Milton Keynes, UK - 22 July 2001
Aug 21 '01
The Bottom Line Beg, steal, rob or sell your grandmother to get a ticket!!
I have to say that seeing Robbie Williams live was one of the highlights of my summer this year.
I waited patiently along with 64,999 other people under a sunny cloud-free sky to see Mr Williams in all his glory. No sooner did he appear, than the noise around the bowl rose to an almost unbearable level.
The crowd was a very varied group - I'd been expecting that the audience would be dominated by 14-yr-old teenyboppers, but I was to be proved wrong. All ages were present - family groups, middle-aged couples, 30-somethings etc.
Robbie (as expected) started off with Let Me Entertain You and then followed a steady stream of the usual suspects: Kids, Rock DJ, Millennium, She's The One, Road to Mandalay, Eternity, etc, etc, accompanied by a spectacular light show.
The entire audience sang along with him, even, as Robbie himself pointed out, the man on the front row who didn't know all the words.
Between each track, Robbie joked along with the crowd, whipping us all into a frenzy when he had to change his torn trousers on stage (be still my heart!). Particularly amusing was the send-up of Take That songs and dance routines and his shouted requests for the fairer sex in the audience to get their tops off (and guess what, some did...).
I completely confer with a much-stated opinion that Robbie is indeed a natural stage entertainer - it's not just his singing, it's the whole package.
Although we were nowhere near the front of the stage, two large screens allowed us close-ups of his cute smile.
Near the end of the 90 minute performance, he announced he would be singing Angels (cue another wave of hysterical shrieking - and that was only the over-50s) and asked everyone to get out their mobile phones to 'phone a friend'. Within seconds, cellular networks in the South-East of the UK were jammed and few managed to make their calls. Though a friend of mine has had the entire live track plus applause on her voice mail for the past 5 weeks!
Although I've been a big fan of Mr Williams since his Take That days, his gigs will appeal to his critics - as testified by a (dance and garage-loving) friend of mine, who went to the gig not really knowing any Robbie songs. She was there at the end joining in with the crowd shouting 'ROB..BIE, ROB..BIE' calling him back for his encore...
The show ended with Rob looking exhausted but happy, as a colorful display of fireworks went off from the top of the stage set and the thousands of us heading for Milton Keynes train station did so singing Robbie tracks all the way.
A perfect day!!
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