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Read somewhere earlier that they are being filmed but for a documentary, probably similar to the Road To Berlin one from the IC promo in 2005.'Road to the O2 London' I suppose. ^_^

He's doing it in Brown Thomas in Grafton Street on Friday too. Closed to the public though.

Really good review of the Leeds gig from one of my fave journalists - Neil McCorrmick. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/l...eds-review.html

It hasn't been added to any of Radio 1's playlists - not A, B or C. He is a bit too old for R1 but I doubt he will be pleased with that as the whole point of the track from what he has said is to get played endlessly on radio.

Unreal setlist - I am in shock :o So many of those songs would be on my dream Robbie setlist. I never thought he would sing the likes of Lazy Days, OBID, LLBYE, Life Thru A Lens, Karma Killer live again. Great to see Eternity/Mandalay back after over a decade break live. Monsoon and Hot Fudge two excellent live tracks too. Don't mind not having Millenium or Strong but Supreme and No Regrets should be there. Two more things I am surprised at is the lack of new songs. I suppose the album isn't out for nearly 2months so he has plenty of time to showcase more at further gigs but it is still odd. He is playing the O2 in London in November apparently - which hopefully will get screened on TV, maybe the weekend before the album release. Notice how he didn't include any material from the past 10 years? If he really thinks the crowd only want the Guy Chambers era hits then i'm surprised he didn't work with him on his new album, afterall I am sure Guy would jump at the chance. Would've been nice to hear Bodies and Tripping in particular. Cannot wait to Friday though. Hearing all of those classics live again will be incredible :D The vid with him doing 50 push ups is amusing - he was knackered and had to restart 'Candy' :lol: Losers is a really good track. Much more 'Robbie' than Candy which really doesn't feel like it's a Rob song at all.

According to someone over on DS, Candy is a rip off of Cross My Broken Heart by Sinitta. I can't believe Robbie is being compared to Sinitta and Cher Loyd. :wacko:

No it was around half 1 so would've been Ray Foley I think. He said the reaction was very negative on the texts. I was hoping for a track that even people who don't like Rob had to concede it is a really good song. But it does seem radio friendly and maybe it will fit in and get lots of airplay? Will be a strange one live for him - it's quite fast and isn't the type of track where he can hold the mic out to let the crowd sing parts of really - although I suppose the 'Hey Ho' part :lol:

Yeah it does seem very odd to be doing gigs now when she is about to pop. Surely he shouldv'e arranged them nearer the album release which is nearly 2 months away. It's hardly a risk worth taking really. Going by what he said this morning - it's looks pretty certain there will be a big tour next June :o The only thing I can see stopping him from doing it is if the album flops :lol: Otherwise there will probably be a big announcement in November with tickets on sale before Xmas.

:lol: It's a very catchy pop tune but I have to admit I am disappointed. It just doesn't feel like a Robbie song. Very throwaway pop by numbers type of stuff. Very lightweight and not what I was hoping for at all. I thought we were going to get some classic Robbie back but this is way too pop for me. Just saw someone on another forum say it sounds like a Cher Loyd track :mellow: Unlike most Robbie songs I don't think this is a grower at all. It's very 'instant' and gets in your head straight away. Maybe that means it will be a number one hit - but it just doesn't seem like a credible classic track. It's already starting to annoy me, especially the very repetitive part at the end. When it was played on Today FM here today - the DJ said people were all texting in saying their ears were bleeding. But he said he thought it was great. Rob was saying in the interview that the album is full of big stadium sing-alongs so maybe the rest of it will sound nothing like this? It doesn't sound like something a U2/REM producer would've worked on. :lol: It doesn't really sound like something Rob and Gary would've written either, unlike Shame and Heart and I. Sounds like it was written purely to get played on radio in the short term and have a good shot at #1 but doesn't sound to me like a 'classic' at all. If he really wanted to have very commercial hit and was interested in dominating the charts again I would've prefered had he phoned a certain Mr Chambers. 10 years is a long enough break . ;) Hopefully the album will have more substantial tracks on it and great lyrics that are actually about something. Songs like this should be sung by Olly Murrs and not the Robster. -_- But it is very catchy and is stuck in my head. :teresa:

What a strange cover. Can't really decide if I like it or not :lol: Can't wait for the album though. Stadium-type Robbie songs? It's been too long since we had one of those from him. Interesting choice of producer with Jacknife Lee too - worked with U2 and REM. Very excited about this and it seems Rob is too which will make a change from RKTVS promo where he just talked about the TT reunion endlessly. Hopefully his heart is really in it this time. He's clashing with JLS again? Has to be deliberate as I am sure there are easier weeks. Are they still as big in the UK as a few years ago? :unsure:

Sounds catchy from the short clip - will reserve judgement though. What's will the obsession with pink though? -_- So it premiers in the morning? Can't see myself getting up early to hear it as I am half dead :teresa:

Jups :wub: No, I've been away since early last summer in Canada and then America. I did PM you before leaving or are you getting forgetful in your old age :smoke: Perfect timing getting back it seems with Robbie coming out of retirement :lol: Can't believe i'm going to see him in a few days though. Bizarre stuff altogether that he is finally coming back to do the one off Dublin show. Not free obviously but I suppose he is doing it for free and it is for charity. You always said it would never happen. :P

Well hello :smoke: It's been a while hasn't it? :P Sorry I didn't come on here when I was away but I didn't have a computer and when I did try to come on I couldn't remember the password here and couldn't reset it either as I don't use that email anymore :rolleyes: Just got back from NY on Friday night and my cousin informed me that the Robster is playing in the O2 in Dublin next week and she had got tickets for me and her :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: I couldn't believe it. Obviously hadn't been keeping up to date and had no idea. ^_^ So how has everyone been? B-)

'Spider-Man' Musical Makes Casting Changes, Injured Actor Speaks Out Posted 5 hrs ago by Josh Wigler in Marvel, News "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" actress Natalie Mendoza has left the production in the wake of an on-stage injury she suffered in November, leaving the musical without a performer occupying the pivotal role of Arachne. But the role is no longer vacant, as Reuters reports that actress Teresa Carpio is succeeding Mendoza as the "Spider-Man" musical's new Arachne. She'll take over the role as of tonight's performance, having already played the part during the numerous previews since Mendoza's accident. Mendoza and producers announced the actor's departure from "Turn off the Dark" at the end of last year, citing her need to recover from a head injury sustained during the show's first preview performance in November. Although she's taking over the role from Mendoza, Carpio was already part of the "Spider-Man" family. The actress was originally cast in the show as Miss Arrow, one of the friendly neighborhood web-slinger's many enemies. Alice Lee will take over the role from Carpio. Additionally, Carpio has history with "Spider-Man" director Julie Taymor, as the two collaborated on the Beatles-inspired fantasy film "Across the Universe." In other "Spider-Man" musical news, injured aerialist Christopher Tierney has spoken out publicly for the first time since his controversial on-stage accident in December. "It was just a bit of human error," he said in an interview with WCBS-TV. "I'm supposed to jump off the bridge, but it catches me. And I was tethered to my back, but it just wasn't tethered to the stage and I just went for it, like I do with everything. There was no pulling myself back." Tierney plans on returning to the show once he's made a full recovery. Tell us what you think of the news in the comments section and on Twitter! http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/01/04/spide...-injured-actor/

Just saw Colin Bleedin Farrell's new film 'The Way Back' - very enjoyable. The great Peter Weir directed it. Longish but well worth a look. :smoke: Evening btw :smoke:

Imagine if Bono had not have injured his back and the US leg went ahead as planned - they would have been #1 by a country mile. :lol:

We are #8 on the Forum Chart for December so I can't see us getting the scrap based on that :D Sorry I haven't been around - have been busy with all sorts of stuff. Should be back properly now :smoke:

After the disaster of Spiderman - finally Bono has some good non-U2 news. His company are set to net $540M from their Facebook investment :o http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/ireland...vation-partners

I was gobsmacked when I heard it sold 430K this week. 300-350K was predicted based on midweek figs and the fact Sat was closed as it was Xmas - so 430K is beyond any expectations. 1.87M sold with one week to go. I doubt it will happen due to this week sales decreasing hugely overall but considering the huge popularity it's not out of the question that it will pass 2M before the end of the year. I can't remember the last album to sell 2M or even near 2M on the end of year charts. 1.5M is generally the norm - a little under or over. So despite The Circus being quicker to get to 1M - Progress looks set to get to 2M almost a full year quicker - incredible success for the album. Outselling BW is not out of the question at all - considering this has all been achieved on the back of one single so far - if they pick the correct singles and promote them - plus of course the massive tour and possible a deluxe edition next Xmas with a new song - 3M total is no unrealistic at all. :o

Just when I thought the British tabloids could not get anymore factually incorrect when it comes to Rob we get this beauty. They really are the kings of twisting facts and writing an article in such a way that totally brainwashes their ill-informed readers into believing it's true. :rolleyes: I could go into great detail about why this entire article is the usual braindead British tabloid nonsense but the main point I want to make is this. This 'story' is exactly ONE YEAR OLD - it was widely reported in December of 2009 - why? Because these figures - the £269K - is based on profits from March 08 - March 09 - therefor not including any profits since he started working again. The article claims RKTVS profits are included - but they are not. The profits are what he decided to pay himself during that period of him doing no work whatsoever. And then for them to go on to mis-lead people into thinking it includes his album sales for RKTVS and a non-existent tour? And furthermore to compare profits of when he just sat on his sofa doing no work at all to 2006 when profits from both the 7/8M selling IC and the massive tour where he played to 3.7M people is classic tabloid nonsense. It's not worth getting annoyed about but it is just another example of how desperate the media still are in the UK to keep up the myth they have created that Robbie needs TT because his solo career has flopped. They will even distort facts and twist them at whatever lengths in order to suit their bias view and get the general public into believing it too. And sadly on a whole it has worked - and due to this article which most people who will read it will completely believe every word. It's now being reported in the Mirror and Star too - despite both papers reporting this EXACT story a full year ago. I have just heard it on Irish radio - with the presenters all having a good laugh about it and saying how desperate Robbie is. It's not the general public I am annoyed with as they would have no reason to believe the article wasn't truthful (certainly not the types who buy the DM) - it's the journalists who have clearly gone out of their way to write this article and twist things to yet again brainwash more people into believing their myth. For acts like Rob - they make roughly £2 per copy of the album sold by the record company to retailers. So RKTVS has sold roughly 3M WW - at least 2.5M of which were sold by the end of 2009 alone according to EMI - so that is £5-6M fo that alone - then when everything else in considered - all of those endless small gigs for sponsors across Europe and in Australia - he would have made a lot of money. Far far more than he will make from 'Progress' - where he will split profits five ways. Anyone with half a braincell would know that. And this £15M each for the tour is further nonsense. The tour is set to gross £75M - a huge amount of which will go towards the huge production and everything that goes with it and renting the venues - the five lads will be lucky to be left with half of that. Rob's 06 tour grossed £170M and he got paid around £30M if I recall - so yet more utter nonsense from the media. At least they are finishing off the year with a bang as far as bull$h!t goes. :rolleyes:

The Daily FAIL :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: From £32m to £269,000: Was huge fall in Robbie Williams’s income the real reason he rejoined Take That? By ANDREW BUCKWELL Last updated at 1:10 AM on 26th December 2010 The Daily Mail He is one of pop’s most successful solo stars and is worth an estimated £80  million. But Robbie Williams may have had more than musical motives when he rejoined Take That in July. New figures suggest that his earnings from recording and touring dipped significantly in 2009, even though he released a solo album, Reality Killed The Video Star, at the end of that year. Income from his business, The In Good Company Co, which was set up in 2002 to handle his recording and tour revenues, fell from a high of £32 million in 2006 to just £269,566 in 2009. The company’s cash reserves dropped from £1.6 million in 2008 to £800,000 and profits from £708,000 to £555,000. Williams’ music publishing business, Farrell Music, recorded losses of £536,000, while another of his companies, Little Youth, posted a loss of £65,000. Only the firm Robbiewilliams.com recorded a healthy profit of £400,000. But while the star may not be as popular as in his heyday, he is far from impoverished. Industry sources point out that the new figures do not include his earnings from other sources, including the sale of merchandise, and said the figures reflected the ups and downs of a pop star’s income between albums. One said that the £80 million deal he signed with EMI Records in 2002, the biggest in British record history, was now at an end, so the accounts no longer included advances from the record company. The source added that Mr Williams, 36, was now being pursued by ‘every major record company’ but has yet to sign a new deal. Moreover, his reunion with Take That is expected to net him £15 million from the release of the band’s new album, Progress, and next summer’s tour, the first to feature all five band members for 16 years. In its first year, the In Good Company Co reported sales worth £34.9 million in what was a highly successful period for Williams. The singer, whose solo hits include Angels, Let Me Entertain You and Rock DJ, enjoyed peaks in his earnings in 2004 and 2006 as he released and toured with his Greatest Hits and Rudebox albums. When he signed his deal with EMI Mr Williams declared: ‘I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams.’ But the singer, who married American Ayda Field, 31, in August, later said: ‘Money is nothing to do with happiness. Sometimes I feel like cashing everything in and giving it all away.’ LOW POINT: Robbie Williams saw a significant drop in his earnings in 2009 source: dailymail.co.uk

An absolute disaster indeed. I doubt it will ever happen at this rate :lol: It will have to sell out every single show for five years in order to break even :o

I thought we were safe again after last month - didn't know it was every month under review :o :lol:

I see Mr Jovi was bragging about beating U2 and claim U2 should be 'paying attention' :lol: The only reason Bon Jovi beat U2 this year is because they did 69 shows compared to U2's 22 - so U2 almost grossed as much as Jovi with over three times less shows. 360 will become the biggest tour of all time with over between $700-800M - Jovi's tour will gross $300M in total it's predicted. U2 prefer to take long breaks and do shorter legs but go on for years it appears :lol:

http://splinteredsunrise.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/father_ted_down_with_this_sort_of_thing.jpg Seriously though - there was 7inch - it's not as bad now but there is still at least 3inc left - horrible slushy stuff now. Dublin airport is closed AGAIN tonight - it is ridiculous. :rolleyes: