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Those took ages to upload! :o

 

My review will need to wait till another night. ^_^

 

Oh and Robbie has bought a house in Mustique. -_-

Great pictures Jups, you had a really good view. :cheer:

 

Next up.................. Wembley Stadium, London - 29th, 30th June, 2 & 5th July

 

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I went last night :yahoo: will post some pics later.

From: http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/robbie-williams/...w-justin-bieber

 

REVIEW: Robbie & pal Olly Murs 'Take The Crown' to Wembley Stadium...

 

11:05, Sunday, 30 June 2013

 

For those who thought that getting married and becoming a father for the first time would have tamed Robbie Williams, think again!

 

The former Take That star is back on the road in support of his ninth studio album Take The Crown - his first set of live solo shows since 2006 - with Robbie showing no signs of slowing down as he took over Wembley Stadium last night (June 29), bring pal Olly Murs along for the ride.

With Olly powering his way through a stellar set, including hit singles Heart Skips A Beat and Troublemaker, the stage - complete with a huge impression of Williams' face - was set for what promised to be a memorable night of entertainment…

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Feeling: After an energetic performance from the Troublemaker himself Olly Murs, Wembley Stadium was ready and waiting for Robbie. Murs had already done a great job in getting the crowd excited for his 'idol' - with the very mention of Williams' name sending the audience into a frenzy. Then, low and behold, Robbie made his grand entrance - standing on top of a giant model of his own head and launching himself off to sing Let Me Entertain You. And entertain he did, with the star exclaiming: "I'm Robbie f**king Williams and your Wembley and tonight, I own your ass". Screams then erupted around the stadium, with the crowd putty in Robbie's hands, as he kicked off his epic show.

Look: Surrounded by busts of himself, Robbie's stage attire replicated that of a typical showman, donning a black sequinned blazer and cane for the first half of the concert, before swapping it for a glitzy, gold jacket to finish off his stint on stage. Streamers, glitter and balloons also played a part in the elaborate show, with Robbie acting as the perfect ringmaster.

 

Tunes: Robbie combined old favourites such as Come Undone, Kids, Strong, Rock DJ and Take That track Everything Changes, with songs from his Take The Crown LP - including No.1 single Candy. He also performed acoustic versions of Millennium, Better Man and Sexed Up while classics Feel, She's The One and Angels were part of the encore to wrap Robbie's set.

Specials guests: While his Take That bandmates were absent for the night's proceedings, it seems Robbie has a new wingman in the form of Olly Murs. After getting the crowd going with his tight trousers, Robbie welcomed fellow cheeky chappy Olly back on stage for a rendition of Kids. Kylie Minogue and her hotpants may have been absent, but Robbie and Murs had great chemistry on stage - with Olly even planting a kiss on Williams' cheek at one point. We love a good bromance!

 

Banter: Where do we start! From passing on his pop crown to Olly during a quick version of Take That song Never Forget, to having a dig at Justin Bieber, Robbie was on fine form. Speaking of Biebs, Williams joked: "Someday, this will all be Justin Bieber's dream... I don't think so! He's a good singer and he's got a lovely haircut... I should shut up now before I get into too much trouble." However, Robbie did anything but shut up, even making reference to this weekend's Glastonbury Festival, stating: "F**k Glasto, this is where it's at!"

 

Sweat Factor: By the end of Let Me Entertain You, Robbie had already broken out in a sweat, with the crowd feeling the heat as Wembley basked in some rather unlikely sunshine thanks to the unpredictable British weather. Temperatures also reached boiling point as Robbie and Olly showed off their hip-swinging moves - sending the huge amounts of women wild.

 

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Summary: Robbie proved what a true showman he is, well and truly taking back the pop crown with outstanding production, impressive visuals and a set list boasting of hit song after hit song. Robbie took a risk by performing acoustic versions of some well-known classics, but it was nice to see a more mellow side to Williams, but there was still plenty of room for more hip-thrusting and dad dancing - which also went down a treat with the crowd. They hung on to his every word and staying true to his earlier statement, he truly 'owned' Wembley.

 

 

In the words of Robbie himself: "I was famous in the 90s and I still sell Wembley", and we're sure he'll still be entertaining you, us and the world for many years to come.

 

 

Robbie Williams – review

 

Wembley Stadium, London

 

Rating * * * * *

 

The Guardian, Sunday 30 June 2013 15.13 BST

 

 

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High-octane … Robbie Williams at Wembley Stadium, London.

 

 

Liam Gallagher recently moaned about the unfairness of Robbie Williams still playing stadiums while his own Beady Eye are just about filling 1500-seaters. But Gallagher simply needs to raise his game: the day he arrives on stage by abseiling down a huge gold bust of his own head could change everything for him.

 

 

It has been seven years since Williams last toured, but, in the ways that matter, nothing has changed. "Let me reintroduce myself," he roars, disentangling the abseil harness from his glittering, black ringmaster's jacket. "I am Robbie f***ing Williams, you are Wembley and your ass is mine!" This potentially toxic mix of arrogance and absurdity is the key to his longevity, and even after demonstrably losing his songwriting mojo during his years off, no other light entertainer eclipses him on stage. The onetime teen idol is 39 now ("I'm still young, goddammit!" he implores during Strong), but he is driven by a compulsion to give everything he has got. He withholds nothing as he works through 23 songs and nearly as many stunts, many featuring giant, fire-breathing moulds of his head. Apart from a saggy middle segment dominated by songs from his new album, Take the Crown, it's a giddy combination of high-octane pop craft and the kind of self-doubt most stars would save for the psychiatrist's couch.

 

"Do you still want to grow old with me?" he pleads during Gospel; sadder still, Come Undone trails off into a half‑spoken meditation about his future. "Soon this will be Olly Murs's dream, soon this will be Justin Bieber's dream," he croons; though he has little to worry about on that score, if Murs's jolly blandness is any guide. When Murs bounds on stage to duet on Kids, he finds himself crushingly out‑superstarred.

 

The show is brilliant, nearly every tragicomic minute, but also reveals once and for all why the US never succumbed. It's not just that America hardly needs another power balladeer – though even Americans would have found it hard to deny the power of Angels, as sung by the man and his 68,000-strong backing choir. Rather, Williams was too open about being, what the US terms, a "hot mess"; though, over here, that's why he is still adored. "Do you still want me?" he cries during Come Undone, knowing exactly what the answer will be.

 

 

 

Guardian.co.uk

Tess :cheer: :cheer: hellooooooooooooooo did you enjoy the concert last night?

 

@ Jups........... :drink: waiting for the rest of your review, I'm about to post mine.

I had a great time yesterday at Wembley, really enjoyed seeing Robbie again.

We got into the stadium around half five and it was packed already, spent far too long in McDonalds! My plans to head to the right hand side of the stage as advised to completely went out the window as we couldn’t get anywhere near on that side with a decent enough view other than standing. I wasn’t feeling that great yesterday :( so didn’t want to stand for 5 hours solid. Most of the lower tier, all but a few blocks were available for people that had pitch standing tickets so it was nice to have that option.

We had seats just a few rows up on the left side, would of liked to of been nearer the stage but didn’t have a bad view really.

Scott Mills from Radio One was the DJ for the night, he was really good, got the crowd bouncing up and down. :w00t: Olly was great and I liked his singing, definitely a lot of his fans there too. The build up to Robbie coming on stage was quite something, such a great atmosphere, when his name was mentioned which was quite a few times, everyone went mental.

Robbie appeared just before 9pm from the top of the stage :wub: Mr Sparkle was kinda of disowning me at this point as I got a little bit excited :lol: Robbie did his usual strutting around before getting into LMEY. I love that song, such a great concert opener and always gets the crowd going from the start to finish.

I’m not sure if the set list is the same for every night of the tour, I avoided reading the reviews as much as possible so only had an idea of a few of the songs that he was going to perform. Given the choice I would of preferred the set list from the O2 shows. There’s at least 5, possibly 6 songs I wouldn’t of added to the list from last night, but that’s just personal choice I guess and he can’t please everyone can he. Performance wise, he never fails, always the great entertainer and that’s what I love about him. I can’t ever imagine not going to any of his future concerts.

The sound in the stadium last night wasn’t that great in my opinion for some of the songs but that could be down to where I was standing and not Robbie, I dunno.

One of the funny moments of the night was the Stoke sit down that he got everyone doing, said it didn’t work so well at Manchester ^_^ . Found a clip of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0wbgU2mmMc

Singing She’s the One and Angels always gets to me, I don’t know many artists that can walk off the stage and have the whole stadium singing angels from start to finish on their own.

All in all, I had a fantastic night and would love to have the opportunity to see him again one day. I just hope he doesn’t leave it as long a gap as the last tour in 2006.

 

Btw…….I heard rumours from local radio that TT were going to appear, they didn’t last night but it wouldn’t surprise me if they joined Robbie for a song on one of the Wembley nights.

 

 

Tess :cheer: :cheer: hellooooooooooooooo did you enjoy the concert last night?

 

@ Jups........... :drink: waiting for the rest of your review, I'm about to post mine.

 

 

 

Yes Spark , I did look out for you but there were too many people there with blonde hair :smoke:

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

 

 

“f*** Glastonbury, this is where it’s at!” Tonight, Wembley becomes a platform for Robbie Williams to vent his pent up ego in such a way that never actually comes across as self-centred and, despite the stage decorated with his own face is often a self-referential piss take amongst friends. “I’m the okey dokey Stokey blokey, a little bit tubby and a little bit croaky” he sings during highlight ‘Minnie The Moocher’. This is a rare case of an ego-maniac who it’s a pleasure to spend two hours with.

 

Emerging and zip-lining from a sculpture of his own head and leading into Let Me Entertain You he declares, “Allow me to introduce myself; I’m Robbie f***ing Williams… For the next two hours, your ass is mine!” Subtlety is out of the window as he screams through every song as loud as possible; which i guess is what you do when you’re headlining Wembley after being quite vocal about not being the best singer.

 

The golden Mount Rushmore-style head (Mount Robmore’?) clearly isn’t enough of additional Robbie, as a huge silver bust of himself rolls out,with at least a hundred red and yellow balloons pouring out of it’s open head, spilling out of the open-top stadium.

 

The ‘rap’ verse of ‘Kids’ opens the song with his band playing AC/DC’s Back In The Black, leading into Olly Murs joining in to take over Nicole Kidman’s role in the song. If a slightly underwhelming cameo, the stadium laps up the coming together of these oh-so-similar characters.

 

A third giant Robbie head! More bombastic than the last, this one shoots jets of fire throughout the Ian Brown-a-like Bodies, followed by spitting a water cannon into the crowd during the heartfelt ‘Come Undone’.

 

There is a number of cover song moments. Robbie teases Take That’s ‘Never Forget’; albeit in a particularly strange version, mixing Lou Reed’s Walk On The Wild Side with lyrics that make fun of Justin Bieber. Later, he splices Kings Of Leon’s ‘Use Somebody’ with new song ‘Be A Boy’, right before crashing it into the ground with an off-key a cappella snippet of ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’.

 

Unabashedly acknowledging his Rudebox album was “lame”, he proceeds to throw the title track together with A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Can I Kick It’ and ‘Rock DJ’.

 

After dragging crowd member Natalie on stage, he boorishly declares; “I was singing Let Me Entertain You and I looked into the crowd and I thought, ‘she’s f***ing fit’”, before serenading her with Take That’s Everything Changes. This was followed by leading her on to a giant bed for the soaring Strong and playing around with a crowned puppet of, yes, himself. Subtle.

 

A successful Re-Imagining of the Mexican wave, charmingly titled The Stoke Sit Down changes the pace for an acoustic section of the show featuring Millennium, Better Man and Sexed Up.

 

With a questionable admission he shares how he’s kept an eye on his internet discussion board, leading him to add the 7 minute Mexican stand-off Me and My Monkey, while Candy finds a home at Wembley after being hoofed out of Radio 1 earlier in the year.

 

A FOURTH ROBBIE HEAD! He really is trying his damnedest tonight to make Kanye West look like a reclusive bookworm in comparison. This one bigger than the last, he emerges from his own giant mouth to finish with an encore made up of Feel, She’s The One and Angels. For Angels, he beckons the adoring crowd to think of lost loved ones; a stark contrast to the self indulgent set opener Let Me Entertain You, yet receives easily the most passionate response of the night.

 

I’m sure there were a couple of times tonight when he would get his own lyrics wrong, but when remedied quickly with a little Stokey jig everything was forgiven. “Wem-ber-ly, Wem-ber-ly, I was famous in the nineties and I still play Wem-ber-ly!” exclaimed the giddy narcissist earlier in the show. Rightly so though; he may be knocking on career-wise with a mostly underwhelming new album, but his undeniable back catalogue and incredible command of the stage will see him return to similar venues again and again for as long as he feels like it.

 

 

Hungertv.com

 

 

Some great pics here

 

 

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Tess :cheer: :cheer: hellooooooooooooooo did you enjoy the concert last night?

 

@ Jups........... :drink: waiting for the rest of your review, I'm about to post mine.

 

 

I've been busy. -_-

 

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He's getting very good reviews from the press it has to be said :w00t:

 

 

I will post my review tomorrow night. I promise. Just been really busy these past few nights.

 

On a linked note, I think Robbie has affected my hearing. :cry: I've been at Hampden loads for concerts. And I thought this one was really loud. Not that I was complaining at the time. But since Tues night I've had a buzzing noise in my left ear. It could be ear wax I suppose. :unsure: Or Robbie (and his fans singing) has deafened me. :(

My ears were ringing too Jups after the concert for quite some time but they are ok now.

 

Hopefully it'll go soon for you too.

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Interesting photo on the Official Site from the stage at Hampden. I could well be in this if I zoomed in close enough. Think I might be in the section with the 3 spotlights at the right of the picture. :P

 

 

 

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Loads of other Hampden photos here

 

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Yeah but it went all blurry :lol:

 

Actually, looking again. I think I was further over towards the centre....

I did not like this particular stage prop, Robbie spent most of his time at the front of it & I happened to be in an area where I was facing he back of it ,it was the one with the stairs & walkway, it really annoyed me , I kept wanting to knock it over so i could see him...... Robbie does not need those props on stage :arrr:

 

 

 

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Anyone else enjoy Me & My Monkey live ... I love the music to that song , just fab :wub:
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