You wonder where all these tickets suddenly appear from. It's not as if the tickets I would have been able to buy were restricted view ones just made available due to stage adjustment or somesuch. They were premium Block P seats right in front of the stage. I'd have bought those ones without any hesitation. But meh. I'm maxed out on my credit card and can't afford another 180 quid.

 

Maybe a lot of the best seats don't even go on sale to Joe Pleb Public and are earmarked for corporate sponsors and the like? Maybe they then decide not to take up their full allocation and Ticketmaster then put them on sale? I dunno???? :unsure:

Anyway, is KathyP going tonight? Hope she's got her brolly :mellow:

 

 

Is Kath going tonight ..I hope it does not rain on top of her or she will be in real bad humour :lol:

Is that the Manchester dates all finished now? Where next? Is it Cardiff? :unsure:

It was throwing it down all day but sissy and I went well prepared - and as it happened the part of the stadium we were in was totally under cover!

 

It was a very good, enjoyable show. Rob's solo set was excellent. Take That 4 set was a bit subdued (although Hold Up A Light was one of the knock-out songs of the night). The five of them together was great (although they chose some right turkeys from the Progress album and left out some decent ones.)

 

All in all though - I'm glad I went. I did have to take a loo break when Rob sang Angels. I can't help it - I'll always detest that song - had he not sang it - I'd have saved my loo break until Underground Machine (the worst song of the night)

 

Relight My Fire was a bit of a let-down - but seeing Rob join in with the necessary but daft dance in Pray was brilliant! I didn't think them ending with Eight Letters would work - but it did.

 

Kath

 

 

Did they film the dvd last night Kath? Or was it Fri and Sat? :unsure:

Did they film the dvd last night Kath? Or was it Fri and Sat? :unsure:

 

Friday and Saturday.

 

I do have one little mishap to mention. As I was getting out of the car at Picadilly Station, one of my cans of Bacardi & Coke dropped to the ground. I picked it up and put it in the inside pocket of my waterproof jacket. It wasn't until later on a visit to the loo - that I found that there had been a tiny dint in the can and it had seeped all over my fleece! I think the fleece must have been waterpoofed too though as it didn't go through to my tee-shirt underneath! And ... as it happened - we didn't even bother with the other drinks we'd brought in (although we didn't get wet - it WAS bloody freezing last night!)

 

Kath

From

 

http://www.star-magazine.co.uk/breakingnew...be-malfunction/

 

 

 

Williams suffers onstage wardrobe malfunction

Posted: Wednesday 15 June 2011

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS was left red-faced during TAKE THAT's concert in Cardiff, Wales on Tuesday night (14Jun11) when his trousers split onstage.

 

 

The Come Undone hitmaker performs his own five-song solo set during the band's Progress Live tour gigs, and he tore his pants during a rendition of one of his tracks.

 

Williams told the crowd at the city's Millennium Stadium, "I'm so excited, I split my kecks (trousers)."

 

The star joked about abandoning the stage to save himself further embarrassment, but cheering from fans convinced him to persevere with his performance - and at the end of his last song in the set, Angels, the singer pulled his trousers down to his ankles, sparking rapturous applause from the audience.

 

Williams' wardrobe malfunction is not the first on the Take That tour - his bandmate Jason Orange also ripped his trousers on their debut date in Sunderland last month (May11).

 

 

B)

From

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/arti...od-hospitals.do

 

 

Drunk female Take That fans flood hospitals

 

Evening Standard Updated 09:12am on 15 Jun 2011

 

 

Hospital staff have been inundated with bruised and boozy women from Take That concerts.

 

Tens of thousands of ladies in their 30s and 40s attended the pop band's series of shows at the City of Manchester stadium, ending on Sunday.

 

And such was the level of drinking - and falling over - it led to a spike in numbers attending the A&E department at Manchester Royal Infirmary.

 

One steward reportedly said some women at the stadium, the home of Manchester City FC, behaved worse than football fans.

 

Female fans of the former boyband with tickets for the standing area had arrived hours early to get a position at the front near the stage for a better view of Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow and the rest of the group.

 

But the time waiting for Take That to begin their gig was then spent drinking by many.

 

By the end of the concert, thousands of legless ladies were unleashed on to the streets of Manchester.

 

Figures released by the MRI comparing A&E admissions on the Take That gig dates to last year show an increase on six of the eight concert dates - with 87 more people admitted overall.

 

Pubs around the ground had complied with a police request not to sell alcohol to concert-goers.

 

But alcohol, including £18 full size plastic bottles of Chardonnay wine, were on sale inside the ground.

 

Almost half a million people watched the group over the eight nights.

 

Police and hospital bosses had asked for fans to drink responsibly.

 

:(

He bloomin' well better not be getting sick :arrr:

 

 

From his latest blog on the Official Site

 

 

http://www.robbiewilliams.com/news-blogs/w...-bunch-arent-we

 

WELL,ITS REALLY LATE HERE IN CARDIFF...AND I MUST GO TO BED..$h!t ITS 3.30!

GIG WAS AMAZING TONIGHT.....I DON'T THINK WE'LL SEE A BETTER VENUE...SO HUGE

YET SO INTERMENT ....I'VE GOT SOME SORT OF COLD...MY BONES ACHE

AND MY HEADS HEAVY...IT WAS BEFORE I WENT ON....BUT I KNEW THE CROWD

WOULD GET ME THROUGH IT...COS WHEN I LOOK BACK YOU ALL WAYS HAVE

 

MUCH LOVE XXXXXXX

Tonight, doing my (fruitless) moon watching, something just occurred to me. This.

 

It's going to be daylight for the duration of the TT concert at Hampden next week. I like concerts in the dark. Much better atmosphere. :(

 

 

Look, I just took this photo from my bedroom window. At 10.15 pm. And it's quite overcast tonight. And it'll be darker even later next week.

 

 

http://i52.tinypic.com/2nk6rex.jpg

 

 

 

 

What time do the concerts finish?

 

 

What time do the concerts finish?

 

Manchester ones finished at 10.30.

 

Kath

Daylight time -_-

If it rains, it'll be darker :unsure:

:arrr:

What day are you going?

 

 

Next Wednesday. But I'm off work all next week so that's ok

You can sit in the pub all day in that case before going, Robbie would be very proud :lol:

 

I was really looking forward to going to the Wembley gig, but now I'm not :cry:

I'm driving :nocheer:

 

 

Why are you not looking forward to it? :unsure:

I'm so glad I never learnt to drive sometimes, has it's advantages :lol:

 

I think I have the holiday blues :lol: being silly, I would prefer to be going to a Robbie solo gig.

From

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/253971...-life-defining-

 

 

TAKE THAT singer ROBBIE WILLIAMS has reached out to fans in Ireland and confessed the band's recent shows in the country were so emotional he almost broke down onstage.

 

The boyband took its Progress Live tour to Dublin at the weekend (18-19Jun11), and performed to more than 80,000 fans over two nights.

 

Angels hitmaker Williams, who has a five-song solo segment midway through the show, has taken to his official blog to reveal the concerts were an emotional rollercoaster for him - and he's branded the second gig at Croke Park Stadium on Sunday (19Jun11) "life defining".

 

Williams writes, "Oh my lord... Ireland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What did you do to me on Sunday night? I gave everything I had on Saturday and as expected your performance was better than mine... (only just). So much so that it was with a bit of trepidation that I made my way back to Croke Park the next day feeling a little jaded and drained from the night before... (such high highs there has to be a come down....). But I wasn't expecting what came next.

 

"I proper lost my s**t. The overwhelming good will, love, smiles, happiness, approval and acceptance beaming straight to the stage transformed me from preening peacock prima donna showman to a ball of mush within seconds. It was so powerful that I didn't know if I was going to be able to collect myself... proper floored.

 

"There's a tear in my eye thinking about it now. Yes, the gigs have ranged from brilliant to religious every night. But Sunday night (at) Croke Park was life defining. It will stay with me for as long as I live. Ireland I bow to you."

 

B)