 features new interviews with key people who have featured strongly in his career, including Clark and Enthoven, Jean-Francois Cecillon who signed Williams to EMI, his long-time A&R Chris Briggs, his one-time songwriting collaborators Guy Chambers and Stephen Duffy, his last studio album’s producer Trevor Horn, EMI UK president Andria Vidler and the major’s former UK chairman and CEO Tony Wadsworth. In the magazine Enthoven suggests the reunion with Gary Barlow, which produced their duet Shame and a return to the Take That fold for Williams, has “kind of re-energised him”. “He’s got his competitive boots on again,” he says. That renewed energy is also having a positive effect on his songwriting, according to Clark. “Robbie has regained his enthusiasm for songwriting; that’s the great thing,” he says. “It’s the thing that he’s always enjoyed but he’s really got his teeth back into it. So from that point of view there will be more albums. We hope that at some point there might be another swing album. He did the first one brilliantly well. Why not?” Williams’ first swing album, Swing When You’re Winning, spent seven weeks at number one on the OCC chart between December 2001 and the following January and was 2001’s second-biggest seller. Enthoven reveals Williams also has the idea for a “songs from the shows” album on his computer. “As for us,” Clark interjects, “David and I could see ourselves continuing until we’re led out to grass.” The publication of the tribute magazine ties in with the release today (Monday) by Virgin of the double-set retrospective In And Out Of Consciousness: the Greatest Hits 1990-2010, the last album in his current EMI deal. The album’s lead-off single Shame was last week competing with Warner Bros’s Cee-Lo Green release F**k You in one of the biggest battles of the year for the number one spot.
October 12, 201014 yr Author Even though I don't want another Swing album and especially an album of songs from Musicals (sounds way to Barry Manilow to me) it is nice to hear how the TT reunion has made him more enthusiastic about songwriting. Rudebox backlash sadly made him loose that (back then he said he planned to release 3 albums a year) so I would look forward to the future albums based on that. Obviously Rob has discussed another Swing album with Tim and David but I find it hard to believe when his writing his on fire at the moment why he would release an album of covers - basically songs not good enough to make it into the first one. Unless of course he will write original Swing songs (perhaps with Gary?) or do what Michael buble does and have a mix between covers and originals. Either way I really want to get this MW Robbie tribute and read Tim and David full comments - and also Guy, Steven and Trevor. 168 pages is a lot of info and with MW being so brilliant it is bound to be a fantastic read. So glad to see him acknowledged by such a credible magazine in the music business - I have never heard of them doing a tribute to any other artist. I suppose if he released the Swing album next Xmas it would coincide with the 10th Anniversary of SwingWYW. I can't see it being that soon though.
October 12, 201014 yr Even though I don't want another Swing album and especially an album of songs from Musicals (sounds way to Barry Manilow to me) it is nice to hear how the TT reunion has made him more enthusiastic about songwriting. Rudebox backlash sadly made him loose that (back then he said he planned to release 3 albums a year) so I would look forward to the future albums based on that. Obviously Rob has discussed another Swing album with Tim and David but I find it hard to believe when his writing his on fire at the moment why he would release an album of covers - basically songs not good enough to make it into the first one. Unless of course he will write original Swing songs (perhaps with Gary?) or do what Michael buble does and have a mix between covers and originals. Either way I really want to get this MW Robbie tribute and read Tim and David full comments - and also Guy, Steven and Trevor. 168 pages is a lot of info and with MW being so brilliant it is bound to be a fantastic read. So glad to see him acknowledged by such a credible magazine in the music business - I have never heard of them doing a tribute to any other artist. I suppose if he released the Swing album next Xmas it would coincide with the 10th Anniversary of SwingWYW. I can't see it being that soon though. Who would have guessed that Robbie has some real nice songs hidden away of Dogs & Birds is anything to go by so with Robbie you never know what he has up his sleeve, I am really looking forward to getting the book now, have you seen it in the shops here yet De Niro :unsure:
October 12, 201014 yr Author Who would have guessed that Robbie has some real nice songs hidden away of Dogs & Birds is anything to go by so with Robbie you never know what he has up his sleeve, I am really looking forward to getting the book now, have you seen it in the shops here yet De Niro :unsure: I assume you mean the MW tribute? No I have no, but I rang up Easons today and was told they are getting in MW tomorrow so I will try and get it then. It sounds fantastic though. 168 pages with loads of interviews and chart facts - just what I love. I am more interested in getting that than I am getting the official book 'You Know Me'. A Shame really - I had been looking forward to a follow up to 'Feel' for all these years but a book of mainly pictures comes along with seemingly very little interesting said (there is virtually no discussion about the content around the forums). So this MW book will keep me pleased :D Tbh I never realised you could buy Music Week in the shops - I always though you had to subscribe and become a member to get the magazine. :o
