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Indeed, Soccer Aid is really taking a mission.

I wonder if copyright of Soccer Aid is entirely sold. This has become rather big the last years.

Slade, T-Rex, Sweet, Middle of the Road from the seventies my sister listened to. Hasn't they all ended sad? I liked many of the songs and still do. I remember that very little me liked the loos of thesinger from Middle of the road and the poster of David Essex my sister left when I took over her room :-)

Do we have an idea how the reception had been in Denmark and Sweden? I understand Dutch, German, English and French but none of those languages and there are only few tweets compared to the concerts before, those though are positive

I wonder when the Netflix documentary will be shown? End of the year? And the movie next year? It is not boring in Robbie world at the moment

I remember when I became a fan in 2006 and tried to find all available material that I had the entire Slane concert from the TV someone had recorded (I sadly lost that) and something which was called snow (and another word) of 1999 when Robbie performed in Canada and the stage was indeed in the middle of the snow. And there is one more when he was in a pub and there also was an interview where he was quite cheeky. I lost both either :-(

do you think there will be more concerts in South America announced?

Great News. Hope you enjoy Down Under, Syd

Great review from a normally very 'contemporary' and critical German Broadsheet: ROBBIE WILLIAMS IN FRANKFURT: A star unpacks BY MICHAEL KÖHLER Digitaltechnik makes it possible: Robbie Williams sits on stage in a thinker pose and textile-free, as God created him. Or rather, it floats in the air. Even then, a collective murmur, yes, sigh goes through the packed Festhalle, which is packed up to second tier. Another quarter of an hour until the start of the concert. Quickly join the queues at the drink stands and toilets again. Consider: Many have been queuing since the early afternoon, first in front of, then in Frankfurt's Gudd Stubb, and that in icy temperatures. Even if a considerable number of lords of creation hold their own in the dense crowd – the first of two sold-out guest performance evenings of the now 49-year-old Williams in the Frankfurt Festhalle is clearly dominated by women. Many of them have already screamed their lungs sore when Williams was still one of five members of the boy group Take That in the spotlight. As a rule of thumb, what moved you intensively in your teenage years still touches your heart decades later. This fits in with the fact that Robbie Williams deliberately looks back on this tour. But not only that: between about two dozen evergreens, he provides deep insights into his soul, his mind, his developments, his family life. A clever move. After all, the two-hour hit retrospective entitled "XXV" tour turns out to be a psychotherapeutic mass session lined with emotional highs and lows for artists and audiences alike. Red alert already promises the drastic prelude with the onomatopoeia "Hey Wow yes yes" reinterpreted into rich hard rock – the ideal introduction to present the excellent team as well as the stage ambience in the best blaze of lights: Robbie Williams wears a glittering suit, a reminiscence of Elvis Presley and Marc Bolan alike, the gray hair perfectly styled somewhere between fifties and implied Iroquois friezes. Physically and vocally, Williams is in excellent shape. Around it, ingeniously designed gigantic video projections and a long catwalk lure you to stroll extensively. A huge ensemble of first-class musicians, including harmony singers and wind sections, is responsible for the acoustically quite balanced balancing act. Not to forget the lascivious scantily clad dancers, who, when not in action, lurk like lustful nymphs on the multi-storey stage construction. Then it's time to get down to business. The still immediately igniting request "Let Me Entertain You" has hardly faded away, as Williams already starts with the talent that enabled him to be the only one of Take That to get such a successful solo career going: When he is interspersed with the repeatedly interspersed detailed soul striptease about childhood, teenage years, Take That, solo career, sex, Drugs, alcohol, depression, suicidal thoughts, wife and children unrestrainedly exposed, then it comes across to each and every individual in the domed hall, as if he or she were in private with Williams. He undoubtedly has the gift of reciting what has been written in advance and memorized as if he were telling it for the very first time. Not only once does Robbie Williams get up close, allows intimate hugs and selfies, even kisses a bearded gentleman on the mouth and claps umpteen hands. Nothing like the hairy story of the two guys who touched Williams immorally in the Hamburg concert. Wired arranged versions of chart hits such as "Kids", "Feel", "Strong", "Eternity", "Monsoon" and "Come Undone", funny escapades with the sixty-year-old Frank and touching with birthday serenade Yasemin demonstrate the closeness between artist and fan community. Robbie Williams also explains stories about Take That in great detail, even showing their first cute video clip "Do What U Like". Then jumps over to his career tipping point when he met Britpop formation Oasis at Glastonbury Festival – an impressive version of Oasis' "Don't Look Back in Anger" follows. Then stands for the short-term comeback of Take That as a quintet "The Flood". With "Rock DJ" and the confession "You are the best audience on this tour so far" it goes on the home straight. In the encore part, however, Williams once again unpacks the big feelings, for example with "No Regrets" and "She's The One", he asserts how much he loves everyone in the Festhalle – diligently assisted by thousands and thousands of throats. When huge white wings announce the end, Robbie Williams can't easily step down. For minutes he plays more songs a cappella – then it's over. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kult...s-18683194.html

unfortunately the German reviews are pay only. But reading the red herring first sentences they all say the old Robbie is back. If he continues like this and can keep up the level than this tour will be a similar success as the tour 2003. Who would have thought this? Looking forward to the next show in Holland and Cologne.

Somehow it seems that Guy is doing his own thing now independent of Rob. Not that they have an argument, but he is approaching his social media different as example.

Thank you, Alex for adding the statistics. I wondered to how many people he plays with all the shows and thee is the fact. What do you think, is this now a finalized list or will there be more concerts like in LATAM?

There are not many like them in the industry it seems

maybe he is masterminding other Rob stuff like the new album?

It is cute, I only wonder how this collaboration was organized (not with the cats, but with Purina). Would have never seen this coming. It proves though for me that all he indicated he wanted to do (writing an ad was one of this in an interview I read) he does. Ergo we wait for the hotel and TV shows and two albums :-)

he is full of energy. Even during the days he is not giving concerts he is busy. Maybe he is going back to the UK after the concerts while Ayda is still based in LA and might indeed join the Houswife set as Robbie is not at home most of the time. It seems that they have prepared everything in detail last year/s and now spreading their wings. The only part i am wondering about is how the kids faces can be left out of the show (if this is indeed going to happen)

They had quite a fanbase in NL and Germany. Progress tour was great. But since then no album really charted too well and even arenas became to huge when they last toured Germany. Only one event of I think four sold well. On the other hand I like that they experiment with their albums and do not play it safe. They made their money and my feeling is that they now do what they like with less interest of commercial success as 3 piece or solo. Have to say too that 3 members of TT simply looks wrong. Four is ok, three feels like GB and band (and i mean that nice)

You will be right, Tess :-)

the movie will be shown world wide as I guess it is Robbie Williams like the greatest showman is Barum. But you cn watch the greaatest showman without having ever heard of him. My thought is, if the movie will be successful also the Biopic will be shown in the uSA. Personally I believe that this is the last attempt for Rob to break America as they call it and this time his heart is in it. He said it himself: Think big. The hotel, the TV show and possibly America different than it was considered to be broken in the 90ties, why not?

I saw quite a lot of tweets during the weekend about Ayda maybe joining this Beverly Hills housewife reality soap as it was indicated that the new person will be an ex friend of Chrystel with whom Ayda was fiends. I have only watched this one time years ago when the hype was huge. Do not like reality soaps so it was gone then for me. Can you imagine this is true? First I was like 'no way'. On the other hand Ayda will not be with Rob during the tour yet it seems and it would be a good hook for the USA and making already pre-advert for Better Man and the Netflix biopic.....

Oh Vibe, what a great coincidence. Malta will be huge, grab the chance. also love Fil Eislers comment

wow, how amazing is this for Lucy and Matt Rob's entire PR could need some helping hand from talented fans

I still like Intensive Care (it was when I became a fan) and RKTVS which has songs like Blasphemy

if he adapts the setlist to the hits in the specific country this is great as we will hear win some, loose some too in Australia. Still would love to hear Ghosts and H.E.S. Amazing work, Alex with the video. Thank you.

i love come undone