Tickets were far too expensive. Not surprised they are still available -_-

Yeah, I agree, tickets were way too expensive. I read on one of the forums that a fan

was going to all 3 nights, how can they afford that :unsure:

 

Thing that worrys me, next years tour will be announced very very soon, I just hope the prices

have dropped to a more affordable amount.

 

I had a weak moment, I bought 2 tickets for tomorrows show even though I shouldn't of.

Now.......... I'm glad I did, soooooooooooooo excited

 

 

OMG! I am so not going to be able to sleep tonight :yahoo:

 

 

 

From last night :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

Can't stop for posting duty......................... I'm going to go get ready to

go and see Robbie :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

Laters x

Have a brillisnt time Spark..hope you got your hair done for the cameras

OMG !!! I just love this :cheer:

 

 

'Greatest Entertainer Ever!': One Direction Praise Robbie Williams Following O2 Gigs - Liam Payne and Niall Horan loved the show

 

 

The One Direction boys have been full of praise for Robbie Williams after seeing the legend perform at the O2.

 

'Candy' star Robbie, who recently scored the double on the Official Charts with a simultaneous No1 single and album, has been winning rave reviews from audiences following his stint at London's most prolific concert venue.

 

Writing on Twitter, 1D's Liam Payne wrote: "tonight i finally got to watch one of my hero's in concert and my hat goes off to @robbiewilliams one of the greatest entertainers ever!" (sic)

 

Niall Horan also gushed about the show, saying: "Got some performing tips off @robbiewilliams tonight! The dude owns that stage! Genius !"

 

A self-aware Louis Tomlinson chipped in: "Watching Robbie Williams is such an inspiration! Wow , this is the reason I went to the audition! #cringetweet

 

"I am so in awe of his talent . Wow ! Such a big fan ha!!"

 

As if that wasn't enough, the star was even joined on-stage by Take That bandmate Gary Barlow. Sounds like it was quite a show... with quite the crowd!

 

 

Entertainmentwise.co.uk

I had the most amazing time last night watching and listening to Robbie. We got a good standing spot not far from the side of the stage, felt so lucky getting a good view, despite the security man telling me off twice!! :cry: The design of the stage and it being in the middle of the arena certainly worked, I could see Robbie up close without the use of binoculars! Wow, he is so hubba hubba :wub: I think I may of just stood there not moving at all for the first song because I couldn’t believe I was actually there. :lol:

The place was going mental, brilliant atmosphere and he was on top form, relaxed and looked like he was enjoying being there too. Robbies voice was amazing last night, I just don’t understand how some people say he can’t sing because he clearly can.

Some of the many highlights for me of the night were Come undone, he was close to where I was standing when he did the screwy up roar face, so cute! :wub:

Be a Boy, my fav song on the album, his vocals gave me goosebumps. I loved gospel too. :wub:

Bodies, brilliant, so glad I’ve heard it live. @ Jups, sorry I didn’t keep the phone going for the whole song, but I needed to bounce. :P

Karma Killer – mental, such fun! :w00t:

Bo Jangles – please note anyone that thinks he can’t sing, eat your words! go along and hear him sing this live, flawless!

Different & Eight letters (with Gary Barlow) I have to say, never really being much of a Gary Barlow fan, I absolutely loved listening to them both sing these songs together.

Angels – epic, whole arena on their feet, even the ones in the scary nose bleed seats that need parachutes, all singing along, more goose bumps, teary eyes!

Tired eyes, sore throat and legs today, looking forward to watching him on the tv again tonight live.

Robbie’s back and big time! :cheer:

Rumours of tickets going on sale for next years tour very soon, I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I can’t imagine not seeing him again. Last night was worth every penny and I’m so glad I went.

Edited November 24, 201212 yr by Sparkle

Thank you for report and I'm really happy for you time yesterday! Gald to know Rob is in form!

 

Could you tell us what setlist was yesterday?

Edited November 24, 201212 yr by Better Man

Glad you had a great time Sparkle! It sounded very loud and screamy via mobile. Was that you I wonder? :P

 

And why did the security guard tell you off. Twice. :rolleyes:

 

 

I can't wait till 9pm tonight :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

From

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/2...liams-review-o2

 

 

Robbie Williams – review

O2 Arena, London

4/5

 

 

 

Alexis Petridis

The Guardian, Friday 23 November 2012

 

 

Robbie Williams wisely allowed his personality and string of huge hits to carry his show at the O2 Arena in London. Photograph: Jason Alden/Rex Features

After he arrives on stage, it takes Robbie Williams all of about four minutes – not enough time to actually finish the opening Let Me Entertain You – to ask the audience if they still love him. They answer loudly in the affirmative, but it's rather a foregone conclusion.

 

Plenty of pop stars decide they aren't that interested in mainstream fame, as Williams seemed to do around the time of his 2006 album Rudebox, and plenty of them subsequently change their minds, but very few actually succeed in getting it back, which Williams also seems to have done: his ninth album Take The Crown has topped the charts, as did his single Candy.

 

He certainly worked for it: it's hard to think of another pop star in recent times who's seemed so openly desperate for their new album to be a success. They tend to affect an aura of cool disinterest about commercial success, but the ability to affect a cool disinterest has never really been one of Williams's strong points. First, he cajoled, intimating that he might give up music altogether if Take The Crown wasn't an enormous smash, then he started turning up everywhere: collecting gongs at award ceremonies, switching on the Oxford Street Christmas lights, doling out advice and performing on X Factor.

 

It all paid off: tonight's show has an understandably triumphal air about it. The staging is high camp hubris. There are six huge disco mirrorballs in the shape of Williams's head and a hydraulic stage in the shape of a crown. At one juncture, he mounts a pulpit decorated with the Take That logo, in front of a huge fake stained-glass window with fire belching out of it and delivers a speech about the boyband's formation to the strains of Also Sprach Zarathustra.

 

Anything from Rudebox or its more thoughtful predecessor Intensive Care has been expunged from the setlist, leaving a gig comprised largely of huge hit singles: Rock DJ, Come Undone, Feel, She's The One, the latter one of three songs he performs with his former co-writer, Guy Chambers, playing piano.

 

When Chambers appears, it's a rather touching moment – the pair famously fell out in the middle of the Noughties – but the rest of the time, Williams plays it for laughs: cracking jokes about Rudebox and his relationship with Geri Halliwell, doing a Norman Wisdom walk, illustrating Mr Bojangles with a burst of the Gangnam Style dance, chastising a member of the audience whose celebratory air-punch, he notes, looks troublingly like a Nazi salute.

 

It all suggests that at 38, Williams has decided to embrace what he always was, but appeared most troubled by the prospect of being: a sort of cross between a pop star and a light entertainer. If that sounds like an insult, it's not intended as one: the prerequisite of a light entertainer is that they're entertaining, which Williams's live show really is.

 

The flaming stained-glass window aside, there's not much of the big visual gimmickry that tends to mark out pop shows: it relies on Williams's personality and arsenal of hits to carry it, which they do. The audience lap it up. "It's still the same!" he yells delightedly, as the arena becomes a sea of waving hands during Millennium. It is, which is a not-unimpressive feat.

From

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/l...don-review.html

 

 

Robbie Williams, O2 London, review

 

Sarfraz Manzoor finds that the magic hasn't left national treasure of British pop, Robbie Williams.

 

5/5

 

 

Robbie Williams strutted onto the stage, a man with something to prove. It’s been six years since his last full length concerts and the 38 year-old’s most recent single Candy was banned by Radio 1 because the singer was deemed no longer relevant to the station’s audience. That decision was harsh but arguably fair: there are few in the crowd who look younger than thirty. Williams opened with a raucous ‘Let Me Entertain You’ during which his demand to ‘let me hear you scream’ was met by an eardrum shattering din. ‘I can’t hear you,’ he said, which made me fear that the poor man’s hearing had gone. As a song title ‘Let Me Entertain You’ perfectly distils Williams’s blend of cheeky arrogance and puppy dog neediness – both were on display in a 21 song set that delved into his awesome back catalogue as well as tracks from quite good new album ‘Take The Crown’. ‘Is anyone in the mood to hear a number one hit single?’ he asked before ‘Candy’, which, he reminded us, managed to get to number one without Radio 1’s support.

Six glitter-balls shaped like Williams’ head descended for ‘Rock DJ’ and lights sparkled around the O2 like illuminated confetti. There are few words more likely to induce a mass exodus to the bar than ‘here’s a new one’ but ‘Gospel’ with its Eighties-inspired guitar riff was great as Williams, standing inside a gold crown, was slowly elevated above the stage. Guy Chambers, with whom he has written some of his finest songs before they fell out, was introduced on stage for ‘Eternity’, ‘Mr Bojangles’ and ‘She’s the One.’

The show was staged in the round and it felt fitting because we were seeing many sides of Williams - the self deprecating comedian making cracks about the Queen not recognising him, the Norman Wisdom impersonator and the great British pop icon .

Two of his biggest hits, ‘Come Undone’ and ‘Feel,’ were both exercises in melodic self loathing. It is a frankly weird sight seeing thousands of people, encouraged by Williams, sing such lacerating lyrics accompanied by Williams prancing on stage.

It felt like a public airing of very private pain. Happily those days seem to be behind him. He is now married and a new dad - he dedicated the final song, the inevitable ‘Angels’ to his daughter. Tonight was triumphant, a reminder that Robbie Williams remains one of the national treasures of British pop. ‘They said it was leaving me, the magic was leaving me’ he had sung earlier on ‘Be A Boy’, adding ‘I don’t think so.’ I don’t think so either, Robbie.

Great reviews. And from the snooty papers too! :o :o :o

 

:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Thank you for report and I'm really happy for you time yesterday! Gald to know Rob is in form!

 

Could you tell us what setlist was yesterday?

 

I can't remember the order they all went in but here are the ones that I can remember at the moment:

Hey wow yeah yeah

Karma Killer

lMEY

Come Undone

Monsoon

Millenium

Eternity

Bodies

Gospel

Be A Boy

Kids

Feel

Angels

Mr Bojangles

Eight Letters

Different

Candy

Losers

Rock Dj

Not like the others

She's The One

Edited November 24, 201212 yr by Sparkle

From

 

http://www.standard.co.uk/arts/music/robbi...ew-8346224.html

 

 

Robbie Williams, O2 Arena, SE10 - review

Swaggering Robbie doesn't put a cheeky foot wrong

 

23 November 2012

 

Critic Rating 4 stars

Reader Rating 4 stars

 

 

In the six years since he last treated London to a full-length, full-sized solo concert (there was a BBC gig at the Roundhouse in 2009), much has happened to Robbie Williams.

 

He initially spurned the opportunity to help relight Take That’s fire before changing his mind for an album and tour and then, inevitably, jumped ship again. He has seemingly settled down with actress Ayda Field and become a father, but his once unstoppable solo career had ebbed until this year’s chart-topping Take The Crown.

 

Mercifully, apart from a richly rewarded decision to play in the round for the first time, nothing has changed on stage. He remains the consummate pop star, whose swagger is eclipsed only by his neediness.

 

Last night, the eternally cheeky chappy finally admitted sleeping with Geri Halliwell (“she wasn’t on the game,” he added, ungallantly), reminisced about Take That (“hit after hit; girl after girl”) before announcing that the Queen “hasn’t got a frigging clue who I am” and apparently mistook him for, first, a member of Madness after the jubilee concert and, then, “Pudsey’s trainer” post Royal Variety Show. How the Duchess Of York and Princess Eugenie must have chortled as they watched.

 

There was a hopeless Celine Dion impersonation, a potshot at Radio 1 which recently excluded the 38-year-old on age grounds (“I can have number ones without them”) and even the fellow Take Thatter wasn’t safe: “Gary Barlow OBE. Robbie Williams Nothing. Must have been an oversight,” he mused before their co-written Different, which he dedicated to “my only American fan”.

 

Nobody puts their foot in their mouth quite as likeably as Williams. He confessed “I’ve sung a few lame songs”, but few in the audience that included Adele, Dragons’ Den’s Peter Jones and comedian Alan Carr would have agreed.

 

Wisely ignoring Take That’s canon, he tore through the solo hits from the arm-waving Millennium to the rocky Kids and She’s The One, with guest piano by former songwriting partner Guy Chambers. Angels was dedicated to Williams’s daughter Teddy and when he said, “she’s a corker; I love being a dad,” you couldn’t help but believe him. He may be desperate for approval, but on this evidence he deserves it: last night, he didn’t put a foot wrong.

He isn't singing Into the Silence then. B*gger. <_<

Glad you had a great time Sparkle! It sounded very loud and screamy via mobile. Was that you I wonder? :P

 

And why did the security guard tell you off. Twice. :rolleyes:

I can't wait till 9pm tonight :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

 

No Jups, that wasn't me screaming, I'm quiet and reserved like you remember :P

 

The security were trying to keep everyone within the white lines around the stage, I didn't know, I was only a little bit over so

he made me move around which I did, only a little bit though to sneak in again in the crowd, he was watching me :angry: so I had to move

again. They were trying to move everyone around to the other side to avoid a stampede he said :unsure:

Jobsworth obv -_-

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought, it annoyed me because within half hour of me having to move there were tons of people just behind that white

line.

I love your review Sparkle! :dance: :wub: And I'm so going to watch it live tonight on my tv! Some Hungarian tv channel will broadcast it and I'm lucky to live near, so I can catch their signal. :lol: Happy time will start in an hour! :w00t:

 

About his singing skills, he is doing great, except for Angels. I do believe he can sing it so much better, but he don't want to. And I don't know the reason why. -_-