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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 😂

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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

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Rags @RagNBoneMan · 1h Last night was mad 🤯"thank you so much @robbiewilliams for having me and thanks to everyone who braved the scottish weather and watched the set! ☔️"

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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 Pollock Robbie 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

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, Oasis 4/5 **** Robbie Williams opening his Britpop tour at Murrayfield Stadium Credit: Alan Rennie/Shutterstock Neil 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/Shutterstock A 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 October Robbie Williams, Murrayfield Stadium, review: Take that, Oasis

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 Beaumont Sunday 01 June 2025 10:43 BST 1Comment (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

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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 .. 🫣

You got good value for money on the night Spiceboy, did you enjoy the support acts, !!

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 😎

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What was the audience reaction to Something Beautiful Spiceboy. I am hoping to come across a video,

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Videos blocked in my country due to copyright Alex. Try this one 😉 Video thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@BGT

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