Pretoria Concert Media Reviews

[shell]

Robbie cracks up Gauteng


HILA BOUZAGLOU and JADE ARCHER




Tue, 18 April 2006


ROBBIE Williams was smoking on stage last night in Pretoria. Photo: Hila Bouzaglou

ROBBIE Williams attempted to break a world record at his concert last night when he asked 61 000 people to burp simultaneously.


He kept the audience at Loftus Versfeld dancing as well as laughing for almost three hours with his on stage antics.

Amongst the jokes made were jokes about Michael Jackson, his former band mates of Take That and Mick Jagger. Williams wondered aloud how the ?106 year-old? rock star still manages to perform.
He also asked a woman in the front to bare her rather abnormally large breasts, which she did to the whole stadium. Williams was so ecstatic that he said he wanted to get the DVD of the concert.
Williams had everyone singing karaoke-style to all of his songs. During Strong, the giant screens featured gigantic scrolling lyrics so everybody could sing along.
Amidst clouds of smoke and fire, Williams rose up from under the protruding stage to start the show. Balls of fire shot out from the stage during the songs Radio and Let Me Entertain You and the heat from the flames could be felt outside golden circle.
During his stay in South Africa, Williams filmed a music video in Cape Town and used 18 of South Africa?s hottest models. Williams said that he had never seen so many beautiful women as he did in South Africa but was sad to discover that most of them had boyfriends.

He also denied press reports that he did not want to meet Madiba. ?Viva Nelson Mandela!? he then said. Williams said South Africa had treated him and his crew so well that he couldn?t express how he felt about the country. So he simply said: ?South Africa rocks!?
Besides for his lively stage performance, Williams had the crowd hysterical with laughter after showing the crowd his Blue Steel face and the face of a horny giraffe.
Amongst the songs that he performed were Millennium, Advertising Space, Come Undone, Rock DJ and Feel.
Williams ended the concert with his love song Angels. A song which took him only thirty minutes to write but which tens of thousands of South Africans will remember for a life time.


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[shell]

Pretoria Concert Review

As the moon rose over Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria last night, 60 000 heads bopped to the beat and twice as many hands were flung in the air. Robbie Williams closed the South African leg of his world tour with fireworks and a matching bang, thanking the crowd on his knees for turning up en masse. "Baie dankie," he shouted to the explosive cheering and clapping.

Taking after his comedian father, Williams entertained the crowd with witty one-liners, imitations of Michael Jackson, and of a horny giraffe. He also had the stadium have a go at the world's largest simultaneous burping session. "I bet they heard that miles away!"

The cheeky singer treated the fans, some of whom had been waiting for six hours, to new songs from his Intensive Care album, such as Sin Sin Sin and Advertising Space as well as to older chart toppers like Rock DJ, Feel -- "I did that whole cowboy thing before Brokeback Mountain!"-- and Angels. Williams even sang Take That's Back for Good and wished his former band mates the best of luck with their recent reunion. "But without me it's just not the same. Not Take That but more like ... Ake That."

Dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a black long-line blazer, Williams wowed Pretoria with his raunchy charm. "If I'll shag you? Sure, come find me after the show," he said to fans holding a banner before running across the stage to have a closer look at a girl baring her breasts. "Please do that again love," and then, turning to the African sky, laughing: "Thank you for making your women so accessible."

Williams praised South Africa for having the most beautiful people. "Everybody here is fucking gorgeous; girls, guys, everybody. I shot my new video for Sin Sin Sin in Cape Town the other day and had the pleasure to be surrounded by 17 of the country's top models. Sadly every single one of them had a boyfriend ... But luckily two of them didn't mind for one night."

The show was not all jokes, though. Williams got serious when talking about his first-ever love from when he was 16, and said he still loved her. Up-tempo tracks were followed by sensitive ballads, jokes were followed by genuine expressions of gratitude and heartfelt life stories.

Williams gave people what they wanted and then some. He sang, rapped and danced, improvising along the way. By the end of the two-hour extravaganza there was no man, woman, or child who did not believe they had not just witnessed a true entertainer.

It was the first time Williams had performed in South Africa but it will not be the last. Williams said he loved the country and called it "the world's best-kept secret".

"I will be back," the golden boy from Stoke-on-Trent, England, promised before he was whisked off in a helicopter to his R11 000 presidential suite at the Westcliffe Hotel and the public went back to their cars and daily routine. Williams came, saw, and conquered or as an older gentleman on his way out put it: "Robbie sure had my stiff ass jumping up and down!"

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[charmy]

I was at the pretoria concert, all I can say is WOW! This man is a born entertainer. Hope you all have your tickets.

[clara]

Originally Posted by shell

Robbie Williams attempted to break a world record at his concert last night when he asked 61 000 people to burp simultaneously

I'm sure no one has ever had this idea. What a record!

[Sess]

Oh, yes i got tickets! Thats for sure!! I'll really look forward to see Rob live on stage again this summer! I'll see him in Sweden and Denmark!!! Last time i saw him live was in at a talk show her in Norway.. "SENKVELD WITH THOMAS AND HARALD" I was there and he was great as allways!!

[Make_Me_Pure]

WOW Cant wait for all our reviews

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by charmy

I was at the pretoria concert, all I can say is WOW! This man is a born entertainer. Hope you all have your tickets.

ooooooo tell us what it was like

[shell]

ALL BOW DOWN TO HIS ROYAL POPNESS

My good friends at Motorola decided to throw me a birthday bash on Monday. They hired out Loftus Versfeld, invited 64 000 of my closest friends and asked the world's biggest popstar, Robbie Williams, to perform.

Wow! It was the best birthday party ever!

Fans queued from 5am. When the gates finally opened at 4pm, they fell over each other to get to the very front of the stage. (His Royal Popness was only scheduled to perform at 9pm.)

The support bands were The Wiredaisies from England and South Africa's own FreshlyGround (who were brilliant).

However, the 64 000 people were there for Robbie and Robbie only. And he didn't disappoint. Giant fireballs were flashed from the stage, whipping the crowd into a frenzy. And in one of those fireballs, kapoof! There was Robbie. We squealed with glee.

He kicked off with Radio and the magic began with two-and-a-half hours of some of the best pop songs ever written.

In between songs we were treated to spells of comedy. If Robbie couldn't sing, he would have made a great stand-up comedian. From "baie dankie" to waxing lyrical about a certain Minky van der Westhuizen ("she's fookin' hot but I heard she has a boyfriend who plays table tennis or somfink!"), we clung onto his every word.
"You must believe everything you read about me in the press. It's all true!" clearly taking a swipe at the tabloids who have always enjoyed his controversial lifestyle of loads of sex and even more drugs.
"Except for one thing. I never said I did not want to meet Nelson Mandela. He is one of the greatest human beings alive today." Of course we cheered him on even more after that bit of patriotic propaganda.

He s****ed through hits like Millenium, Angels and Tripping, his energy never abating once. "Fookin' Hell! I don't know how Mick Jagger does it. I'm 32 and I'm exhausted already!" he exclaimed after his third song.

Yeah baby, but do Mick and the rest of the Rolling Stones hold the record for selling the most amount of tickets in the fastest time? For this world tour, which began in Durban, Robbie Williams sold 1,6-million tickets in just under a day.

Despite his huge success and his larger-than-life performance, I couldn't shake the feeling that this man is very lonely. But that could also be the secret to his success.

Unlike popstars like Prince and Madonna, Robbie is not afraid to show us that he is human. We can identify with his eternal search for love. Despite his rock-star antics on and off stage, he has a simplistic honesty which makes him a working-class hero in every sense of the word.

He truly is one of the greatest popstars of our time.

courtesy of the Robbie Williams Site

[Sarah]

only another 148 days shell..then we will see it for ourselfs...its torture...im just so excited

[mon]

ROBBIE WILLIAMS
He came, he saw, he entertained
Posted Wed, 19 Apr 2006

The trouble with Robbie Williams is that even if you're not a sworn fan of his music, his live performance can charm the most melancholy crowd into a state of giddiness. Rising from beneath the stage amidst smoke and flames, a Beatles frenzy broke loose from the crowd and we were smitten.

Cheeky and witty he willingly entertained us. He was wet with sweat as he danced and sang like a mischievous schoolboy on a lights, camera, action playground. Belting out candid lyrics he seemed fearless in exposing his vulnerability and telling little stories of his life.

One might even have dismissed the thoughts of Williams being an obnoxious, foul-mouthed superstar as he sat smoking a cigarette and chatting to his impressive audience before offering up what seemed to be a prayer with 'Make Me Pure'.

He was the delighted Pied Piper and we the rats that followed in the emotional journey that twisted and turned with memories like Take That's 'Want You Back For Good' and a karaoke rendition of 'Strong'.

In 'Advertising Space', Williams pays tribute to Elvis and without saying it himself, he's possibly the closest a number of generations will come to a king. And we knew it. So we cheered and screamed and paid homage to our new king until he seemed satisfied. Slaves to his philosophy of hedonism.

There's maybe a little universal truth in his music that speaks to everyone and 'Sin Sin Sin' made the crowd startlingly aware that at the core we're all the same ? pop star and fan, misunderstood or tripping. Young and old were reverent of his talent and for a while he seemed glad to know us too.

After nearly two hours of song and dance he put his stamp on the concert with 'Angels', transforming the masses into an audience who were quiet, receptive and moved. And even if the puppet master was only pulling our strings, even if that was only showbiz, Robbie Williams, without a doubt, did it well and for a night taught an audience of forty thousand to 'Feel'.

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