Rudebox should have won the Ivor Novello. It was more imaginative and original than any of the other nominated work in the category.

 

Still can't understand if people could like Rock DJ.. what wasnt there to like about Rudebox..if fact there was more to like about that record...

 

Rock DJ was good...Rudebox if you actually listen to the overall end product was very innovative and original..

 

Heard Rudebox in a club recently...brilliant..love the deep base-line

 

Just sounding off thoughts in my head so no need for people to jump on me...

Couldn't agree with you more LizzieSarah. I love Rudebox, have loved it since the first listen. Its clever and a true original unlike what's out there. Very overlooked track IMO.

 

I reckon that if Rock DJ would have come out now it would not have been a hit and be slated just like Rudebox was. Rock DJ was released at a time when Rob could do no wrong and there wasn't this huge negativity towards him and when the press was still liking him. As I've said from day one, Rudebox (the track and album) is way ahead of its time and I feel it will be appreciated more years down the line.

WILLIAMS AND CHAMBERS TO REUNITE

 

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Chambers - who helped to turn Williams into one of the biggest pop sensations in Britain - is hoping to help the troubled star bounce back to the top of the charts.

 

26/05/2007 15:00

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/artic...reunite_1032227

And before anything is even known, they've already started :arrr:

 

Anyone want to give a count of how many of those comments we'll have to read through ?!

 

If just for that reason alone, I wish he wouldn't get back with Guy.

 

Yes Rudebox was an excellent track and Rudebox an excellent album featuring exceptional pop dance tunes such as She's Madonna & The Actor.

 

Robbie's Ivor Novello nomination was recognition of Rudebox's originality.

 

The English media have always been particularly harsh with regard to musicians. Robbie will continue to make great music. I look forward very much to his new work! ;)

Edited May 26, 200718 yr by LizzieSarah

And before anything is even known, they've already started :arrr:

 

Anyone want to give a count of how many of those comments we'll have to read through ?!

 

If just for that reason alone, I wish he wouldn't get back with Guy.

 

I see your point, but tbh - if Rob came back to top with a song that was co-written with someone other than Guy they still would give all the credit to that other person and not to Rob I'm afraid, then it would be " X saved Robbies career", so does it really matter who it is.... ? :unsure:

Of course it's annoying, but I'm afraid it won't change. And tbh, I'd rather have Rob being really successful again with Guy than having chart flops and more bashing from the press without Guy. -_-

I see your point, but tbh - if Rob came back to top with a song that was co-written with someone other than Guy they still would give all the credit to that other person and not to Rob I'm afraid, then it would be " X saved Robbies career", so does it really matter who it is.... ? :unsure:

Of course it's annoying, but I'm afraid it won't change. And tbh, I'd rather have Rob being really successful again with Guy than having chart flops and more bashing from the press without Guy. -_-

 

I agree fully. It will be the same no matter what. The articles about the Swing album were far worse, all saying the record company were pressurising him to release it in order to save his flagging career and so on. It is just bull$h!t, but with Guy they will be Rob's own songs, and not a bunch of bloody covers. I personally would love nothing more than to see him return bigger than ever and shut all those snug journalists up after the past year of their vindictive $h!t we and more importantly Rob have had to put up with. And it pretty much guarentees some classic tracks, I have a feeling seeing as they were so sick of eachother when they were doing Escapology, that this time around they will be better than ever, and if he works with others as well, it could very well be his best album yet. And apperently Johnny said at Guys and Dolls last night that Rob would be back bigger and better than ever next year. I cannot wait. :wub:

I agree fully. It will be the same no matter what. The articles about the Swing album were far worse, all saying the record company were pressurising him to release it in order to save his flagging career and so on. It is just bull$h!t, but with Guy they will be Rob's own songs, and not a bunch of bloody covers. I personally would love nothing more than to see him return bigger than ever and shut all those snug journalists up after the past year of their vindictive $h!t we and more importantly Rob have had to put up with. And it pretty much guarentees some classic tracks, I have a feeling seeing as they were so sick of eachother when they were doing Escapology, that this time around they will be better than ever, and if he works with others as well, it could very well be his best album yet. And apperently Johnny said at Guys and Dolls last night that Rob would be back bigger and better than ever next year. I cannot wait. :wub:

 

I missed out on all that carry on about the Swing as I believe it or not only had a couple of his albums up to a couple of years ago & did not know he had even done a swing album until I happened to see it in HMV & bought it & it is very good.

The tabloid press ( in particular The Mirror ) are not going to lay off him anyway . Rob is at the top of the tree & they do not like it.

I think though that while Rudebox is a very good album & while it did get many great review from the music critics , I do believe that the timing of the release was dreadful where Rob had no time to promote it ....but that's all water under the bridge now & being such a different album it did do really well. Going by the sales in the UK & Ireland the people & DJ's seem to want Rob to do the ballads & the anthems & dont really want to support him on anything different....that's not all the people but it does apply to those without any real creative spirit... :w00t: The bloody DJ's here never stop playing his older stuff so it's not a case that they have anything against Rob personally but they cannot seem to get their head around him doing anything different.....I suppose they are of the Westlife mode & that speaks for itself. :unsure:

I would like to see him do something again with Guy as they were really good together but I do not want to see GC stamped over every blood track....I want to seem him work again with Russo / Christy / Meehan & Stephen Duffy... but Hey' we do not always get what we want.... <_<

 

It's all so exciting..Don't you think...... I cannot wait...... :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

Edited May 27, 200718 yr by TessaT

Something to look forward to indeed. I would love to hear what Rob and Guy come up with now. They were brilliant once and I'm sure they can be again but on a whole different level. From the various rumours we've heard the album will have several collaborators, which I hope is true, that would be one amazing album. I doubt Rob would go back to a whole album just with Guy, I think he's past that point and has been for a long time. One or two tracks would be great and I have no doubt that Rob will come back next year bigger and better than ever I have a feeling he'll come out all guns blazing and I hope he does so and makes all the critics and nay sayers eat their words.

 

Interestingly, I picked up Feel earlier today and picked up reading where I left off some months back and there's a quote there from an interview Rob did after the GC break up in Q magazine and he says "we'll get back together but it won't be the same". I wonder how different and how the same whatever they're working on will be ........

I suppose nothing is ever the same...people move on & their ideas change ...that is what life is all about....

I do think that Guy has mellowed in last year or so if the comments I have heard him make are anything to go & & seeing that both of them are older now & if they are willing to meet half way then they could possibly write something great together again....

They both always acknowledged that they had that special relationship together when it came to writing songs & their ideas just clicked.

Whatever the press amy say Guy has not had anything like the success he had when was writing with Rob...that has been proven....he has had a few hits eg..James Blunt but I would have expected that anyway working with a new artist especially of of Jame's calibre but he did not have many follow up hits since....nothing at all like he had with Rob. Guy & Rob had that very special relationship & they are both well aware of that ...

It would be great if they can work together again on a couple of tracks but I personally would like to see Rob continue to work with other people as well....

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_...-name_page.html

 

 

TV HOPE FOR ROBBIE TRIBUTE ACT

A ROBBIE Williams impersonator is to represent Scotland in a TV contest to find the UK's top tribute act.

 

Stewart Reid, of Kilmarnock, flew to London last week to audition for the pilot of the show, which looks set to become the next XFactor.

 

The former electrical repair man, whose stage name is Supreme Robbie, sang Let Me Entertain You and Mr Bojangles.

 

Dad-of-one Stewart, 32, said: "I think it went well. I'm just hoping the show gets put on TV now so I can represent Scotland."

 

He topped the charts in Thailand three years ago with a dance version of Robbie's hit Feel.

 

 

 

 

:wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

 

 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I know. Can it get any worse? :(

He topped the charts in Thailand three years ago with a dance version of Robbie's hit Feel.

 

:puke2: :puke2: :puke2: What the f...

 

oh boy...this is too much for me

 

At least you won't 'have the pleasure' of seeing him on the telly. :lol:

http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?i...mp;in_page_id=7

 

 

Robbie's NOT 'moving in with a man' :rolleyes:

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Robbie 'staying States side'Robbie Williams's agent has denied reports he is about to return to London to live with a man.

 

Last week, it was claimed rehab Robbie had ask childhood friend, Jonathan Wilkes, if he and his wife Nikki would move into a five bedroom London home with him.

 

But a spokesman for the record breaking Brit Award winner told Hello magazine: 'It's absolute rubbish. Robbie already has a flat of his own in Chelsea.'

 

'The idea that he would ask if he could move in with Jonathan and his family is just silly.'

 

Williams moved to Los Angeles five years ago to try and break the US charts and battle reported drug and alcohol problems.

 

But last week it was claimed Robbie was set to move back to capital, asking Wilkes to find them a £2.3million mansion to share.

 

It was claimed he wanted Wilkes and his wife, Nikki and one-year-old son Mickey to live with them too.

 

Not so it seems, as Robbie is planning on staying in America and looks forward to welcoming Ant and Dec when they arrive.

 

A friend says: 'He's looking forward to a life of golf and football for a while with Ant and Dec when they arrive in America.'

 

Victoria Beckham is also said to be counting on Robbie to baby-sit her three tots.

 

 

Several things:

 

Williams moved to Los Angeles five years ago to try and break the US charts and battle reported drug and alcohol problems

Really? News to me. :blink:

 

Victoria Beckham is also said to be counting on Robbie to baby-sit her three tots.

 

Could this be any more ridiculous??

Nope. :w00t:

CD Wow given record fine - Courtesy Channel 4 News

 

Last Modified: 29 May 2007

By: Benjamin Cohen

 

The internet retailer CD Wow has been ordered to pay British record companies £41m - for breaking a legally binding promise not to sell cut-price CDs.

 

The Hong Kong-based company sold genuine CDs by artists including Robbie Williams and Snow Patrol - much cheaper than on the High Street- breaching copyright rules.

 

It's the biggest damages award ever granted to the record industry - which said the trade undermined investment in home-grown musical talent.

 

CD Wow is the third largest online music retailer in the country. Last year, they sold over £20m worth of music, films and games. Today, a high court judge ordered them to pay double that amount, to the British record industry. This is why

 

CD Wow are able to undercut the High Street because they buy CDs in places like Hong Kong - where they are much cheaper - and pass them on to consumers here in the UK at discounted prices.

 

The British Phonographic Industry - which represents the major record labels in the UK - says that CD Wow is not a consumer champion. Indeed, their strategy of importing cheap CDs threatens the vibrancy and future of the British music scene.

 

Today's record fine represents damages and legal fees for breaking a legally binding promise in 2004. Despite today's ruling, CD WOW says it will still sell cheap CDs.

 

The justice of this case could eventually be decided in the Europe Court, but for now it seems that British music fans will have to go on paying some of the highest prices in the world for CDs.

 

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Well it's one of the reasons why sales figures for albums have been down for last year & this year because DC Wow sales are not counted.......................... <_<

 

Rehab Robbie's back in the bars

May 31, 2007

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2007250157,00.html

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS was back out on the LA tiles — just as fellow Rehab Raver LINDSAY LOHAN popped back into a clinic.

 

With all this rehab-relaying, you’d think there was a shortage of beds.

 

Rob has been lying fairly low recently. But he was snapped back on the party scene and checking out the ladies at his favourite haunt, club Hyde, on Wednesday night.

 

Meanwhile, Lindsay boomeranged back into rehab as the threat of jail looms after a suspected illegal substance was found in her crashed car.

 

I’m pleased to see Robbie at least is looking well . . .

Celebrity-obsessed Britain

29 May 2007

http://www.burnleytoday.co.uk/columnists?articleid=2911115

 

IN two previous columns I have written, perhaps not favourably, on the merits of Her Majesty the Queen and singer Robbie Williams.

Imagine my joy then when the pair of them were voted the two greatest living Britons in a recent ITV1 programme. Perhaps it shows I am out of touch with the rest of the country, but I'm sure there are worthier living Britons than these two.

 

In fact, the list did not make pretty reading – Margaret Thatcher and the graffiti "artist" Banksy were among others in the ceremony.

 

The Queen wasn't there to pick up her award, but her son Prince Edward paid tribute via video. I am not prepared to make a comment on him for fear of high treason.

 

Anyway, I thought the Queen was German.

 

At the risk of contradicting myself, I can perhaps see why the Queen was voted for, but Robbie Williams? A pop singer who started life in a manufactured band and sold lots of records, but who has done very little in recent years.

 

His successful career has perhaps lasted 10 years at most. What about people who have worked all their lives for worthy causes?

 

What about people who have served their country in wartime and been maimed for life as a result? What about people who have made great advances in learning despite great difficulties.

 

When thinking of great living Britons, I immediately think of people like terminally ill child Kirsty Howard, who has raised £5m. for the Francis House Children's Hospice.

 

Or Simon Weston, the former soldier who suffered horrific burns during the Falklands War, and has since co-founded the Weston Spirit charity offering inner city youths alternatives to exclusion and a potential life of crime.

 

Perhaps, Professor Stephen Hawking, who has suffered from a type of motor neurone disease since he was a student, but has gone on to be a world-wide respected physicist.

 

I know it seems very easy for me to pick people with illnesses or disabilities, so why wasn't it so easy for this programme and its voters? Apparently, the winners were chosen by television vote and a "high-profile" panel.

 

Other winners included Amy Winehouse, Ricky Gervais, Dame Helen Mirren and David Beckham. It seems this programme was yet another depressing example of celebrity-obsessed Britain

SHE'S THE ONE

REVEALED: Robbie's smitten after secret dates with sexy TV star

31/05/2007

 

AFTER an age in the dating desert, whinger Robbie Williams has finally found a girlfriend up to his picky standards.

 

The Angels singer has been dating actress Ayda Field for nearly two months, we can reveal. And it looks like things are getting serious.

 

A source close to Rob says: "He and Ayda went on a couple of dates at the end of last year but it didn't work out. But a few weeks back they bumped into each other again at a party and got talking.

 

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"They got on really well and have been virtually inseparable ever since."

 

Sexy Ayda, 27, is a regular on American TV, starring in Will & Grace and Days Of Our Lives.

 

And romantic Robbie recently turned up on the set of her series Making It Legal because he couldn't bear to be parted.

 

The pal continues: "He surprised her and spent the whole day watching her prepare for scenes.

 

"He hasn't been this into a girl for a long time and they're doing all the couply things like going to the cinema and watching DVDs at Rob's house. He's smitten and the feeling's mutual."

 

The source went on: "Rob makes no secret of the fact that he's hugely disillusioned with the dating scene in LA - he finds it all very shallow and disappointing.

 

"He was really impressed that Ayda never kissed and told after their first dates last year - although it helped she had absolutely no idea who he was!"

 

It makes a change for the Rock DJ star to be loved-up.

 

We revealed earlier this month he had posted a series of four-letter rants on the net about the tragic state of his love life.

 

He moaned: "There are a few dating rules people adhere to out here in Hollywood. And they're all f***ing stupid."

 

The 33-year-old, who has £80million in the bank, also vented his rage against a girl called Tina who he went on two dates with before discovering she already had a boyfriend.

 

Talking about her looks, he wrote: "She's got a really terrible profile. It's weird" before branding her a "devious c***."

 

Rob recently claimed he wasn't sure he was cut out for family life, saying: "I don't know if I want to be in a relationship. I don't believe that to be fulfilled you have to have kids. What's the point?

 

"I can't guarantee my child won't suffer pain because that kid's going to be in pain at some point in life. I don't want to see that. It's too much."

 

Ayda, sort him out!

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/3am/2007/0...89520-19223219/

(thanks to fans supreme)