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http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0708.jpg The King of Entertainment is back for good After having seen Robbie Williams’ opening show for his European tour in Dublin I now went for seeing him again in Hamburg. The weather was beautiful, the sun was shining from a cloudless sky. After security did their best to drive the waiting fans mad and a long distance run towards the stage, I found myself nearly in front row on the right side of the stage again. The first band appearing on stage was called Orson, who did quite well. Afterwards Basement Jaxx set the crowd on fire with a colourful and very lively performance. Their show brought everyone in good spirit and the audience was now hot for Mr. Robbie Williams. http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0635.jpg http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0642.jpg Shortly after 8 o’clock the crowd started to run la-o-la-waves around the place to call Robbie onto stage. At 8.30 pm the firework out of the amazing stage went off and shortly afterwards Robbie appeared out of the ground, half covered by manhigh columns of steam. He started with Radio, followed by RockDJ and Tripping. You could see from the beginning that this was Robbie Williams in his best spirit. Full of self-mocking self-confidence, laughing and flirting with the crowds. Here he was again, the king of entertainment I had missed in Dublin so badly. He bit us to do a Hallelujah for him and 80.000 voices answered eagerly. What followed was a show full of jokes, flirtation with pretty girls in the audience, improvisations within his songs. He moved and danced easily, shaking his arse, pulling faces, almost making sex to the stage and the audience. He left stage twice to snuggle with his fans. First time leaning against first row, letting the girls touch and tore him. The second time he came down at my side of the stage and ran alongside to touch the hands outstretched towards him and for the blink of an eye his fingertips touched mine…. Again and again he asked the audience to sing along with him and we sang the chorus of Make me pure for him. He seemed to be quite touched by this audience who knew every word of his songs and was almost too eager to sing and celebrate with him. After Make me pure he told us, that even though he was going to go to Milan later this tour he wished the Germans would have won the Football World Championship. The crowd thanked him by singing a German Football Song for him and it was very touching to hear 80.000 ppl singing this song of going for the World Championship again in 2010. Well, Robbie stopped us, reminding us, that this was his show…. http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0658.jpg He than introduced Johnny on stage and they did Me and my shadow. Most ppl of the audience might not have known who this sympathetic youth might be but he was welcomed friendly and they did alright together. They each kicked a small football into the crowd and made a competition who was able to kick the ball over a longer distance. Johnny won and it now was 7 to 3 for him. Robbie was sad and told the audience, that Robbie was Scheiße. He tried to talk German a lot and made very funny mistakes. His favourite German word, no doubt, is Scheiße ($h!t). After that they asked the fans to sing Strong with them. While we were singing this old song of his I suddenly realised that we were doing so, not because Robbie hasn’t got any new ideas, but because after all these years he still means every word of it… http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0671.jpg Like in Dublin he told us about meeting the members of Take That and sang Back for good for them. He, however, skipped No regrets and I wondered whether this was hopefully because he made his peace with some of the demons of his past at last. Come undone was, again, the best song of the evening, according to my opinion. It is a great song live and he sang it with so much charisma and spirit. Did you ever realise that he never sings “So **** you all†live? The only exception I can think of is The Robbie Williams Show. Like every time I have seen him singing Come undone live, he leaves this words to the audience to sing…. After Feel he thanked the audience and disappeared into the ground again to reappear some minutes later again on top of one of the yellow arms of the stage. He waved towards the crowds and started into LMEY. This time the gondola worked perfectly and he came down onto stage safely. There were light and fire all over the stage. We then all joined into Angels, the emotional highlight of every Robbie Williams gig. This time it was followed by Kids. “You do Kylie Minogue, I do Robbie Williams!†Anytime, my love. http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0683.jpg http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0693.jpg http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0694.jpg The set list: Radio RockDJ Trippin Monsoon Sin Sin Sin Millennium Make me Pure Me and My Shadow Strong Back for Good Advertising Space A Place to Crash Come Undone Feel LMEY Angels Kids This time I even didn’t miss Ghosts…… http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0720.jpg For the first time I went to a second gig of Robbie one day after another. So on Saturday I started to go for it again, this time in the company of my two sons. For the sake of the kids we had seats and had the most amazing view over all these ppl and Robbie was a small figure running around in the distance. I concentrated on the stage and his face on the screen. Realising for the first time that his face is shown on the screen nearly all the time. It felt oddly obtrusive to see his face often so naked with emotion, then again full of spirit and joy. If you expect it to be boring to visit two concerts one day after another you will be surprised. Though it was of course the same setlist, his jokes were different. He even asked the audience to blow at him again, like we did in Dublin. While it was quite a boring thing to do in Dublin he now told us that it feels great to get a blow job by 80.000 ppl….. I was translating most of the things he said for my boys, but had to leave some of his jokes out for not being fit for ppl under age. Out of a sudden he started to sing some lines out of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody…. His German was improving still and he had a strange little chat with Johnny. Robbie: “Alles fit im Schritt?†The audience roaring with laughter. Johnny: “What does that mean?â€. Robbie: “I don’t knowâ€â€¦â€¦ I wonder who taught him this line, which means: Is everything alright between your legs? Unfortunately this time you could see that Robbie was really sick this weekend. He told us that he got and injection the day before and I had the impression that he even had a temperature on Saturday or was full of pills to make him fit for going on stage. After Angels he wrapped himself into a German flag and told us that he was sick and going to end the show, because he must go to bed now. I do sincerely hope that he will recover soon and will be able to go for the rest of the tour in good health. http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0756.jpg http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0768.jpg http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0781.jpg http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j314/Dublin_pix/IMG_0784.jpg I cannot help wondering which of this tour’s songs are going to survive until he will tour again. Perhaps it’s going to be Tripping and Sin Sin Sin. Personally I would also set my bets for Make Me Pure, which is the “secret†No. 1 single of Intensive Care. By the way I believe without a doubt that he is going to tour again in a couple of years and I know that he will always be blessed with love…

Well, I was in Dublin as well and just want to share my report with you: We arrived at Dublin Croke Park early on Friday which greeted us with a cloudless blue sky. I have to thank the Security guys for they did an amazing job and got all 80.000 fans into the stadium without pushing, running or squeezing! The organization of this gig was high above everything else I have experienced so far. We got safely into the first row, having a fantastic view towards an amazing stage. At 6 pm a strange man called Coco entered the stage and played around on his keyboard. Afterwards a band called The Beautiful South from Manchester, I think, sang for one hour and they did a really good job. At about 8.45 pm Josie came to stand just beside us to watch the show. Smoke arose from the stage and I wondered where Rob might appear, so that I could take a pic of him. Josie, however, pointed us to watch the roundel at the end of the catwalk, and there he was, rising out of the bottom, surrounded by columns of smoke. The first song Robbie sang was Radio. After he was half through and the smoke had disappeared, he shot a glance to Josie. She smiled and reassured him by putting up her thumb. And she was right, though he seemed to be extremely nervous, he was doing a great job, going on with Rock DJ, followed by Tripping. I was very delighted that he went on with Monsoon, because I didn’t expect him to sing it at all. He had the audience in his hands all night and gave us a really good time. Between the songs he talked with his fans, telling us, that he wonders how Mick Jagger is able to perform still. “I am only 32 and he must be about 105â€. After Make me pure, Robbie introduced an old friend of him and Jonathan Wilkes came on stage to sing Me and My Shadow together with Rob. Well, you can like that or not, but seeing them together almost made me cry. You can see the trust and the love they have been building up for each other during a live-long friendship and Robbie seemed to be relaxed and enjoying himself for the first time this night. They sang and played around like children, trying to out-match each other. This short swing-encounter was followed by a Karaoke by the audience, singing Strong together with Robbie and Johnny. Well, all I want to say to that is, that we had that before…. After Johnny had left Rob gave his tribute to Take That, singing Back for Good and No Regrets. After doing Come undone and Feel – very touchingly sung back to him by the crowds – Rob said goodbye and disappeared into the earth again. Short time after we could hear him sing LMEY, but I couldn’t see him at first. Josie and David, who were standing next to me looked up at the sky, where the yellow arm of the stage went up about 100 feet into the air. There I could see a desperate white figure peeping down at all sides of a gondolet. When nothing happened we started to wonder what he might be up to and he climbed down the arm, disappearing again. All the time he continued singing LMEY, never mixing with the lyrics, what was a very brave thing to do – just keeping his upper lip stiff all the time. When he finally was back on stage he was really upset. He told us that the gondolet was supposed to go down to the stage but just refused to get working. He was trapped in the height and didn’t know what to do! I think he had been frightened, high up in the air, and he was disappointed, that the well planned climax of the show didn’t work out. So he invited us all to come back to a free gig in Dublin within this year. He asked David whether he can do that and David – like Josie in the beginning – put up a thumb! Robbie closed the show with Angels and was off. I do sincerely hope that he doesn’t bother himself too much. The disappointment concerning the not working gondolet was mainly on his side. The fans never knew what was going to happen and therefore didn’t mind at all. He did an amazing show and it’s good to have him back again! Seeing Robbie Williams live on stage is always an adventure and he never fails to entertain his audience! This time he didn’t bring any dancers but had a great light show, screen show and a lot of fire! In the end man-high columns of fire came out of the catwalk and nearly burned my forearms….. After a gig of Robbie’s I always feel like – wow – can I please have this again. Complete set list: Radio RockDJ Trippin Monsoon Sin Sin Sin The Trouble with me Millennium Make me Pure Me and My Shadow Strong Back for Good No Regrets Advertising Space A Place to Crash Come Undone Feel LMEY Angels I missed Ghosts…..