shell
07-24-2006, 04:25 PM
Robbie Williams in Dublin review
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3193.jpg
by SamC
So we left Cork at 10am, ready for our drive to Dublin ? normally this would take about 3 hours but today this took a whopping?.6 and a half hours!!!
So way behind schedule we arrived at our hotel and booked a cab to take us to Drumcondra ? near Croke Park. Sharing with a couple of girls from Sheffield we headed up to Drumcondra and started our walk up to the stadium. Upon arrival, Chris Coco had just started his set and the place was eerily empty!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3188.jpg
However the Golden Circle pit was filling up so we decided to get a few beers down us and head in to wait for RPW!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3190.jpg
The stage looked unreal, a spacey affair and well suited to the Close Encounters theme.
Chris was great, having his own little party on stage and he obviously loving it. Between each support there was the usual ?Blink TV? with good tunes and messages from Robbie. The crowd went wild for his Unicef clips with David Beckham (and why not I might add!)
Hubby and I really enjoyed Chris? set and it got us in the mood for the night ahead.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3179.jpg
A while later, The Beautiful South hit the stage, and took us both down memory lane. Whilst we were initially disappointed not to be seeing Basement Jaxx, we found this set enjoyable ? a bit middle-of-the-road but a good practice for the sing-a-long which was to follow later. Surprising how many good hits they had and still belted them out well.
As a massive Robbie fan, I have to say that the concert was amazing! The highs and lows for me; I will list later but overall it was a fantastic gig. The press who were complaining were obviously at a different concert as with any live gig or theatre show there are always a few glitches on 1st night!!! You can?t penalise someone for that ? that?s normal.
Set list as I remember:
Radio
Rock DJ
Tripping
Monsoon
Sin Sin Sin
TheTrouble With Me
Millennium
Make Me Pure
Me & My Shadow with Jonathon Wilkes
Strong
Back for Good
No Regrets
Advertising Space
A Place to Crash
Feel
Come Undone
Encore -Let Me Entertain You and Angels
WHAT AN ENTRANCE!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3192.jpg
After Phoenix Park, I never thought Robbie could top an entrance like that. The 1st time I saw him in concert in Manchester, he entered the stage on a portaloo on wheels, so this blew me away.
Through the fireworks and flames, up came Robbie from under the stage, with Radio. A great opener, and a change to Let Me Entertain You ? still fab thou!
The set looked amazing and Robbie worked it well, keeping the whole audience entertained ? darting left, then right, then up the catwalk to us at the front! He was full of energy; full of beans like he had drank a crate of Red Bull!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3193.jpg
Between each song, the banter flowed. The craic, the cheeky remarks, the wit and sarcasm that we all know and love.
?Blue Steel? posing, Robbie making us all ?blow? <on> him (not that the ladies objected to this you understand but I feel what we actually did and what some of us thought we were going to do were completely different things!) and impromptu sing-a-longs to Take a Walk on the Wide Side kept us entertained and enthralled until the very end.
We danced, bounced, sang, shouted, laughed and (for some) cried.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3184a.jpg
The atmosphere was electric in the golden circle and everyone around us was focused on the all singing, all dancing one man show that is, was and always will be Robbie Williams, one of the greatest live entertainers of our time.
There was no pushing or shoving that has been experienced at some other shows. Our <view> was quite close to the catwalk and I was delighted with that.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3210.jpg
As the evening drew to a close and we knew that the end was near (and so we faced the final curtain!) Robbie left the stage. He reappeared at the top of the stage in the "arm" on the left and was looking down on us singing his heart out. He was up there for what seemed to be forever, although that it couldn?t have been longer than a minute but he kept looking down and <thru my camera> I could see that he was bricking himself ? although we didn?t know why. He then disappeared.
We knew that there was some sort of problem as the band were playing and singing but Robbie was nowhere to be seen.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3223.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3225.jpg
Back on stage, he seemed flustered and agitated. He told us about the stunt, how it went wrong, how he was ?s**tting himself" and that it was ?not a good time to be wearing a white trackie? (although he did look scrummy in it!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3219.jpg
He then took his ball in, spat the dummy, and decided that the end was nearer than we initially thought, omitted Kids from the encore as so to get Angels over and done with and head off into the sunset.
And who can blame him?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3199.jpg
Before leaving, he made the statement about him coming back to Dublin before the end of the year, about us being better than him, about doing a free gig. The screens filled with the face of his manager David ? like a child seeking approval from their parent - and he too agreed that it was ?OK? for Rob to promise us the gig. Robbie finally bowed out by saying ?He?d be back? and in true Arnie style, we're sure he will.
Later that night, in the pub dissecting the concert and what had just happened, everyone was on a high. There wasn?t one person who complained or who thought the concert was poor. In fact, everyone was raving about it, and how he kept his cool and kept the head despite the circumstances. OK so it wasn?t the perfect ending to the perfect day, 1st night there were bound to be teething problems. To get the slating from the press that he did was a joke.
For me the concert was fabulous. Not as good as when I saw him in Phoenix Park, granted, but there were other aspects that added to the quality of that day ? such as the enormity of the crowd and the fact that was the last night of the tour as opposed to the first.
Rock on Robbie, keep on keeping on, and do what you do best.
We?ll always be there for you to Let you Entertain us.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3193.jpg
by SamC
So we left Cork at 10am, ready for our drive to Dublin ? normally this would take about 3 hours but today this took a whopping?.6 and a half hours!!!
So way behind schedule we arrived at our hotel and booked a cab to take us to Drumcondra ? near Croke Park. Sharing with a couple of girls from Sheffield we headed up to Drumcondra and started our walk up to the stadium. Upon arrival, Chris Coco had just started his set and the place was eerily empty!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3188.jpg
However the Golden Circle pit was filling up so we decided to get a few beers down us and head in to wait for RPW!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3190.jpg
The stage looked unreal, a spacey affair and well suited to the Close Encounters theme.
Chris was great, having his own little party on stage and he obviously loving it. Between each support there was the usual ?Blink TV? with good tunes and messages from Robbie. The crowd went wild for his Unicef clips with David Beckham (and why not I might add!)
Hubby and I really enjoyed Chris? set and it got us in the mood for the night ahead.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3179.jpg
A while later, The Beautiful South hit the stage, and took us both down memory lane. Whilst we were initially disappointed not to be seeing Basement Jaxx, we found this set enjoyable ? a bit middle-of-the-road but a good practice for the sing-a-long which was to follow later. Surprising how many good hits they had and still belted them out well.
As a massive Robbie fan, I have to say that the concert was amazing! The highs and lows for me; I will list later but overall it was a fantastic gig. The press who were complaining were obviously at a different concert as with any live gig or theatre show there are always a few glitches on 1st night!!! You can?t penalise someone for that ? that?s normal.
Set list as I remember:
Radio
Rock DJ
Tripping
Monsoon
Sin Sin Sin
TheTrouble With Me
Millennium
Make Me Pure
Me & My Shadow with Jonathon Wilkes
Strong
Back for Good
No Regrets
Advertising Space
A Place to Crash
Feel
Come Undone
Encore -Let Me Entertain You and Angels
WHAT AN ENTRANCE!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3192.jpg
After Phoenix Park, I never thought Robbie could top an entrance like that. The 1st time I saw him in concert in Manchester, he entered the stage on a portaloo on wheels, so this blew me away.
Through the fireworks and flames, up came Robbie from under the stage, with Radio. A great opener, and a change to Let Me Entertain You ? still fab thou!
The set looked amazing and Robbie worked it well, keeping the whole audience entertained ? darting left, then right, then up the catwalk to us at the front! He was full of energy; full of beans like he had drank a crate of Red Bull!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3193.jpg
Between each song, the banter flowed. The craic, the cheeky remarks, the wit and sarcasm that we all know and love.
?Blue Steel? posing, Robbie making us all ?blow? <on> him (not that the ladies objected to this you understand but I feel what we actually did and what some of us thought we were going to do were completely different things!) and impromptu sing-a-longs to Take a Walk on the Wide Side kept us entertained and enthralled until the very end.
We danced, bounced, sang, shouted, laughed and (for some) cried.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3184a.jpg
The atmosphere was electric in the golden circle and everyone around us was focused on the all singing, all dancing one man show that is, was and always will be Robbie Williams, one of the greatest live entertainers of our time.
There was no pushing or shoving that has been experienced at some other shows. Our <view> was quite close to the catwalk and I was delighted with that.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3210.jpg
As the evening drew to a close and we knew that the end was near (and so we faced the final curtain!) Robbie left the stage. He reappeared at the top of the stage in the "arm" on the left and was looking down on us singing his heart out. He was up there for what seemed to be forever, although that it couldn?t have been longer than a minute but he kept looking down and <thru my camera> I could see that he was bricking himself ? although we didn?t know why. He then disappeared.
We knew that there was some sort of problem as the band were playing and singing but Robbie was nowhere to be seen.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3223.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3225.jpg
Back on stage, he seemed flustered and agitated. He told us about the stunt, how it went wrong, how he was ?s**tting himself" and that it was ?not a good time to be wearing a white trackie? (although he did look scrummy in it!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3219.jpg
He then took his ball in, spat the dummy, and decided that the end was nearer than we initially thought, omitted Kids from the encore as so to get Angels over and done with and head off into the sunset.
And who can blame him?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/shellspeare/stephen%20duffy/camera3199.jpg
Before leaving, he made the statement about him coming back to Dublin before the end of the year, about us being better than him, about doing a free gig. The screens filled with the face of his manager David ? like a child seeking approval from their parent - and he too agreed that it was ?OK? for Rob to promise us the gig. Robbie finally bowed out by saying ?He?d be back? and in true Arnie style, we're sure he will.
Later that night, in the pub dissecting the concert and what had just happened, everyone was on a high. There wasn?t one person who complained or who thought the concert was poor. In fact, everyone was raving about it, and how he kept his cool and kept the head despite the circumstances. OK so it wasn?t the perfect ending to the perfect day, 1st night there were bound to be teething problems. To get the slating from the press that he did was a joke.
For me the concert was fabulous. Not as good as when I saw him in Phoenix Park, granted, but there were other aspects that added to the quality of that day ? such as the enormity of the crowd and the fact that was the last night of the tour as opposed to the first.
Rock on Robbie, keep on keeping on, and do what you do best.
We?ll always be there for you to Let you Entertain us.