Yip. And bitchy from The Sun wont be pleased that The Mirror got the exclusive. :rolleyes:

the press rubbish him so much, I think the public that read their comics have got so used to it that they take no notice of what they say anymore.

 

The Mirror was great today, made a welcome change to read something nice about Robbie that is infact true.

 

Poor guy, I do feel sorry for him, it must be awful to read what they write. He is human, just like they are (I think) and us. Guess they never give that a thought do they.

 

As for the Newtons and Hylands, hope they get the sack! sooner the better.

ROBBIE DANCE ALBUM

 

The Pet Shop Boys revealed at an interview for BBC radio 1 that they worked with Robbie on two songs for his forthcoming dance album. It's a news song and a cover version of a Pet Shop Boys song - maybe "Jealousy" which Robbie sung at their concert in London earlier this months.

Neil Tennant admit that he isn't allowed to tell the titels of the songs.

 

 

Source: www.Fans Supreme.com

 

WILLIAMS ACCUSES UK PRESS OF BIGOTRY

 

British singer ROBBIE WILLIAMS refused to take part in a charity soccer match against Germany - because the UK press revel in slamming the European country. The ANGELS hitmaker is captaining the England team at this month's (MAY06) Soccer Aid match to benefit the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), for which he is ambassador.

 

But he has categorically refused to be a part of any match which might incite the traditional berating of Germany and parody their involvement in the World Wars.

 

He says, "I couldn't play in a game England versus Germany, because the press in England can't control themselves when it comes to bigotry. And I happen to love Germany. "And I sell a lot of records there, being honest - all three of those things. And I wouldn't want to be part of anything that would darken their door."

 

Williams will play the charity game in Manchester, England on 27 May (06) with a team comprised of celebrities representing the rest of the world, captained by chef GORDON RAMSAY.

 

 

source: http://contactmusic.com

EMI on song as it forecasts more revenue growth

By Dan Sabbagh

 

 

EMI, the world’s third-biggest music company, predicted that it would continue to increase revenues this year, throwing down the gauntlet to its rival Warner Music.

The British company still wants to buy Warner — although it was deliberately tight-lipped about its plans yesterday — but is hoping that its financial performance will demonstrate that there is no urgency to complete a deal.

 

 

 

Eric Nicoli, the executive chairman, said that he thought that the company could “grow sales†for the second year running — as it begins to reap the benefits from the shift to digital downloading.

 

Music sales peaked six years ago, and tumbled as illegal downloading through websites threatened to damage the music industy. However, a spate of successful lawsuits have quashed the threat and digital is now seen as a source of greater profit.

 

This year EMI is banking on releases from Norah Jones, Janet Jackson, Robbie Williams and another Beatles compilation to maintain momentum, after reporting a return to full-year growth for the first time since 2001.

Edited May 23, 200619 yr by Scotty.

They don't deserve to make that much cause they are a complete and utter joke of a record company IMO -_-

I concur. -_-

 

It does seem to be saying though that Robbie is going to release a new album this year. :wacko:

I concur. -_-

 

It does seem to be saying though that Robbie is going to release a new album this year. :wacko:

 

I know :blink:

ROBBIE AND MADONNA HELP PAULA GET BACK ON HER FEET

 

Champion distance runner Paula Radcliffe has been getting ready to compete again with the help of Robbie Williams and Madonna, she revealed today.

 

The 32-year-old, who was forced to miss the Commonwealth Games and the London Marathon because of a foot injury, said listening to their music on her iPod had got her through the tough times in recent weeks when she had to limit her workouts to using an exercise bike.

 

Radcliffe said she was "much happier" this week now she was able to go on short runs again, and expected to be back to full training in about 10 days.

 

She said she would probably be ready to race again in five or six weeks, but did not know yet when she would next compete.

 

However, she added that she was more likely to run the 10,000 metres than the marathon in August's European Championships in Gothenburg.

 

Radcliffe named Williams' Let Me Entertain You and Rock DJ and Madonna's new song Jump as the tracks that got her most pumped up.

 

Tina Turner and Whitney Houston were other motivational favourites.

 

"It's really helped because with my foot I have just been cross-training twice a day every day, so my iPod as been getting me through that and the boring times on the bike," she said.

 

"I was joking that Robbie and Madonna and people like that helped me get through those bike sessions."

 

Radcliffe had an operation last month to remove a neuroma, or enlarged nerve.

 

"It was frustrating to begin with but now that I'm running twice a day it's fast from here," she said.

 

"I'm quite lucky that I'm already qualified for the Europeans so I don't have to rush."

 

Radcliffe added: "I'm just so much happier this week than I was two or three weeks ago when I was just on the bike every day."

 

She said she would race again when she was ready.

 

"That might be in a couple of weeks but it's more likely it'll probably be in five or six weeks."

 

The three-time winner of the London Marathon also gave some tips to champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, who is training to run the 26-mile race in New York.

 

"A mistake that a lot of people make is just not spending the time that they're going to spend in the marathon actually running," she said.

 

"Just get out there and make sure that you've done the time goal that you're aiming for on your feet."

 

Speaking at the launch of a new device connecting iPods with Nike running shoes, she added: "I've watched the Tour de France, and you don't get a sandwich bag [in the marathon] so you can run along eating sandwiches."

 

 

Has this been posted? Its a great article from the Australian Courier Mail. :cheer:

 

Source- http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/stor...5003421,00.html

 

 

Take that, critics!

 

 

May 25, 2006

 

Robbie Williams is coming to town and if you don't like it – best keep quiet, writes Cameron Adams

 

 

RUSSELL Crowe picks up a phone – and blasts them. Courtney Love poops in a box and sticks it in the post.

 

Robbie Williams has his own way of dealing with journalists who slate him – luring them into a trap for face to face combat.

 

Williams coaxed a selection of his harshest critics (he voraciously reads his own press and reviews) into an ambush in London last year, disguised as a pre-release listening session for his Intensive Care album.

 

There was a surprise guest in the room: Robbie Williams.

 

He wasn't there to be interviewed. He was asking the questions. And he'd done his homework. Williams had printed out the most poisonous reviews of his music written by the very journalists in the room, quoted their venom back at them and then asked them to defend themselves.

 

One journalist later used the anecdote in an article pointing out how vain and self-deluded Williams was to "awkwardly" fling their words back at them.

 

"It wasn't awkward to me, it was fantastic," Williams says, still beaming with glee at the memory. "Since then the way they've justified the meeting was to talk about it being embarrassing for me. But they shat themselves. They well and truly sat there with their eyes facing the floor twiddling their thumbs nervously. As embarrassing as they say it was for me and how I had a lack of self-awareness and what a bad idea it was, I f---ing loved to watch them squirm, it was great.

 

"The thing is, when I was in that room with them, not one of them stood up for what they said. Every single one backed down, said I was right, and agreed with me. Which of course they didn't write about later."

 

Williams has no regrets about the repercussions of naming and shaming music journalists; indeed he is one of a handful of artists who are virtually critic proof.

 

"The thing is, if you're a bloke and someone said something bad about you at the pub or your workplace you'd go and find them and talk to them about it," Williams says. "I'd never had the chance to put a face to a name with these journalists.

 

"The opportunity arose that five of these names would be in the same room to listen to my album. I took that opportunity to have a word to them."

 

Has he ever thought of the more extreme Russell or Courtney options?

 

"I've thought of that. That's for the future."

 

While Robbie Williams is selective about interviews these days because, well, he can be, he gives good quotes. Excellent quotes, in fact. And he likes a chat, staying on this phone call for over an hour, shooing off managers and, unlike many pop stars, never once declaring anything off limits.

 

"I'm probably one of the only artists who prefers promo to touring," Williams says. "I find it very entertaining. It's interesting to know what I think, because I never tell myself. It's interesting for me anyway."

 

Surely interview days where you talk about yourself endlessly must be like therapy?

 

"Probably, but I'm kind of used to therapy." Williams' therapy days, fuelled by spending most of his 20s taking whatever he could swallow or snort, are well documented. As are his stints in rehab.

 

However, his self-destructive days seem over. These days he lets other people slag off Robbie Williams.

 

"I'm not as negative these days," he says. "I used to stand on stage at the beginning of my solo career and think 'What have you (expletives) come to see this (expletive) for?'. And I was the (expletive). Even though I was in Take That and I'm Robbie Williams I had my own sixth form indie rules in my head, I didn't live up to them. Now I've got rid of those rules and embraced, I was going to say the lower echelons of popular culture, but I've embraced who I am and what I'm capable of and what I'm not. I can see a song for it being a song now, instead of an affront to somebody's sensibilities. Being Robbie Williams that's very handy."

 

However Williams admits he isn't beyond Googling his own name.

 

"I know people will think 'Check out the ego on Robbie Williams, going online to see what people said about him'. But it's never anything nice. Google my name and 90 per cent of what's written is untrue, the rest is just nasty. So when I'm at the computer it's not me going 'Look at me! My public adore me!' I'm on there going 'bast*rds! bast*rds! bast*rds!' "

 

Williams set himself a test when he released Tripping, the lead single from Intensive Care. It was the first single where he'd written the bulk of the music himself, not just the lyrics.

 

However, most reviewers hailed the influence his new songwriting partner Stephen Duffy had on him.

 

"It's f---ing great because it doesn't particularly sound like any other Robbie Williams song. It would be even greater if people said 'Robbie wrote the bulk of this song' – it'd mean more to me. But people think 'Oh Stephen Duffy's doing it now Guy Chambers has left'. They think I'm some kind of puppet, which unless they get in the studio with me and see what I do I guess I'd think the same of Robbie Williams.

 

"It's nearly impossible for humans, I'm the same, to enjoy somebody else's success," Williams continues. "There's always got to be a problem or a catch. 'Well, he's gay isn't he', 'he's just a puppet'. People always say to me 'Do they let you go on holiday a lot? Do they choose your producer for you?' I just wonder who 'they' are. I can't blame people for doing it, I'm the same kind of person. I catch myself doing it, but when there's someone enjoying success, an actor or a musician, I always look for the catch myself. Their success exposes my inadequacies."

 

Those famous inadequacies kicked into overdrive when Williams was asked to play Live 8 in Hyde Park last July.

 

He hadn't played live since his Australian tour of 2003.

 

"I was very scared all the other bands who were on were either on tour or in the middle of working. I wasn't. Also there were a lot of people there who might not be Robbie Williams fans. As much as people love me there's a tremendous amount of people who really f---ing hate me. This was all going through my mind."

 

He admits he was desperately nervous backstage, and asked friend David Beckham to introduce him as a safety net.

 

"When I stepped on stage the audience did the rest. It was a magic moment for me and for my career, it was incredible."

 

He also got to hang with Madonna backstage.

 

"She was in the caravan next to me. I thought 'There's Madonna, I wonder how she is?' I didn't think 'F--! There's Madonna'. I don't think that about pop stars any more. I only think that about footballers. I get starstruck with footballers. I went and said hello to Madonna. She was lovely. It was a really nice moment in pop."

 

The next Williams album may even out-pop Madonna. He's moving in a new territory – dance. Williams is working with dance producers William Orbit, Mark Ronson and Pet Shop Boys on a "secret" dance album due as early as September.

 

"We've done two songs with Robbie," Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant says.

 

One is a new song, one is an "obscure" cover.

 

"It sounds like Robbie Williams with the Pet Shop Boys behind him," Tennant reveals. "It sounds really good. We haven't really written with anyone before. I've not heard anything else on the album, but he told us it's an 'electronic/dance' album."

 

However Williams is quick to note he won't alienate fans.

 

"Fortunately for me and my record company I have populist tastes. I want to make records with big choruses. I want to make anthems. I'm obviously not shy to want to be in the pop charts. I find it fascinating when bands claim to not make music for the pop charts, to not make music for people to buy. That's great, just f---ing play it to yourself you silly (expletive).

 

"But I also want to branch out and do something else, see if I enjoy that. The Pet Shop Boys get to write with Liza Minelli, Dusty Springfield, Kylie Minogue, as it stands I've done eight Robbie Williams albums."

 

With the pop charts comes fame. Paparazzi photographers are an abnormally normal part of the life of Robbie Williams.

 

In his biography Feel, Williams revealed what most people suspected, he and former girlfriend Rachel Hunter did a deal with paparazzi for staged "candid" photos of them together.

 

"I don't think it was a mistake, necessarily," Williams says. "It was intended to be a bit of fun to mix everyone up, it just backfired. The upshot was the money received from (selling) those pictures I didn't touch. A lot went to charity, and four of my friends got new Jaguars. As embarrassing as the episode was, there was no paparazzi bothering us for two months after it. It worked out well for me."

 

He freely admits he now lives in LA to remain anonymous and has long given up trying to break into the US market.

 

The night before we speak a British tabloid has printed a picture of Williams' new London flat, and the address. And a photo of his mum's flat, which is on the ground floor.

 

"There's someone in jail for sending me letter bombs," Williams says. "There's quite a few mad people out there and a few of them want to kill me. It's just not worth it being in London."

 

The one thing missing in his charmed life is love. He's constantly linked with women, and was recently rumoured to have had a secret affair with Naomi Campbell.

 

"She's so beautiful, it'd be great if it was true," Williams says. "I wouldn't mind admitting it. I've never slept with Naomi Campbell. I've never kissed her, as much as I would have liked it to happen."

 

Intensive Care is out now through EMI. Robbie Williams will play Suncorp Stadium on December 13. Tickets go on sale through Ticketek next Tuesday, June 6. There will be a limit of six tickets per customer.

 

 

Edited May 24, 200619 yr by jupiter9

Excellent read :dance:

On the TRWS there is a shot of Robbie going to No. 10.

 

Not sure what to say about the new album. Not my thing unfortunately. Goodness knows what I will do, now if it was a Swing one, I'd be gagging at the bit to get it, but dance :puke2:

Stadium pulls plug on Larry concert

 

CONCERNS about damage to Suncorp Stadium's playing surface and a lack of headline acts have quashed plans for the Cyclone Larry fundraising concert in Brisbane.

 

The concert was to be held at Suncorp Stadium on June 25 and its cancellation is a big embarrassment to the Queensland Government, which rushed through legislation to allow it to be held.

 

Instead, Premier Peter Beattie said $250,000 in rent raised for a December concert by Robbie Williams at Suncorp Stadium would be donated to Larry victims.

 

"While I am disappointed the benefit concert will not be proceeding, I am delighted that the residents in the cyclone-affected region will receive more funding as a result of the Robbie Williams concert to help them in the recovery process," Mr Beattie told Parliament today.

 

Harvey Lister, chief executive of the stadium's management company Ogden IFC, said today no other date than June 25 had been available for the benefit event, which would have featured a line-up of mostly Australian music stars.

 

"We found that we would be very limited in the number of dates that would be available to do it because of the very heavy rugby league and rugby program that we have at the stadium this year," Mr Lister said.

 

The schedule included a State of Origin game, two Rugby Tests and Brisbane Broncos' home games.

 

Mr Lister said two promoters had been working on the line-up for the June 25 concert but failed to find acts with sufficient crowd-pulling power.

 

"It was their professional judgment and ours that neither of the line-ups proposed would have drawn the size of a crowd necessary to make an event like that viable," he said.

 

Mr Lister said catering, ticketing and security companies had all offered to waive their fees or provide them at cost for the concert but it still would have cost about $750,000 for scaffolding, staging, sound and lighting.

 

"If, for instance, we were to target making $250,000 profit, the event would need to gross $1 million, that's 25,000 people at $40 a ticket net," he said.

 

"It needs a very strong act to pull 25,000 people."

 

A group of former Queensland rugby league greats called Former Origin Greats (FOGS) held a fund-raising lunch at the stadium in April that raised $90,000 for the Cyclone Larry appeal.

 

To date, almost $19 million has been donated to victims of the cyclone, with the money being distributed by the cyclone relief taskforce.

 

 

26 May 2006

 

New Robbie Album Finished

 

Robbie Williams has finished his dance album, rumoured to include songs made with Pet Shop Boys and William Orbit.

 

"He's the quickest musician I've worked with" his co-writer Stephen Duffy said at the Ivors. "Robbie only started it at christmas and it's all done"

 

Duffy added: "I've co-written two songs on it. It's going to surprise the hell out of people, some of it's proper floor-to-the-floor dance music"

 

Source - ITV Teletext

Edited May 26, 200619 yr by Scotty.

Oh. :cry:

I'm slightly worried if truth be told...... :unsure:

I'll be worried when I hear it and don't like it.

 

Intensive Care album was so different to his other music and that worked, so fingers crossed this one will too.

Fingers crossed is right :(

ROB-TICKLER: O'NEILL JIBE FUNNIEST MOMENT

 

 

A SPAT between Martin O'Neill and Robbie Williams has been voted the World Cup's funniest TV moment. The ex-Celtic boss and the superstar singer famously clashed during a half-time chat at France '98 alongside Scotland star Alan Hansen. O'Neill stunned millions of viewers when he told Williams he was surprised his career had survived after leaving boyband Take That. And the TV audience watched in amazement as O'Neill ranted how Robbie had done really well for someone who couldn't play guitar, dance or write songs.

Now, in a poll of 20,000 voters, the rib-tickling clash has come top of the World Cup chart.

 

More than a fifth of those who took part in the BBC poll said the interview had left them in stitches.

 

Last night, a BBC spokesman said: "The unlikely double act of O'Neill and Williams attracted 22 per cent of the vote. The odd-couple pairing just edged out the 1998 England squad's efforts to get song titles into interviews."

 

During the interview, hosted by Des Lynam, O'Neill piped up that he thought Robbie was destined for failure.

 

As Lynam and Hansen cringed, he added: "I'm glad you've done well since leaving Take That, because I wondered how you'd get on without them - you know, considering you can't sing, write songs, or dance."

 

Bemused Robbie hit back: "Well, apart from that what have I done?"

 

John Aldridge's four-letter tirade at a linesman who wouldn't let him on as a Republic of Ireland substitute in 1994 came third in the vote. (Daily Record)

 

 

LULU TRIES TO REUNITE ROBBIE WITH TAKE THAT

 

Geschrieben von Entertain_Me

Freitag, 26 Mai 2006

 

Sixties singer LULU is convinced she can convince ROBBIE WILLIAMS to reunite with his former band TAKE THAT.

 

The 90s boyband have had to embark on a reunion tour without the chart-topper, who refuses to join GARY BARLOW, MARK OWEN, JASON ORANGE and HOWARD DONALD.

 

But Lulu, who collaborated with the band on hit RELIGHT MY FIRE and is joining them on the stadium leg of the tour, thinks she has the negotiating skills to bring Williams onboard.

 

She says, "I've seen the show and they don't need Robbie but it would be terrific to have him there. I'm going to be mediator because I think I can convince him."

 

 

 

This new album business gets more interesting by the day..it sounds like it is 100% definate. It is a bit of a worry but it is so exciting getting something new from him. I am a bit partial to a good dance tune..and if they have a big chorus like he says they do...then I am sure I will enjoy it. There is nothing wrong with a bit of mindless dance music now and then and I am proud that he wants to rake the risk with something different. And if I am not fussed...I'll just put IC back on...it won't be the end of the world. To me this album is a bonus...completely unexpected...and I love surprises :cheer:

 

The timing of it is completely odd though....an album release when he is on tour to promote IC...strange :wacko: