9 hours ago, Better Man said:

Yes! Laura, tell us if you were there!

Lulu and Five are on a stage with Rob today!!

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London, that was a phenomenal show last night… See you again tonight for BRITPOP round 2. Rob x

Robbie's head is definitely back in the space with this tour , you can just feel the "up vibe", he has been coasting for the last number of years which is understandable but you can see he is on a mission once again , the vibe for those attending the concerts is really great even those husbands/boyfriends who have been dragged along but find themselves totally enjoying the gigs. . Also full credit his fantastic band who are just amazing musicians & give it their all . I am so looking forward to the new album , I think it will be great 😊

Robbie Williams reunites 90s boyband plus legend duet for Take That classic at 'incredible' gig

Robbie Williams treated fans to a wave of nostalgia as he was joined by some very special guests on stage at the first night of his Emirates Stadium shows

Robbie Williams wowed fans with some surprise special guests during the first night at Emirates Stadium (Image: Marc Piasecki / Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)

As Robbie Williams bowled over fans at the Emirates Stadium with classic hits 'Angels', 'Millennium' and 'Let Me Entertain You', they were treated to some surprise special guests who brought with them a wave of 90s nostalgia. Williams was accompanied by Lulu for a duet of 'Relight My Fire', the Take That song from 1994 she famously sang alongside with the band.

Elsewhere, 90s boyband Five - made up of original members Scott Robinson, Ritchie Nevile, Jason Paul Brown, Sean Conlon and Abz Love - made a guest appearance on stage, ahead of their eagerly anticipated reunion tour this autumn, which will see them play two nights at the O2 Arena.

Williams had already begun singing a cover of Five's 'Keep On Movin' when he suddenly made an announcement. He told onlookers: "I don’t remember the words to this next bit. I wonder if anybody can help me out. Ladies and gentlemen the first time they’ve been

Fans were thrilled with Williams' showmanship and surprise guests. One woman wrote on X, formerly Twitter: "What a man!!! Only at a @robbiewilliams concert would he bring on @itsfiveofficial (amazing!) and then Lulu to sing relight my fire!!! What a show!!!!"

Another added: "Never gonna shut up about seeing @itsfiveofficial’s first time on stage together in 25 years ahhh thank you @robbiewilliams for the best night everrr"

A third person wrote: "What a night at Robbie Williams saw Five and Lulu on stage in one night. I love my life #RobbieWilliams #arsenal #Emirates."

Yet another posted: "Robbie Williams is Thee definition of someone that was born to perform and be on stage. he is nothing short of incredible and I luv him xx"

Robbie Wiliams date and timings for London Stadium concert

Robbie Williams is playing his second show at the Emirates Stadium tonight (Saturday, June 7). Gates open at 4pm. Robbie is expected to be on stage at 8.30pm. All bags are searched at Emirates Stadium and bags larger than A4 size (standard rucksack/bag) are not allowed.

Set list for Robbie Williams at Emirates Stadium

Robbie has been launching BRITPOP shows with a blast of energy from Rocket. Following the song from the new album itself, he gets the audience into the right mood, setting the scene with Let Me Entertain You. Here's the BRITPOP setlist:

1. Rocket

2. Let Me Entertain You

3. All My Life / Song 2 / Seven Nation Army / Rim Tim Tagi Dim / 500 Miles / Minnie the Moocher

4. Monsoon

5. Old Before I Die

6. Rock DJ

7. Love My Life

8. Strong

9. The Road to Mandalay

10. Supreme

11. Let Love Be Your Energy / Sexed Up / Candy

12. Relight My Fire (Dan Hartman cover)

13. Something Beautiful

14. Millennium

15. Theme From New York, New York (John Kander cover)

16. Come Undone

17. Kids

18. She's the One (World Party cover)

19. My Way (Claude François cover)

20. Feel

21. Angels

After a rendition of classic My Way, in his final encore songs, Robbie leaves the audience with some powerful and emotional melodies through early hits Feel and his best-selling Angels.

How to buy tickets for Robbie Williams' show

Tickets are still available to see Robbie Williams at the Emirates Stadium via official sellers Ticketmaster for tonight's (Saturday) performance. The show is proving popular but there are still last minute chances to grab a ticket. Tickets are currently selling for as low as £82.50, and up to £220 on the priciest end.

Viagogo and resale tickets

Sites such as viagogo, Stubhub, and Vivid Seats allow fans to buy resale tickets from other fans. However, it is important to note that ticket conditions often prohibit resale after initial purchase. Those tickets may not be valid for admittance to gigs.

Fans intending to buy tickets for live events through resale websites should check the ticket terms and conditions, to confirm whether resale is prohibited, before they buy. Ticket terms and conditions can be checked with the original seller, such as Ticketmaster or Live Nation. If resale is prohibited, tickets bought second-hand could be voided and admission to the event refused.

Fans can still get their hands on tickets through Viagogo, Stubhub and Vivid Seats. Sites such as Viagogo, Stubhub, and Vivid Seats allow fans to buy resale tickets from other fans. However, it is important to note that ticket conditions often prohibit resale after initial purchase. Those tickets may not be valid for admittance to gigs.

Fans intending to buy tickets for live events through resale websites should check the ticket terms and conditions, to confirm whether resale is prohibited, before they buy. Ticket terms and conditions can be checked with the original seller, such as Ticketmaster or Live Nation. If resale is prohibited, tickets bought second-hand could be voided and admission to the event refused.

Resale tickets are a popular way of fans getting a chance to see their favourite stars. Stubhub an online space where fans buy and sell tickets has had a number going - cheaper tickets have been going for as low as £84 with some fans reselling for as much as £1000! Viagogo a popular resale site has had tickets going for just £70.

Robbie Williams' London support acts

Rag'n'Bone Man is supporting Robbie Williams (Photo by Jim Dyson/Redferns)

Robbie has collaborated from music greats from Avicii, Emma Bunton and Kylie to Hollywood megastar Nicole Kidman, but who will be supporting him at the London shows?

Rag'n'Bone Man isn't just a deep baritone voice. Sharing a love of sportswear with Robbie, the Human, Skin and What Do You Believe In? singer is also a versatile performer - even having made his mark at the Queen Vic for Eastender's 40th anniversary.

Expect some more acoustic duets, as chart-topping indie-pop band The Lottery Winners make another perfect partner for Robbie - reflecting on their close friendship, the band's vocalist Thom Rylance, says ''Robbie's like my therapist''. Having recently played with Robbie on Let Love Be Your Energy, Sexed Up and Candy, the Sounds of Isolation and KOKO singers who started off in pubs, hit the stage once again with Robbie very soon.

Robbie Williams reunites 90s boyband plus legend duet for Take That classic at 'incredible' gig - MyLondon

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New York New York

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Rocket

Just a great tune live 🕺

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Rob's support act Rag-n-Bone Man ❤️

Human

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Angels ( nice little speech from Rob, he is definitely enjoying himself ) ❤️

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I have just fainted 🤭

Something Beautiful ( London ) ❣️❤️❣️

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Surprisingly good review !!

I thought Robbie Williams was overhyped but he can still kick it 

Danni Scott

Published June 7, 2025 11:42am Updated June 7, 2025 1:11pm

I don’t think I truly understood the hype around Robbie Williams until I saw him live in concert.

In one night, I’ve gone from a non-believer to a full-blown fan after decades of thinking he was just that guy who had a few hits in the 90s.

My conversion began with Better Man, which is one of the best biopics made in recent years, but until his London gig, I still saw him as an artist of the past.

As if he could tell what I was thinking, Robbie instantly proved me wrong by opening his two-hour set with his brand new song, Rocket.

Very few artists could release a track and have the entirety of Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium singing along two weeks later — let alone make it their opening number. 😎

But that’s the power of Robbie.

Robbie’s currently performing his BRITPOP tour live (Picture: Shutterstock)

From Rock DJ to Angels, he is (as he so delicately puts it) ‘s**tting hits’. And they were all packed into his Britpop Tour show.

Rocket turned out to be the perfect opener, with the 51-year-old star performing some aerial acrobatics to let us all know he planned to put on a show.

This quickly gave way to Let Me Entertain You, a song that set the tone for not only this gig, but his entire career — this is what he was born to do.

Robbie’s set list featured one all-time great after another (Picture: Alan Rennie/REX/Shutterstock)

I had anticipated a good set list — of course, there’s going to be hits, it’s Robbie Williams after all. However, there was so much more to the show than big songs. Ever the perfect showman, Robbie effortlessly toes the line between his ego and self-deprecating jokes, oozing charisma and charm that make it hard not to like him.

Jokes about his age, his wild past, and even some stray barbs at Oasis filled the moments between the songs without dropping the palpable energy in the room.

The tour finds Robbie in good spirits (Picture: Alan Rennie/REX/Shutterstock)

One particularly joyous moment was when he brought opening act Lottery Winners’ singer Thom Rylance back on stage for a surprise song set. Here, fans were tested by the comedic duo, singing along to fragments of tracks like Candy before the legendary Lulu joined them for a rendition of Take That’s Relight My Fire.

Take That wasn’t the only 90s band’s fire which Robbie relit either, as midway through singing Keep On Movin’ he brought out the whole of Five.

For the first time in 25 years, Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, Abz Love, and Jason Brown were all on stage together, basking in the screams of the shocked audience.

Robbie kicked off his 2025 European tour on 31 May in Scotland (Picture: Alan Rennie/REX/Shutterstock)

These moments prove Robbie knows exactly who his audience is and exactly what they want: personality and nostalgia.

This made it all the more jarring when things didn’t quite land, such as when the gig became bogged down in clunky AI-generated filler where the Come Undone hitmaker ‘spoke’ to his younger and older self.

I’m not a fan of generative AI at the best of times, but there’s something deeply awkward about watching someone — no matter how charming — ‘talk’ to a pre-made computer-generated approximation of themselves.

While the moments produced a handful of cheap laughs, the inclusion of these cringey videos felt incredibly disjointed from the very personable, real-life Robbie on stage.

The AI was thankfully a small misstep, which was quickly moved past in the sheer onslaught of undeniable bangers. She’s The One, Kids, Strong, and Feel all sparked dancing and cheering from the audience, most of whom seemed to know every single word.

After its UK leg, Robbie will take his tour on the road to Europe (Picture: Alan Rennie/REX/Shutterstock)

Finally, after an impressive two hours of dancing and singing, the boyband legend finished on Angels — because what else could it be.

Ultimately, you’re never going to get a bad show with Robbie. He’s a born performer, despite what they thought of his solo potential in the 90s.

After 35 years in the spotlight and 22 since his iconic Knebworth shows, the living legend that is Robbie Williams very much proved he can still kick it.

I thought Robbie Williams was overhyped but he can still kick it  | Metro News

Edited June 7Jun 7 by Sydney11

Robbie in London was over the top, bizarre yet also sincere - only he can do that

Yes at times he treads a fine line of contradictions but few have the ability to be an extravagant, yet relatable superstar

Williams returns in typical Robbie fashion on his Britpop tour (Photo: Leo Baron)

Shaun Curran

June 07, 2025 1:18 pm (Updated 1:35 pm)

Robbie Williams sure knows how to make an entrance. Only a couple of songs into the first of two nights at London’s Emirates Stadium and – after an introductory video that posited him as the saviour of pop’s new AI age – he’d already skydived from the top of a golden bridge, dressed in wraparound shades and sci-fi white overalls looking like a futuristic ski champion; he landed to strip to glittery red tracksuit for a barnstorming “Let Me Entertain You” before declaring: “I’ve decided to call myself the King of Entertainment!”

Ah, the cheeky, boastful, high camp Robbie: we’ve been expecting you. You’d never guess he came into this run of shows off the back of some, somewhat bizarre side projects: last year’s Robbie-as-a-monkey film Better Man bombed at the box office, while his recent therapy-speak laden art exhibition was universally panned. But no matter. Back in stadiums and on a mission to reclaim his pop crown, this was a night of pure, uncut Williams: charismatic, OTT showmanship undercut with neurosis; self-deprecation (“it’s good you’re here otherwise it’s just some bloke with mental health issues jumping around a stadium on his own”) mixed with the braggadocios (“I’m shitting hits!”); all delivered in a blockbuster package of dancers, jokes, pyro, confetti, stunts and brilliant pop songs.

Robbie Williams at the Emirates Stadium as he kicks of his Britpop tour (Photo: Leo Baron)

The contradictions could be sharp: one minute he’s bemoaning his “ear wax and grey pubes”, the next he’s reuniting with Lulu for an acoustic version of Take That’s “Relight my Fire” with support band The Lottery Winners. He joked at 51, with his greying quiff, he is now “in sniper’s alley” given his past addictions; it made it all the more emotional when he brought out the reunited Five to sing an energetic “Keep on Movin’” for their first performance in 25 years. After their shared trauma, exposed in the BBC’s Boyband Forever documentary, it felt like a lovely moment of redemption.

This was the nominally titled Britpop tour, named after his forthcoming new album, the 90’s indie guitar influenced record he’d wanted to make in 1995 after he left Take That. But other than punchy opening new song “Rocket” – which liberally borrows not from Britpop but from Manchester post-punk band Buzzcocks’ 1979 single “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” – there was no other Britpop to be heard (unless you count the very Oasis-like “Old Before I Die”, written, as Williams said “six nervous breakdowns ago.”)

Instead came Williams’ own army of pop bangers (a trippy “Kids”, a regal “Millennium”) and confessional anthems (“Strong,” “Come Undone”, the newly dusted off and very Elton-like “Something Beautiful”) amid the show’s loose theme considering what exactly is entertainment – the answer to which seems to be whatever Williams does.

Yet as ever with Williams, it was a fine line. He takes his own advice to “embrace your inner cringe” a bit too far: his AI deepfake conversations with himself fall flat; his hopes of being best entertainer in the world were undermined somewhat by a terrible pub-band megamix of hits (“Song 2”, “Seven Nation Army”, “Livin’ on a Prayer”) where he doesn’t seem to know the words (“you won’t get that a Beyoncé gig” he says, with good reason.). His post-therapy, post-sobriety, my-wife-and-kids-saved-me chat was laid on all too thick.

But then the imperfections, the excesses, the wild swings between sincerity and ego, the sense of cabaret amid the extravagance; it’s all part of the Williams charm. Few people can actually pull off Williams’ superstar relatability. His version of “My Way”, which he sings in a pink suit looking like a Las Vegas Morrissey, by all rights should have been glorified karaoke. In the event it was a deeply emotional: he sang it with the intent of a man who can’t quite believe he’s still around; we know his story so intimately, it hit that bit harder.

He encored with his two mighty ballads – “Feel” and an ever-soaring “Angels” – both belted back to him with gusto. “I’ve had the best time I’ve ever had on stage,” he said at the end, and for once there was no joke to lessen the sentiment.

Robbie Williams plays again at the Emirates Stadium tonight before going on tour.

Robbie in London was over the top, bizarre yet also sincere - only he can do that

Love how Robbie is looking at the pics of his family coming up on the drop-down screens, he is so proud of his kids ❤️. also lovely to see Ayda & Gwen appear in the montage ❤️

Agree :)

Really like this Five song!

It's been a period when I know Five more than Robbie in my childhood! Still remember this their album!

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Robbie Williams at the Emirates Stadium review: 'a grand scale This Is Your Life'

The showman does not disappoint on a night when he arrives on stage upside down from a giant gold rocket

It’s hard to think of anyone before or since that has commanded the exact niche of British culture that Robbie Williams occupies. One of the biggest selling and most decorated artists in UK history, with a record 13 Brit Awards and 75 million album sales under his belt, he’s also something of a proud throwback – as likely to pop out a vaudevillian routine or a splash of Sinatra as he is to go full pop star wattage.

Playing Arsenal’s 60,000-capacity Emirates Stadium last night for the first of two massive headline dates, the 51-year-old leant further into his unique persona than ever. As he told the crowd midway through the set whilst wearing a coat resembling a gigantic baby pink bath scrunchie: ”Embrace your cringe. My cringe is my crown.”

Rather than cringe, however, we’d call it charm – a charm that probably only Williams and his preternatural sense of cheeky chappy charisma could ever pull off, but therein lies the magic. In the first 20 minutes, he played approximately two songs of his own and 10 of other peoples’, flitting between snippets of Foo Fighters, Blur and Bon Jovi whilst delivering an opening, tone-setting speech. “Life is tough, the world’s gone mad, but we’ve come together to have a shared experience and leave the real world behind. You need to forget about being cool and just commit.” When trying to suspend the oncoming onslaught of cold, hard reality, it helped that Williams had just descended onto the stage upside down from a giant gold rocket, wearing an astronaut outfit.

Said glittering space vehicle was a nod to his recent single Rocket, the first track from Williams’ upcoming album Britpop. A second coming of his famed early attempts to be welcomed by the ‘90s indie elite, he then threw out Old Before I Die – a reminder of his Oas-ish solo beginnings – and then it was back to the hit-packed cabaret. Rock DJ saw him decked out in a giant floor-length red fur coat. Of all the people that his surely endless little black book contains, he chose to bring out reunited ‘90s boyband Five for a sing-along of their song Keep On Moving. Ahead of Strong, he held a conversation with an AI-generated version of his own Take That era self.

If the latter was probably one odd step too far, then the rest of it felt like a grand scale This Is Your Life, helmed by a figure the entire stadium had grown up with. He brought Lulu out for a rendition of Take That duet Relight My Fire, surrounded himself with gold dancers for the once-timely Millenium, and serenaded a fan for She’s The One. Across two hours, Williams spent approximately half the time chatting to the crowd, bringing up photos of his wife and kids, talking about a family member with dementia, and frequently referencing old moments across his storied career. On paper, it makes no sense as a stadium show; having earned, over 30 years, the sheer force of good will coming at him from the Emirates crowd, somehow it worked.

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4 hours ago, Sydney11 said:

Surprisingly good review !!

I thought Robbie Williams was overhyped but he can still kick it 

Danni Scott

Published June 7, 2025 11:42am Updated June 7, 2025 1:11pm

As if he could tell what I was thinking, Robbie instantly proved me wrong by opening his two-hour set with his brand new song, Rocket.

Very few artists could release a track and have the entirety of Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium singing along two weeks later — let alone make it their opening number. 😎😎

But that’s the power of Robbie.

Robbie’s currently performing his BRITPOP tour live (Picture: Shutterstock)

I thought Robbie Williams was overhyped but he can still kick it  | Metro News

Edited June 7Jun 7 by Sydney11

Please take care who is coming to the concert in London today!

It's a spoiler!

Full version of yesterday's Keep On Movin'.

Rob sang the first verse!

Again, great work, lads!

☔🌂⛈️☔🕺