On 02/05/2025 at 01:13, Laura130262 said:

Thanks Tess -I like that interview

His funniest piece is a painting of a portaloo, with the caption: “Portaloo, couldn’t escape if I wanted to, Portaloo, knowing my fate is to be with you.” 🤣

Yes, It's a really good interview. You are right about Robbie being a good Ambassador for mental health , from what I have seen his drawings are very relatable, thought provoking & make you laugh . I have often seen people in museums sitting on seats looking at for example a circle on the wall & I am thinking 'what are they seeing' cause all I see is a circle , it does not speak to me .

Imagine having your work shown in the same gallery as Andy Warhol, Banksy

or hanging out with David Hockney in LA !

Here is a link to the founder of Moco Kim Logchies Prins if you want to read about her & the museum

Moco Museum Founder Kim Logchies Prins on Making Art Accessible and Opening in London

Edited May 6May 6 by Sydney11

The latest podcast from Lucy & Matt is now available on their website, head on over & have a listen about their exciting visit to Moco London to see Robbie's Radical Honesty exhibition

EP47 – Radical Honesty, Launch Night, Moco, London – Robbie Williams Rewind

or click on video below -

Robbie Williams Rewind

We were incredibly fortunate to attend the launch of Radical Honesty, Robbie’s powerful new art exhibition at the Moco Museum in London. In our latest episode—out now—we take you behind the scenes: from the moment we got the invite, to our experience at the event, and our honest thoughts on Robbie’s striking work. In Radical Honesty, Robbie invites us to embrace the full spectrum of being human, from anxiety and self doubt to self love and mirror pep talks. The exhibition is open until October 2025. Book your tickets at Mocomuseum.com (http://Mocomuseum.com)

Video thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@rewindrobbie

Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver discuss weight loss drugs, beauty standards at 40, and Robbie Williams’ new art exhibition.

Video thanks to BBC Sounds

Edited May 16May 16 by Sydney11

Another great episode by Lucy & Matt , huge thanks to them both for sharing . How exciting just before the tour begins 😊

Listen on links below

Special – Karl Brazil, Rob’s Drummer & Musical Director

In this very special episode, we’re thrilled to welcome one of the UK’s most in-demand musicians — drummer, songwriter, and musical director, Karl Brazil!

Karl has been keeping the beat for Robbie since 2009 and most recently stepped into the role of musical director for the XXV tour. Beyond the stage, he’s co-written a string of songs with Rob, including the latest single Rocket, penned alongside the legendary Tony Iommi and previous podcast guest Tom Longworth.

In our chat, Karl takes us through his musical journey — from early beginnings to his big break — and gives us an insider look at what it’s like to be MD for Robbie. We dive into the songwriting process, unpack the stories behind the tracks he’s co-written, and even get a few exciting teasers about Robbie’s upcoming Britpop album and tour.

Follow Karl on Instagram @brazil.karl

Get in touch with us at robbiewilliamsrewind.com & @rewindrobbie on Instagram & Twitter. 

Available on all major podcast providers – listen here. (Or watch on YouTube, see below)

Special – Karl Brazil, Rob’s Drummer & Musical Director – Robbie Williams Rewind

Special - Karl Brazil, Rob's D…–Robbie Williams Rewind – Apple Podcasts

Special - Karl Brazil, Rob's Drummer & Musical Director - Robbie Williams Rewind | Podcast on Spotify

Have you already listened, Tess? :)

1 hour ago, Better Man said:

Have you already listened, Tess? :)

Yes & I really enjoyed it. Karl is easy to listen to & a very enthusiastic guy & Lucy & Matt asked him some great questions . Also great to learn there is a new setlist for the tour ☺️

Great!

Should we listen to it or better do it after Edinburgh concert?) I'm afraid to spoil some secrets of the setlist, etc.

12 minutes ago, Better Man said:

Great!

Should we listen to it or better do it after Edinburgh concert?) I'm afraid to spoil some secrets of the setlist, etc.

No secrets diwclosed, just said new setlist.

A 'Purr-fect' Reunion: Robbie Williams, Felix Return For ‘It’s Great To Be A Cat’ Campaign

May 30, 2025 3:22 PMBy Dayeeta Das

Nestlé Purina PetCare Europe's ‘It’s Great to Be a Cat’ campaign has returned with the 'purr-fect' combination as Robbie Williams and Felix the cat team up once again.

The pet food brand has launched a new TV advert and mini movie starring Williams, who enters the mischievous cat's black-and-white world.

He has also recorded a new song, exclusively for the campaign, celebrating feline personality traits we admire, with the aim of inspiring people to experience these traits even more in their own lives.

'My Spirit Animal': Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams said, “It’s a privilege to be back with Felix and to be the first person invited into his black-and-white world, where we can celebrate how great it is to be a cat.

“I love how my cats live their lives exactly how they want, when they want. They’re masters at being mischievous, true to themselves, confident, free-spirited and playful. This definitely rubs off on me – clearly, they’re my spirit animal.”

The campaign will also see Felix hitting the road with Robbie Williams as the headline sponsor of his 2025 European Tour, bringing the cat food and music industry together like never before.

The tour kicks off on 31 May 2025 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Fabio Pietro Degli Esposti, European marketing group director at Nestle Purina, said, “This year is set to celebrate why it’s great to be a cat like never before. One ultimate reason is enjoying irresistible food every day, but it’s also how our cats’ brilliantly mischievous, free-spirited and confident personality traits can benefit us if we all embrace a bit of cat attitude.

“Who better to inspire this than Robbie Williams and Felix; both with these personality traits in abundance. And after Felix previously spent time playing around in Robbie’s world, the new advert shows the pop-star joining our iconic cat on screen – the first-ever human to enter and have a taste of Felix’s animated world.”

The Nestlé Purina portfolio includes various pet foods brands, including Felix, Purina ONE, Gourmet, and Pro Plan.

A 'Purr-fect' Reunion: Robbie Williams, Felix Return For ‘It’s Great To Be A Cat’ Campaign | ESM Magazine

Robbie Williams: ‘My dad doesn’t look after himself – he should have had help long ago’

INTERVIEW As the singer embarks on a new tour, he talks about his complicated relationship with his father, his new critically condemned art career, and new album ‘Britpop’

“People are really f***ing serious about their ‘art’! People are really f***ing serious about their ‘craft’. Two words that I f***ing hate,” says Robbie Williams (Photo: Jason Hetherington)

Craig McLean

June 06, 2025 6:00 am

Four weeks before Robbie Williams descended from the gods onto the stage – upside down – in the opening minutes of the first night of his new stadium tour last weekend, he descended some stairs in a central London gallery to talk up another aspect of his art.

Or even, talk it down. Williams takes his showbiz skills very seriously indeed – at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday, he proclaimed that “my dream is to be the best entertainer on the f***ing planet”. But at the unveiling of Radical Honesty, his first UK exhibition, you could divine in his welcome remarks some sense of how seriously – or not – the musician viewed his visual art.

“You know, there’s a lot of negativity when it comes to celebrities doing art,” he began in a three-minute speech delivered, in double denim and triple larky sarcasm, from a spiral staircase on the ground floor of London’s Moco Museum. “In particular a few things have been levelled at me. The question is always: ‘Why?’

“They say: ‘When you’ve had 15 number one albums and you sell out stadiums around the world… When you’ve won more BRITs than anyone else… When you’ve got such beautiful green eyes… When you’re so strong and yet so supple, and do so much important work for charity… When you’re such a loving husband and obviously incredible father’, they say: ‘Why are you doing this, Robbie?’”

To resounding cheers from the assembled artworld hobnobbers, who were drinking alcohol-free Prosecco presumably in respect of Williams’s hard-won sobriety (or because it was cheaper), he went on: “Some may call me a national treasure. I say: what point is there being a national treasure if you don’t give some of that treasure away in the form of affordable yet aspirationally priced prints, numbered one to 100?”

Robbie Williams: “I did a drawing of Jesus with some Procreate pens, and I said to my wife: ‘Is this any good?’ And she said: ‘No.’” (Photo: Gisela Schober/Getty Images for Bunte)

Visual art-wise, Williams is a jack-of-all-trades, very much a master of none, and he wouldn’t pretend otherwise. Talking to me downstairs in the gallery basement, Williams is upfront about the merits and otherwise of his art, a multi-media snack buffet of iPad drawings, punning squiggles, giant knitwear and a sculpture of a tombstone for the artist bearing the inscription “I’m dead now please like and subscribe” (all of which will later receive a kicking from the critics). Still, there was no room at Radical Honesty for any of his ceramics.

“I did a drawing of Jesus with some Procreate pens,” he tells me of one piece. “And I said to my wife: ‘Is this any good?’ And she said: ‘No.’ And this is why I seldom go to my wife to ask her opinion on anything, unless I know it’s a certified banger. ’Cause Ayda will tell me her opinion of it, and her opinion’s worth more than mine, and I’ll go off it… “So I cut out the face, I don’t know why, then it was ruined, and I threw it away. Luckily, I’d taken a picture of it. Then I was going through pictures [on my phone], and the lady that I do ceramics with said: ‘What’s that?’ ‘That’s my Jesus.’ ‘Where is it?’ ‘It’s in the bin.’ ‘Oh, I want to make a version of that!’ So I’m conflicted when I show Ayda stuff. Because, like I say, her opinion’s worth more than mine.”

So, I say, trying to drag fast-talking, yarn-spinning Rob-the-gob back to the matter at hand, he’s outsourced the ceramic-making?

“Yeah, real artisans!” he replies, brightly. “With real talent! And also I get to do ceramics for people from Stoke-on-Trent,” says this proud son of The Potteries. “So that feels good.”

Robbie Williams new album ‘Britpop’ features blistering rock songs, a Chris Martin collab, and even a song written by AI (Photo: Julian Broad)

Right now, Williams isn’t just arting about. His new album, Britpop, is completed and ready for release in the autumn. When I last interviewed him, in December, he played me the first single, “Rocket”. It’s a blistering rock song, featuring Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, which finally came out last month. We were meeting then to talk about his biopic Better Man. Six months on, he’s still justifiably pleased with the film. The international, cinema-going public may not have cared massively for a movie in which one of the world’s most recognisable pop stars appears as a monkey, but the critics did. And Williams is chuffed with how he was able to honour onscreen the complicated relationship with his dad (played by Inside No. 9’s Steve Pemberton), the old-school comedian from whom he learnt much of his stagecraft.

Peter Williams has Parkinson’s disease, and has been confined to his bed by it. Speaking as someone whose own dad has the neurodegenerative disorder, I ask how he’s finding the Parkinson’s journey as a son. Williams is, for once, momentarily lost for words. But only momentarily.

“I’m finding my dad doesn’t look after himself very well,” he says, carefully. “And that’s frustrating. He’s had to have more help [coming in] from this week. But he should have had help a long time ago…” His dad’s health and situation has caused the 51-year-old to reflect on his own future. “I’m looking at my kids, and when I’m older, I’m sure I’m going to be nagged to death anyway. But I want to do them a favour by helping myself [by looking after myself].”

But as ever for a restless man with dyspraxia, dyslexia, ADHD, body dysmorphia and (“obviously”) an addictive personality, it’s onwards and upwards. It’s been that way (mostly) since the lad who joined a new, Manchester-based boy band called Take That in 1990 – at 16, the youngest member – struck out on his own five years later. At first, few fans (or haters) of Take That would have bet on the five-piece’s biggest party animal and show-off, the one who stomped off in a Britpop-era haze of chaos and cocaine, becoming bigger than the group or Gary Barlow, the frontman and chief songwriter.

Take That, 1992. Left to right; Robbie Williams, Mark Owen, Jason Orange, Gary Barlow and Howard Donald (Photo: Tim Roney/Getty Images)

And certainly it took a minute. Williams’s debut album Life Thru a Lens came out two years later, in 1997, and “Angels” – his first huge solo hit – was its fourth single. But from thereon, as a solo act, Williams was unstoppable. Even the occasional bold-but-duff album (hello, Rudebox), or his much-publicised battles with addiction and mental health issues haven’t held back his career. In fact, if anything, his willingness to be upfront about his personal struggles only added to his Knebworth-scale fandom. A superstar, but a relatable one, with the neuroses to prove it.

Cue, then, another series of enormo-shows. Williams’s new tour, also titled Britpop, is a 37-date, four-month stadium run that comes to London this weekend, and ends in Athens and Istanbul in early October. To help him get gig-ready for what’s been designed as a circus maximus pop spectacular – no hiding his “art” light under a bushel here – he’s clearly been putting in the gym time. Plus, he and Ayda, his wife of 15 years, have just been on holiday to Miami and the Bahamas with their four children, Teddy (12), Charlie (10), Coco (six) and Beau (four). For a working-class kid from a broken home, it was a salutary reminder of the privilege those 15 number one albums and multiple Brits have brought his own family.

“With my kids, it’s very interesting to hear Beau, the four-year-old, saying: ‘Are we going to go on the plane with the people, or without the people?’” So a plane “without the people” means his youngest has awareness and experience of private jets?

“Yes,” Williams nods.

You’ve spawned monsters, I say.

“Yeah, we really have. ‘No, this one’s with the people, Beau.’ ‘Awww.’ [But] whatever works for them works for me.” (To be clear, Mr and Mrs Williams clearly haven’t spawned monsters. When his family arrives towards the end of our interview, Teddy introduces herself to me very politely, even coming in for a friendly hug.)

When we speak, he’s also mulling another impending award. At last month’s Ivor Novellos, Williams was awarded the Music Icon statue, his fifth award from the songwriting organisation. Exactly 30 years since he quit Take That, frustrated at his lack of options for songwriting (and lack of options for partying), how meaningful is it for him to be recognised for his songwriting? Not performing, not being a pop star, but the actual writing?

Robbie Williams, Jason Orange, Mark Owen, Gary Barlow, and Howard Donald as Take That in 1991 (Photo: Michael Putland/Getty Images)

“It’s quite confusing, to be honest with you. I never feel as though I’ve been allowed in. I never feel as though I’ve been considered a songwriter. Guy Chambers has always been the genius behind Robbie Williams,” he says of his onetime writing wingman. “If I did anything marginally good, Guy Chambers did it. If I did anything shit, I did it.” He laughs.

“Look: awards are very confusing,” he continues with the full-force candour and self-awareness that characterised his 2023 Netflix documentary series Robbie Williams. “They’re really good for your profile. And good for press that day. But I feel very awkward about receiving them, especially from a side of the industry that hasn’t been too kind about my talents. That’s my truth. But I’m saying yes [to the award], because it’s good for my profile.”

To be fair, it was perhaps unavoidably a slow start for Williams as a songwriter, because he had the misfortune of being in a band with Gary Barlow, who could write pop bangers and ballads in his sleep.

“I never feel as though I’ve been considered a songwriter. Guy Chambers has always been the genius behind Robbie Williams,” Williams said. (Photo: Epsilon/Getty Images)

Williams exhales and nods. “Also: before I actually knocked together some words and maladies,” he says, deliberately erroneously (I think), “I thought that, if you were writing songs, you’d been touched by the special unicorn. Happens that that’s not the truth.”

“All you’ve got to do is have a melody in your head and a song in your heart. So I can understand why most people outside of the music industry, and most people outside of songwriting itself, would think that it’s a magical talent that exists in rarefied air.”

His point being: it’s not. “Also, people are really f***ing serious about their ‘art’! People are really f***ing serious about their ‘craft’. Two words that I f***ing hate.”

That said: thinking again of Better Man, the Robbie Williams origin story it depicted did suggest that while he felt marginalised in Take That because Barlow, very much not unreasonably, got the lion’s share of the songwriting, that was also a spur to Williams. The idea of: “You know what? I can do that, too.”

“Yeah,” agrees Williams, but only half-heartedly. “But you know, cocaine can make you think you can do anything. Genuinely. But I was writing poetry and stuff. Then I just had to figure out how to turn that into a song.”

I raise the prospect of the threat to songwriting of AI. What does he think an AI Robbie Williams song would sound like?

“I know what it sounds like,” he shoots back.

“Is there one on the new album?”

Williams nods.

When we talked in December, he told me the album featured, as well as Iommi, “a guy called Freddy Wexler, too, a songwriter-producer in the States that got Billy Joel [back in the studio]. So Freddy’s becoming the dinosaur whisperer. Oh, Gaz Coombs! And Chris Martin’s played on something. Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple’s played on something”.

I ask him now: is the AI one the one with Chris Martin?

“No! But did I play you the Chris one? Can I play you it?”

And with that, Robbie Williams cracks open his laptop and presses play on a track that, yes, sounds exactly like a cross between a Coldplay singalong and a Robbie Williams confessional. It will, undoubtedly, be massive.

Robbie Williams is on tour now (robbiewilliams.com) Radical Honesty is at the Moco Museum London, until 24 October (mocomuseum.com)

Robbie Williams: ‘My dad doesn’t look after himself – he should have had help long ago’

For episode with Guy click on link below

S4 Ep10: I Never Thought It Would Happen - Guy Chambers • I Never Thought It Would Happen

This sounds really exciting 😊

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Really looking forward to this album.

I'm sad to read Pete is now bed bound. ☹️

17 hours ago, Laura130262 said:

Really looking forward to this album.

I'm sad to read Pete is now bed bound. ☹️

Me too Laura, I hope he is doing ok