November 10, 201311 yr Oh. It has taken place then? How did it go? Did the fans in the cheap seats manage to hang onto their rail ok? :unsure:
November 10, 201311 yr http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02729/RobbieWilliams_2729073b.jpg B-)
November 10, 201311 yr From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/1...ium-review.html Robbie Williams, London Palladium, review Robbie Williams delivered a knowing and fun performance in a lavish show of pure cabaret, which was boosted by a duet with Miss Piggy, says James Hall 3 out of 5 stars James Hall By James Hall1:29PM GMT 09 Nov 2013 The only thing missing from this entertaining Robbie Williams show at the London Palladium was the iamspamamispamwhoamspam sink. Although judging by the expense lavished on the production, there was probably a diamante-encrusted basin hidden somewhere behind the 30-piece orchestra just in case Williams changed his mind. Over the course of this filmed-for-TV extravaganza, the former Take That singer flew over the crowd in a fat suit, duetted with Miss Piggy and danced with eight men in monkey costumes. The show was put on to coincide with the release of Williams’s second swing album, Swings Both Ways. His original big band album, 2001’s Swing When You’re Winning, remains one of his most popular and sold over 2million copies in the UK alone. Williams is clearly keen to recapture some of that. As befitting the Palladium, it was pure cabaret. Dapper in tails and with a dyed grey quiff, Williams belted out standards such as Puttin’ on the Ritz and Mack the Knife. Lily Allen, coquettish as ever, joined him for Dream a Little Dream, while a choir of street urchins backed him on the bizarre cod-operatic No One Likes a Fat Pop Star. Related Articles Robbie Williams: 'I still do phenomenally well' 09 Nov 2013 Robbie Williams' Sinatra-style single 09 Nov 2013 Robbie Williams 19 Jun 2013 Everyman Cinemas: quality environment for quality films HP Subtlety was off the agenda. During the duet Swings Both Ways, Rufus Wainwright sang "Everybody swings both ways, face it Robbie you’re a little bit gay". Lest anyone was in any doubt about the song’s meaning, the men climbed into giant closets wearing black suits and came out of them moments later wearing pink top hats and tails. They literally came out of the closets. In pink. Get it? As you’d expect from Williams, the show was knowing and fun. In front of an invited audience including Adele and members of One Direction, he made jokes about former girlfriend Geri Halliwell, spells in rehab and the old days when he was “really famous”. Go Gentle, a love song to his daughter Teddy, even managed to be genuinely moving. This was no mean feat given that he sang it from a hydraulic crane carrying him over the audience’s heads. For a man who sold out Wembley Stadium four times this summer, Williams seems oddly determined for Swings Both Ways to be as big as its 2001 predecessor. You get the impression that he has thrown everything at this campaign. As well as featuring duets with Allen, Wainwright, Kelly Clarkson, Michael Bublé and, er, Olly Murs, the album contains songs once again co-written by Guy Chambers, the man behind his biggest hits. What this show essentially amounted to was a (soon-to-be) televised attempt at myth creation, or – for the converted – myth bolstering. As he duetted with his father, Peter, the Williams men listed people who had played the Palladium. “Morecambe and Wise”, “Frank Sinatra”, “Robbie Williams”. It was a fabulously entertaining evening but he’s not quite in Ol' Blue Eyes's league yet.
November 10, 201311 yr Palladium dvd available to pre-order from official site http://www.robbiewilliams.com/news-blogs/o...der-dvd-blu-ray Question. -_- Where is the Tallinn dvd?
November 10, 201311 yr I thought that was the whole point? We always get a tour dvd. Don't we? :unsure:
November 10, 201311 yr Author Nope, where was the Close Encounters official tour dvd? :( didn't happen
November 10, 201311 yr Author :lol: oh, I got one too in that case :P It's only about an hour of the concert though :( Edited November 10, 201311 yr by Sparkle
November 10, 201311 yr Wasn't that the Milton Keynes Bowl concert which was live on Sky? The one where he fell over? :unsure:
November 10, 201311 yr Was it Leeds? Oh yes. Roundhay Park. He fell over during Come Undone? Whole concert was on Sky, non?
November 10, 201311 yr Author Yep, it was on sky. I remember when it was first shown, in HD, different angles of the camera too I think were televised to what people saw on a non HD tv.
November 10, 201311 yr I'm sure you recorded the full concert for me :unsure: Maybe not. I'll need to check my Robbie dvd storage box :unsure:
November 11, 201311 yr Music review: Robbie Williams- 'He has unashamed showbiz coursing through him' ***** London Palladium, West End NICK HASTED Author Biography Monday 11 November 2013 With his slicked hair, thrusting jaw and fizzing energy, Robbie Williams is entering middle-age as the very spit of Jimmy Cagney in his Thirties prime. Dancing down the steps of a stairway straight out of the era’s Hollywood musicals with Fred Astaire tails on his jacket, he is fully in character for "Swings Both Ways", the sequel to his massive 2001 hit Swing When You’re Winning. This intimate interruption to his stadium tour schedule at the Palladium is for a Christmas BBC TV special, and that hoary tradition is equally honoured. There are guest stars, from the Muppets to Rufus Wainwright, and a sentimental song, “High Hopes”, sung surrounded by winsome kids (one of whose mention of “the mile high club” to warm-up comic Ian Royce may struggle to make the cut). Williams flirted with Oasis’s rock’n’roll world as he fought his way free from Take That. But the most appealing thing about him is the unashamed showbiz coursing through his blood. This is proven to be literally true when his dad Pete, surprise duettist on Duke Ellington’s “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me”, is comfortable and creditable singing and dancing with his son. Like Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello, Williams Junior is steeped in pre-rock musical lore from his father. He doesn’t actually have the skills of an all-round entertainer, or a voice for swing. His dancing is approximate, and his singing, even on “Go Gentle”, a song about his beloved baby daughter Theodora, can’t handle poignancy. Vocally Williams is a tribute act to the Sinatras and Martins, not a rival. Then again, Frank may not have been entirely comfortable singing “Swings Both Ways” with Rufus Wainwright at his snake-hipped swishiest. This number, co-written by the pair, ends with them stepping out of giant closets with blinding pink plastic jackets, top hats and canes. We really have come a long way. A duet on “Dream A Little Dream” with Lily Allen, edging her way out of the least convincing retirement since Jay-Z’s and looking uncertain, is less successful. It takes Miss Piggy, standing-in for Nicole Kidman on 2001 Christmas no. 1 “Somethin’ Stupid”, to match Williams’s stellar quality. Williams finds a balance between his personality and those he is aping when he interjects his own riffs. “I am the okey-dokey Stokey blokey,” he chirps on Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher”, “a little bit tubby, a little bit hokey.” A more restrained, physically limited performer than Calloway, Williams gains in rock-schooled confessional emotion. He admits, “I’ve always felt a little bit stupid” before “If I Only Had a Brain”, rails at his critics on “Shine My Shoes”, and dons a fat suit for “No One Likes a Fat Pop Star” (“showbiz a single-chin game…”). He also reinvents Radiohead’s “Creep”, replacing its anguish with a swinging celebration of being “a freak” and “a weirdo”. He puffs his cheeks with relief as he finishes. Dream job done. Independent.uk
