June 1Jun 1 Author 2 hours ago, Spiceboy said:That was such a gorgeous performance was one of the highlights for me. I thought it was received well although not many seemed to know the words.Feel had the most muted reaction in my section which I found interesting as I view that as one of his key hits (while not being a personal favourite). Old before I die went down really well and again was another brilliant performance!There was a big where he chose a woman in the audience for she’s the one and the lady he went up to was from Germany so the audience started booing (??? I don’t get why), so he said sorry he needed to find a Scottish woman. He then found this Debbie from Dundee… and spent ages talking to her (honestly too long). I found the audience a bit weird tbh, he mentioned Glasgow and they booed at that too? There was something else they booed at too I forget what. Everytime he turned it round though and had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand.Yes, that "talking thing" can be a bit too much but it's part of the show now. Thanks for sharing your experience S[iceboy & delighted Something Beautiful went down well, I hope he keeps it in the show. I also love Sexed Up so hope he sticks with that too, I think the rather muted reaction to Feel could be that it'd just been played too often, that often happens with songs. The "Argy Bargy" & booing makes me laugh, I called it Parochialism , city against city, county against county, not to be taken too seriously as I am sure when it's come to Scotland as a team no matter what sport they all come together ☺️I thought Forbidden Road might have made the setlist , I think it's a great stadium tune.Looking forward to next venue which is next weekend in London & the lovely Laura130262 will be there 😎
June 1Jun 1 Author 2 hours ago, Spiceboy said:That was such a gorgeous performance was one of the highlights for me. I thought it was received well although not many seemed to know the words.Feel had the most muted reaction in my section which I found interesting as I view that as one of his key hits (while not being a personal favourite). Old before I die went down really well and again was another brilliant performance!There was a big where he chose a woman in the audience for she’s the one and the lady he went up to was from Germany so the audience started booing (??? I don’t get why), so he said sorry he needed to find a Scottish woman. He then found this Debbie from Dundee… and spent ages talking to her (honestly too long). I found the audience a bit weird tbh, he mentioned Glasgow and they booed at that too? There was something else they booed at too I forget what. Everytime he turned it round though and had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand.You got good value for money on the night Spiceboy, did you enjoy the support acts, !!
June 1Jun 1 Author Interesting comment from Robbie but wholly believable. If he does not get a good response from the crowd the song is out which to me is really a shame . I like to listen & take a song in , you don't have to jump up & down all the time .. 🫣
June 1Jun 1 Author Robbie Williams’s first Britpop show in Edinburgh veers from electrified showmanship to plain awful‘My dream is to be the best entertainer on the f***ing planet,’ the pop star tells a suitably wowed Edinburgh, and he certainly seems to mean itMark BeaumontSunday 01 June 2025 10:43 BST1Comment(Getty Images)Thirty years and, by his own count, three rehabs after his lad-defining exit from Take That, the question remains: who on earth does Robbie Williams think he is? The award-winning (if not box-office bothering) visionary of simian cinema behind his Better Man biopic? The Hallmark Warhol of his recent, pilloried Radical Honesty art show? An on-the-skids superstar reduced to swing and Christmas covers albums, or a resurgent national treasure returning after six years to claim some of the respect finally being dished out across the upper pop echelons?On the opening night of the Britpop tour – his first mainly-stadium outing since 2018, teeing up a new album he’s claimed is the true-to-himself record he wanted to make after leaving Take That in 1995 – he’s none of these things and more. In white sci-fi bondage overalls and wraparound mirror shades, Williams skydives from atop a firework-spewing rocket, mid-liftoff, to declare himself “the King of Entertainment”.“My dream is to be the best entertainer on the f***ing planet,” he tells a suitably wowed Edinburgh, and he certainly seems to mean it. Flanked by banner-waving gospel singers (but sadly no Tommy Iommi) for Britpop’s boogie metal lead single “Rocket” and announcing “you’d better be good because I am phenomenal” amid an electrified “Let Me Entertain You”, he makes the most spectacular entry possible for a man admittedly too cheap to shell out for Coldplay wristbands.Within minutes, though, we find ourselves in a musical cabaret TED talk. Tonight, Williams explains, is “a journey to find out the meaning of entertainment”, and it’s a question Edinburgh will ask itself numerous times during this sometimes testing two hours. Is entertainment a cracking “Kids”, or “Millennium” backed by a chorus line of nine-foot human Oscars? Unequivocally yes. Is it mass singalongs to Oasis-aping Nineties hits like “Old Before I Die” and “Strong”? Edinburgh seems to think so. A parade of Midsommar waifs with giant shrubberies on their heads following a Balkan marching band through a folky “The Road to Mandalay”? In a Eurovision 1976 kind of way, sure.But how about watching Williams do operatic vocal warm-ups over a 10-minute megamix of Foo Fighters’ “All My Life”, Blur’s “Song 2”, The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” and Baby Lasagna’s “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”? If you’re already drunk, maybe. Full Vegas blasts through “New York, New York” and “My Way” in neon pink Elton-wear, while exhorting the crowd to “hug your inner t***” and “wave your cringe flag high”? Plain awful. And segments where Williams banters with eerie digital recreations of himself as a teenager and an 80-year-old on the big screens, largely about his “shorter than average” penis? Those are just more evidence that we should kill AI immediately, with fire.Williams aims at meta and – for a good third of the show – hits meh. His bawdy stand-up segments, extended crowd work, regular Proclaimers karaoke and relentless oversharing drag proceedings to several grinding halts. An attempt to sing “She’s The One” to a woman in the front row takes almost 15 minutes to get going and, as the final stretch distends, he wangs on for so long about his children saving his sanity that he’s clearly the only doting parent in the stadium who isn’t measuring out their evening in babysitter hours.But amid the flam and blubber, moments of pure entertainment do crystalise. An acoustic duet with The Lottery Winners’ Thom Rylance – as double act The Balls – on a crowd-swamped C-Stage, playing snippets of Williams’s more obscure songs to see which the crowd remember (clue: all of them) culminates in a rousing “Relight My Fire” with a flame-haired Michelle McManus bringing the Lulu diva vibe. “Come Undone” is punchy stadium rock balladry in the pain-behind-the-palatial-gates mode. And the last great showman is wholeheartedly back in the room for an uplifting encore of “Feel” and “Angels”. “Are you not entertained?” Williams demands as the firework rocket descends once more, bathing him in stage-wide sparks. Sporadically, yes.Robbie Williams review, Edinburgh: Britpop Tour veers from electrified showmanship to plain awful | The Independent
June 1Jun 1 Author Robbie Williams, Murrayfield Stadium, review: The most spectacular end-of-the-pier show ever seenThe ‘King of Entertainment’ opened his Britpop tour with blockbuster stunts, witty self-reflection and mighty singalongs. Take that, Oasis4/5 ****Robbie Williams opening his Britpop tour at Murrayfield Stadium Credit: Alan Rennie/ShutterstockNeil McCormickChief Music Critic . 01 June 2025 1:10pm BST“Allow me to reintroduce myself!” yelled the squat, muscular, tattooed, silver haired 51-year-old, standing on a runway in the centre of the vast Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, a tiny, isolated figure in the midst of a 70,000 strong crowd. “My name is ROBBIE! F______! WILLIAMS!” And the crowd roared back with a gusty, noisy delight to match the star’s own.He’s back, folks. To be fair, I am not sure how far he ever really went away, but Britain’s self-proclaimed “King of Entertainment” is on the march, determined to reclaim his crown.Oasis mania is about to be unleashed once more in the UK, as the biggest band in Britpop returns to the stage next month. Cheekily stealing their thunder, they are being preceded around Britain’s stadiums by the biggest British hitmaker of the 1990s and 2000s in a show mischievously entitled Britpop, filled with buzzing guitars and mighty singalongs. Mind you, that’s where any resemblance to the fiercely dour and belligerently stationary Oasis ends. Because Williams throws everything he’s got at his audience – special effects, jokes, choreography, stunts and, mainly, himself – in a relentless, almost desperate desire to please.His spectacular show opened with a gasp-inducing high dive from a giant winged platform suspended above the stage and ended two hours later with fans singing the choruses of Williams’s beloved ballad Angels louder than the giant PA, whilst the star of the occasion looked on beaming with emotional delight. I am not sure who was more moved by Williams’s relentless antics – the woman named Debbie from Dundee openly weeping as Williams clambered into the crowd to serenade her with a version of She’s The One, or Williams himself as he basked in the glow of love and acceptance.Robbie Williams on stage in Edinburgh Credit: Alan Rennie/ShutterstockA neurotic neediness is at the heart of Williams’s appeal but is crucially wrapped up in songs with meaningful lyrics, flowing melodies, snappy hooks and huge choruses that the audience seem even more eager to sing than the performer. Indeed, it is not really a criticism, but Williams talks as much as he sings, frequently interrupting his own emotional performances with silly jokes and overexcited chatter. “I’m s_______ hits all over the place!” he shouts in the middle of an otherwise gorgeous A Love Supreme and makes a lewd penis joke during his most vulnerable anthem Come Undone.A Robbie Williams show is a lot to take in. It’s an end of the pier cabaret routine staged with the firepower of a Hollywood blockbuster; a cheesy pop extravaganza infused with darkly witty postmodern irony; an exposed bundle of raw human neuroses transposed into monster pop anthems interlaced with old fashioned showbiz comedy patter and interrupted by scatological stream of consciousness babble.He makes unscripted comments about age (“I’m 51,” he repeatedly shouted in self-amazement), anxiety (“I’ve been s_______ myself for weeks, old feelings from Take That, PTSD”), his family (“my mum has dementia, and my dad has Parkinson’s, I feel like I’m in sniper’s alley”), and sings the showbiz standard My Way in a pink suit and boa with all the feeling of a man who can’t quite believe he’s made it this far. He’s 51, you know.There is a theme to proceedings, roughly hovering around the question of “what is entertainment?”. Williams offers himself as the answer to his own question, to which the crowd offer noisy validation. From the riotous bombast of Let Me Entertain You to the vulnerability of anthemic ballad Feel, Williams arrived fully armed with the singalong hits that his massive audience have already taken to heart. In his natural element on stage, he put them across with a combination of ridiculous humour, raw humanity and powerful musicality that proved irresistible. We let him entertain us. I suspect from his gurning delight that the experience was mutual.Touring the UK until June 14, then Europe until OctoberRobbie Williams, Murrayfield Stadium, review: Take that, Oasis
June 1Jun 1 Author Robbie Williams, Edinburgh review: 'relentlessly likeable'Whether cracking jokes with members of the audience or carrying out comedy interactions with AI versions of his 16 and 80-year-old selves, Robbie Williams was on charismatic form at Murrayfield, writes David PollockRobbie Williams, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh ★★★★Very good core muscles obviously 😊The Scotsman@TheScotsman"Are my best days behind me?" asked Robbie Williams from the stage. "Am I still just the fat dancer from Take That?" Read@thelatedave on Robbie Williams at Murrayfield - photography by Lisa Ferguson https://trib.al/rtLMTDg Edited June 1Jun 1 by Sydney11
June 1Jun 1 4 hours ago, Sydney11 said:You got good value for money on the night Spiceboy, did you enjoy the support acts, !!I didn’t actually bother to see them, turned up at 8:15 15mins before Robbie came on. 😅
June 1Jun 1 Author 2 hours ago, Spiceboy said:I didn’t actually bother to see them, turned up at 8:15 15mins before Robbie came on. 😅🤭
June 1Jun 1 Author Rags@RagNBoneMan·1hLast night was mad 🤯"thank you so much @robbiewilliams for having me and thanks to everyone who braved the scottish weather and watched the set! ☔️"
June 1Jun 1 Author Rag-n-Bone man , support act for Rob;s show in Edinburgh . R-n-B & The Lottery Winners are the support act again in London, well worth seeing .Video thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@neil_abrdn
June 1Jun 1 39 minutes ago, Sydney11 said:Rag-n-Bone man , support act for Rob;s show in Edinburgh . R-n-B & The Lottery Winners are the support act again in London, well worth seeing .Video thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@neil_abrdnFantastic song. Yes, both acts are superb adds to RW show.
June 1Jun 1 Author Michelle McManus https://www.instagram.com/ladym_mcmanus/So about Saturday night……It’s taken me almost 24hrs to try and comprehend what happened yesterday at @murrayfield_stadium. It was truly a moment I’ll never forget, singing to a home crowd of 70,000 people with one of the world’s biggest superstars performing by my side. To everyone in the crowd cheering me on - thank you ❤️ Your support means the world. To all of my beautiful friends, family and followers across my social media platforms for sending me literally thousands of messages of love and support - thank you so much and I’m so sorry I haven’t managed to reply to you all individually but please know how grateful I am ❤️To my incredible manager Alison Sloan and my phenomenal team who put me together on the day @holbaxsews @laurenomakeup @allanahwatsonhair @amy_claireee - thank you. You made me look and feel more beautiful than I’ve ever felt performing in my entire life 🤩Finally I want to thank @robbiewilliams for his unconditional kindness to invite me to sing with him onstage in the first place. To watch you perform and have the crowd in the palm of your hand for over 2hrs straight last night was jaw dropping and a master class in live vocals and stage craft. You are a beautiful soul and I’m so lucky to count you as a friend ❤️It’s been 22 years since I won Pop Idol and I feel so truly blessed to still be performing at this level after All This Time ❤️❤️❤️Video in link Michelle McManus (@ladym_mcmanus) • Instagram photos and videos
June 1Jun 1 22 hours ago, Spiceboy said:Amazing concert I loved it all. Had BSL interpreters so I understood everything he said and sang which was amazing too… although he did talk quite a lot, could have got a few more songs in the setlist 🤣🫣He did my two favourite songs of his Strong and Road to Mandalay so I was utterly chuffed. Special guest to sing relight my fire was Michelle McManus who looked, and sounded, amazing! 21 years waiting to get there and it was well worth it! 🥰Glad you enjoyed Spiceboy 😊
