December 31, 2024Dec 31 Author LIVE FROM SYDNEY HARBOUR nHLxv_nwwsg?si=whbATjihdBsrTq10 Edited December 31, 2024Dec 31 by Sydney11
December 31, 2024Dec 31 Author Was there something wrong with Rob's mic on stage tonight ..... Love the band , I wonder of they were extra musicians drafted in for the occasion
December 31, 2024Dec 31 Author Robbie Williams rocks Sydney on New Year’s Eve Robbie Williams set fire to Sydney Harbour for a good 40 minutes before the bridge exploded at midnight. “Allow me to reintroduce myself. This is my band, this is my arse and you better be good. Because I am phenomenal,” Williams said by way of introduction, part way through his opener Let Me Entertain You. Rarely has there been a more perfect match of man and song. If you’ve never seen Williams in person, it is hard to encapsulate the flamboyant front he brings to live performance. He is part vaudeville, part Vegas, part stadium rocker, a boy-band tart, a crooner and sometimes just a very naughty boy, as he was keen to remind us throughout his eight-song set. And though this was nominally a New Year’s Eve gig, Williams brought more than a wink and a nod to acknowledging the real (only) reason he was on this harbour stage 10 minutes before midnight. “l’m here to promote my movie,” he said cheekily. “A narcissist’s dream,” he said of having his life turned into a film. He might also have mentioned the narcissist’s dream of the ABC handing over 35 minutes of its telecast to promoting that movie, but instead he just asked everyone to do him a favour by seeing it. “Go and watch my movie, it’s full of drugs and sex,” he ad-libbed during Better Man, and it was hard to begrudge a man having this much fun with his performance, his crowd, and with the ABC people who hired him to pretend he was here because it was New Year’s Eve. Who says Aunty doesn’t allow ads? As he wrapped his set with a cover of You’re The Voice, and then his lights-in-the-air anthem Angels, there was no doubt he’d enjoyed every minute, and the crowd loved him right back. It was that kind of night, full of goodwill and nary a dud act to be found across the three hours of the post-9pm show. The producers crammed in 27 songs and nine performers before Williams took to the stage. Hosts Charlie Pickering, Zan Rowe and Concetta Caristo are by now skilled at tap-dancing their way through the links between acts, and it mostly runs smoothly and without obvious glitches. Wisely, the hosts mostly get out of the way and let the music do the work. Oz music royalty in the form of Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger) and Paul Dempsey (Something For Kate) opened the 9pm show with a six-song set. The duo, performing under the name Fanning Dempsey National Park, set the tone for the night’s theme: revisiting songs that have starred in the Hottest 100 on Triple J, the network celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. Between them, those two music icons have appeared on that hallowed list no less than 38 times. Newer faces were deployed to bring some of that history to the stage. Korean-Australian rappers 1300 gave us 2001’s Where’s Your Head At? by Basement Jaxx; Becca Hatch opened her stunning three-song set with the Fugee’s 1996 hit Killing Me Softly; Nooky performed the Hilltop Hoods’ Nosebleed Section from 2003 and Silverchair’s Tomorrow from 1994; and G Flip showed why she is a superstar, joyously preceding Williams on stage with a four-song set including her original The Worst Person Alive (No. 2 on the Hottest 100 in 2024) and her knockout cover of Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer. And, as has become tradition, Casey Donovan all but walked off with the show once more, confirming that she is Australia’s Kelly Clarkson — in the sense that when she covers a song there is every chance she will out-do the original. This time, she gave a great shake to Teddy Swims’ Lose Control, before leaping into the terrifying vocal territory of Defying Gravity from Wicked — a landmine for singers, handled with stunning power and touch. Later, she returned for a deft romp through Journey’s 1981 Don’t Stop Believin′ and Benson Boone’s 2024 smash Beautiful Things, before turning her attention to the most treacherous cover-version waters of all. You might have thought the world did not need another take on Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. You would be wrong. Donovan dedicated it to Melbourne musician James Simpson, who died just before Christmas. The pain of it was clear in Donovan’s every word. It was, in all, a stunning night. “Glastonbury with harbour views and working plumbing,” quipped Charlie Pickering at one point, but it was a lot more than that. With Robbie Williams strapped in for the big bang, and local talent delivering in spades, it was a New Year’s Eve broadcast for the ages. https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/cel...id=BingNewsVerp Edited December 31, 2024Dec 31 by Sydney11
December 31, 2024Dec 31 Author Robbie Williams - Me and My Monkey = New Years Eve Sydney 1fRxcNnhoyU?si=aDXZERwIoov2PM0x Video thanks to Robbie Williams Switzerland
January 1Jan 1 Author Robbie Williams - Me and My Monkey = New Years Eve Sydney 1fRxcNnhoyU?si=aDXZERwIoov2PM0x Video thanks to Robbie Williams Switzerland Did Robbie give out to someone in the audience for throwing him off key :lol:
January 1Jan 1 Author Really nice to see Robbie getting so much support on social media, even X posters are being supportive . It's really hard to be in the public eye these days where every move is analyzed to death. You really would have to have a thick skin to put up with it, I feel especially sorry for young artists starting out, at least Robbie is experienced & can handle it.
January 2Jan 2 I enjoyed Graham Norton -RW looked nice and relaxed. Those two ladies and their Youtube video made me laugh out loud :lol:
January 2Jan 2 Well, it was funny to read ))) It probably happened because some people got infected from Americans on Twitter or just celebrated NYE very good :D https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-1424...-countdown.html Confused Graham Norton viewers question how Robbie Williams dashed across the WORLD to appear on New Year's Eve show... just hours after performing at Sydney countdown Robbie Williams left Graham Norton Show viewers baffled with his appearance on the presenter's New Year's Eve special on Tuesday, just hours after he took to the stage for a performance in Sydney. The hitmaker was the guest of honour at the annual fireworks display in Australia, where he took to the stage for a performance as the country counted down to 2025. But as Robbie's appearance on Graham Norton was broadcast for UK fans hours later, some appeared to forget the key trait that the show was pre-recorded. Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, some questioned how Robbie had travelled across the world so quickly for his interview in the UK. Posts included: 'Hang on a sec - Robbie Williams is on #GrahamNorton right now but BBC News showed him counting down to the New Year in Sydney…; 'You can't believe anything, can you? 'How's Robbie Williams on Graham Norton when he was in Sydney at 1pm UK time singing them in..... Which one is pre recorded; 'Robbie Williams did well seeing in the New Year in Sydney and then dashing back for The Graham Norton NYE show! 'When was tonight's Graham Norton show recorded, I wonder? Robbie Williams was in Sydney to see in the New Year; 'So Robbie Williams live in Sydney & then see he is on Graham Norton show tonight singing. So Graham's show is recorded;' During his Sydney show, Robbie took a not-so-subtle swipe at an audience member as the city marked its annual New Year's Eve performance. After regaling the crowd with his chart-topper Let Me Entertain You and Wilson Pickett's Land of 1000 Dances, Robbie and his 13-piece backing band launched into his 2002 track Me and My Monkey. Robbie seemingly invited the audience to sing along, but was evidently less than impressed with one reveller's rhythmic ability. The singer awkwardly fell silent before chastising the audience member for their lack of timing. 'You made me come in, in the wrong place,' Robbie said. 'Can you stop doing the lyrics to the song, then I don't get it wrong.' Read More Robbie Williams says Gary Barlow was made to look 'arrogant' in BBC documentary as he addresses feud article image The camera then cut to a close up of Robbie, who was sporting an expression that suggested he was more than a little miffed with the audience member. 'Now, okay?' Robbie sternly instructed before continuing with the song. Robbie's eight song set was full of some of his biggest hots such as Feel, Better Man and Rock DJ. He also surprised the crowd with a rousing rendition of the John Farnham classic You're The Voice, before rounding out 2024 with his 2002 ballad Angels. 'Aussie, Aussie, Aussie,' Robbie chanted during the song's bridge, with the audience responding with the obligatory: 'Oi, Oi, Oi.' However, Robbie's bravura performance divided viewers after the pop superstar took the opportunity to promote his new biopic, Better Man, launching into a shameless plug mid-set. It was before Robbie's performance of his 2000 hit Better Man that he gave a rave review to his own movie of same name. 'Some critics are calling it the movie of the century! Not my words, except they are because I just made that up,' he said to the crowd. Robbie then asked if anyone had seen the movie as yet, and explained it had been filmed in Australia. He even changed some of the lyrics to Better Man, and sang, 'so go watch my movie, it's full of drugs and sex, I've got my own biopic, I'm not even dead'.
January 2Jan 2 Author Loving the lyric change :lol: View this post on Instagram Edited January 2Jan 2 by Sydney11
