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  1. Video thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@AbsolutKaz
  2. Videos blocked in my country due to copyright Alex. Try this one šŸ˜‰ Video thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@BGT
  3. Video thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@AbsolutKaz
  4. Looked amazing Spiceboy, brilliant you enjoyed the show . I reckon given his age that the "talk" features on purpose as I guess he has to pace himself throughout the show but we also know that Robbie likes to talk, he likes to connect with the audience. I like the overall look of the show, really vibrant. šŸ˜Ž
  5. Lottery winners must be on stage now šŸ¤”
  6. In other words " showery" ā˜ŗļø, typical summer weather ...
  7. @whxnwewereyoung Robbie has been heard sound checking Something Beautiful. 16 years and I’ve never heard this song live. I never thought I would either. This is going to be incredible 🩵 Darby (ā«©)āš”ļø BRITPOP Era šŸš€ (@whxnwewereyoung) / X It would be my dream come true if this is on the setlist ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
  8. Surely that has to be an opening number, he looks like he was about to bust a gut šŸ˜‚ , I love it but it's not a song that is easy to sing live so I wonder where ir will come in the setlist, maybe get it out of the way early. Could it be the new LMEY šŸ˜‰
  9. A 'Purr-fect' Reunion: Robbie Williams, Felix Return For ā€˜It’s Great To Be A Cat’ CampaignMay 30, 2025 3:22 PMBy Dayeeta Das NestlĆ© Purina PetCare Europe's ā€˜It’s Great to Be a Cat’ campaign has returned with the 'purr-fect' combination as Robbie Williams and Felix the cat team up once again. The pet food brand has launched a new TV advert and mini movie starring Williams, who enters the mischievous cat's black-and-white world. He has also recorded a new song, exclusively for the campaign, celebrating feline personality traits we admire, with the aim of inspiring people to experience these traits even more in their own lives. 'My Spirit Animal': Robbie WilliamsRobbie Williams said, ā€œIt’s a privilege to be back with Felix and to be the first person invited into his black-and-white world, where we can celebrate how great it is to be a cat. ā€œI love how my cats live their lives exactly how they want, when they want. They’re masters at being mischievous, true to themselves, confident, free-spirited and playful. This definitely rubs off on me – clearly, they’re my spirit animal.ā€ The campaign will also see Felix hitting the road with Robbie Williams as the headline sponsor of his 2025 European Tour, bringing the cat food and music industry together like never before. The tour kicks off on 31 May 2025 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Fabio Pietro Degli Esposti, European marketing group director at Nestle Purina, said, ā€œThis year is set to celebrate why it’s great to be a cat like never before. One ultimate reason is enjoying irresistible food every day, but it’s also how our cats’ brilliantly mischievous, free-spirited and confident personality traits can benefit us if we all embrace a bit of cat attitude. ā€œWho better to inspire this than Robbie Williams and Felix; both with these personality traits in abundance. And after Felix previously spent time playing around in Robbie’s world, the new advert shows the pop-star joining our iconic cat on screen – the first-ever human to enter and have a taste of Felix’s animated world.ā€ The NestlĆ© Purina portfolio includes various pet foods brands, including Felix, Purina ONE, Gourmet, and Pro Plan. A 'Purr-fect' Reunion: Robbie Williams, Felix Return For ā€˜It’s Great To Be A Cat’ Campaign | ESM Magazine
  10. Take That @takethat Nobody Else 30th Anniversary LPs are available to pre-order now in multiple formats! First time on vinyl, with rare live tracks + Howard’s remix of Hanging Onto Your Love šŸ’™ Get yours now, and be there with us at release in 1 week! #NobodyElse30 https://takethat.lnk.to/NobodyElse30 Take That on X: "Nobody Else 30th Anniversary LPs are available to pre-order now in multiple formats! First time on vinyl, with rare live tracks + Howard’s remix of Hanging Onto Your Love šŸ’™šŸ§” Get yours now, and be there with us at release in 1 week! #NobodyElse30 https://t.co/mpLlDya8ko https://t.co/RUOHA6HHcS" / X
  11. I saw Gary Barlow perform in Glasgow's Armadillo - my verdictStacey Mullen Mon 26 May 2025 at 11:14 pm GMT+1Ā·2-min read Gary Barlow performs at Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic by Calum Buchan. (Image: Gary Barlow performs at Glasgow's Armadillo in May 2025. Pic by Calum Buchan.) Verdict: Five stars. Singer Gary Barlow stripped it back to basics from the big production shows his fans are used to for an intimate set in Glasgow’s Armadillo tonight - and the results were simply wonderful. The razzmatazz of the Take That shows was nowhere to be seen as he opted for a set featuring incredible musicians showing off their talent. Opening up with his 1997 solo track Open Road, the 54-year-old quickly switched things back to familiar territory with the Take That smash Greatest Day as confetti fell into the crowd. ā€œIt’s always loud in Scotland.ā€ Brad Keller then joined Barlow on stage for a performance of A Million Love Songs with saxophonist Mike Stevens in tow, and it sounded just gorgeous. The Flood - the song which launched Robbie Williams’ brief return to Take That in 2010 - was a moment to remember, with the crowd singing in unison with their arms in the air. What’s great about Barlow’s solo gigs is that he gets to show his true self on stage. You can see glimpses of what he learned in his early career performing in the working men’s clubs from the humour he honed from the comedians to encouragement of audience participation, it makes you feel part of the show - and it’s something that can be easily lost the bigger the crowd, yet Barlow has mastered it. We know he can write songs, his talent is exceptional, but when he sings them on his own, you feel the meaning even more. This was the case during a piano performance of Forever Love, it was just beautiful. Shine delighted the crowd, let’s face it that song just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, it’s a complete mood lifter while Relight my Fire got the party started. The pop masterpiece Back for Good then delivered reminding fans of the beauty of Barlow’s writing, it’s pure genius and a song that’s stood the test of time. Finishing things off, Barlow flattered: ā€œThe fact you’ve chosen to spend your evening with us means the world,ā€ before performing Rule the World and Never Forget. I saw Gary Barlow perform in Glasgow's Armadillo - my verdict
  12. 29 May 2025 Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey is not the movie anyone saw coming but it's the one we all needed. I break down why this unappreciated film is a breath of fresh air for the music biopic genre, and why we should all be excited about the emerging freak era with other films like 'Piece by Piece', 'Kneecap', and 'Pavements'. -- Chapters -- 0:00 - Intro 3:39 - Who is Robbie Williams? 6:55 - Monkey Business 13:30 - It's also a Musical? 19:41 - Fame vs. Artistry... vs. Family 27:14 - Conclusion 28:52 - Outro Patreon: / elliotroberts Instagram: / elliotroberts Twitter: / elliotroberts5 TikTok: / elliot.roberts Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/elliotroberts Music Featured: ninjoi. - Acceptance - https://thmatc.co/?l=66F475B2
  13. Oh yes that makes sense I guess. Historical countey to visit. He is coming across as very confident for this tour which is great
  14. Well that's a surprise , does he have a fanbase there !
  15. Yes & I really enjoyed it. Karl is easy to listen to & a very enthusiastic guy & Lucy & Matt asked him some great questions . Also great to learn there is a new setlist for the tour ā˜ŗļø
  16. Another great episode by Lucy & Matt , huge thanks to them both for sharing . How exciting just before the tour begins 😊 Listen on links below Special – Karl Brazil, Rob’s Drummer & Musical Director In this very special episode, we’re thrilled to welcome one of the UK’s most in-demand musicians — drummer, songwriter, and musical director, Karl Brazil! Karl has been keeping the beat for Robbie since 2009 and most recently stepped into the role of musical director for the XXV tour. Beyond the stage, he’s co-written a string of songs with Rob, including the latest single Rocket, penned alongside the legendary Tony Iommi and previous podcast guest Tom Longworth. In our chat, Karl takes us through his musical journey — from early beginnings to his big break — and gives us an insider look at what it’s like to be MD for Robbie. We dive into the songwriting process, unpack the stories behind the tracks he’s co-written, and even get a few exciting teasers about Robbie’s upcoming Britpop album and tour. Follow Karl on Instagram @brazil.karl Get in touch with us at robbiewilliamsrewind.com & @rewindrobbie on Instagram & Twitter. Available on all major podcast providers – listen here. (Or watch on YouTube, see below) Special – Karl Brazil, Rob’s Drummer & Musical Director – Robbie Williams Rewind Special - Karl Brazil, Rob's D…–Robbie Williams Rewind – Apple Podcasts Special - Karl Brazil, Rob's Drummer & Musical Director - Robbie Williams Rewind | Podcast on Spotify
  17. Soccer Aid @socceraid Ā· 1h It’s official - Robbie’s back on the touchline for England! šŸ“ó §ó ¢ó „ó ®ó §ó æ https://bit.ly/3H5DoMC
  18. Edinburgh Travel News @edintravel Ā· 8m Robbie Williams concert, Scottish Gas Murrayfield, Saturday 31 May. Traffic management info (PDFs) - http://tinyurl.com/edintravel Local bus diversion info - https://tinyurl.com/yc8bcxwn Venue info - https://scottishrugby.org/robbie-williams/… Great line-up this weekend...
  19. With Radical Honesty, Robbie Williams is making an exhibition of himselfMay 27, 2025 Ā· By Craig McLean The legendary singer-songwriter Robbie Williams has turned his hand to visual art, with a humorous, pop art-inspired body of work that reflects on fame, addiction and social anxiety. But the last thing he wants is to be taken seriously. In the glitzy galleries of Moco Museum London, a shiny new space by the traffic-clogged vortex-cum-roundabout of Marble Arch, the singer-songwriter-provocateur Robbie Williams has splurged his innermost thoughts and outermost scribbles. Radical Honesty is the first major showing of the pop star’s ā€œartā€ (Robbie would be OK with the quote marks). They’re rendered via iPad drawings, wall scrawls, wonky spelling and wayward punctuation, giant executive toys, greetings-card aphorisms on Athena-size posters, and outsized comfort knitwear (bear with us here). All that and an actual tombstone, placed on astroturf on the floor, for the artist formerly known as the most rewarded musician in the history of the BRIT Awards. The epitaph of Robert Peter Williams, age 51, of Stoke-on-Trent? ā€œI’m dead now please like and subscribeā€. The results aren’t always pretty. Robbie Williams would be OK with that, too. ā€œBefore party practising conversation topics that wont sound insane,ā€ run the runes on one wriggly Shrigley self-portrait of this sober anti-socialite as he gazes into the bathroom mirror. ā€œā€˜Smelt anything cool lately?ā€™ā€ ā€œI forgive you for being a Dickhead. You twat,ā€ begins another reflected image of a tatted and vested Robbie. ā€œOK, we still need to work on this.ā€ These convos-with-self are the outward manifestations of the inner turmoil of a father of four with the mother of all neuroses. ā€œViolets are blue, roses are red, lock the pill cabinet or I’ll steal your meds,ā€ this once-and-forever addict writes under a thirsty Hirst-y medicine cabinet. ā€œJust because you’re dyslexic doesnt mean youre not stupid,ā€ he’s felt-penned onto a mixtape. ā€œGive your anxiety a silly name. Mine is called Blanche,ā€ he writes over a black and white doodle of a wild-haired granny. ā€œThis is Blanche.ā€ As he revealed in 2023’s wars’n’warts’n’all Netflix documentary series Robbie Williams, this gazillion-selling pop star and hero to a generation (or two) wrestles with ā€œdyspraxia, dyslexia, ADHD, neurodiversity, body dysmorphia, hypervigilance… There’s a new one that I acquired recently: HSP. Highly sensitive person. Post-traumatic stress disorder. And, obviously, I have an addictive personality.ā€ Hence Radical Honesty’s Emotion Sweater, capacious enough even for the head of the world-wobbling talent with a 1999 album called the The Ego Has Landed. It’s an artwork in which he wears his superpowers embroidered on its sleeve and chest: ā€œAnxiousā€; ā€œNarcissisticā€; ā€œParanoidā€; ā€œResilientā€; ā€œProudā€; ā€œShameā€. You get the turmoiled picture. Another piece of clobber is an equally XXXXL hoodie. ā€œRobbie Williams sews his story into Prescribed Identity Hoodie,ā€ explains the accompanying descriptor, ā€œan oversized statement on addiction and self-medication. Typically tucked away in secrecy, these addictions can expose the ingredients to a carefully tailored persona, a means of self-soothing, self-medicating, and, at times, self-preserving, with multiple pockets, each bearing the name of a prescription drug.ā€ Ozempic, Ambien and Xnax, oh my! And so on. Radical Honesty—hanging (out) at Moco until October—is, like last year’s marvellous monkey-biz biopic Better Man, both larky nonsense and poignantly powerful. For the man himself, staring down the barrel of a stadium tour (another one) that takes him all round Europe from this month until deep into autumn, the art’s function is clear. Better out than in. ā€œFirst of all,ā€ I say to Robbie when we sit down together in a room in Moco’s basement, shortly before doors open on Radical Honesty’s Private View, ā€œtell me about your balls.ā€ ā€œWhich ones?ā€ says the taking-the-piss-artist, clear-eyed and gym-fit, perking up immediately. I tell him I mean the giant clacking steel spheres in the gallery upstairs. ā€œOh, yeah! I’m really happy with them. Because [it means] I’ve got a sculpture,ā€ he says proudly, leaning forward and toying with the iPad that contains many of his (literally) daily drawings. ā€œIs that a sculpture. Is that what it is?ā€ I think we can agree it’s a sculpture. ā€œIt’s a hefty thing. It’s heavy. It came out of my brain. And if I do say so myself, I think the idea is quite smart. There’s them and there’s us, isn’t there? And look, we’re just in the middle, at the end of the day. Two sides of the same coin, et cetera, et cetera. But smarter than that.ā€ What is Radical Honesty? Radical Honesty is a series of drawings that I’ve done. When it’s out there, it looks as though I’m saying: ā€œI’m radically honest, and so should you be.ā€ I’m actually taking the piss. The Radical Honesty series of drawings that I’ve done are things that I think in my head that I would never say out loud. So my radical honesty isn’t that radical. Isn’t that radically honest? Did you always have these visual art impulses? This is a late blooming thing. From when I used to live in Notting Hill and I went to the art supply store and just bought shitloads of everything, and thought I was going to do collage, and then I did, and it was shit. But it went up in the Tate! It’s not my fault. It did go up in the Tate, the very first thing that I made, obviously, ’cause I’m Robbie Williams. And Peter Blake owns it. Did you get some cash for that? No, no, no, no, no. I bought something from him, and he gave me the W.C. Fields [cardboard cut-out] from the Sgt. Pepper album cover. So it’s not even a fair swap. Anyway, this has been a process, probably since before 2006. And here I am now trying to be witty. Or at least doing things that make me titter. Finally having them out in the in the world, after all these years of secretly doing ā€œartā€, does that speak of confidence, boredom, a mixture of both, something else…? I think it speaks of there being [lots of ideas]. I’ve got 3000 of these ideas, and they just keep coming every day. There’s a proper backlog of them. And I suppose [it speaks of] feeling brave enough to show people, and thinking maybe they should exist in other places, other than on my iPad or in my garage. How serious do you want people to take it? Dude, I’m Robbie Williams. I’ve been in the [music] industry since I was 16. They’re not going to start taking me seriously now. I just want them to buy it! I gave up on wanting to be taken seriously…. last week! [No,] a while ago, let’s put it that way. But you have to understand that a lot of my early education informed my later life, too. I was a pop person in a pop band that just got in the car and turned up. I took that into my solo career, too. I didn’t realise you could make your own album covers, as stupid as that sounds. I didn’t realise you could make your own merchandise. I didn’t realise that you’d want to. So I’m still learning.Robbie Williams You recently said ā€œI hope my stuff is ridiculousā€. Presumably you yourself don’t want to be ridiculous, but you don’t mind the art being seen that way? I think I want to…. You know, all of my heroes, I suppose, are comedic more than musical. My dad was and is a comedian. And I would like to generate a titter in somebody’s mind. If I can make them actually verbalise that titter, then that’s a victory. So I suppose this is my version of stand-up comedy. Who are your art heroes or inspirations? All of the traditional pop art people. There’s nobody off the beaten track that I know. I’m not a student of the game, as Roy Keane would mockingly say. There is no art history degree. I don’t know all of their names. I don’t know if I’d recognise a Magritte from a Renoir. I’m not that person. Much like when I left Take That and I was asked about my musical credentials. I don’t know Buffalo Springsteen’s album [sic] [and wink]. I didn’t listen to it! [My attitude was:] ā€œI just like f***ing music, f*** off!ā€ I like images. What do your kids make of your art? They are intrigued by it. They want to make their own. Is your eldest Teddy, going: ā€œMate, I could do better than that?ā€ Yeah, she is, and she will. And my son [Charlie, 10] is drawing his own and trying to come up with his own jokes too. But his own jokes normally revolve around him coming up to me and going: ā€œDaddy, is it OK if I swear?ā€ And me going: ā€œYeah, OK.ā€ And then him misspelling ā€œnarcissistā€ over a drawing of me. That sounds like a great piece, we need to get that up in a gallery. It is! I’ve got it somewhere. Is that Radical Honesty 2: Robbie’s Kids Speak? Yeah, it’s how they see me. The Prescribed Identity Hoodie: can you unpack, unpick or, even, unravel that for me? Can you? Yeah, no, I can’t really. I’m actually doing a line of clothing, and it was going to be a hoodie. And I thought: ā€œWouldn’t it be funny if all the pockets were advertising antidepressants or anxiety medication?ā€ That’s it. That is it. If you want to delve further into that, then please do. But for me, it was just: ā€œWouldn’t it be funny ifā€¦ā€ … if all your drugs were available on your body at the same time? Yeah! Legal drugs these days, of course, kids. Is there a crossover with your merchandise for your imminent tour? Yes! Yes, which we need to do… [Robbie looks questioningly at his management perched nearby] So can we get a move on? Imagery allied with music also still matters to you, it seems… More than ever now. But you have to understand that a lot of my early education informed my later life, too. I was a pop person in a pop band that just got in the car and turned up. I took that into my solo career, too. I didn’t realise you could make your own album covers, as stupid as that sounds. I didn’t realise you could make your own merchandise. I didn’t realise that you’d want to. So I’m still learning. But to be fair, pop bands–especially boy bands–didn’t have that agency. Certainly in the Nineties, they generally weren’t given the power by labels to have a visual input. It was just: crank out the tunes, crank out the gigs – and we’ll cream off the cash. Yeah, but I also think that [musicians] didn’t know they could or should. You just turned up with the tunes, and that’s your bit done. Then everybody else does everything else. Unless you want to. And I want to, now. Radical Honesty, Moco Museum London. Tickets here. Robbie’s tour stars in Edinburgh on 31st May. Main image: Marc Roses A Rabbit's Foot With Radical Honesty, Robbie Williams is making an exhibition of himself - A Rabbit's Foot