Although as far as pets go I prefer fluffy/hairy things to scaly things -_-

I promised to give you info from Russian edition of 'Interview' magazine.

 

There are some important facts from interview between Rob and Neil Tennant (sorry for English sometimes):

 

1. Rob wanted to sing only LMEY at Olympics but because he had already done it at Queen's concert he decided to ban the Opening and Closing.

 

2. He had turned on his the first song what he wrote it after he left TT in 95. And Neil said it's like on PSB.

He proposed Rob to use some parts for any new song...but Rob replied he had stolen these parts from Massive Attack's song Unfinished Sympathy ))

BTW, Rob's song hasn't name. You Wouldn't Let is was just his example of title but not clear.

He wrote it in Wales in the barn when he had taken drugs...)

 

3. Neil prased Rob as lyricast and said it has been always difficult for PSB to write lyrics.

 

4. Neil asked Rob about his expectations about new album. And Rob answered he hopes it will be something great but maybe one of the last his albums. Neil asked him about his age and noted that 38 is too smal to think about quit from business. Seems he really gave Rob good view on this matter.

And also Rob has joked he is going to record a new swing album - Achtung Buble )))

Neil also prased Rob for his sincerity in his songs, art and shows.

Neil said it's also difficult for PSB to get applause from crowd sometimes.

 

5. Rob said once again he did a mistake in making Bodies as first single. And he added he really don't know what is song about)))

Neil said he likes RVKTS but the second part is even better. For him. And he think there was a potential single (hit) but Rob missed it.

Unfortunatelly Neil forgot a title of this song but added it's similiar to band Royksopp. (I think he said about Difficult For W... what do you think).

 

When Rob was writing RKTVS he wanted be not-popstar and he wanted to record the album not for fans but for himself...but later he had changed his mind: 'Damn! I need that and that too! At least I recorded 5 songs more for fans. The end of story: nobody liked these songs. Not me, not fans'

 

After that Neil and Rob had been started to joke at fans for their expectations from artists: for example, fans didn't liked last PSB's single Winner but Neil says he and Chris are really like this song.

 

6. Rob helped PSB with lyrics of Leaving (I hope you've already listened it?). He tested a demo and had said to Neil there was a mistake with double repeats. After that Neil has backed to studio and said to Chris and their producers: 'Well, nobody recognised but Rob did it'. Neil thanked Rob for that and joked the song has become better in 5%

 

7. Neil's opinion: Rudebox was the best Rob's album but pottentially. He thinks 16 songs are too much. 12...even 10 songs would be better. Rob replied he has never listened this album from the start to the end )))

 

8. ATTENTION. Neil liked Take The Crown: 'It's well done commercial album in a good way'. There is one ballad what has american impact. And there is at least one really big radio hit. Rob: 'It's my golden ticket for future'

 

http://robbiewilliamsmusic.ru/gallery/albums/userpics/10005/yhi5h1qefk0000e.jpg

Thanks for the article Better Man, interesting read.

 

I didn't like this bit though...........

 

4. Neil asked Rob about his expectations about new album. And Rob answered he hopes it will be something great but maybe one of the last his albums. :cry: :cry: :cry:

Oh, interesting article. Thanks for posting :cheer:

http://www.tv3.ie/entertainment_article.ph...p;article=85790

 

Robbie Williams wants daughter to design tattoo

 

Robbie Williams wants his baby daughter to design his next tattoo. :wacko:

 

The 'Candy' singer - who became a father for the first time last month when wife Ayda FIeld gave birth to Theodora 'Teddy' Rose - is known for his love of body art but plans to wait before getting his next inking until his little girl can help come up with a design.

 

He said: ''I think I might wait until she's a little bit older and then get her to draw on me, and then I'll get tattooed what she draws. Whatever she does I'm sure it'll be cute.''

 

While the 38-year-old pop star is happily married to Ayda, he still laments the fact he ''f***ed'' his chances with Kylie Minogue after she stripped in front of Robbie - who was drunk and high on cannabis - when filming the video for their 2000 duet 'Kids'.

 

He explained to website TheFIX: ''I f***ed my chances of ever sleeping with Kylie Minogue. I just pointed at her and laughed!

 

''I think she quite rightly felt a bit sensitive about me pointing and laughing at her, because I was really f***ing drunk and Kylie Minogue got naked, and I'm like, 'As if my life wasn't surreal enough.'

 

''It was out of shock more than anything. She'd be lucky to get me pointing and laughing at her now!''

 

http://www.tv3.ie/entertainment_article.ph...p;article=85790

 

Robbie Williams wants his baby daughter to design his next tattoo. :wacko:

 

:rolleyes:

 

How worse can it get?

Why not rename the album after the first word the baby speaks?

Hopefully the baby will have a more balanced and educated influence than Robbie growing up... I'd hate to see her ending up with as much iq and ability as 'Dora the explorer' <_<

 

Seriously now, I would love to see this tatto. It will most probably look like a bunch of worms curled up together :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

:rolleyes:

 

How worse can it get?

Why not rename the album after the first word the baby speaks?

Hopefully the baby will have a more balanced and educated influence than Robbie growing up... I'd hate to see her ending up with as much iq and ability as 'Dora the explorer' <_<

 

Seriously now, I would love to see this tatto. It will most probably look like a bunch of worms curled up together :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

:lol:

 

I guess it depends on how old she is before he lets her draw on him.

 

 

From

http://www.u.tv/Entertainment/Robbie-Willi...60-9888ad09b07f

 

 

Robbie Williams details wife's birth scare

Published Friday, 19 October 2012

 

 

New father Robbie Williams was left frantic as his wife delivered their first baby last month after discovering the umbilical cord was wrapped around his daughter's neck.

 

 

The Angels hitmaker's partner Ayda Field gave birth to Theodora 'Teddy' Rose on 18 September, but Williams reveals her arrival into the world was far from smooth.

 

He tells The Sun: "I cut the cord but, bless her, I cut it while she was still inside Ayda. Teddy was going blue because the umbilical cord was caught around her neck. :o

 

"I had to be quick with the scissors. It was like the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan down there. It was like Ayda vs Predator. She'd say the same thing. It's an image that won't go away." :puke2:

 

The pop star also revealed he took in gas and air intended for this wife as she went through labour, adding: "I had loads of it... Every time Ayda had a contraction I thought, 'I can have gas and air too.' I've got such huge respect for women who have babies."

 

Williams reveals his first-born is now suffering from acid reflux, but insists he wouldn't swap parenthood for anything: "I enjoy changing nappies and I really like being a daddy. I don't want to be anything other than a daddy and a husband. Life's pretty perfect right now."

From

http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/915864-obno...for-forgiveness

 

 

'Obnoxious' Robbie Williams begs Daniel Craig for forgiveness

 

 

Robbie Williams has begged for Daniel Craig to forgive him after the Bond actor caught the former Take That star slagging him off at a celebrity party.

 

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Robbie Williams has apologised to Daniel Craig (Picture: PA)

 

 

The 38-year-old revealed how he was ‘obnoxious’ to Craig after bragging he’d make a better actor.

He explained: ‘I did ruin my chances of befriending Bond, though. I was in Vegas once and I was at some celebrity party, and I was sat on the table and I looked over my shoulder and there was Matthew Vaughn – he of producing and directing fame. And I turned around and looked at him and he’d just done Layer Cake with Daniel Craig. And I said to him, “Hey mate, what happened to the script? I would’ve been better than your lead.” And he said, “Have you met Daniel?” And he was sat right next to him.’

 

Daniel Craig wasn't impressed by Robbie's remarks (Picture: Getty)

Williams claims Craig, 44, has been pretty unforgiving since and gave him the cold shoulder when the pair were at an LA party.

Begging for forgiveness, Williams told Heart FM’s Toby Anstis: ‘I felt awful and I felt awful ever since.

‘Sometimes being obnoxious isn’t good. So Daniel, if you’re listening, I love you. I’m sorry if you heard me being obnoxious.’

 

 

:D

 

Robbie Williams, Paloma Faith To Record Charity Single For Hillsborough DisasterThe money will help families' legal aid

 

Robbie Williams and Paloma Faith will team up with other celebrity artists to record a single in honour of the 96 people who died at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

 

The artists will cover The Hollies' song 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' which has special significance for affected families as it played at Goodison Park, home of Everton in Liverpool days after the release of the Hillsborough report.

 

Robbie and Paloma will be joined by Mel C and members of Oasis, The Pogues and The Clash.

 

The song is aiming for a Christmas number one and money raised will go to the families of the Hillsborough disaster to pay for legal costs in their fight for justice.

 

Guy Chambers, producer who has worked with Robbie closely in the past said in Goal: "I am deeply honoured to be asked to produce this record for the 96.

 

"If we can help to raise money to support the families' legal battle so that they finally get their time in court then our job will be done.

 

"I spent my teenage years in Liverpool and feel a deep affection for both its musical heritage and the unique solidarity of its people

 

 

 

entertainmentwise.co.uk

Robbie Williams: I'm obsessed with being a pop star and not a has-been

 

Robbie Williams tells Metro about his mission to write the perfect pop song and his hopes of staying current with new album Take The Crown.

 

.‘I’m obsessed... with pop music, being a pop star, being successful, not being a has-been...’ Robbie Williams is restlessly holding court in a Mayfair penthouse suite.

 

The 38-year-old Stoke-born singer/showman has been through well- publicised highs and lows and acquired a beefier tattooed frame since his 1990s boy band years with Take That. But his appetite hasn’t waned: His eyes gleam as he says he’s ‘on tenterhooks’ about his whole-heartedly poppy ninth album, Take The Crown.

 

Williams’s fixation with the perfect pop song (‘a poisoned chalice’) is fuelled by the fact that he’s both a bombastic performer and a passionate music fan. It can also be traced throughout his solo career.

 

‘I’ve chased my tail,’ he says. ‘On the first few albums, the loudest voice I heard was “you’re s***”, despite hundreds of thousands of people coming to my shows. So I thought: “Right, I must dismantle this and do something completely different.”’

 

That dismantling went slightly wonky on Rudebox (2006). His seventh album was generally panned yet featured some memorable gems: his Pet Shop Boys collaboration She’s Madonna; his cover of Lewis Taylor’s Brit soul classic Lovelight. ‘I f***ing loved Rudebox,’ he says. ‘But when everyone went “no”, I was like: “Oh. I don’t know what to do…”’

 

After a few self-imposed ‘wilderness years’ (spent obsessing about UFOs), he had a homecoming via his long-awaited reunion with former nemesis Gary Barlow and Take That. The young buck who fled the band in 1995 proved a megastar turn on Take That’s Progress album and 2011 stadium tour. He now credits Barlow and co for restoring his solo mojo.

 

‘A lot of things happened with the boys. The most amazing thing was that we sorted out the past. Also, I had 27 minutes to myself in a stadium, where I remembered how to do it. That was the big shot in the arm.’

 

 

 

.Take The Crown exuberantly follows his 2009 solo album, Reality Killed The Video Star, and features work with Melbourne songwriters Tim Metcalfe and Flynn Francis, besides a lead single, Candy, co-written with Barlow. ‘I think I’ve transcended the need to do something mental,’ he says, not entirely convincingly. ‘I’m also coming to terms with becoming an ageing pop star. I remember being 21, seeing George Michael, who’s ten years older, and thinking: “There’s a vacancy there.” So there must be a Harry Styles looking at me, going: “He’s over the hill now.”’

 

Williams’s 1996 solo debut was a faithful cover of Michael’s anthemic Freedom; it’ll be interesting to see if Harry reworks Rock DJ one day.

 

The prodigal son recently became a proud dad, too. His wife, US actress Ayda Field, gave birth to daughter Teddy in September. While parenthood is keeping him busy (‘I’m the pooey nappy changer,’ he beams), it hasn’t distracted him from his mission.

 

‘I keep going on YouTube to check the comments beneath the Candy video,’ he says. ‘There are 31,000 likes and 1,200 dislikes, and that means one in 30 don’t like it. I’m obsessed.’

 

Surely he should read other things? ‘Well, Metro’s a phenomenon as well, isn’t it? It’s got a huge online presence. It’s doing an amazing job. It seems to me that it could be even bigger. In a weird way, I’m really proud of it – Metro appears to be the little engine that could.’ This feels like a personal prop from the lad who became stadium king.

 

What’s the best superpower that pop music has given him? ‘To get on stage, face your fear and the responsibility that everyone relies on you for their livelihood. I take my hat off to me,’ he guffaws, ‘because it’s terrifying and exhilarating.’

 

Williams maintains his northern charm (everything is delivered with a nudge and a wink) but there’s no denying the transatlantic gloss to Take The Crown or his vocal drawl. ‘I’ve wanted to be everybody over the years,’ he says. ‘From Elvis to Bernard Sumner to Neil Tennant, Jay-Z, Glenn Campbell… With the grand designs I had on stadiums, singing with a Stoke accent wasn’t going to work.’

 

Take The Crown strikes an interesting end note with Losers, a duet with US folk-rocker Lissie. It has Williams both striving to do better and being typically contrary.

 

‘There are two paths,’ he says. ‘One is that I put this album out then another where I become “this guy”. In the other, I’ve got a spliff in one hand, a golf club in the other and a bar of chocolate in my pants. And I don’t know which way I’m gonna go.’

 

Williams weighs this up without angst, more a happy indecision. For now, though, he has his sights firmly locked on the sup-reme pop title.

 

Candy (Island) is out now. Take The Crown is out on November 5. www.robbiewilliams.com

 

Win tickets and a luxury break

 

Robbie Williams is back in business with his first solo tour in six years. For three nights in November, he’s performing sold-out gigs at The O2 in London to coincide with the release of new album Take The Crown.

 

 

To celebrate the launch of Metro’s new Life&Style section, we have a pair of tickets up for grabs – so you and a friend could be seeing him in person on Friday, November 23.

 

 

We’ll also provide a luxury hotel for the night, plus travel. For your chance to win, go to www.metro.co.uk/robbie

 

 

 

Metro.co.uk

Edited October 29, 201212 yr by Sydney

 

Robbie Williams stakes claim to crownby:

 

 

ROBBIE Williams is a new father, and a well-rested one.

 

.."I have never had so much sleep in my life," he chirps.

 

His daughter Theodora Rose (or Teddy) with American wife Ayda Field is six weeks old. She is not a miracle baby sleeping through the night. But Williams is a lucky man.

 

"I've got a very understanding wife. And a nanny," he admits. "This having kids thing is easy, I don't know what people are going on about ... "

 

He's (half) joking. But Williams, 38, says fatherhood has lobbed at the ideal time.

 

His daughter is a living, breathing and defecating reality check for a man who has been famous since he was 16, when he joined the UK boy band Take That.

 

Williams says a claim he was enjoying having someone in his life who didn't "give a s---" he was a popstar was untrue.

 

"Oh, she has been giving a sh--," he clarifies. "And I have been changing those sh--s. They look like chicken tikka masala. It's quite something.

 

"I didn't know I was going to enjoy changing nappies so much. I do like it. I was terrified before she came that I wasn't going to want to do anything, because, well, I'm a lazy bast*rd and selfish.

 

"But the amazing thing is, you actually want to do it. I want to change the nappies, I want to burp her, I want to cuddle her, it's magic."

 

After being based in LA for most of the past decade - where his profile means paparazzi are a mild nuisance, not a daily grind - Williams and Field are back in London, where Teddy was born.

 

They're still deciding where they'll settle permanently.

 

"Australia was on the cards but it's too f---ing far away," he says. "It's 24 hours from England, and that's where I work. If you could move Australia a bit closer to England we'd live there." There once was a rumour Williams had bought an outback property.

 

"That was one of those made-up stories," he laughs. "In one of the made-up stories I actually bought a farm in the outback of Australia to look for UFOs if I'm not mistaken. None of that happened."

 

Fatherhood has arrived as Williams is back being a pop star. He didn't tour 2009's Reality Killed the Video Star or the following year's singles compilation In and Out of Consciousness.

 

That set saw him write - and form a duet - with former Take That bandmate Gary Barlow. They had been enemies for a time, but the repaired friendship led to Williams rejoining Take That for the 2010 album, Progress, and a 2011 UK and Europe tour, which generated $180 million.

 

The show included a solo segment for Williams - his first major tour since 2006.

 

That 2006 tour sent Williams back to rehab after it ended in Australia.

 

"I know what happens to me and what it does to me and what rehab I end up in," Williams said in 2009 when asked why he wasn't touring. "I have that mechanism inside of me of not choosing life. It is inbuilt in my DNA that I want to get high."

 

After shaking drugs both illegal (cocaine) and legal (anti-depressants and painkillers) plus alcohol, Williams had a battle with extreme lethargy, finally diagnosed as a hormone imbalance, which was medicated by the time he embarked on the Take That tour.

 

"I'd expended all my energy and depleted some life forces along the way," Williams says. "I became lethargic and I needed to be with me mates. I made friends with them, and had this section in the (Take That) show where it was 27 minutes of me.

 

"I thought 'Get a load of me! Remember this, you bast*rd?' It reinvigorated me."

 

Had he missed being on stage? "I'd missed people knowing that I could do that. There's been a certain perception in England, even though the last tour I did in 2006 was to just short of three million people, that it's gone on its ar-- for Robbie Williams. How can it go on its ar-- when I've just played to three million people? D---heads."

 

His arsenal for rebuilding Robbie is Take the Crown, his ninth release in a career that's sold 57 million albums.

 

He admits that his last few albums have been patchy, and that in the current climate a flop album can end your career.

 

"I named it Take the Crown - the title is obnoxious and ego-fuelled and all of that good stuff. I put that carrot in front of me to live up to it. I can take my eye off the ball sometimes and not concentrate. Must do better as they said at school. And I will this time."

 

The bulk of the album took shape after a chance meeting with two Australians.

 

Aspiring musicians Tim Metcalfe and Flynn Francis, two 24-year-olds from Melbourne, were in LA to work as interns in US studios. They met Dylan Trussell, from LA hip hop act The Connects, who is also Ayda Field's brother.

 

Metcalfe and Francis started writing songs with Trussell, who played them to Williams.

 

"Dylan's music got 50 per cent better overnight," Williams says. "He met this Australian dude in a bar, I said 'get him over'. It was Tim, he brought Flynn. And we wrote an album in 10 days."

 

Williams invited the pair to stay in his house and was inspired by their hunger.

 

"They're really talented songwriters. Completely and utterly delusional. Full of ego. They remind me of someone I used to know when I was their age. They've got the sort of delusion and ego that could take over the world."

 

Next step - the long-awaited comeback stadium tour he's got planned for 2013 - which he expects will include Australia. "I'm back on the road next year," he says.

 

"I think there's a big tour in me before I don't do it again for a long, long time. I want to go out and go, 'Yeah, this is it, this is a stadium full of people, they're all leaving happy and entertained, that's what I do now f-- off'. Not f--- off to the audience, but the naysayers in the UK."

 

Williams in 2012 is a pop star who's grey and proud.

 

"Dyed hair looks silly," he says. "I like dying my hair, always have.

 

"Now I can't 'cos everyone will say 'He's dyed it because he's going grey' but these are the breaks."

 

A long way from grey power is Harry Styles of One Direction, who's already been labelled the young boy band's Robbie Williams for his love of women and partying. Does the real thing see any similarities?

 

"Yes, I do. Now he's off and leaving the fine establishments I used to drink in with the people I used to go drinking with. And some of the ladies I was with. It's a slippery slope. But it's also wonderful."

 

----

 

* AT HOME WITH ROBBIE *

WHAT is Robbie Williams' house like?

 

"It's huge. It's like staying in a five-star hotel but with your own chef and you don't have to worry about other guests."

 

So says Tim Metcalfe, 24, half of the Melbourne songwriting team summoned to Robbie HQ for a creative session that spawned most of his new album Take the Crown.

 

There were so many songs written they'll head to London to see Williams play their songs live this month and work on his next album.

 

"He just wants to go, go, go," Metcalfe says. "He doesn't have a stop button."

 

Metcalfe and writing partner Flynn Francis buried their inner fanboy when they met Williams.

 

"It was fly or die,' Metcalfe says. "We walked in there like we did this all the time, when actually we were complete unknowns who had never had anything released.

 

"If he said something we didn't agree with or sang something that wasn't necessarily on pitch we didn't hesitate to tell him. I think he liked that. People like that can be surrounded by yes men.

 

"Being able to say no, rather than yes, yes, yes, helped us get to the stage where we ended up writing the majority of the album. It built a bond and respect between us. It was a level playing field. Plenty of times Robbie would be jumping around telling us he'd never been this excited in his whole career."

 

After a bidding war they signed with Universal publishing for the world outside of Australia. A local deal is looming.

 

"We've always believed in what we were doing," Metcalfe says. "The bar has been set pretty high for us now with Robbie. We want to continue to stay at that level."

 

Heraldsun.com.au

http://www.nme.com/news/robbie-williams/67119

 

Robbie Williams has said Jessie J won't be a popular singer for much longer.

 

The Take That man believes the 'Do It Like A Dude' singer doesn't have long left in the music industry, as he told a Dutch TV show that she'll be finished in 18 months' time.

 

According to The Sun, when asked of his opinion on Jessie J, Robbie Williams said: "She's not gonna last for very long, though, is she? She's great, Jessie. I give her 18 months."

 

Williams also took a pot shot at TV musical talent competitions, such as Jessie J's The Voice and the X Factor, which has his bandmate Gary Barlow as one of the show's judges, saying he gets "exhausted" by them.

 

"I don't watch it. Sometimes it's very difficult to go on the 'emotional journey with the contestants'," he explained. "I'm exhausted with how many times I'm to go on the emotional journey with this person who had a hard luck story and then da, da, da, da, blah, blah."

 

Meanwhile, Robbie Williams is set to be Number One on both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart today (November 11). In the midweek chart update, he was top of both charts with album 'Take The Crown' and single 'Candy' both outselling their nearest rivals. :yahoo:

 

'Candy' last week topped the singles chart, becoming the third fastest selling single of 2012 after its release on October 28. Williams also recently admitted that the song sounds a lot like the music used in the TV adverts for Haribo sweets.

 

He may well be correct in what he says.... -_-

From

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/rehab/view/2832...-phone-hang-up/

 

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS PHONE HANG-UP

 

18th November 2012 By James Ingham

 

 

KING of pop Robbie Williams doesn’t own a mobile due to a “phone phobia”.

 

While most of us would rather lose our left arm than our iPhone for the day, Robster can’t bare to be contactable – not even by his wife Ayda Field.

 

Chatting to James Corden for an exclusive Sky 1 documentary, the Candy singer said: “I don’t have a mobile phone and I’ve never liked having one.

 

“I have a phone phobia.”

 

After doing a bit of digging I’ve discovered Robbie did splash out on a pay as you go from Tesco :lol: when Ayda was pregnant. But that phone has now been ditched after the birth of Theodora.

 

A source close to the star told me: “Robbie is always with someone so doesn’t have his own phone.

 

“If anyone wants him they know to call Ayda or his manager and they will pass the phone over to him.

 

“He bought a pay as you go when Ayda was pregnant so she could contact him straight away if there were any problems, but even that’s gone now.”

 

I guess that’s one way to avoid getting caught sexting or cheating!

 

When Robbie Met James is on Friday November 23 at 9pm on Sky 1 HD.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/359237...-That-s-success

 

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS was "gobsmacked" by the success of his former TAKE THAT bandmates when they reunited without him in 2006.

 

Williams left the group in 1995, shortly before it was disbanded in 1996, but declined to be part of a reunion more than 10 years later.

 

Take That reformed as a four-piece and went on to have global success with their next two albums Beautiful World, in 2006, and The Circus, which became the fastest selling album of 2008.

In 2010, it was announced Williams would be rejoining his bandmates Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, much to fans' delight.

 

Williams confesses he was surprised at the fans' positive reactions after such a long hiatus and admits that he was jealous of the band's success without him.

 

He tells Sky1, "When the boys first got together, I was pretty much, 'Oh, right, OK... ' Then it was, 'They've sold 275,000 tickets... they've done what?'

 

"I was gobsmacked. Gobsmacked in all manner of everything. Sort of, 'Wow, we meant that much to people, that's great. They mean that much to people (again)? S**t!

 

"I think it was confusion more than anything. (I was) pleased for the boys - you know, not too pleased that I wanted them to take over the joint (the music industry). It was like, you know, they can have a certain level (of success). Just don't smash the living daylights out of it, like they did."

 

From

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...barlow-obe.html (Link to really good photo :wub: )

 

EDITED BY GORDON SMART

Robbie Williams: OBE before I die

 

 

 

IN the past couple of years ROBBIE WILLIAMS has managed to tame the green-eyed monster that made his blood boil over GARY BARLOW.

For years they had a pop at each other over who was the most talented post TAKE THAT.

 

But now they are best pals again, Robbie is happy to admit he’s openly jealous of the three letters after Gary’s name — OBE.

 

 

Speaking in front of 20,000 fans at London’s O2 arena on Thursday, he said: “The Queen has seen me perform a number of times now.

 

“I was at the Jubilee, singing my little heart out. Then last week, at the Royal Variety Performance, I sang the new single. Pretty well I might add.

 

“In the line-up at the end, there I am, waiting for a compliment. And she thought I was Pudsey’s minder.

 

“Gary Barlow OBE. Robbie Williams? Nothing.”

 

Since their war of words ended, Gaz and Rob have written Rob’s No1 single Candy, as well as a series of tracks on the last Take That album.

 

Even Gary’s other half Dawn has forgiven Robbie for the harsh words in the dark days.

 

Robbie looked like a new man on stage at the O2. He was on top form and had the punters in the palm of his hand.

 

But in a chat with JAMES CORDEN to be shown on Sky1 at 11.20pm tonight, the star admits he still has his demons.

 

“I always carry a little Martin O’Neill (Sunderland manager) in my head,” Robbie confessed.

 

“Sometimes those sort of voices go A) I don’t think you write the songs B) I don’t think you can sing and C) You’re cr*p on stage.

 

“Right now I’m in control of those, that voice and that dissention.”

 

Little Martin O’Neill in his head must have had a night off on Thursday. He delivered the goods.

From

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/9581...Nicole-Stsinger

 

 

Robbie Williams Slams Gary Barlow's X Factor Rival: 'She's Nicole S**tsinger'

 

Robbie Williams has re-named Nicole Scherzinger "Nicole S**tsinger" after the former Pussycat Doll called Gary Barlow "Gary Borelow".

 

The singer, who recently scored a double-No1 with album Take The Throne and single 'Candy', was speaking to The Sun's TV Magazine when he made the comments.

 

"Nicole keeps calling him ‘Gary Borelow’ – well she’s Nicole S***singer," he said. :lol:

 

"Gary is the most talented out of the lot of [the judges], the captain. He’s doing a great job as head judge. He’s funnier this season than the last, which is great because he’s way more funny than me

 

"I’ve still got my Gary Barlow crush. I love him to bits."

 

Nicole isn't the first singer Robbie has blasted recently. Earlier this month he joked that Jessie J's career has an 18-month shelf life, a comment she later dubbed "rude".

 

Claire Richards of Steps also tweeted her amusement when he called himself "above Steps but slightly below Westlife".

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'I need to get in shape first!' Robbie Williams reveals plans for 2013 stadium tour... but admits he wants to lose weight before it starts

 

Olly Murs announced as Robbie's support act for 17-date tour

Tour, which also takes in Europe, kicks off next June

Robbie Williams has announced a 17 date European stadium tour supported by current UK number 1 singer Olly Murs.

 

But the Angels singer has warned he needs to get in serious shape before his tour kicks off in June 2013, taking him across Europe, from Manchester to Estonia.

 

It is the first time Robbie, 38, will have done a solo tour since 2006 and the new father, who added his daughter Theadora will accompany him on parts of the tour, has revealed it is all part of his plan to leave behind a 'musical legacy.'

Announcing his arena tour on Tuesday afternoon at the Soho Hotel the Candy singer said he was thrilled about hitting the road with his pal Olly, 28, and even said he could see a lot of himself in the number 1 artist.

 

'I believe that I am at a place in my career where its time to put my foot down, that this is what I do, its legacy time for me.

 

'I'm getting my handicap down in golf and all that business. I'm nearly 40, that's what I'm trying to say.

'I don't know how many times I will get given this opportunity... I want to go and seal my place in pop history.'

 

The Candy star said he would take new baby girl Theodora Rose on tour with him, which would result in him getting more sleep than he has on previous tours.He said of his first tour as a father: 'Perhaps I will be a bit more calm. She's a very, very calming presence.

 

Already I feel that something cosmically has changed within me and I don't know what it is but I feel happier as a person and a bit more grounded as a person. That's happened naturally.

 

'She's coming with us, of course. It probably means I'll get more sleep because she's there, not less because she's there. She's rounding off my rough edges as the weeks progress in her life so far.'

 

He added that time may be running out for him as by the time his tour starts he will be 40, and there may only be time for two more sell-out shows before he is just 'an old guy singing pop songs.'

 

And the Take That star admitted he had been 'lethargic' with his past two albums, not touring or doing much promotion but the birth of his daughter and his reunion with Take That had re-invigorated him.

 

'The rumours are true. I'm getting Robbie Williams back together again', the Angels star joked.

 

In a frank press conference where the singer regularly swore he said he was grateful for the support with his latest single and revealed why he chose Olly to support him on tour.

 

He said: 'I can see a lot of myself in him, we get on like a house on fire. I hope he will come up and join me onstage for a couple of numbers.'

 

And Olly said he was 'honoured' to be chosen by Robbie.

 

Robbie's decision comes after three successful sell-out tours at the O2 earlier this month where he impressed fans with his energy and enthusiasm.

 

During the less than 30minutes announcement Robbie added that he would miss Rylan Clark on the X Factor and how he doesn't dare to give Harry Styles tips on women.

 

 

From

http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/x-factor/take...-back-for-good/

 

 

Take that Nick Grimshaw! Robbie Williams ticket sales surges past One Direction! Fans want him back for good

 

November 30th, 2012 by Lisa McGarry.

 

 

Demand to see Robbie Williams’ Take the Crown show, his first solo tour since 2006, surged by a colossal 6500% when tickets went on sale today, data from Seatwave has revealed. In an embarrassing day for Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw, who earlier this month called Robbie ‘irrelevant’, tickets for the Take That star’s concerts look set to be among the most-wanted tickets of 2013.

 

 

To add insult to injury, Grimmy’s favourites, One Direction, have dropped well below Robbie, attracting ten times less interest.

 

“Robbie Williams has been a national hero for almost twenty years and his popularity shows no sign of waning, despite Grimmy’s prediction,” said Louise Mullock, spokesperson for Seatwave. “One Direction is certainly a teenage and cougar favourite but Robbie has longevity. This data shows that he’s still the one.”