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Robbie Williams: ‘My dad doesn’t look after himself – he should have had help long ago’INTERVIEW As the singer embarks on a new tour, he talks about his complicated relationship with his father, his new critically condemned art career, and new album ‘Britpop’ “People are really f***ing serious about their ‘art’! People are really f***ing serious about their ‘craft’. Two words that I f***ing hate,” says Robbie Williams (Photo: Jason Hetherington) Craig McLean June 06, 2025 6:00 am Four weeks before Robbie Williams descended from the gods onto the stage – upside down – in the opening minutes of the first night of his new stadium tour last weekend, he descended some stairs in a central London gallery to talk up another aspect of his art. Or even, talk it down. Williams takes his showbiz skills very seriously indeed – at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday, he proclaimed that “my dream is to be the best entertainer on the f***ing planet”. But at the unveiling of Radical Honesty, his first UK exhibition, you could divine in his welcome remarks some sense of how seriously – or not – the musician viewed his visual art. “You know, there’s a lot of negativity when it comes to celebrities doing art,” he began in a three-minute speech delivered, in double denim and triple larky sarcasm, from a spiral staircase on the ground floor of London’s Moco Museum. “In particular a few things have been levelled at me. The question is always: ‘Why?’ “They say: ‘When you’ve had 15 number one albums and you sell out stadiums around the world… When you’ve won more BRITs than anyone else… When you’ve got such beautiful green eyes… When you’re so strong and yet so supple, and do so much important work for charity… When you’re such a loving husband and obviously incredible father’, they say: ‘Why are you doing this, Robbie?’” To resounding cheers from the assembled artworld hobnobbers, who were drinking alcohol-free Prosecco presumably in respect of Williams’s hard-won sobriety (or because it was cheaper), he went on: “Some may call me a national treasure. I say: what point is there being a national treasure if you don’t give some of that treasure away in the form of affordable yet aspirationally priced prints, numbered one to 100?” Robbie Williams: “I did a drawing of Jesus with some Procreate pens, and I said to my wife: ‘Is this any good?’ And she said: ‘No.’” (Photo: Gisela Schober/Getty Images for Bunte) Visual art-wise, Williams is a jack-of-all-trades, very much a master of none, and he wouldn’t pretend otherwise. Talking to me downstairs in the gallery basement, Williams is upfront about the merits and otherwise of his art, a multi-media snack buffet of iPad drawings, punning squiggles, giant knitwear and a sculpture of a tombstone for the artist bearing the inscription “I’m dead now please like and subscribe” (all of which will later receive a kicking from the critics). Still, there was no room at Radical Honesty for any of his ceramics. “I did a drawing of Jesus with some Procreate pens,” he tells me of one piece. “And I said to my wife: ‘Is this any good?’ And she said: ‘No.’ And this is why I seldom go to my wife to ask her opinion on anything, unless I know it’s a certified banger. ’Cause Ayda will tell me her opinion of it, and her opinion’s worth more than mine, and I’ll go off it… “So I cut out the face, I don’t know why, then it was ruined, and I threw it away. Luckily, I’d taken a picture of it. Then I was going through pictures [on my phone], and the lady that I do ceramics with said: ‘What’s that?’ ‘That’s my Jesus.’ ‘Where is it?’ ‘It’s in the bin.’ ‘Oh, I want to make a version of that!’ So I’m conflicted when I show Ayda stuff. Because, like I say, her opinion’s worth more than mine.” So, I say, trying to drag fast-talking, yarn-spinning Rob-the-gob back to the matter at hand, he’s outsourced the ceramic-making? “Yeah, real artisans!” he replies, brightly. “With real talent! And also I get to do ceramics for people from Stoke-on-Trent,” says this proud son of The Potteries. “So that feels good.” Robbie Williams new album ‘Britpop’ features blistering rock songs, a Chris Martin collab, and even a song written by AI (Photo: Julian Broad) Right now, Williams isn’t just arting about. His new album, Britpop, is completed and ready for release in the autumn. When I last interviewed him, in December, he played me the first single, “Rocket”. It’s a blistering rock song, featuring Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, which finally came out last month. We were meeting then to talk about his biopic Better Man. Six months on, he’s still justifiably pleased with the film. The international, cinema-going public may not have cared massively for a movie in which one of the world’s most recognisable pop stars appears as a monkey, but the critics did. And Williams is chuffed with how he was able to honour onscreen the complicated relationship with his dad (played by Inside No. 9’s Steve Pemberton), the old-school comedian from whom he learnt much of his stagecraft. Peter Williams has Parkinson’s disease, and has been confined to his bed by it. Speaking as someone whose own dad has the neurodegenerative disorder, I ask how he’s finding the Parkinson’s journey as a son. Williams is, for once, momentarily lost for words. But only momentarily. “I’m finding my dad doesn’t look after himself very well,” he says, carefully. “And that’s frustrating. He’s had to have more help [coming in] from this week. But he should have had help a long time ago…” His dad’s health and situation has caused the 51-year-old to reflect on his own future. “I’m looking at my kids, and when I’m older, I’m sure I’m going to be nagged to death anyway. But I want to do them a favour by helping myself [by looking after myself].” But as ever for a restless man with dyspraxia, dyslexia, ADHD, body dysmorphia and (“obviously”) an addictive personality, it’s onwards and upwards. It’s been that way (mostly) since the lad who joined a new, Manchester-based boy band called Take That in 1990 – at 16, the youngest member – struck out on his own five years later. At first, few fans (or haters) of Take That would have bet on the five-piece’s biggest party animal and show-off, the one who stomped off in a Britpop-era haze of chaos and cocaine, becoming bigger than the group or Gary Barlow, the frontman and chief songwriter. Take That, 1992. Left to right; Robbie Williams, Mark Owen, Jason Orange, Gary Barlow and Howard Donald (Photo: Tim Roney/Getty Images) And certainly it took a minute. Williams’s debut album Life Thru a Lens came out two years later, in 1997, and “Angels” – his first huge solo hit – was its fourth single. But from thereon, as a solo act, Williams was unstoppable. Even the occasional bold-but-duff album (hello, Rudebox), or his much-publicised battles with addiction and mental health issues haven’t held back his career. In fact, if anything, his willingness to be upfront about his personal struggles only added to his Knebworth-scale fandom. A superstar, but a relatable one, with the neuroses to prove it. Cue, then, another series of enormo-shows. Williams’s new tour, also titled Britpop, is a 37-date, four-month stadium run that comes to London this weekend, and ends in Athens and Istanbul in early October. To help him get gig-ready for what’s been designed as a circus maximus pop spectacular – no hiding his “art” light under a bushel here – he’s clearly been putting in the gym time. Plus, he and Ayda, his wife of 15 years, have just been on holiday to Miami and the Bahamas with their four children, Teddy (12), Charlie (10), Coco (six) and Beau (four). For a working-class kid from a broken home, it was a salutary reminder of the privilege those 15 number one albums and multiple Brits have brought his own family. “With my kids, it’s very interesting to hear Beau, the four-year-old, saying: ‘Are we going to go on the plane with the people, or without the people?’” So a plane “without the people” means his youngest has awareness and experience of private jets? “Yes,” Williams nods. You’ve spawned monsters, I say. “Yeah, we really have. ‘No, this one’s with the people, Beau.’ ‘Awww.’ [But] whatever works for them works for me.” (To be clear, Mr and Mrs Williams clearly haven’t spawned monsters. When his family arrives towards the end of our interview, Teddy introduces herself to me very politely, even coming in for a friendly hug.) When we speak, he’s also mulling another impending award. At last month’s Ivor Novellos, Williams was awarded the Music Icon statue, his fifth award from the songwriting organisation. Exactly 30 years since he quit Take That, frustrated at his lack of options for songwriting (and lack of options for partying), how meaningful is it for him to be recognised for his songwriting? Not performing, not being a pop star, but the actual writing? Robbie Williams, Jason Orange, Mark Owen, Gary Barlow, and Howard Donald as Take That in 1991 (Photo: Michael Putland/Getty Images) “It’s quite confusing, to be honest with you. I never feel as though I’ve been allowed in. I never feel as though I’ve been considered a songwriter. Guy Chambers has always been the genius behind Robbie Williams,” he says of his onetime writing wingman. “If I did anything marginally good, Guy Chambers did it. If I did anything shit, I did it.” He laughs. “Look: awards are very confusing,” he continues with the full-force candour and self-awareness that characterised his 2023 Netflix documentary series Robbie Williams. “They’re really good for your profile. And good for press that day. But I feel very awkward about receiving them, especially from a side of the industry that hasn’t been too kind about my talents. That’s my truth. But I’m saying yes [to the award], because it’s good for my profile.” To be fair, it was perhaps unavoidably a slow start for Williams as a songwriter, because he had the misfortune of being in a band with Gary Barlow, who could write pop bangers and ballads in his sleep. “I never feel as though I’ve been considered a songwriter. Guy Chambers has always been the genius behind Robbie Williams,” Williams said. (Photo: Epsilon/Getty Images) Williams exhales and nods. “Also: before I actually knocked together some words and maladies,” he says, deliberately erroneously (I think), “I thought that, if you were writing songs, you’d been touched by the special unicorn. Happens that that’s not the truth.” “All you’ve got to do is have a melody in your head and a song in your heart. So I can understand why most people outside of the music industry, and most people outside of songwriting itself, would think that it’s a magical talent that exists in rarefied air.” His point being: it’s not. “Also, people are really f***ing serious about their ‘art’! People are really f***ing serious about their ‘craft’. Two words that I f***ing hate.” That said: thinking again of Better Man, the Robbie Williams origin story it depicted did suggest that while he felt marginalised in Take That because Barlow, very much not unreasonably, got the lion’s share of the songwriting, that was also a spur to Williams. The idea of: “You know what? I can do that, too.” “Yeah,” agrees Williams, but only half-heartedly. “But you know, cocaine can make you think you can do anything. Genuinely. But I was writing poetry and stuff. Then I just had to figure out how to turn that into a song.” I raise the prospect of the threat to songwriting of AI. What does he think an AI Robbie Williams song would sound like? “I know what it sounds like,” he shoots back. “Is there one on the new album?” Williams nods. When we talked in December, he told me the album featured, as well as Iommi, “a guy called Freddy Wexler, too, a songwriter-producer in the States that got Billy Joel [back in the studio]. So Freddy’s becoming the dinosaur whisperer. Oh, Gaz Coombs! And Chris Martin’s played on something. Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple’s played on something”. I ask him now: is the AI one the one with Chris Martin? “No! But did I play you the Chris one? Can I play you it?” And with that, Robbie Williams cracks open his laptop and presses play on a track that, yes, sounds exactly like a cross between a Coldplay singalong and a Robbie Williams confessional. It will, undoubtedly, be massive. Robbie Williams is on tour now (robbiewilliams.com) Radical Honesty is at the Moco Museum London, until 24 October (mocomuseum.com) Robbie Williams: ‘My dad doesn’t look after himself – he should have had help long ago’

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The Lottery Winners’ Thom Rylance: ‘Robbie Williams said my biggest talent is bravery’The Manchester band have worked their way from obscurity to two No 1 albums. As they embark on a stadium tour supporting Robbie Williams, their charismatic frontman talks to Mark Beaumont about coming to terms with his neurodivergence, apologising to Kate Nash, and being the ‘new Morrissey’Thursday 05 June 2025 06:23 BST Comments Thom Rylance: ‘I’ll be in a charity shop in Wigan and I’ll get a FaceTime from Chad Kroeger out of Nickelback, and think I’ve got a weird life’ (Ianthe Warlow) Through the picture window of an executive box, destiny is calling Thom Rylance. “It’s not the Red Lion Pub, is it?” The Lottery Winners’ singer gasps, watching the first trickle of people swarm towards a small acoustic stage in the centre of Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium where, in roughly five hours’ time, his life is due to come full circle. The first song he ever performed, Rylance explains, was on a school trip to the Low Bank Ground Activity Centre in the Lake District. There, this troubled, confused and unknowingly neurodivergent child sang Robbie Williams’s “Strong” for his classmates. “For the first time, everyone clapped,” he says, “and it really uploaded this thing into my brain, like, ‘That’s how you make people like you. This is what you’re gonna do’.” Now, aged 35, at The Lottery Winners’ first stadium show, Rylance has been personally invited to play an acoustic segment with Robbie during his headline set. “I’m gonna be stood there,” he says, nodding at the small island stage, “but in my head I’m still that school kid who just wants everyone to clap.” A usually ebullient, friendly and forthright character, drenched in tattoos and resplendent in shaded Lennon glasses, his voice cracks and he pauses to collect himself. When he speaks again, it’s a half-whisper. “Mad.” Rylance and his Leigh, Manchester, indie-pop bandmates – bassist Katie Lloyd, guitarist Rob Lally and drummer Joe Singleton – are worthy claimants of life’s EuroMillions. Having built an organic following over 15 years of pub gigs, they hit the Top 30 with 2020’s self-titled debut album and haven’t looked down since: in March, this most self-made of bands landed their second UK No 1 with fourth album KOKO. Their first, 2023’s Anxiety Replacement Therapy, was a real problem party. Styled as a self-help tape for life’s loners and strugglers, it dotted positive-thinking therapy interludes between songs, and laid bare Rylance’s crippling issues with anxiety and addiction in buoyant, cathartic bursts of arena rock, Manc rap and infectious alt-pop. There were uplifting, life-affirming songs about Rylance’s antidepressant medication (“Sertraline”) and a letter of support that he wrote to his younger self (“Letter to Myself”). Highlight “Burning House” sounded like the famous gif dog sitting unperturbed in a flame-smothered kitchen had decided to have a Chumbawamba party. And of all of the record’s upbeat anguishes, one particular line of “Sertraline” stuck out: “My head is full of languages I cannot comprehend”. “It happens every day,” Rylance confesses, bold and open across the executive box table. “When I wake up, it’s the worst time. I’ve just got so many voices and thoughts, it’s like static on a TV.” ART really was a new start for Rylance. Besides making him the chart-topping rock star of his childhood dreams, it was written as moments of self-realisation, relationship turmoil and “big time spiralling” saw him quit drinking and hit the gym: he’s now four years sober and six stone lighter. And a recent diagnosis of ADHD has altered his perspective on an entire lifetime. “I didn’t really enjoy growing up,” he says. “I always knew I was different. It was always drilled into me that I was bad… because I couldn’t concentrate in lessons. I couldn’t do that. I was removed from my friends a lot and expelled from schools, and I just felt like a broken person.” To get his diagnosis on paper 30 years later was a weight off his shoulders. “It was a way for me to say, ‘alright, mate, actually, that wasn’t your fault. That whole thing wasn’t your fault. You couldn’t help it’. But at the same time, there was this whole mourning of the childhood that I should have had, that should have been better, because I should have been understood and helped in different ways of learning and different ways of being. So I felt angry. I was a bit pissed off that the grown-ups around me weren’t better when I was a kid.” Though he’s forever thankful to the teacher who handed him a guitar and put him in the school band before he could play a note, Rylance otherwise speaks remorsefully about his school days; of being isolated from class daily due to his erratic behaviour. “It was like a cell, a little cube that you’d sit in. That’s the worst thing for someone with ADHD, to sit in this white room with nothing but a textbook all day. Every day felt like I was inevitably set up to fail.” Onwards and upwards: the band have worked their way from obscurity to two No 1 albums (Official Charts Company) KOKO – an acronym for album motto “keep on keeping on” – was steeped in such childhood traumas. “Alien” concerned his sense of otherness when starting a new primary school after an expulsion: “It was literally on my birthday and I remember not telling anyone. It was the secret birthday that I didn’t tell anyone about.” And “Panic Attack” details the first anxiety episode he experienced in a school corridor aged 14, convinced by teachers that his life was over if he didn’t gain qualifications. His eyes widen as if transported back there. “It just hit me all of a sudden. I couldn’t breathe. I remember looking down at my shoes. I can still see the corridor with the chewing gum, everything, really vivid. I thought: ‘I’m gonna die’.” With confirmation of his condition has also come empowerment. Rylance has been visiting schools to talk to children with ADHD. “If there’s kids who learn differently or struggle with mainstream education, it’s not the kids that have to change, it’s the environment,” he says. “[I’m] just saying, ‘Go and do the thing you’re really good at. Don’t worry if you’re not good at the other stuff. There’s going to be stuff that you are. Go and do that and you’ll do really well. Look at me. Look at my car’.” And KOKO opened with a neurodivergence song called “Superpower”. “Look,” Rylance says, waving through the window at the thousands of fans now pouring into the stadium. “Robbie’s got it, and look… If you’ve got ADHD and you can find that thing that makes you feel good – for me it’s music – you’re f***ing unstoppable, because you just won’t take no for an answer. You’re a f***ing steam train. That’s what Robbie’s like, and that’s why he’s playing stadiums. And I will one day, 100 per cent.” Since Robbie’s people got in touch six months ago to request Rylance’s number, the pair have been FaceTiming “three or four times a week, for hours” and Rylance now considers him a mentor “The best thing [Robbie] said to me, I was really nervous about a show… and he went, ‘Yeah, but you know that, like me, you’re not the best singer, you might not be the best songwriter, you’re not the best performer, whatever. Your biggest talent is bravery. You’re s*** scared, but you’ll do it anyway’. And I was like, ‘S***, yeah’. I’ve been so scared at almost everything that we’ve done as a band, but done it anyway. And that’s the thing I’m most proud of. I’m brave.” Friends in high places: ‘I made Morrissey laugh’ (Ianthe Warlow) Williams joins a lengthy list of close celebrity muckers drawn to Rylance’s sheer personability. Lottery Winners’ albums have featured the likes of Boy George, Shaun Ryder, Nickelback and long-term cohort Frank Turner. They’ve also supported their teenage heroes like Morrissey (“I made him laugh!”) and Noel Gallagher, who presented Rylance with a guitar and still keeps in touch. “Everyone just seems to really like me,” he grins widely. “I’ll be in a charity shop in Wigan and I’ll get a FaceTime from Chad Kroeger out of Nickelback, and think ‘I’ve got a weird life’.” Onstage, Rylance tightropes the rarely trodden line between unifying therapy rocker (“I am, essentially, Morrissey,” he jokes. “The new one. The better one. I am the better Morrissey. Fax him”) and an exuberant northern comic in search of his cheeky monkey. It’s this side that leaps forth when talking about his celebrity encounters. The video shoot for “Money”, for instance, where he provided crisps, Guinness and a box of Celebrations for “Shaun Ryder’s rider” and was presented, in exchange, two conkers. “It weren’t conker season. I’ve still got Shaun Ryder’s conker.” One star Rylance hasn’t won over, though, is Kate Nash who, aghast at the shameless parade of public-school privilege parading across this year’s Brits, he erroneously accused of attending a fee-paying school on Twitter. “That’s ADHD for you, innit?” he says, apologetically. “I was just in my underpants one morning, got the wrong end of a stick, sent a tweet, and then it was in the NME, and then it spiralled bad.” His point, though woefully misdirected (Nash attended the free Brit School, which is a whole other box of advantages), was fundamentally valid. “I absolutely kicked out in the wrong direction,” he admits, “It shouldn’t have been at Kate Nash. She’s flying the flag, she’s doing the right thing and I’m with her. But it was,” he almost shouts it, “F***ING HARD to get here. Sixteen years, we made no money and we don’t have rich parents, we don’t have trust funds. We had to f***ing graft. Kate was cleaning toilets. I was working on a building site and working at Claire’s Accessories and writing CVs for people and playing in pubs three times a week, and still trying to make this, which seems impossible. But we did it, we’re here, and it was hard and a lot of sacrifice. A lot of people can’t do that. And I think working-class people have got stories to tell.” He quotes noted social scholar Danny Dyer on a figure that only eight per cent of people in the creative arts came from working-class backgrounds. “That’s f***ing mad. I’m not mad at anybody who’s had a really privileged life. That’s f***ing great. I just think that there should be things for the people that haven’t, to help them as well. It just needs to be more of an even playing field.” He cites Radiohead and Inhaler as privately educated or well-connected bands he loves. “If I was Bono’s son, I’d be in Inhaler doing really well. I’m not mad at him for that. Go for it, lad. I like Inhaler. Lovely guy, great band, great songs, very handsome. Just because Bono’s his dad doesn’t make him instantly good at being in a band. He is that anyway. But I’m not having that it didn’t help … What about the recording engineers and the studio time? And what about just not really needing to go and get a job, and not worrying about, ‘if this doesn’t work, what the f*** am I gonna do?’ Because it doesn’t matter, does it? If it didn’t work for him, then fine, do something else.” The Lottery Winners are soon to announce their own stadium headline show (“f*** it, you gotta try”), but as he glances out at the swelling crowds below, Thom is struck by pre-gig anxiety and considers the personal and musical struggles that brought him here. “It took a long time for me to love myself, but I do a bit now,” he says. “I think I’m pretty cool. I like being me for the first time ever, and I’m not ashamed of it.” And the kid he wrote “Letter to Myself” for, what would he think of Rylance singing it to a stadium of 60,000? “Every time I [perform] that letter, I go back to being that kid. I’m always going to be that kid. So it’s cool for him.” Something settles. “I think he likes me now.” The Lottery Winners support Robbie Williams at Emirates Stadium on 6 & 7 June, then across the UK and Europe The Lottery Winners’ Thom Rylance: ‘Robbie Williams said my biggest talent is bravery’ | The Independent

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Review: Robbie Williams rocks Murrayfield StadiumByWJQuinnJun 1, 2025 9:28 PM My wife and I weren’t going to see Robbie Williams’ Britpop tour kick-off gig at Murrayfield yesterday. That was until reports of affordable last-minute tickets reached chez QR via a delightful nail technician the day before. Now, I spent many a Stella-fuelled night at the Dundee University Student Union bopping away to Rock DJ, Kids, Let Me Entertain You and more, but I’ve never owned a Robbie Williams album. For the younger Mrs QR, Robbie was a car stereo and VH1 fixture she liked well enough…but that was about it. However, there’s no denying Robbie’s place in the history of British – or global – pop music. With well over 50 million records sold since releasing his first album, ‘Life thru a Lens’ in 1997, there’s no need to justify that statement further. A night of pop spectacle and audience-fuelled energySo, I went along to the concert fully expecting to bop along to a slew of familiar crowdpleasers, and an inevitable finale of his world-conquering ‘Angels’. What I experienced was a world-class entertainer at the top of his game, and uniquely dependent upon his audience to charge his energy tanks. So whilst he opened with a special effects laden (he flew momentarily) rendition of new single ‘Rocket’ and it was pretty good, he only got better and better thereafter. Why? Because with each song, and each bit of banter, the audience gave him more and more of their love. You thought the audience roared when he took the stage, but seven songs in, including a rapturously received ‘Rock DJ’ he still had gears to go up. Acoustic duets, crowd singalongs, and a pop icon at easeThere was one step up when he left the main stage to mount the C-stage in the middle of pitch, teaming up with Thom Rylance of support act ‘The Lottery Winners’ and, for a joyful acoustic take on ‘Relight My Fire, Pop Idol champ, Michelle McManus. Before that however, he as Rylance had put the audience to the test with a ‘guess the tune’ sing-along of some of Williams’ lesser known back catalogue. When the audience ‘got it’ there was no mistaking the joy on his face – but when they didn’t, let’s just say I don’t think he knows how to feign disappointment. And that only makes him all the more likeable. If I have one criticism, it would be that his obvious delight in tens of thousands of people singing his songs, sometimes gets in the way of his actually singing them. That wasn’t an issue when he played his last C-stage number, ‘Something Beautiful’ – probably his best performance in the show. The combination of a tidal wave of crowd affection and a swelling, catchy anthem was impossible to resist. Banter, ballads and a crowd in the palm of his handHe may be 51, but Robbie Williams has never sounded better. His voice has depth, power, and range – maybe he’s lost a note or two at top, I don’t know, but if he has – it makes no difference. When he lays into one of his many chart-busting numbers, he can deliver them every bit as well as you’ve heard on a recording. Kudos are due to his terrific, potent, and tight band for accompanying him in style. Delivering well-known tunes perfected in a studio to an audience packed with afficianados isn’t easy, but they go one better and deliver them better. Live music – accept no substitutes. As mentioned before, Robbie also offers some terrific, pretty unfiltered banter liberally throughout. Ok so his schtick of talking to deliberately janky AI-conjured versions of himself as a teenager and old man weren’t all that funny, but otherwise he has the knack of connecting with a stadium-full of folks. One minute he’ll be telling you about his well-known struggles with mental-health, the next he’s taking the pss out of there being ‘two types’ of Robbie Williams songs: the ‘fck-yeah, I’m Robbie Williams!’ anthem, and the ‘Oh no, I’m Robbie Williams with all these insecurities and feelings of failure’. The crowd isn’t safe either, not from being told he appreciates every single one, and hopes they’ll come see him again – or from being singled out for applying fake tan to the point of a mahogany patina. As far as stadium gigs go, this was a pretty intimate, familiar experience – something a performer with less charisma and charm could never do. A classic Robbie finale with Angels, Rat Pack, and raw charmBack on the mainstage, the rest of the concert was pretty magisterial from there, from a glittery ‘Millenium’, through the plaintive ‘Come Undone’ and into a take on ‘She’s the One’ which the teary-eyed Debbie from Dundee (up the Taysiders!), will never forget. The popstar serenade has a mixed and not always noble history, but Williams has a wonderfully irreverent, but loving way with his fans. He thanks the audience for ‘holding’ him and his band, and he means it. A Robbie Williams concert is a symbiosis for want of a better word. Of course, this being a Robbie Williams concert, he also tossed in a couple of rat-pack numbers, New York New York, and My Way – at least partially in tribute to his crooner dad who’s no longer able to join him on stage thanks to Parkinson’s. “I’m in Snipers Alley’ he told the crowd, referring to his own 50+ age, but he looks like a man in excellent shape, so long may he survive the battlefield. The finale was, of course, Angels, and it was every bit as epic an experience as you’d expect when one of the world’s best selling artists cracks out their globe-conquering number. Again, he didn’t actually have to sing that much of it, but by this time the audience were on 7th William’s heaven, so there wouldn’t have been any stopping them. A night to remember from the King of EntertainmentNear to the start of the concert, Robbie explained that just as Michael Jackson had crowned himself the ‘King of Pop’, he was placing first dibs on being the ‘King of Entertainment’ – and on the strength of his Murrayfield appearance, he’s got as good a claim as any. For instance, I don’t think Robbie Williams is going to climb his way onto my most-listened artists on Spotify, but I will 100% go and see him again if he books a gig in the city. Why? Because Mr ‘Let Me Entertain You’ does just that. P.S. I wasn’t in time to catch The Lottery Winners play the first support slot, but I was lucky enough to catch Rag’n’Bone Man’s set afterwards. Man, what a voice that dude has, and what a blast to hear the genuinely anthemic ‘Human’, and ‘Skin’ roared out with uniquely soulful power. Also if you want a hype song before a concert main-court, you could do far worse than the Calvin Harris enriched ‘Giant’ to get the crowd hooting. P.P.S I read a ridiculous article on the advertising-rammed Edinburgh Live site earlier about attendees complaining about the crowd dispersal after the concert. Reader, it was absolutely fine, and nothing you wouldn’t expect when tens of thousands of folk tip out of a sports stadium at any time of day. Those who had to, or chose to, squeeze into a tram rather than walk out certainly had a game of sardines to look forward to, but again – that’s just how public transport works. P.P.P.S Robbie Williams is a world-class entertainer – if you like, but don’t particularly love, his music, I guarantee you’ll find a ticket to his show to be money well spent. All Images: A.Quinn DetailsShow: Robbie Williams Britpop Tour Venue: Various (UK Tour) Dates: See tour dates online Age Guidance: All ages Admission: Various ticket prices Time: See tour schedule Various times and venues Accessibility: Venue dependent To learn more or book tickets for Robbie Williams Britpop Tour, visit https://robbiewilliams.com/pages/live. WJQuinnEditor of the Quinntessential Review Review: Robbie Williams rocks Murrayfield Stadium

I did not realise that this was actually a TV show, I see it on the schedule for this week Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: Australia will begin this Friday (April 11) on ITV1. (Image: ITV) Gary Barlow returns to ITV to showcase some of the best wines – and this time the Take That front man will be heading Down Under with his celebrity pals. The 54-year-old, who will kickstart his UK tour next week, travelled to Australia to sample the country’s vast selection of vino for the second series of Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: Australia. Viewers will get to follow Barlow as he tours the country with Take That - who returned there as a band for the first time in 30 years. When not performing alongside Mark Owen and Howard Donald in some of the most incredible venues, Barlow will discover more about the local food and wine. ls across the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. Celebrity guests including Sophie Ellis-Bexter, Dannii Minogue, Tim Minchin and Ronan Keating. They meet a host of chefs and wine producers to learn more about the process while pairing local wines with local food. Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: Australia will air this Friday (April 11) on ITV1 at 2pm and will also be available on ITVX. Speaking ahead of the show, Barlow said: “It is the most incredible land. It’s just so inspiring. Ad “We travelled north to the rainforest, to the Western Cape and the Morning Peninsula, and it was all absolutely stunning. The world is such an amazing place.” ITV recommissioned another ‘wine tour’ with Barlow following the success of his debut travel series Gary Barlow's Wine Tour: South Africa that aired on the channel last year. Leanne Clarke, assistant commissioner for entertainment and daytime at ITV, said: "The South Africa series was so warm and packed with fun.# "I am already looking forward to seeing more from Gary’s Australian adventures." Barlow’s Songbook Tour 2025 kicks off in the Isle of Man on the April 17 and will see the singer play 41 dates around the UK, including a string of outdoor shows in June. Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: Australia will air this Friday (April 11) on ITV1 at 2pm and will also be available on ITVX. Gary Barlow joins celebrity pals for new ITV wine tour series in Australia

Apart from Rock DJ very little references to Better Man in the tour. I was hoping to find clips of Something Beautiful but nothing so far. I am not even sure if he sang that song in full, Must ask Spiceboy , 🤔

Timeline / Films Released 3 May 2013 Iron Man 3 (Let's Go All The Way)Rock supergroup The Wondergirls reunited to record Let's Go All The Way for the soundtrack to the third instalment of the hugely successful Iron Man movie franchise. Appropriately packed with adrenaline and action, there was only one man for the job of lead vocals to the track… VocalsRobbie Williams, Ashley Hamilton, The Wonder Girls Written ByGary Lee Cooper Original ArtistSly Fox Source Robbewilliams.com

Robbie Williams brings out Greater Manchester rocker on first night of UK tour in 'full circle' momentStory by Adam Maidment • 2h • Robbie Williams brought out The Lottery Winners frontman Thom Rylance on stage in Edinburgh© Instagram: @thelotterywinners/ianthe.w A Greater Manchester musician has said he has experienced a ‘full circle moment’ after Robbie Williams invited him up on stage in front of 60,000 people on the first night of his huge UK tour. The iconic singer kicked off his Britpop Tour at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland on Saturday night (May 31) featuring a host of some of his biggest hits, as well as material from his upcoming thirteenth album. Throughout the tour, which will include two nights at Manchester’s Co-op Live on June 10 and 11, Robbie will be supported by Leigh band The Lottery Winners, who secured their second number one album earlier this year. The indie-pop quartet’s frontman Thom Rylance was invited up on stage with Robbie during the Edinburgh show to perform a guitar-led rendition of songs, including Let Love Be Your Energy and Candy. Following their duet together, in which they joked that their double act would be called ‘The Balls’, Robbie was then joined on stage by former Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus for a rendition of Take That’s version of Relight My Fire. The Lottery Winners, who hail from Leigh, are currently supporting Robbie Williams on his huge UK and Europe tour© Jason Roberts /Manchester Evening News Taking to social media after the performance, Thom could barely contain himself as he described the experience as a ‘full circle moment’ for him. "This was the wildest moment of my life so far,” he said in a video on Instagram. “The first song I ever sang in public was on a primary school trip and it was by Robbie Williams, and then I got to do this with him in a stadium in front of 60,000 people.” Fans also took to Thom’s Instagram to share not only how special the duet was but also how impressed they had been by The Lottery Winners during their support slot. One person said: “It’s great of Robbie to support you guys on these stadium shows.” Another said: “An incredibly well deserved full circle moment!" Another wrote: "So proud of ya mate. you deserve all the success. Buzzing for ya." One person commented: "Never heard of you until yesterday. Your set was amazing, stage presence amazing, band was amazing...well deserved lad.” Another said: “Absolutely loved you guys, you have no idea!! Your energy was something else, can see why Rob chose you to support!!! We'll be coming to see you on tour for sure.” The band previously spoke to the Manchester Evening News about how supporting Robbie on tour was a ‘pinch-me’ moment. Thom said: ““This tour means so much to us. It’s absolutely massive - look at the venues. “We’re going to throw everything we have at it and it’s going to turn us into superstars in our own right. We’re very grateful to Robbie for the opportunity.” Robbie Williams brings out Greater Manchester rocker on first night of UK tour in 'full circle' moment

Review by The Sunday Times. Thanks to https://www.facebook.com/RWfanfest? on Facebook as I could not open the article myself. FIRST NIGHT - Robbie Williams review - Robbie does it his way in a five-star stadium triumph ★★★★★ Launching his latest tour in Edinburgh, Robbie Williams plays the hits with his trademark emotional vulnerability, like a true showbiz superstar. Extraordinary that Robbie Williams is still playing stadium gigs in 2025. But I suppose he needs room for all the baggage. In a recent film award acceptance speech he thanked addiction, anxiety and ADHD — among a string of other issues — as if they were co-stars, which in a way they are. His long solo career has been characterised by candid and witty self-reflection on his troubles and behaviours. He is never far from a chat show sofa or front page. Underpinning all this is a clutch of songs that have become part of the soundtrack of British life: weddings, funerals and now Murrayfield Stadium, where, on a cold Edinburgh evening, tens of thousands gathered for the opening concert of his Britpop tour. “Have you missed me?’ he asked, cupping an ear. “Course you f***ing have.” Let Me Entertain You, that monster mission statement, was the second song. Mad to play it so early, you might think, but Williams arched an eyebrow like a man who knows he still has five more No 1s up his sleeve. I say “sleeve”: he stripped to a vest for most of the show, the better to show off the biceps and triceps which he more than once pointed out were impressive for a 51-year-old. Growing old was a running theme. The emotional high point, even more than Angels, was a cover of My Way, preceded by a tender speech about the challenges of middle age. It will have resonated with many in the audience who, like him, have elderly parents with health problems. Leaning into schmaltz, leaning into cringe, leaning into the stuff of life, this was a show that was never subtle but felt endlessly affirming. “My dream is to be the best entertainer on the planet,” he announced. Images flashed up behind him — Sinatra, Elvis, Bowie, Tom Jones, Freddie Mercury, Princess Diana — suggesting the lineage in which he sees himself. The tattoo on his neck, visible on the big screens, was of two pairs of spectacles: the logo of the Two Ronnies. He, like them, is a genius of light entertainment.��All of this and all the hits: Relight My Fire sung with his friend Michelle McManus; She’s the One sung to “Debbie from Dundee” (a fan in the crowd); Feel sung with the whole stadium, a great moment of togetherness. “Some nights I come out on stage,” Williams admitted early in the set, “and wonder if I’ve still got it.” By the end of the evening even he, for all his self-doubt, will surely have been satisfied. This was a masterful performance. A good night for us and a good night from him.

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Robbie Williams: What's the superstar's most streamed song after kicking off his UK tour & what did he play? By Benjamin Jackson Culture and tickets writer Published 2nd Jun 2025, 09:45 BST Let him entertain you – and that he did, as Robbie Williams kicked off his 2025 UK tour with a stunning performance by all accounts in Edinburgh over the weekend. The former Take That star wowed audiences with his performance at Murrayfield, setting the tone for the remainder of his shows throughout the year, including dates in Manchester, Bath, London, and at Newcastle’s Come Together Festival. What did Robbie Williams perform on the first night of his UK tour?Robbie Williams kicked off his UK tour with a performance at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland on May 31 2025. According to Setlist.FM, the former Take That star performed the following set: Rocket (live debut) Let Me Entertain You All My Life / Song 2 / Seven Nation Army / Rim Tim Tagi Dim (Singalong Medley) Monsoon Old Before I Die Rock DJ (Better Man version) Love My Life Strong The Road to Mandalay Supreme Let Love Be Your Energy / Sexed Up / Candy (with The Lottery Winners) (acoustic snippets; first time playing "Let Love Be Your Energy" since 2015) Relight My Fire (Dan Hartman cover) (with Michelle McManus) (Solo live debut) Something Beautiful (First time since 2006) Millennium Theme From New York, New York (John Kander cover) Come Undone Kids She's the One (World Party cover) My Way (Claude François cover) Encore: Feel Angels Where is Robbie Williams performing this week?It’s London’s turn to be entertained by Robbie Williams this weekend, as the singer takes to the stage at the Emirates Stadium for a two-night stand, performing on June 6 and June 7 2025. Are there tickets still available for Robbie Williams UK tour?Ticketmaster still has a selection of tickets for all of Robbie Williams’ upcoming UK tour dates, with some still at face value while others now on the ticketing agent’s resale market. For more information or to make a purchase, head on over to Ticketmaster today to avoid missing out. Robbie Williams: What is his most streamed song and did he play it opening his UK tour?

Great photos Alex, Thanks for posting . 😊 Loved the stage outfits on the night. Last tour I could not stand all those gold vests 😂

Huge thanks to Sebastien for sharing his experience at Edinburgh on Saturday night - click link to read full article on RWL Video thanks to https://www.robbiewilliamslive.com/news/author/sebastien

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

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