When is the Leeds gig be on TV. Will it be live?

 

 

Saturday 9th Septmber ...... Leeds

 

broadcast on Sky in High Definition

 

... featuring Bouncing by ICR :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

 

 

 

Robbie Williams' September 9 concert in Leeds will be broadcast live in high definition on Sky One HD, with Dolby 5.1 surround sound. Non-HD Sky subscribers can watch the concert, too, on the normal Sky One channel, but only in standard definition, though with the same choice of multiple camera angles as HD viewers.

 

Sky says that the concert - in Roundhay Park and part of Robbie Williams' Close Encounters tour - will be the first in the UK to be broadcast live in HD. It's being directed by Hamish Hamilton and produced by Lee Lodge for Done and Dusted.

 

Robbie Williams is quoted by Sky as saying,

 

 

"I’ve seen high definition television and it looks great. It will capture the atmosphere of the concert, and ICR's bouncing in ways that a traditional broadcast couldn’t."

 

Richard Woolfe, Programming Director, Sky One, Two and Three commented,

 

 

"Robbie is the number one entertainer in the world. With Sky HD, the multi-camera offering and Sky's unrivalled interactive services you'll be able to see more Robbie, hear more Robbie and feel more Robbie. The Sky experience will make this more personal and rewarding for Robbie’s fans than ever before."

 

 

Sky says that the Close Encounters tour - which began in South Africa in April and will end in Australia in December - is Robbie Williams' biggest stadium tour to date, with an estimated 2.6 million fans around the world expected to turn out for the shows.

 

(Photograph of Robbie Williams by Simon Niblett/Idols)

Edited August 13, 200618 yr by ICR

I so want to go out and buy a high definition tv :huh:

but you will be able to watch on ordinary tv too :cheer:

I won't :cry:

awwwwwwwwww Twinkle ... Maybe son 2 will be able to set the video for his Twinkle?

Was that a verbatim quote from Robbie ICR?! <_<

 

I'll have to make do with normal Sky but I'm not complaining

awwwwwwwwww Twinkle ... Maybe son 2 will be able to set the video for his Twinkle?

 

 

Now that would make me very happy :dance: :dance:

Was that a verbatim quote from Robbie ICR?! <_<

 

I'll have to make do with normal Sky but I'm not complaining

 

Of course Rock DJ. No one else saw anything wrong with it ;) ;)

 

i dont read the news thread...cant be bothered

i dont read the news thread...cant be bothered

 

Why :huh: Don't you wanna know news about Rob :unsure:

Edited August 14, 200618 yr by Scotty.

(from dailyrecord)

 

EXCLUSIVE: ROBBIE TOUR FEAR

Exclusive Singer was scared by five months on the road

Beverley Lyons

ROBBIE Williams claims he was worried about the length of his current Close Encounters tour... in case he found it too hard to keep up the pace.

 

The singer, who has gigged for seven weeks of his five-month 2006 tour, said: "I've only toured for, at the most, one month at a time when I was in Take That and in my solo career.

 

"This tour's five months and I was very concerned that I wasn't going to get through it or that something would happen.

 

"I got very scared of the length.

 

"But it's easy. I've done two months and I'm still here - two arms, two legs. I've still got a voice. I'm good."

 

Robbie, who plays Hampden Park in Glasgow on September 1 and 2, said that everything on the tour has been going really well.

 

 

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"I can't believe how fast it is actually getting from one gig to another," he added.

 

 

So far he's played arenas in Dublin, Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam, and he reckons one of his highlights was in the San Siro Stadium in Milan.

 

 

He said: "Italy had just won the World Cup when I got on stage in this huge stadium that looked like the Death Star from Star Wars on the outside. The San Siro Stadium just carries on forever and the crowd just doesn't stop.

 

 

"And it was like I'd been invited to their party because they'd won the World Cup."

 

 

He also found his first night in Munich more of a pleasure than a chore.

 

 

"I don't know why it was," he said. "I think it was because the weather wasn't so hot.

 

 

"Everywhere else we've been has been really, really hot.

 

 

"But the first night in Munich it threatened to rain and I think that just gives the crowd more energy because the sun is sapping for me and the crowd.

 

 

"I think I performed the best on the first night, the best I have performed this year.

 

 

"I hope the people who were at that concert that night agree with me."

 

 

Robbie says he can't wait to visit River Plate Stadium in Argentina and the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

 

 

"I'm looking forward to doing that," he said.

 

 

"And that's South America. That's thousands of miles away from Stokeon- Trent. Why are they buying tickets, you know?"

 

 

Although Robbie has been enjoying playing songs such as Sin Sin Sin, Come Undone, Feel and Angels in his sci-fi themed concerts, he reckons he's not had as many laughs on tour this time round.

 

 

He admitted: "There's not a lot of shenanigans, really. My best friend on tour would be Johnny and we wind people up.

 

 

"There's been no tricks or anything.

 

 

"It's difficult to say whether there's been shenanigans because I'm either in my hotel room or I'm at the venue."

 

 

Robbie believes he owes it to his fans to be on top form, so he's been keeping out of nightclubs.

 

 

He said: "You know I can't go out really and sometimes I can't even go to the hotel bar. So there's not been a lot of shenanigans. There's just been a lot of 'let's watch this movie' or 'let's do a quiz'.

 

 

"Because 1.6. million or 2.8 million people have turned up and bought the tickets, I've got to turn up and give them a good show.

 

 

"It's scary."

 

 

And you can hear Robbie's concert in Vienna live on radio. Emap Radio Events, the Glasgow-based team which runs the Up Close gigs and the Live + Loud pop festival, is behind one of the biggest radio events in years.

 

 

On Saturday, Emap stations across Scotland - Clyde 1, Forth One, Tay FM, NorthSound 1, MFR, West FM and Radio Borders - join an exclusive network of radio stations across Europe, Africa, Australia and the Middle East to broadcast two hours of Robbie's concert live from the Ernst Happel Stadium in the Austrian capital.

 

 

The concert broadcast will be produced for the entire network by Radio Clyde engineering supremo Gary Lovatt from a state-ofthe- art outside broadcast truck backstage.

 

 

Finally, some tour new which is'nt about having sex with a women :rolleyes:

Edited August 15, 200618 yr by Scotty.

He isn't playing the Azteca Stadium. -_-

From http://www.contactmusic.com

 

 

WILLIAMS: 'FAME RESTRICTS MY TOUR PARTYING

 

 

 

Pop superstar ROBBIE WILLIAMS has had few opportunities to misbehave on his current tour, because his fame restricts him to partying inside his hotel room. The British singer would love to see more of the various cities he visits on his Close Encounters tour, but has had to live like a hermit for fear of being mobbed. He says, "It's difficult to say whether there's been shenanigans because I'm either in my hotel room or I'm at the venue. "You know I can't go out really and sometimes I can't even go to the hotel bar. So there's not been a lot of shenanigans. There's just been a lot of 'Let's watch this movie' or 'Let's do a quiz'."

15/08/2006 12:25

 

:o :unsure:

 

What's the muppet on about? He's had a different female every bloody night. 'Lets Do a Quiz'.... :rolleyes:

:lol:

 

Yeah let's do one :dance: :rolleyes:

 

I'm happy to read Robbie is doing so well and is taking this tour so seriously.

He was doing a quiz according to the Sunday Sport last Sunday. :rolleyes:

 

 

And once again, he wipes out all the "sex every night" rumours that the press has glomed on to.

 

And once again, he wipes out all the "sex every night" rumours that the press has glomed on to.

 

 

I love it when he does that :lol: find it very amusing

:o

 

But what about Heidi the Hairdresser, her framed knickers and the Mars Bar? Doing a Quiz indeed.... :smoke: