I don't know why they don't buy somewhere in Australia - every time he goes there over the years -he says he loves it so much and is always happy and smiley and relaxed

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Really sad to read about what happened to that lady at the Sydney gig. May she RIP .

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Is it weird to see chairs where they are positioned :unsure:

 

 

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That's a lovely dedication - what sad news. Her poor family.

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Yes -looking gorgeous here - much better than all the glitz :wub:

Live Review: Robbie Williams @ AAMI Park, Melbourne, Robbie Willams is a true showman with a stage presence like no other.

 

 

23 November 2023 | 11:12 am

 

 

It’s Lufthaus’ first-ever show in Melbourne, so they’re equally overwhelmed and excited to open tonight. There are only two band members on stage, including Tim Metcalfe and Flynn Francis, but for those who don’t know, this brand-new electronic group is actually a trio that also includes Robbie Williams. He’s absent in their live performance but can be heard in the recorded vocals they play as they mix up atmospheric electronica for a unique experimental collaboration that gets the audience up on their feet and dancing.

 

Gaz Coombes is all the way from Oxford, England, and some might recognise him as the lead vocalist and guitarist from the alternative rock band Supergrass. He’s got a new record out called Turn The Car Around that came out in January, so he shares some of his new material with us, as well as some old hits and a couple of Supergrass tracks. His acoustic set is the perfect way to warm up the crowd with outstanding vocals and a captivating presence.

 

The show ignites with Hey Wow Yeah Yeah as an entourage of flashy dancers pump up the audience to welcome the one and only Robbie Williams to the stage. He emerges and gets right into it with Let Me Entertain You.

 

“I’ve been entertaining for years, and people say to me, Robbie, what is entertainment? And I say, you kind of feel it in your fingers, you kind of feel it in your bones, and the number one rule of entertaining is you must love your audience,” he reveals. “In the ‘90s, I tried to love you all individually, but instead of me trying to explain what entertaining is, why don’t I show you?” He continues with a cover of Chris Kenner’s Land Of 1000 Dances.

 

“I’m nearly 50, everybody; I’m just going to do a tour of balance,” he laughs before encouraging the audience to sing a few verses of Angels while he gets his breath back.

 

“We’re going on a journey tonight. Are you coming with me?” He asks. He takes us on a 33-year musical odyssey featuring the highest highs and the lowest lows, the sex, the drugs, the scandal, and the paparazzi. “Tonight will be therapy for me, but it will be entertainment for you,” says Williams.

 

He creates a safe space to share intimate and candid details with us and picks out an audience member to initially lead the whole stadium into the next part of the show but also becomes a focal point for him throughout the show. Willams is a true showman with a stage presence like no other. He knows exactly how to work the crowd by getting up close and personal with them and making a strong connection.

“There are two types of Robbie Williams songs, song number one is that ‘I’m Robbie Williams and I’m f***ing amazing’, and song number two is that ‘I’m Robbie Williams and I’m lost and depressed’,” he reveals. He dedicates song type number two (Come Undone) to an audience member in the front row.

 

“I’m going to take you back to the ‘90s. Anybody here from the ‘90s?” he asks. “In fact, the year was 1990, thirty-three years ago. The Berlin Wall had just come down, Nelson Mandela had taken his first steps to freedom, and a certain cricketer made his debut for the Australian cricket team.” He begins a “Warne” chant that takes over the stadium for a moment as he points up to the sky.

 

But alongside those key moments, he recounts a more seismic event that was about to take shape in the form of five young boys from Manchester who were about to get together to change the musical landscape forever. “What was our name, you may ask? We were called Take That,” he says as he starts off our education of his career with a glimpse of their first pop promotional video, including cringey dance moves and a close-up of William’s bare butt that’s paused up on the screen.

 

He recalls his experience being in the band Take That, and when it was his time to sing a lead vocal, he grabbed the opportunity with both hands and didn’t let it go. Tonight, he shares a partial version of that song, a cover of Barry Manilow’s Could It Be Magic.

 

“The problem was, there was a lot of rules put down by the band, and I am a natural-born rule breaker!” He exclaims. He reminisces about his time in the band that all came to a head soon after their time visiting Glastonbury, where he hung out with Oasis. He continues with a cover of their song Don’t Look Back In Anger.

 

“I was always in trouble. I got told to leave the band, but it’s alright, I go on to write Angels, and everything works out,” he says. “I thought I’d never see Take That again until 12 years later when they reformed and he rejoined them,” he shares before launching into the very nostalgic Take That hit Back For Good.

 

“[Has] anybody seen the documentary?” He asks. “The man you see in front of you tonight is the happiest I’ve ever been. I f***ing got through it, and there’s a reason for that. I was running away from responsibility, and I should’ve been running towards it,” he shares.

 

He reveals he had two rules in the ‘90s: one was to never get married, and two was never to have children. “I’ve been with my wife for 18 years, and we’ve got four kids. They are the reason I’m still on the planet and that I’m doing mentally f***ing amazing,” he reveals before going on to perform I Love My Life.

 

In addition to the recent Netflix documentary, Williams shares that he also has a movie coming out next year that was shot in Australia. The reciprocal love he and his Aussie fans share is incredibly strong. “You are god’s people, and this is god’s country,” he says before singing Better Man.

 

The audience tries to get his attention with their best dance moves for Candy in hopes of winning one of the T-shirts he’s throwing out to people. He then takes it down for the emotional hit Feel as green and blue laser lights shoot across the stadium.

 

Williams sings along with his backup singers who fill in for Kylie Minogue’s vocals on Kids, and the set reaches its peak with the explosive Rock DJ before an encore.

 

He returns for a cover of John Farnham’s You’re The Voice in a yellow Australian cricket shirt donning Shane Warne’s number 23. Williams takes a moment to speak honestly about his struggles with drugs and mental health.

 

“I haven’t had a drink for 24 years!” he reveals. He shares a very personal reflection of how he’d contemplated suicide many times in his life, but he tells us a couple of things that have saved him, including meeting his wife and his fans who keep buying tickets to his shows. “For the many times I’ve used you to get me through, I just want to say thank you for being my family,” he says.

 

We get our phone lights out as he makes a sincere and emotional tribute to a fan who died in an accident after a recent show in Sydney. Tonight, he dedicates Angels to Robyn Hall and her family as we join in to sing together as one for a touching moment.

 

It’s almost as if Williams doesn’t want to leave the stage as he continues to keep singing his greatest hits A capella, even after his band leaves the stage. He eventually exits the stage, and fittingly, (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life plays over the speakers to summarise the incredible show we’ve just experienced.

 

https://themusic.com.au/reviews/robbie-will...8LFxMc/23-11-23

Edited November 23, 20231 yr by Sydney11

Yes -looking gorgeous here - much better than all the glitz :wub:

 

 

 

I fully agree Laura :)

No snob, Robbie Williams proves he can still make an audience come undone

 

Robbie Williams is more than the sum of his parts. A bit of a crooner, but no Sinatra. A bit of a dancer, but no Michael Jackson. A bit of a lad, but no Gallagher. Yet put it all together and you get a package that is better than it logically should be.

 

What elevates these otherwise-middling elements is that star persona. Lazily described as a supersized ego, his vulnerability shows it is much more complex than that. Take Thursday night’s cover of Don’t Look Back in Anger: the humility in doing a song by Oasis, despite their mocking of him and his allegations of their bullying; the swagger in doing it as well as the original; the desperation to give the audience a great sing-along moment. Above all, Robbie’s organising principle is a desire to be loved and he works his socks off to achieve it.

 

This takes him far beyond the stock-standard expressions of love for Australia and his cheekily disparaging the Kiwi audiences he was flattering last week, and extends to singing his heart out on a cover of Australian anthem You’re the Voice. The rambling, self-mythologising anecdotes that structure and fill what feels like a third of the show are pathetic in both senses of the word and yet are calculated to elicit maximum sympathy.

 

 

Utterly self-aware, he peppers his main set with audience favourites Let Me Entertain You, Come Undone and Angels and shamelessly reprises them in an a cappella medley as the literal encore that closes the night. No musical snob indulging deep cuts from late-career irrelevance, Robbie will do anything to win our love.

 

Pausing to facilitate a marriage proposal from one fan to his girlfriend, dedicating She’s the One to lovely middle-aged Tina in the front row, getting the 50,000-strong audience to record a message to his five-year-old daughter back home – there is no trick too schmaltzy in his frantic pursuit for approval. It’s that persona, you see: like it or not, you walk away from a Robbie Williams show feeling you’ve intimately, personally met him and, for even the most cynical critic, he is impossible not to love.

 

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/robbie...116-p5ekj7.html

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Tour going really well in OZ for Rob & the gang :)

We everybody can be happy for Rob during this Tour.

It's definetely went and goes very well! He sounds amazing (just compare it to Leeds, to 2013 and 2017 tours!) and still have an energy after over 1 year of the Tour. So such pauses between its legs were very clever.

 

And yes, I've listened to You're The Voice from all OZ concerts - great performances :)

 

Even his outfit is much better in OZ than for other shows ))

 

And certanly Rob looks much better at the stadiums than arenas. Yes, he still got it.

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Robbie Williams Throws Party for 23000 Friends At A Day On The Green

 

 

At nearly 50, Robbie Williams has been famous for more than half his life. Rich and famous, when you factor in the shitload of money he f***ed off with from EMI in 2002. And anonymous in America where he has never had a hit and can walk the streets a complete unknown. Robbie is so far removed from ever having to give a f*** that he literally doesn’t have to give a f*** and that is what makes his shows so entertaining. A Robbie Williams show is a party from start to finish.

 

It was a big party. This A Day On The Green event at Mt Duneed, near Geelong, had 23,000 fans in the audience. 23,000 wet fans with an early thunderstorm and then later persistent rain. The fans didn’t care though. From the opening sounds of ‘How Wow Yeah Yeah’ the party begins. Robbie is more ‘mine host’ than he is performer. He is there to be with the audience, not play to the audience. He hosts the party and makes the audience part of the show.

 

The songs are like conversation starters. We got how it all began with early Take That and a full screen view of Robbie’s 23 year old arse. He talked about his favourite topics, sex, drugs and rock and roll. The more inappropriate he is, the more the audience seems to enjoy it. Its weird isn’t it. We have to be so careful about what we say, but Robbie is unfiltered. He says it anyway. He is like a musical Jimmy Carr.

 

There is no modesty with Robbie. “I’m Robbie Williams and I’m f***ing amazing” but then again, an alternative would be boring.

You wonder were the time went when Robbie goes back 31 years to 1992 Take Take. Its funny, none of Robbie’s songs would be considered classics. Well, ‘Angels’ maybe, but he is not ‘a fall back’ position for classic hits radio. The story diverted occasional from his catalogue to other, like Oasis ‘Look Back In Anger’ and John Farnham’s ‘You’re The Voice’. That Oasis relationship was always more admiration than rivalry and the Farnham inclusion was to honour a great Australian on his road to recovery.

 

Robbie’s charm is in his personality. He is more Entertainer than he is Singer. Sure he has had a lot of hits and threaded together he recreates an era. Maybe that’s his charm. For a few hours each show he allows his audience to escape. This is therapeutic for me as well, writing up a Robbie review and realising his shows aren’t really about his songs but about his talent in communicating.

 

Robbie Williams setlist, 25 November 2023, Mt Duneed A Day On The Green

 

Hey Wow Yeah Yeah (from Take The Crown, 2012)

Let Me Entertain You (from Life Through The Lens, 1997)

Land of 1000 Dances (Chris Kenner/Wilson Pickett cover)

Better Man (Reprise) (from Sing When You’re Winning, 2000)

Strong (from I’ve Been Expecting You, 1998)

Come Undone (from Escapology, 2002)

Do What You Like (from Take That, Take That and Party, 1992)

Could It Be Magic (from Take That, Take That and Party, 1992)

Don’t Look Back in Anger (Oasis cover)

Back for Good (from Take That, Nobody Else, 1995)

Love My Life (from The Heavy Entertainment Show, 2016)

Better Man (from Sing When You’re Winning, 2000)

Candy (from Take The Crown, 2012)

Feel (from Escapology, 2002)

Kids (from Sing When You’re Winning, 2000)

Rock DJ (from Sing When You’re Winning, 2000)

 

Encore:

You’re the Voice (John Farnham cover)

She’s the One (from I’ve Been Expecting You,1998)

Angels (from Life Through The Lens, 1997)

Let Me Entertain You/Strong/Back For Good/Feel/Angels

 

https://www.noise11.com/news/robbie-william...-green-20231126

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Do I see hair extension :P Mohican maybe, they are very popular in OZ .. -_-

 

 

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