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    What a pleasant article... Not many new facts but very good quotes from great musicians. Happy to read the material like this.

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1 hour ago, elisabeth1974 said:

I doubt it more and more

If he loves long enough it will eventually happen.

On 18/02/2026 at 15:59, Sydney11 said:

One of these days Laura it will happen 😊

Hope I'm still alive to witness it Tess 😅

It was funny at the Brixton gig he said I want you all to be around in 30 years time still enjoying my music and Lisa and I looked at each other and said -we will be 90!!!! 🤣😂😅

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10 hours ago, Laura130262 said:

Hope I'm still alive to witness it Tess 😅

It was funny at the Brixton gig he said I want you all to be around in 30 years time still enjoying my music and Lisa and I looked at each other and said -we will be 90!!!! 🤣😂😅

I think you could have looked at a lot of there people there & felt the same. 🤣 I will definitely be in the next dimension by then 😇

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Look, I love Robbie Williams. But no one will stay in his hotels

The pop star has said that he wants to set up a chain of hotels. My advice? Stick to music, Robbie

Huw Oliver

Saturday February 21 2026, 5.00pm GMT, The Sunday Times

Robbie Williams has taken a maximalist approach to midlife — try everything once is the gist. He put out the brilliantly bananas biopic Better Man, in which he is represented by a CGI chimpanzee (a commercial flop, though many critics loved it). He held an art exhibition in London (“tone deaf and self-important”, said one reviewer of its many self-help quotes). And he released the album Britpop, a swaggering tribute to the musical movement that contained his best songs in two decades.

And so the creative streak — by turns Angels-levels good and Rudebox-levels bad — continues. His latest wheeze? In an interview with the BBC this month the singer said that he wanted to set up a hotel chain. Where? Anywhere. What would they be like? Well, they would certainly have their own music venues, in which he would perform.

It is a tantalising prospect for haters and lovers of Williams (I’m firmly in the latter camp). Just imagine the decor. A line-up of waxwork Robbies — bleached, toothless 1995 Glasto Robbie; the skeleton Robbie from the Rock DJ video; diminutive chimp Robbie — greet you in the lobby. Corridors are configured like the tunnels that spit him out onto a stadium stage. In the spa, named Rehab and decorated with the artworks he didn’t flog at that exhibition, jazz versions of She’s the One and Strong soundtrack your massage (for an undisclosed sum, Williams will perch on the end of the bed in his undies, as he did throughout a recent four-hour Netflix docuseries). And wow, the Knebworth Suite! Available only for three-night packages, in honour of that glorious weekend, this is where true fans will want to stay: the bathroom has a bidet imprinted with the visage of Noel Gallagher.

Robbie Williams wearing a gray fur coat and making peace signs with both hands at the "Better Man" special screening.

Robbie Williams wants to set up a hotel chain. Getty Images

Before he rolls ahead with the plans, however, Williams would do well to speak to the Libertines. I loved the Albion Rooms, the hotel that the band opened in Margate, Kent, in September 2020. The room in which I stayed that month was fantastically moody — all black paint and brass furnishings — and had a heart painted on the walls by Peter Doherty, who had previously squatted downstairs with his huskies. The restaurant was surprisingly upscale (the elderberry and saké trifle sticks in the mind), while the bar already felt like a genuine community hub. But the venture didn’t work out and the hotel closed in June 2024.

The Libertines co-frontman Carl Barât said that the band wanted to spend less time running a hospitality business and focus on music again, yet I suspect the problems ran deeper. Trust is important when it comes to hotels and you can understand why even Libertines fans might have stayed away, given the band’s rambunctious image. They would have been wrong to do so, of course — the hotel was perfectly well run and the wildest thing I saw there was a Huel vending machine outside the recording studio at the back of the building. Rock. And. Roll.

Loyalty is key too. To succeed in hospitality you need return visitors. In their respective heydays, fans of the Libertines may well have come back again and again in the hope of running into their heroes. Twenty-plus years past their peak? Unlikely. And then there’s the cost. A ticket to see Williams at the Emirates Stadium in London last summer set me back £105. If you’re charging more than that for a Williams-themed experience such as a night in a hotel then you’d better guarantee that he’s going to be playing live downstairs. Otherwise, why wouldn’t I stay down the road instead?

A sitting room at The Albion Rooms with patterned furniture, a black coffee table, and a large mirror.

The Albion Rooms hotel, set up by The Libertines in Margate

It is telling that hotels successfully run by musicians are business ventures entirely distinct from their previous careers — you wouldn’t know that the stylish Rival Hotel in Stockholm belonged to Benny Andersson of Abba, for instance, or that Gloria Estefan owned the glamorous Cardozo South Beach in Miami.

Contrast this with the Albion Rooms, where each room was styled by a different band member and the decor riffed on the Libertines’ discography. Williams would surely follow this route, so his hotels would be a fun novelty — and age fast.

My favourite Williams song is Feel. The lyrics sum up his chaotic career, hurtling from Hollywood to hotels: “Cause I got too much life running through my veins/ Going to waste.” You know what, Robbie? Sometimes that’s OK.

Would you stay at a Robbie Williams-owned hotel? Let us know in the comments

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Listen to the latest podcast from Matt & Lucy where they chatted to Robbie backstage after the Wolverhampton gig . Huge thanks to Matt & Lucy from bringing us these special interviews.

Thrilled that "YOU" is his favourite song from the Britpop album, it's also my favourite ❤️

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https://www.youtube.com/@robbiewilliamsvideos himself is back on Robbie Williams Rewind — and this time, we’re backstage. For his second time on the podcast, Robbie joins us in person, just moments before hitting the stage in Wolverhampton on the Long 90s tour. With the crowd buzzing outside, we sit down for an honest, funny and surprisingly reflective conversation about BRITPOP, the Long 90s shows, and what it feels like to revisit Life Thru A Lens. Robbie reveals his favourite lyrics on BRITPOP, shares how some of the songs first came to life, and talks about what his Instagram Comment Section means to him. Plus, he answers questions sent in by you — the listeners.

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Thanks for sharing Tess! Hope you all enjoyed it 🥰

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13 hours ago, Rewindrobbie said:

Thanks for sharing Tess! Hope you all enjoyed it 🥰

Robbie was so relaxed during your discussion about the album . Interesting to hear the backstory to the tracks on the Britpop & also his thoughts on LTAL , really enjoyed that discussion .

I really like the direction Robbie took with this album & the concept really worked . It's been hard at times being a Robbie fan but I am glad I stuck with it . The last two years have been his been his best in a long time, it started with the Hyde Park gig imo , he seemed to have a new energy & it grew from there with the movie, art, live shows, documentary, art & to top it all this terrific album. I guess you need the lows though so that you can really enjoy the highs when the come & gosh !! did they come thumbup

BTW. loved the story about the Mum outside the school gates , she is a super lady & gets a big thumbs up from me.

On 08/03/2026 at 08:10, Sydney11 said:

Robbie was so relaxed during your discussion about the album . Interesting to hear the backstory to the tracks on the Britpop & also his thoughts on LTAL , really enjoyed that discussion .

I really like the direction Robbie took with this album & the concept really worked . It's been hard at times being a Robbie fan but I am glad I stuck with it . The last two years have been his been his best in a long time, it started with the Hyde Park gig imo , he seemed to have a new energy & it grew from there with the movie, art, live shows, documentary, art & to top it all this terrific album. I guess you need the lows though so that you can really enjoy the highs when the come & gosh !! did they come thumbup

BTW. loved the story about the Mum outside the school gates , she is a super lady & gets a big thumbs up from me.

I agree Tess

He's really hitting new highs recently after treading water for a few years.

The creativity is pouring out of him.

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