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What to expect from Robbie Williams at LuxExpo

 

I was in Luxembourg some years ago ( work related ) , I found it such a dull place , good to read Rob brightened it up a bit :)

 

Dramatic entertainment from the world’s greatest showman. “Forget what you know about Robbie Williams” begins Today Radio’s Stephen “Steps” Lowe at the beginning of this exclusive interview with the British pop superstar, because whatever bombast, tabloid scandals and bust-ups with other artists are in Williams’ past, Steps finds the Angels singer in a much more settled and happy place now.

 

Today Radio do a lot of interviews with bands and artists that are coming to Luxembourg but Stephen Lowe's chat with Robbie Williams is our biggest yet.

 

Set to play two enormous shows at LuxExpo on July 10th and 11th, the former Take That member makes a number of references, throughout the interview, to his ”Imperial Phase”, a phrase coined by the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant which refers to the period in which a musical artist is regarded to be at their commercial and creative peak simultaneously.

 

"I’m blessed with terrific purpose. A light that will never go out even though I’m trying to burn it out with the best of my abilities.”

It suggests that Williams has been doing some reflecting on his career but also that he’s perhaps on the other side of that early success. 30,000 Luxembourg fans might disagree but Robbie’s happy with where he is and how he works. “Have you changed your approach to songwriting as your career has developed?” asks Steps, “No!” Robbie replies, “I just get older and hopefully I get better. I believe that I’m getting better at song writing. I believe that I’m getting better at lyrics.”

 

“I’ve done it the wrong way round” he explains, “when I was in my “imperial” phase they (the songs), weren’t bad but I believe now that I’m a much better singer, songwriter and entertainer so I’m just ready for a second wind now so that everybody can remember what I do, who I am and how good I am now.

 

"I'm rich! Rich beyond my wildest dreams. I want to make records and break records with EMI." Williams declared back in 2002 after signing a rumoured £80 million deal with the record label and while money and fame might have been motivating factors then, twenty one years later, his inspirations lie a little closer to home.

 

“It’s all about the kids”, he reveals, “The minute Teddy arrived, the first one, something kicked in, an Easter egg left there by the universe that said, “Aaand now you must provide”. I’ve had a fire up my arse ever since.”

 

“I need to go and do what I do for many, many different reasons. The top one being my family and just underneath that the beautiful connection I get with the wonderful audience.”

The current tour is set to be a joyous celebration of Robbie’s 25 years as a solo artist following the release of his album, ‘XXV’, which features many of his greatest hits and fan favourites from across his career. With 14 Uk number ones to his name and stadiums selling out all over the world he could be forgiven for pumping the brakes a little but that’s not an option for the 49 year old, “I’m someone who needs wins in my life” he explains, “and for the longest time, in my imperial phase, I was getting huge wins that felt good for the soul even though they brought with them things that you couldn’t expect. My wins now are in different projects and building things. I’m writing TV shows, I’m coming up with concepts and ideas.”

 

“I still need my wins! And I want my wins to be huge! I’m blessed with terrific purpose. A light that will never go out even though I’m trying to burn it out with the best of my abilities.”

 

https://today.rtl.lu/culture/music/a/2078076.html

Edited July 11, 20231 yr by Sydney11

"Shake your arse, come over here, now SCREAM!"

 

Lux Expo, on Monday night, was host to the first of two shows from Stoke-On-Trent's finest export, and it went exactly how you thought it would. Today Radio's Stephen Steps Lowe shares his thoughts on a remarkable show.

 

As you look across the Lux Expo forecourt, you can't help but feel slightly underwhelmed, this is no criticism of the organizers, who've done a grand job of taking an incredibly drab location and kitted it out for a monumental series of shows, but it does lack a little something.

 

There's no history, there's no backdrop...it is, after all, a car park in a financial sector a few hundred metres from a supermarket. Fortunately, tonight's star attraction has the history, the drama, the nous, nay...the chops, to charm the birds from the trees and also to have revelers part with reasonably hefty wads of cash to attend tonight's show.

 

To paraphrase Mr. Williams 'it'd better be good'.

 

Before we get to the main course, there are a couple of tasters on the menu and it is with Luxembourg stalwarts Dream Catcher that we begin. Not to be confused with the K-Pop band of the same name, Dream Catcher are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year and the Celtic-Pop project of John Rech is the perfect soundtrack to those first after-work drinks. No strangers to the stage from years of gigging, the band look, sound and feel entirely at home playing what must surely have been their biggest show to date. They get the crowd in good spirits and spread happiness and excitement throughout their run through of their better known tracks. Their brilliant new live LP Under A Blood Red Ground is available here.

 

The same cannot be said for poor Gaz Coombes. As much as it pains me to write this, his deft musicianship is left to waft around in an atmosphere, that if we are being kind, is disinterested. And, if we are being honest, could not give less of a shit. Many of the audience spend the time working out if losing their spot in the crowd is really worth heading to the bar for another quick schlurpp. Whereas openers Dream Catcher had the fortune of being a known entity across the Duchy and possess a genuinely amiable frontman, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who knew that Gaz was behind a band that were MAHOOSIVE in the late 90's and early 00's. Perhaps if Coombes had played Alright or Caught By The Fuzz the crowd would have perked up a little. It's a shame, to be fair, as Coombes and his band play a tight set packed with terrific cuts such as Deep Pockets, Long Live The Strange and Turn The Car Around... it's just he doesn't connect and it all feels rather flat as a result.

 

The Main Event

The keenos of the world had been camping out since Sunday evening to get prime viewing in the golden circle (if you are yet to see the dash to stage front, prepare yourself for the most polite amble you will ever see online) and excitement ramped up with every passing second, or any time a curtain twitched or a head popped out from behind the speakers. Was there subtle shade thrown as Back For Good filled the air? It mattered not, as at bang on 9pm as the first licks of Take The Crown's Hey Wow Yeah Yeah burst out of the PA, you could feel several thousand people being whisked immediately back to a much younger time.

 

For me, that meant being 15 years old. It meant a curtains haircut. It meant I was not really supposed to like Take That (though I did). It meant girls (and some boys) losing their f***ing minds when Take That split in 1996 and it meant some (not all) losing their minds all over again right here and right now, some 27 years later.

 

"Good evening, Luxembourg, I'm Robbie. f***ing. Williams and I'm f***ing amazing" and with that we are into Let Me Entertain You... and for a good 5 minutes or so, everything is right with the world. First one hand in the air, then two and the smiles you see across the Expo could heat the Coque's cooler waters for a good few months, such was the energy. And then there came a misstep, the first cracks begun to show. A peak into the well-oiled machine that is the 'production' of Robbie Williams.

 

Set designer: 'How many screens do you want, Robbie?' RW: 'YES'. He stops the band during Monsoon and repeats, verbatim, the 'joke' he made at a show in The Netherlands. You'll have seen it, about his age and Long-Covid. It's good-natured, and of course he sells it. Of course he does. But it is also calculated and cynical. And it is then that you realise, despite being battered into submission by hit after hit, by joke after joke and nod after knowing nod, when Robbie says he is the World's Greatest Performer... he means it, 100%, he is performing. He is entertaining. But there ain't no business like show business.

 

Robbie tells us from the off that the evening is going to be entertainment for us and therapy for him, as he walks us through a 31 year career - taking in a good chunk of his sizable back catalogue (though there is curiously no place for Millennium), Strong ("one of my lesser-known tracks") is followed by a colossal Come Undone (one of my personal faves) and a portion of Could It Be Magic follows a tidbit that die-hards may already be aware of.

 

Robbie Williams as a trademark knows exactly who Robbie Williams as a performer is to his audience... just when you think he may have lost you, he pulls you right back in

Williams is self-aware to know that this is all pantomime, when he discusses Take That's first music video...the god-awful soft porn jelly fest that is the promo for Do What You Like, Williams has the video paused on his pert bum cheeks and delights in telling us that they were his 17 year-old buttocks. And just when you think he is in danger of disappearing up his own projected orifice, it hits you square in the feels. If you look closely, and peel the onion that one bit more, you recognize what he is saying, he is delivering it with comedy mugging like a young De Niro, but he was seventeen. Unprepared and naive. Exploited. Damaged goods. It explains the arrested development. The perpetual Peter Pan. The little boy lost and the constant need for affirmation and adulation.

 

For every blistering rendition of a (excuse me) bone fide banger, we get (sometimes cloying) segues into the turmoil that surrounded his departure, we hear that he has still not really moved on from the way he was treated. There's barely concealed contempt for his former friends - though he is smart enough to stay away from slander. He details how he was not liked by his bandmates, how he broke all the rules, how he struggled with depression, alcohol, drugs and loneliness and how this all came out during an ill-fated visit to Glastonbury with 'a boot full of bubbly and a pocketful of cocaine', where he proceeded to make all the headlines for all the wrong reasons hanging out with Oasis completely off his noggin'. And then Robbie blasts out a rendition of Don't Look Back In Anger with no hint of irony.

 

"When they said, 'come to Luxembourg, we've got a HUGE show for you', I thought, yes, that sounds lovely... where will this show be? In a grand amphitheater? Across a grassy green vista? In front of a huge and beautiful palace? No! It's in a f***ing car park!" he says, acknowledging the unorthodox locale after performing The Flood, a track from the brief reformation record Progress.

 

There was crowd work. Of course there was. A lot of it. Poor unsuspecting 'Hawee' (Harry)... took a fair amount of the 'bantz' as did an overawed Stefanie - to whom Robbie eventually dedicated She's The One to - after initially suggesting it did not matter what her name was... a reference to his days of being a teensy bit of a lothario. Love My Life is touchingly dedicated to Hawee's 5-year-old daughter Eva. T-shirts are lobbed into the crowd from Robbie's bin. Robbie declares that sections of the crowd want to mother him while others attempted to grab his junk, "animals" he jokingly calls them. He makes call backs to Luxembourg placing 13th at Eurovision many moons ago and then slaps us silly with immense versions of Candy, Feel, Kids and Rock DJ to round up the main set.

 

There are few people in the world who can do what Robbie does. Fewer still who can do it so often, so well and for so long

 

The band, the dancers and backing singers have been incredible. They allow for Robbie to drop in and out of the bits he'd best avoid while skipping around, twirling his cane and whipping the crowd into a frenzy. He's both Fitzgerald's Gatsby at his own party bored of going through the motions and Wonka hopped up on forty bags of skittles. The stage design and lighting are also spot on. But it is when the mask drops that you get a sense of the real Robbie. One who is probably difficult to be around. Petulant, preening and prone to self-doubt. Yes, multi-millionaires can get the blues. His ID, Ego and Superego wrestle for control. There's who Robbie was, who he now is, who the crowd need him to be and who he wants to be. There's a sense that we will never really know which of these is the true one, so blurred are the boundaries. So frayed are the edges.

 

Bedecked in lounge wear, and after a short intermission, Williams returns for a three-song encore of the wonderful No Regrets, She's The One and the inevitable Angels and by this point, drinks are spilled, arms are around shoulders and people are singing into each other's faces and phones.

 

Robbie Williams said in his recent interview that Luxembourg should expect the 'World's Greatest Showman', to complain that the set was polished and precise, is to miss the point. Robbie Williams as a trademark knows exactly who Robbie Williams as a performer is to his audience. They want the cheek, the sass, the confidence. They'll weather the bluster and the bravado, and just when you think he may have lost you, he pulls you right back in.

 

There are few people in the world who can do what Robbie does. Fewer still who can do it so often, so well and for so long.

 

As the audience drifted away and those that had opted to tippy toe over the fences (some even ripping through the tarpaulin or hanging off walls of nearby buildings), to catch a glimpse of one of the last remaining 90s legends, were serenaded by a-capella intros to his biggest hits*.

 

Whether or not a truly capacity crowd will bring anything different to Tuesday's performance remains to be seen - also if the track listing varies any. Even more intriguing will be if the pauses, the interludes, the knowing winks to the cameras are in the same spots. For all of the performance, the pomp and the pejorative, Robbie Williams came to Kirchberg and did exactly as he said he would.

 

After all, were you not entertained?

 

*I could not tell you if RW was onstage at this time, as we had made swift exit to beat the traffic - of which there was absolutely zero.

 

https://today.rtl.lu/culture/music/a/2084340.html

Edited July 11, 20231 yr by Sydney11

 

Santiago de Compostela

 

 

 

Video thanks to Quiquecove

"Shake your arse, come over here, now SCREAM!"

 

Lux Expo, on Monday night, was host to the first of two shows from Stoke-On-Trent's finest export, and it went exactly how you thought it would. Today Radio's Stephen Steps Lowe shares his thoughts on a remarkable show.

 

As you look across the Lux Expo forecourt, you can't help but feel slightly underwhelmed, this is no criticism of the organizers, who've done a grand job of taking an incredibly drab location and kitted it out for a monumental series of shows, but it does lack a little something.

 

There's no history, there's no backdrop...it is, after all, a car park in a financial sector a few hundred metres from a supermarket. Fortunately, tonight's star attraction has the history, the drama, the nous, nay...the chops, to charm the birds from the trees and also to have revelers part with reasonably hefty wads of cash to attend tonight's show.

 

To paraphrase Mr. Williams 'it'd better be good'.

 

Before we get to the main course, there are a couple of tasters on the menu and it is with Luxembourg stalwarts Dream Catcher that we begin. Not to be confused with the K-Pop band of the same name, Dream Catcher are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year and the Celtic-Pop project of John Rech is the perfect soundtrack to those first after-work drinks. No strangers to the stage from years of gigging, the band look, sound and feel entirely at home playing what must surely have been their biggest show to date. They get the crowd in good spirits and spread happiness and excitement throughout their run through of their better known tracks. Their brilliant new live LP Under A Blood Red Ground is available here.

 

The same cannot be said for poor Gaz Coombes. As much as it pains me to write this, his deft musicianship is left to waft around in an atmosphere, that if we are being kind, is disinterested. And, if we are being honest, could not give less of a shit. Many of the audience spend the time working out if losing their spot in the crowd is really worth heading to the bar for another quick schlurpp. Whereas openers Dream Catcher had the fortune of being a known entity across the Duchy and possess a genuinely amiable frontman, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who knew that Gaz was behind a band that were MAHOOSIVE in the late 90's and early 00's. Perhaps if Coombes had played Alright or Caught By The Fuzz the crowd would have perked up a little. It's a shame, to be fair, as Coombes and his band play a tight set packed with terrific cuts such as Deep Pockets, Long Live The Strange and Turn The Car Around... it's just he doesn't connect and it all feels rather flat as a result.

 

The Main Event

The keenos of the world had been camping out since Sunday evening to get prime viewing in the golden circle (if you are yet to see the dash to stage front, prepare yourself for the most polite amble you will ever see online) and excitement ramped up with every passing second, or any time a curtain twitched or a head popped out from behind the speakers. Was there subtle shade thrown as Back For Good filled the air? It mattered not, as at bang on 9pm as the first licks of Take The Crown's Hey Wow Yeah Yeah burst out of the PA, you could feel several thousand people being whisked immediately back to a much younger time.

 

For me, that meant being 15 years old. It meant a curtains haircut. It meant I was not really supposed to like Take That (though I did). It meant girls (and some boys) losing their f***ing minds when Take That split in 1996 and it meant some (not all) losing their minds all over again right here and right now, some 27 years later.

 

"Good evening, Luxembourg, I'm Robbie. f***ing. Williams and I'm f***ing amazing" and with that we are into Let Me Entertain You... and for a good 5 minutes or so, everything is right with the world. First one hand in the air, then two and the smiles you see across the Expo could heat the Coque's cooler waters for a good few months, such was the energy. And then there came a misstep, the first cracks begun to show. A peak into the well-oiled machine that is the 'production' of Robbie Williams.

 

Set designer: 'How many screens do you want, Robbie?' RW: 'YES'. He stops the band during Monsoon and repeats, verbatim, the 'joke' he made at a show in The Netherlands. You'll have seen it, about his age and Long-Covid. It's good-natured, and of course he sells it. Of course he does. But it is also calculated and cynical. And it is then that you realise, despite being battered into submission by hit after hit, by joke after joke and nod after knowing nod, when Robbie says he is the World's Greatest Performer... he means it, 100%, he is performing. He is entertaining. But there ain't no business like show business.

 

Robbie tells us from the off that the evening is going to be entertainment for us and therapy for him, as he walks us through a 31 year career - taking in a good chunk of his sizable back catalogue (though there is curiously no place for Millennium), Strong ("one of my lesser-known tracks") is followed by a colossal Come Undone (one of my personal faves) and a portion of Could It Be Magic follows a tidbit that die-hards may already be aware of.

 

Robbie Williams as a trademark knows exactly who Robbie Williams as a performer is to his audience... just when you think he may have lost you, he pulls you right back in

Williams is self-aware to know that this is all pantomime, when he discusses Take That's first music video...the god-awful soft porn jelly fest that is the promo for Do What You Like, Williams has the video paused on his pert bum cheeks and delights in telling us that they were his 17 year-old buttocks. And just when you think he is in danger of disappearing up his own projected orifice, it hits you square in the feels. If you look closely, and peel the onion that one bit more, you recognize what he is saying, he is delivering it with comedy mugging like a young De Niro, but he was seventeen. Unprepared and naive. Exploited. Damaged goods. It explains the arrested development. The perpetual Peter Pan. The little boy lost and the constant need for affirmation and adulation.

 

For every blistering rendition of a (excuse me) bone fide banger, we get (sometimes cloying) segues into the turmoil that surrounded his departure, we hear that he has still not really moved on from the way he was treated. There's barely concealed contempt for his former friends - though he is smart enough to stay away from slander. He details how he was not liked by his bandmates, how he broke all the rules, how he struggled with depression, alcohol, drugs and loneliness and how this all came out during an ill-fated visit to Glastonbury with 'a boot full of bubbly and a pocketful of cocaine', where he proceeded to make all the headlines for all the wrong reasons hanging out with Oasis completely off his noggin'. And then Robbie blasts out a rendition of Don't Look Back In Anger with no hint of irony.

 

"When they said, 'come to Luxembourg, we've got a HUGE show for you', I thought, yes, that sounds lovely... where will this show be? In a grand amphitheater? Across a grassy green vista? In front of a huge and beautiful palace? No! It's in a f***ing car park!" he says, acknowledging the unorthodox locale after performing The Flood, a track from the brief reformation record Progress.

 

There was crowd work. Of course there was. A lot of it. Poor unsuspecting 'Hawee' (Harry)... took a fair amount of the 'bantz' as did an overawed Stefanie - to whom Robbie eventually dedicated She's The One to - after initially suggesting it did not matter what her name was... a reference to his days of being a teensy bit of a lothario. Love My Life is touchingly dedicated to Hawee's 5-year-old daughter Eva. T-shirts are lobbed into the crowd from Robbie's bin. Robbie declares that sections of the crowd want to mother him while others attempted to grab his junk, "animals" he jokingly calls them. He makes call backs to Luxembourg placing 13th at Eurovision many moons ago and then slaps us silly with immense versions of Candy, Feel, Kids and Rock DJ to round up the main set.

 

There are few people in the world who can do what Robbie does. Fewer still who can do it so often, so well and for so long

 

The band, the dancers and backing singers have been incredible. They allow for Robbie to drop in and out of the bits he'd best avoid while skipping around, twirling his cane and whipping the crowd into a frenzy. He's both Fitzgerald's Gatsby at his own party bored of going through the motions and Wonka hopped up on forty bags of skittles. The stage design and lighting are also spot on. But it is when the mask drops that you get a sense of the real Robbie. One who is probably difficult to be around. Petulant, preening and prone to self-doubt. Yes, multi-millionaires can get the blues. His ID, Ego and Superego wrestle for control. There's who Robbie was, who he now is, who the crowd need him to be and who he wants to be. There's a sense that we will never really know which of these is the true one, so blurred are the boundaries. So frayed are the edges.

 

Bedecked in lounge wear, and after a short intermission, Williams returns for a three-song encore of the wonderful No Regrets, She's The One and the inevitable Angels and by this point, drinks are spilled, arms are around shoulders and people are singing into each other's faces and phones.

 

Robbie Williams said in his recent interview that Luxembourg should expect the 'World's Greatest Showman', to complain that the set was polished and precise, is to miss the point. Robbie Williams as a trademark knows exactly who Robbie Williams as a performer is to his audience. They want the cheek, the sass, the confidence. They'll weather the bluster and the bravado, and just when you think he may have lost you, he pulls you right back in.

 

There are few people in the world who can do what Robbie does. Fewer still who can do it so often, so well and for so long.

 

As the audience drifted away and those that had opted to tippy toe over the fences (some even ripping through the tarpaulin or hanging off walls of nearby buildings), to catch a glimpse of one of the last remaining 90s legends, were serenaded by a-capella intros to his biggest hits*.

 

Whether or not a truly capacity crowd will bring anything different to Tuesday's performance remains to be seen - also if the track listing varies any. Even more intriguing will be if the pauses, the interludes, the knowing winks to the cameras are in the same spots. For all of the performance, the pomp and the pejorative, Robbie Williams came to Kirchberg and did exactly as he said he would.

 

After all, were you not entertained?

 

*I could not tell you if RW was onstage at this time, as we had made swift exit to beat the traffic - of which there was absolutely zero.

 

https://today.rtl.lu/culture/music/a/2084340.html

 

Interesting, inciteful review B-)

Robbie Williams meets royal family backstage after concert in Luxembourg

 

The Angels singer met the Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg before his performance at LuxExpo

 

 

Robbie Williams is currently on tour around Europe delighting thousands of fans with his hit songs. While the father-of-three has been meeting many fans in all the different countries, on Wednesday, he had a very special meet and greet with the Luxembourg royal family. Ahead of taking to the stage at LuxExpo, Robbie had the honour of meeting Their Royal Highnesses, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Princess Alexandra, as well as the Princess' husband Nicolas Bagory. In pictures shared by the palace, the group seemed happy to meet Robbie, who looked dapper in a gold outfit, in person. No doubt Robbie would have felt comfortable in their presence as Robbie has been friends with members of the British royal family for years. Back in 2019, his daughter Theodore was a flower girl at Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's royal wedding, with sources at the time saying that the former Take That singer "is the brother she never had".

 

TheRobbie will likely be meeting British royalty next month, as he is set to perform a very special concert at Sandringham, the former late Queen's favourite royal residence. It is also near Prince William and Kate's family home Anmer Hall. It will be an unmissable event as Robbie is set to reunite with former Take That bandmate Mark Owen. The show will be Robbie's only outdoor concert in the UK, and he will likely be supported by his wife Ayda Field Williams and their three children: Teddy, ten, Charlie, eight, Coco, four, and three-year-old Beau. Their friendship goes back to 2011, when Robbie met Sarah Ferguson on a trip to the Caribbean on board a yacht owned by Phones 4 U tycoon John Caudwell.

 

Speaking exclusively to HELLO! last month, proud wife Ayda opened up about their marriage, revealing that they still make each other laugh after 17 years. "The thing that always sticks with Rob and I, no matter what, is that we make each other laugh more than anyone else in the world. Laughter is our love language and it's stronger than ever. We crack each other up the same way we did 17 years ago," she told HELLO!.

 

https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/4...embourg-photos/

Edited July 13, 20231 yr by Sydney11

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Edited July 14, 20231 yr by Sydney11

He is really doing good, isn't he? So many concerts done and still no indication of an energy decrease

He is really doing good, isn't he? So many concerts done and still no indication of an energy decrease

 

 

He sure seems to be really enjoying himself :P

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:lol:

 

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So it's Finland tonight :music:

 

 

then a week off until Austria next Saturday ..

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Vieilles Charrues 2023 - Come Undone

 

 

 

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Mad Cool Festival MADRID, Spain 6 July 2023

 

 

 

 

 

Video thanks to Málaga Spain & Travel

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Oh No ! , show in Austria cancelled due to weather :o

 

 

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ROBBIE WILLIAMS SHOW – CANCELLED

 

❗DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS The construction work for the Robbie Williams concert in front of Hochosterwitz Castle has been underway for a week.

The severe storms and precipitation of the last few days in Carinthia have taken a heavy toll on the park and event areas. In addition, there will be the predicted precipitation on Friday and Saturday throughout the concert day.

 

A severe storm is currently coming over the event site again, and further intense precipitation and thunderstorms are predicted for the entire show day on Saturday.

Necessary inspections by the operations management have shown today that under these circumstances a safe handling of the traffic volume and the handling of the event is already no longer given to a sufficient extent.

 

We are therefore very sorry to announce that the event with "Robbie Williams" planned for Saturday cannot take place. Safety first!

After hours of discussions with all parties involved and the authority, it was determined that it was not feasible to hold it safely and to carry it out in accordance with the decision.

 

The safety of our visitors is also our top priority as organizers and location operators.

 

Please contact your ticket office for a refund of tickets!

 

Edited July 20, 20231 yr by Sydney11

That's a shame -_-

ROBBIE WILLIAMS CONCERT CANCELLED DUE TO STORMS

Promoter Barracuda Music says severe storms in Austria's Carinthia region have "taken a toll on the park and event areas"

 

 

Promoter Barracuda Music says severe storms have “taken a toll on the park and event areas”, with further intense rainfall and thunderstorms forecast for the day of the event.“Necessary inspections by the operations centre have shown that under these circumstances, the traffic volume and the event can no longer be handled safely to a sufficient degree,” a spokesperson tells Puls 24. Austria has been hit by storms of up to 161km an hour in recent days, reports The Local, causing damage to buildings, railway lines and power outages.

 

Barracuda says the decision to cancel followed lengthy talks with the local authority and emergency services.

“We are very sorry to announce that the event with Robbie Williams scheduled for Saturday cannot take place,” says the company in a statement posted on social media. “After hours of discussions with all participants and the authority, it was established that safe adherence and implementation in accordance with the knowledge is not feasible. The safety of our visitors is a top priority for us, as organisers and location operators.”

 

Williams, who is represented on the live scene by Ian Huffam of X-ray Touring, is approaching the conclusion of his XXV 25th anniversary solo tour, which continues with headlines slot at Lucca Summer Festival in Italy (28 July), Summer in the City in Bucharest, Romania (19 August) and Zurich Open Air in Switzerland (22 August).

 

The 49-year-old will then perform in Malta at the Granaries in Floriana on 24 August, presented by Greatt and NNG Promotions, followed by two dates at Norfolk’s Sandringham Estate in his native UK from 26-27 August as part of the Heritage Live Concert Series.

 

He will also play the Singapore F1 Grand Prix (17 September) and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Arena (18 October), prior to touring New Zealand and Australia in November/December.

 

https://www.iq-mag.net/2023/07/robbie-willi...-due-to-storms/

Edited July 21, 20231 yr by Sydney11

:lol:

 

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I saw this :lol: