Rob is on top :)

Yes, seems to be really enjoying himself ..

Well,

I'm coming..!

 

Met with Seb from RWL yesterday evening.

What a pleasure and such a good meeting...

Edited February 12, 20232 yr by Better Man

Happy birthday to Robbie -hope he has a blast in Amsterdam later :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Well,

I'm coming..!

 

Met with Seb from RWL yesterday evening.

What a pleasure and such a good meeting...

 

 

You had fun Alex?

Happy birthday Rob!!!

 

 

Liz, I'd say it's a luck for being there for a moment and see good persons!

I hope we will meet each other one day!

Edited February 13, 20232 yr by Better Man

Happy Birthday to Robbie. One year off 50 :o doesn't look it!

 

Very nice :wub:

Great review from a normally very 'contemporary' and critical German Broadsheet:

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS IN FRANKFURT: A star unpacks

BY MICHAEL KÖHLER

Digitaltechnik makes it possible: Robbie Williams sits on stage in a thinker pose and textile-free, as God created him. Or rather, it floats in the air. Even then, a collective murmur, yes, sigh goes through the packed Festhalle, which is packed up to second tier. Another quarter of an hour until the start of the concert. Quickly join the queues at the drink stands and toilets again. Consider: Many have been queuing since the early afternoon, first in front of, then in Frankfurt's Gudd Stubb, and that in icy temperatures.

Even if a considerable number of lords of creation hold their own in the dense crowd – the first of two sold-out guest performance evenings of the now 49-year-old Williams in the Frankfurt Festhalle is clearly dominated by women. Many of them have already screamed their lungs sore when Williams was still one of five members of the boy group Take That in the spotlight. As a rule of thumb, what moved you intensively in your teenage years still touches your heart decades later. This fits in with the fact that Robbie Williams deliberately looks back on this tour. But not only that: between about two dozen evergreens, he provides deep insights into his soul, his mind, his developments, his family life.

A clever move. After all, the two-hour hit retrospective entitled "XXV" tour turns out to be a psychotherapeutic mass session lined with emotional highs and lows for artists and audiences alike. Red alert already promises the drastic prelude with the onomatopoeia "Hey Wow yes yes" reinterpreted into rich hard rock – the ideal introduction to present the excellent team as well as the stage ambience in the best blaze of lights: Robbie Williams wears a glittering suit, a reminiscence of Elvis Presley and Marc Bolan alike, the gray hair perfectly styled somewhere between fifties and implied Iroquois friezes.

Physically and vocally, Williams is in excellent shape. Around it, ingeniously designed gigantic video projections and a long catwalk lure you to stroll extensively. A huge ensemble of first-class musicians, including harmony singers and wind sections, is responsible for the acoustically quite balanced balancing act. Not to forget the lascivious scantily clad dancers, who, when not in action, lurk like lustful nymphs on the multi-storey stage construction.

Then it's time to get down to business. The still immediately igniting request "Let Me Entertain You" has hardly faded away, as Williams already starts with the talent that enabled him to be the only one of Take That to get such a successful solo career going: When he is interspersed with the repeatedly interspersed detailed soul striptease about childhood, teenage years, Take That, solo career, sex, Drugs, alcohol, depression, suicidal thoughts, wife and children unrestrainedly exposed, then it comes across to each and every individual in the domed hall, as if he or she were in private with Williams. He undoubtedly has the gift of reciting what has been written in advance and memorized as if he were telling it for the very first time.

Not only once does Robbie Williams get up close, allows intimate hugs and selfies, even kisses a bearded gentleman on the mouth and claps umpteen hands. Nothing like the hairy story of the two guys who touched Williams immorally in the Hamburg concert. Wired arranged versions of chart hits such as "Kids", "Feel", "Strong", "Eternity", "Monsoon" and "Come Undone", funny escapades with the sixty-year-old Frank and touching with birthday serenade Yasemin demonstrate the closeness between artist and fan community.

Robbie Williams also explains stories about Take That in great detail, even showing their first cute video clip "Do What U Like". Then jumps over to his career tipping point when he met Britpop formation Oasis at Glastonbury Festival – an impressive version of Oasis' "Don't Look Back in Anger" follows. Then stands for the short-term comeback of Take That as a quintet "The Flood".

With "Rock DJ" and the confession "You are the best audience on this tour so far" it goes on the home straight. In the encore part, however, Williams once again unpacks the big feelings, for example with "No Regrets" and "She's The One", he asserts how much he loves everyone in the Festhalle – diligently assisted by thousands and thousands of throats. When huge white wings announce the end, Robbie Williams can't easily step down. For minutes he plays more songs a cappella – then it's over.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kult...s-18683194.html

 

Brilliant review!

 

Not sure what he'll do with this award :lol: but it's for three sold out shows in Cologne. B-)

 

Gosh -I think it may be 2006 since he last played Mexico?

A quick Hello from down under 😊 . Yes Rock DJ & Rudebox spring to mind. Great he is going back to SA...

Great News.

Hope you enjoy Down Under, Syd

do you think there will be more concerts in South America announced?

do you think there will be more concerts in South America announced?

 

I read on FB there will be Elisabeth.

 

I wouldn't be surprised

A quick Hello from down under 😊 . Yes Rock DJ & Rudebox spring to mind. Great he is going back to SA...

 

 

:wave: :wave: :wave:

Hi Syd and everybody!

 

Good news about Mexico!

And also I read even some rumors about Canadian concert...in 2024!

Hi Syd and everybody!

 

Good news about Mexico!

And also I read even some rumors about Canadian concert...in 2024!

 

Has he ever done Canada before Alex?

 

I remember back in the day S. America used to be one of his favourite places to tour.

Only in 1999 year!