Susie

Oh come on guys, the lyrics are so about Robbie and how he feels and its a lovely melody. :D

Strong 10 No Regrets 11 Millennium 5 Phoenix From The Flames 8 Win Some Lose Some 9 Grace 4 It's Only Us 7 Jesus In A Camper Van 7 Heaven From Here 9 Karma Killer 10 She's The One 8 Man Machine 4 These Dreams 5

Misunderstood. Just in the right mood for it today. Lovely. :heart:

I'm also going to the Sept 9th concert too. :dance: I have to think up something to say for a banner now. Any ideas anyone? and don't be rude please LOL.

His Tour is just getting bigger. ROBBIE'S DOUBLE ACT 15jun06 BRITISH pop star Robbie Williams will play a second concert at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium in December, promoters say. Williams will perform in Brisbane on December 13 and 14, with tickets for the second show to go on sale on June 21. The first show at the 50,000 seat venue sold out in half an hour. Promoter Michael Chugg said the December 14 performance took the number of concerts on the Australian leg of Williams' Close Encounters World Tour to a total of eight, confirming Australia was the country with the most Williams concerts. "Four of Robbie's originally announced five shows, including Brisbane, sold out within 30 minutes of opening to general sale and Queensland fans are being urged not to miss their second and absolutely final chance," he said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

now now.. :blink:

Thanks again Scotty, I hadn't seen those before. :D

Come Undone :dance:

I know its shot up in the Australian charts.

Not playing, because I would never look for the exit. :cry:

But he gives the press good copy Jupiter. :D This is the difference between him and other acts. Keep feeding them Robbie, nobody does it better. :)

Press review from Ireland. ROBBIE WOWS CROKER ANGELS by Enda Feeney It is a sure sign that it's here at long last. Although the sun was shining brightly all week, it took the arrival of the annual outdoor concert season for confirmation that the summer has finally arrived. Four of the biggest names in showbiz - Robbie Williams, The Eagles, Guns n Roses and Metallica - are the curtain-raisers on a summer that will also see acts like Billy Joel, The Who and Fatboy Slim take to the stage across Ireland. Yesterday, Robbie Williams - who arrived in Dublin in a Boeing private jet - was driven from his base at the Four Seasons Hotel in a blacked-out minibus. He was accompanied by a Garda escort as he arrived at Croke Park at 4pm. Even though proceedings weren't due to start until 6pm, fans from all over Ireland and abroad began queueing outside from lunchtime. When Robbie eventually took to the stage in front of 80,000 fans - wearing a Crombie overcoat and accompanied by a spectacular fireworks display - he launched straight into Radio before quickly following up with crowd pleasers Rock DJ and Tripping. An onlooker said 'Robbie is a consummate entertainer. 'He had the crowd eating right out of his hand from the very start. Frankly, he probably could have come on and recited the phone book and they would have lapped it up. 'But in fairness to him, he put on a great show.' Last night's show was the first concert in Robbie's new world tour. He is due to visit 12 other European countries as well as Australia in the coming months. Music industry insiders say that he sells more records per capita in Ireland than in any other market. taken from an article in the Irish Daily Mail Thanks to Rock DJ on therobbiewilliamssite.com

Happy Birthday.. :yahoo:

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Regarding the Robbie wants to marry article, It looks like someone has bought the Tour programme, as Robbie's blogs appear as a feature in it. As for Charlotte Church, she has met him I thought, because she credits him with helping her cope with fame.

My favourite number. Fingers crossed when its checked its true. :cheer:

Some Irish press reports that I picked up while in Dublin..there wasn't one negative there. Irish News Ireland on Sunday. ROBBIE PLEDGES FREE GIG FOR IRISH FANS AFTER HITCHES MAR OPENING SHOW Although the reception from the crowd at Friday night's Robbie Williams gig in Croke Park was electric, the man himself was not pleased with his tour opener. In fact, Williams was disappointed with his show that he promised to compensate his fans by returning to Dublin to play a free concert. 'I wasn't very good tonight' he told the 80,000 strong audience you guys were better than me' Technical difficulties marred the second half of the chart topping singers' show. During his penultimate number, Let Me Entertain You, Williams was supposed to decend on a gondola from a rig above the stage but the system failed and he was forced to rush back down on the stage on foot. After the song, Williams explained what had happened to the huge crowd and apologised. His pledge to host a free gig was greeted with massive applause from the already ecstatic crowd, pack in for his sale out gig. 'I'll be back before the end of the year' promised Williams. After rumours of fake tickets and concerns that cheated fans might cause trouble, there was a large garda presence at the venue but the event passed without major incidents. Garda were stationed in the areas surrounding the stadium and at Quinn's Bar. They were on alert for the circulation of fake tickets and, on a sunny evening the presence of alcohol. Although most of the fans were simply enjoying a cold drink before going to see their idol perform. No chances were being taken that those in possession of fake tickets would gain entry to the concert. However, the heavy official presence did not dampen spirits. Then as the opening notes of the first song soared in the Dublin sky all eyes and ears were on one man: Robbie Williams. And when a visibly emotional Williams ended the evening with his song Angels, the crowd was already anticipating his next concert. Free or not, they will be there. For while he may have felt the glitches spoiled the first night of his 12-date tour 80,000 people at Croker reckoned it was a winner.

Thank you Jupiter Its heartbreaking for me to read the UK press reviews, not all, but the ones that have jumped on the clitch with glee have their knives out. Well all I can say is, its funny how what he's been doing for the last 8 or 9 years was okay and now its not, but the more they do it the more we love him. :wub:

I am too LOL. Scotty you are so right, that gig was terrific, he was terrific, I don't know what is going on, but the UK reviewers are lying. The only person that put words in their mouths was Robbie, the minute he said it I knew that they would pick up on it, and expand. I would like to add though, people right at the back had to watch only 2 screens, and quite a bit of the time Robbie wasn't being shown, now that would frustrate me, because all they could see was a dot.

I have to agree with you Scotty, the Irish press gave him great reviews, so why do the Brits pull him down. Maybe it has something to do with him getting his detractors in a room and facing them. They will always win know matter what he does. Its also funny (not) that I have a feeling there is empathy for Guy Chambers, and that anything RW did with Steven Duffy would not be welcomed. Its like they are ganging up. They do not like his new stuff. Here is a better review, and I agree with what he says..Robbie was brilliant, his backdrop let him down, maybe there should be more screens so those right at the back could see him better, I also think he should have included a brass section in the band, that pads it out in these huge stadiums. Other than that, Robbie did what he always has done. Performed the pants of himself. Well done Robbie even if you feel awful about how it panned out. Stuff the stunts, it's the songs that rock the stadium (Filed: 12/06/2006) Neil McCormick reviews Robbie Williams at Croke Park in Dublin Three songs into the opening of his summer tour at the enormous Croke Park stadium in Dublin, Robbie Williams is puffing for breath. "I don't know how Mick Jagger keeps doing this," he gasps. "I'm 32 and I'm f***ing knackered." Big, bold and emotional: Robbie Williams Playing stadiums is perhaps the most specialised task in popular entertainment, and not many performers do it particularly well. Spectacle, volume and big gestures are required to replace more subtle and intimate musical pleasures, and the tiny dot at the centre of the show has to have an ego and charisma big enough to hold the centre of vast spaces full of tens of thousands of other dots, many of them peering through binoculars. At least Jagger has a great band to share the load. Williams is really on his own out there. The last band to play Croke Park were hometown heroes U2, and design-wise this is basically a U2 show, fronted by a Bono mini-me. It is a huge improvement on Williams's last end-of-the-pier karaoke set. Gone are the dancers and lazy backdrops, in come vast LED screens flashing ironic messages, neon-lit second stages, runways, platforms and pyrotechnics, all framed by two enormous cranes. Yet, somehow, the hi-tech splendour only emphasises the emptiness at the heart of the experience. Not so much Zoo TV as Saturday night light entertainment with dry ice, this is the medium without the message, a show that barely even aspires to becoming more than the sum of its parts. At times, the leering, gurning silliness and bottom-of-the-barrel declarations ("I like tits!" proclaims Williams, as he marshals all the technology at his disposal to focus on some random cleavage) are cringe-inducing. What he does have are songs: big songs, bold songs, emotional songs, with the kind of perfectly simple melodies and sentiments that can get 78,000 people belting them out in unison. When Williams and his fans lose themselves in the chorus of songs with as much yearning and vulnerability as Strong and Feel, you get a sense of how great he could really be. He lives entirely in the moment. Delivering raunchy good-time pop, he looks as happy as a spring bunny, but during the self-lacerating Come Undone the big screens show him close to tears. There is something utterly compelling about witnessing this complicated everyman's neuroses played out in this enormous crucible, with the audience roaring loving approval as he confesses: "I am scum, but I'm your son." The grand finale should have involved a vertigo-inducing descent from the top of a crane but, due to a technical hitch, Williams climbs up, only to have to climb back down, muttering about Spinal Tap. He gets away with it because the real climax is not a stunt, it is the crowd singing Angels with him. It is a moment that suggests Williams could still be doing this when he is as old as Jagger, he just needs to learn to trust his songs.

Robbie Williams Extends World Tour To Play 2nd Melbourne Concert Australian promoter Michael Chugg today confirmed overnight negotiations with Robbie Williams’ management resulted in the stadium pop giant agreeing to extend his World Tour by a day and add another concert for Melbourne. The Robbie Williams: Close Encounters World Tour, originally scheduled to finish in Melbourne on Sunday December 17, will now end in the same city a night later. Robbie Williams will play a second concert at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome on Monday December 18 and tickets go on sale next Friday June 16 at 9am. The six ticket limit per transaction will apply. The addition of Melbourne, and Sydney’s second – which rolled 45 minutes after the first went on sale on Tuesday – takes Robbie’s World Tour to a total of 47 dates in 44 countries and the seven Australian concerts puts us on equal footing with the pop-hunk’s number of shows in England and makes us the country with the most Robbie concerts outside his homeland. “The fact Robbie loves Australia helped sway this important decision,†said Chugg. “And it’s clear, Australians love Robbie.†Only robbiewilliams.com Inner Sanctum members will secure an internet presale for the second Melbourne concert and all other general public tickets will be available from Ticketmaster from Friday June 16 at 9am. “The speed of sales and the mass number of tickets sold is a phenomenon like we have never seen in Australia before,†said Chugg. “Robbie Williams is a super-star in its purest and truest sense and Australians have voted with their wallets, and frankly their hearts, to prove it so. “Melbournians not wanting to miss out should get in quick.†Robbie Williams: Close Encounters World Tour kicks off in Dublin next Friday June 9 and now finishes in Melbourne, a day later than originally scheduled, on Monday December 18.

Oh yes he is if you read his blog :D Robbie Williams Extends World Tour To Play 2nd Melbourne Concert Australian promoter Michael Chugg today confirmed overnight negotiations with Robbie Williams’ management resulted in the stadium pop giant agreeing to extend his World Tour by a day and add another concert for Melbourne. The Robbie Williams: Close Encounters World Tour, originally scheduled to finish in Melbourne on Sunday December 17, will now end in the same city a night later. Robbie Williams will play a second concert at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome on Monday December 18 and tickets go on sale next Friday June 16 at 9am. The six ticket limit per transaction will apply. The addition of Melbourne, and Sydney’s second – which rolled 45 minutes after the first went on sale on Tuesday – takes Robbie’s World Tour to a total of 47 dates in 44 countries and the seven Australian concerts puts us on equal footing with the pop-hunk’s number of shows in England and makes us the country with the most Robbie concerts outside his homeland. “The fact Robbie loves Australia helped sway this important decision,†said Chugg. “And it’s clear, Australians love Robbie.†Only robbiewilliams.com Inner Sanctum members will secure an internet presale for the second Melbourne concert and all other general public tickets will be available from Ticketmaster from Friday June 16 at 9am. “The speed of sales and the mass number of tickets sold is a phenomenon like we have never seen in Australia before,†said Chugg. “Robbie Williams is a super-star in its purest and truest sense and Australians have voted with their wallets, and frankly their hearts, to prove it so. “Melbournians not wanting to miss out should get in quick.†Robbie Williams: Close Encounters World Tour kicks off in Dublin next Friday June 9 and now finishes in Melbourne, a day later than originally scheduled, on Monday December 18. Thanks to TRWS

I'm all packed and ready to hit Dublin, I hope everyone who is going has a blast. I know I will, I have even added the suncream. Will be reporting back as soon as I either find an internet cafe or get home. Keep the fires burning. :cheer:

I know, its a shame really, because there are people who do not believe just how popular he is in other countries. The press should report success of any kind, and certainly at this level. <_<

Are you sure Scotty, because I thought he said that musically it was the same. I don't mind whatever he sings, because he sounded pleased to be singing them. And I love the opening music for the clip. 'want you to love me' from Tripping, I hope they use that as the overture, because its brilliant. :cheer: