Posted November 24, 200816 yr ROBBIE Williams has lifted the lid on his life as a teenager growing up in the Potteries before he found fame and fortune with Take That. In three, 30-minute audio clips, the singer remembers the friends he hung around with when he was living with his mother Jan and sister Sally at their home in Greenbank Road, Tunstall. See the full story at The Sentinel website - search for sentinel robbie williams and ouija
November 24, 200816 yr Think this might be the article you mean. Welcome to the Forum by the way From http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/...il/article.html Podcast recalls Robbie's terrifying bid to summon spirits Monday, November 24, 2008, 09:20 ROBBIE Williams has lifted the lid on his life as a teenager growing up in the Potteries before he found fame and fortune with Take That. In three, 30-minute audio clips, the singer remembers the friends he hung around with when he was living with his mother Jan and sister Sally at their home in Greenbank Road, Tunstall. The "Robcast" is available in full to fans who pay a £30 annual subscription to his official website. It concludes with a haunting tale about Robbie and his friends breaking into the boarded up Church Lawton Hall one night after leaving a pub in Trent Vale, near Trentham, to attempt to invoke ghostly spirits using a Ouija Board. Robbie says: "I found myself face down in mud, only to raise my head to realise I'm on top of someone's last resting place – and that someone died in the 17th century. "There it is, Church Lawton Hall, and movie perfect too. Mist had risen off the lake at the back and it had engulfed the whole building. You couldn't have picked a more paranormal setting. "Every step we made was like being in a Cliff Richard dry ice Top Of The Pops performance." Robbie's mum Jan said: "It's true what he says. I can remember him coming home – he was very scared." Robbie's first audio clip is introduced to the sounds of Dream Academy's Life In A Northern Town. The final instalment ends with Take That's Never Forget. He says: "I'm 16, living with my mum and sister in Greenbank Road, Tunstall. "Tension was abound, mum was about to find out I hadn't done as well as I had led her to believe (at school). "Things looked pretty bleak for me." Robbie, who at the time was known by friends as "Will", goes on to recount tales from his early life, including falling in with "the proverbial bad lot, a draw-smoking, non-job-bothering lot", taking LSD in Shelleys nightclub, a brief spell as a door-to-door salesman in Stoke-on-Trent and spending his first pay packet in Hanley on a pair of Versace jeans. Robbie also talks about auditioning and eventually winning a part in Take That, which meant he never needed to retake his GCSEs at Fenton Sixth Form College. He says: "I sang a Jason Donovan song and danced like MC Hammer. "Things like that (finding fame and fortune) don't happen to people from Stoke-on-Trent. In fact the only time I can remember us being on the TV is a brief mention in a Carpet Warehouse advert." Jan said: "The audition for Take That was in May in Manchester. I checked the place out before we went. "Coming home he was very excited about it, but we didn't hear anything for a long time. "In August he got his GCSE results. He was in the garden with his friends. When he saw me he came in and said, 'I've not done very well'. "I had a look and said, 'no you haven't'. "He went back into the garden, then the phone rang and it was (Take That manager) Nigel Martin Smith, to say that Robbie was in the band. He was over the moon. "From the disappointment in the morning, things turned out all right." During his Robcast, the singer mentions a number of friends who went with him to Church Lawton Hall, including Maffer, Egghead, Flick, Dave, Coco (Paul Colclough) and Drew (Munroe).
November 24, 200816 yr Well somebody has listened to the rw.com Robcast ...... :mellow: naughty naughty naughty :teresa: Too bad he didnt have my experience that was tooooooooo real ... ouch!!!! :cry:
