Lost was not back on the setlist in Manchester, he performed Candy again instead!

 

It was a good show though, lots of his big hits which went down very well with the crowd, as you can tell from that video of the acapella medley at the end!

 

 

Thanks Coi, kinda sad he dropped it so soon ..

 

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Robbie Williams- Angels And Finale Medley - 21/10/2022

 

 

 

 

Video thanks to Jay Odonnell

 

 

Robbie Williams- Candy - 21/10/2022

 

The crowd do like Candy :music:

 

 

Video thanks to Jay Odonnell

 

 

Robbie Williams Eternity - 21/10/2022

 

 

 

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Video thanks to Fodo Bagins

 

Robbie Williams No Regrets - 22/10/2022

 

 

 

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Video thanks to Jay Odonnell

 

 

Robbie Williams Come Undo - 19/10/2022

 

 

 

 

Video thanks to Zuzana Spickova

 

Then he should perform as Candy as Lost =))

 

Is it the end of gig? © ))) (Angels video)

Then he should perform as Candy as Lost =))

 

Is it the end of gig? © ))) (Angels video)

 

 

Slightly confused Alex, not sure what you mean :unsure:

Considering Lost/Candy - just my desire for him to perform both Lost and Candy.

 

Considering this quote is here (6:20): :lol:

 

 

...or if this is a deal with the press as they know next year - if all will go well - will be huge for Robbie and the money Netflix etc want to make and therefore they build up to this. When you see the way news are released it is quite clear that all of this is planned like the pink suit for T-Mobile (magenta) similar to the suit in Berlin 2005 with the pink applications.

What do you think?

 

and Alex? I heard the Days yesterday which has 350 million views as lyric video and is so underrated. Can we have a thread about that song? I still love it (But I also loved Avicii)

 

Well, Liz, maybe you're right about some deal with the press. Then we should be happy that his team is in a good form like him.

Agree, that it's a little bit strange to see and read only great reviews!

 

Yes, it's a good idea about The Days.

Let me open it.

Edited October 22, 20222 yr by Better Man

Thanks, Alex.

I have to say that Candy sounds good in the upbeat show. Agree that it should be both and Lost would not vanish from the setlist.

 

Thanks, Alex for opening a 'The days' thread. I guess most people of the 350 million who saw the lyics video do not even know that its Robs voice. The song was number 1 in Sweden and quite successful in Germany and the Netherlands but for what ever reason no success in the UK.

& I cannot find a thread for Under The Radar albums / reviews etc :)

robbiewilliams Manchester: one of the best ones ever tonight x

 

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Robbie Williams: AO Arena, Manchester – live review

By David Edwards -October 22, 2022

 

Some lovely pics in link below, cannot post due to copyright notice at the end of the article

 

 

Robbie Williams

AO Arena, Manchester

October 21st 2022

 

It’s been a long and sometimes difficult road to get here. But after a quarter of a century as a solo performer, Robbie Williams seems completely at ease with himself and the result is a joyful, celebratory and moving evening of music in Manchester.

 

For someone who spent so many years being the biggest megastar on the planet in the formative years of the new millennium, there has always been the element of Robbie Williams being the underdog. Never the biggest name in Take That, never the most critically accepted pop star during his heyday. Even when he was at his commercial peak, for every “cheeky chap” song that came out, there was another song that looked right back through a shaded mirror, reflecting insecurity and swirling inner turmoil. As brightly as his star burned, there was always the sense of a soul in disquiet. The last time I saw him live, way back in 2005 (when he came onstage at Live 8 to rouse a frankly slumberous afternoon of music into life with a brilliant, manic ‘Let Me Entertain You’) you still felt that there was an agent of chaos holding the tiller, driving a constant need for him to prove himself. You always felt that the train would come off the tracks one day and when it did, the collateral damage would be devastating to him and everyone around him.

 

So to see Robbie on stage in 2022, radiating positivity and health, joyfully ripping through his back catalogue during the third of four sold-out nights at Manchester’s AO Arena is nothing short of miraculous. He is wide-eyed and garrulous; charming and honest. His band are brilliantly drilled but with a sense of fluidity and looseness that allows the show to have a sense of fun rather than just being a plod through the hits. The stage setup is a multimedia hive of activity, with video collages and protruding boxes combining pre-recorded video with shots of Robbie and his kinetic, superbly skilled troupe of dancers on stage. There’s a stage out into the audience where he spends most of the set – you almost feel when he goes back onto the stage away from the crowd that he somehow resents being away from the people. And as we open with the clashing, glam-stomp of ‘Hey Wow Yeah Yeah’ leading into a monumental Let Me Entertain You it is clear we are in the hands of a masterful showman.

 

His voice sounds better than ever, though he frequently jokes about how he’s not the person he used to be “I’m f***ked” he tells us after running back and forth across the stage at one point, whilst on another occasion, he chides the audience for having “the most mild-mannered groping” after venturing into the crowd during Monsoon. It helps everything that he is such a charming, personable raconteur, reeling off compelling and genuinely hilarious anecdotes throughout. The whole middle section of the show plays out as an autobiographical trawl through the first ten years of his career, with stories about his early days in Take That recalling his formative experiences of getting covered in cake and jelly and having his bum whipped with a broom (“and I f**king loved it”), jokes about getting kicked out of take that to a chorus of boos (“It’s alright, I’ve sold 85m albums since”) and the oft-told story of him gate-crashing Glastonbury 1995 to hang out with the Gallaghers (“To start my new life with a boot full of champagne and a pocket full of cocaine”). He follows the latter with a cover of ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ and whilst covering Oasis in Manchester is like shooting fish in a barrel, the cover is surprisingly well observed and lacking in any cynicism or insincerity. More impressive is a sweeping, orchestral version of Eternity which he dedicates to Geri Halliwell for helping him through “a seriously dark place” which carries genuine tenderness and delicate poignancy in its delivery. There is time for a version Take That’s Everything Changes (though he does stop midway through and say “that’s enough of that” and also the band’s 2010 reunion single The Flood and whilst he does throw the odd bit of mockery the way of his former colleagues, he also continually professes his love for the band (specifically Gary Barlow) and promises us that there will be more to come from them in the future.

 

The rest of the set is a continual treadmill of gilded pop riches. Come Undone remains his finest moment – a magnificently crafted piece of self-abrasive 5am introspection, rocket-powered by a chorus that positively shakes the roof. No Regrets is darker and more threatening than any top-ten single has any right to be and Feel genuinely seems like a window into his bruised soul. At the height of his stardom, an eye-watering contract advance in the bank, beloved by so many; and yet he wants nothing more than to be unconditionally loved. There’s (understandably) no place for the bonkers and hugely underrated Party Like a Russian but Candy remains a gloriously effervescent piece of chaotic technicolour pop and Old Before I Die holds up surprisingly well for its time: an Oasis-clone that’s managed to outlast the Oasis of its time. And as irksomely ubiquitous as Rock DJ and Kids were back in their formative days, they capture a sense of sheer unbridled fun that defines a particular time and place, with the latter in particular having aged surprisingly well.

 

There is a lovely and poignant moment when he dedicates She’s the One to a woman named Sue who he saw welling up earlier in the set, getting the crowd to sing “Sue’s the One” to her as the lady in question weeps with sheer joy. And we end, of course, with Angels. A song that you could barely go an hour without hearing in the latter months of the 20th Century and of course, familiarity breeds contempt. But there remains something touchingly honest and compelling about that song, and to hear it tonight sung in unison by thousands upon thousands of voices is not only glorious but actually deeply moving. He dedicates it to “all those who departed on our journey here” and as you look around, there are tears falling down cheeks, muffled sobs, and people embracing each other. It is frankly, a quite beautiful experience to witness.

 

Robbie Williams shouldn’t have lasted. The cheeky chancer from Take That should have been a fad. But it is a testimony to the commitment, energy, honesty and sheer skill as a performer that over 25 years on from his solo debut, he can still command a crowd of this size with consummate ease. Tonight felt like a celebration, not only for the crowd but also for the man himself. Possibly the most telling moment comes when he tells us how the love of his wife and his children have saved him, and how his son Teddy had asked for him to play a song for him tonight. The song in question is I Love My Life and somehow it all seems to make sense. He is finally happy, he is finally free and he remains one of the finest pop stars the UK has ever produced. It was there all along; we just appreciate it all the more given the passage of time. After all these years, Robbie is finally Robbie.

 

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Hard to believe this tour is moving so fast 6 gigs left - 3 Glasgow / 3 Dublin & that's it until specials in NOV/DEC . It's all going super though & we have so much more to look forward to in the coming months. I would love that one-off special show in the UK with orchestra around Christmas time but not sure it will happen.

 

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Such nice photos

 

 

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Candy may have been more of a fan favourite than Lost was/is but damn the vocals on it were shabby! By far the worst vocals of the night!

Candy may have been more of a fan favourite than Lost was/is but damn the vocals on it were shabby! By far the worst vocals of the night!

 

 

Do you mean the vocals on Candy were bad !

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The boss absolutely rocking the AO Arena in Manchester tonight! 🎤 #robbiewilliams #lma #proud

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Do you mean the vocals on Candy were bad !

 

I’m not sure if this is sarcasm or not as I can’t read sarcasm well in written text but yes, the vocals were dreadful.