One practically expects the ex-Take That singer to pound his chest like an ape after making his entrance. Instead, he roars into his microphone: 'I am Robbie f.ing Williams and you are Dub-f.ing-lin.' But as he races through opening song 'Let Me Entertain You', that ego must be bruised by the sight of banks of empty seating throughout the stadium. He is not quite as big a draw as he used to be. 'Show some love for Robbie,' he begs early on.His cause isn't helped by the paucity of good, original material over the past decade and, with the show leaning heavily on songs from his slapdash latest album, 'Take the Crown', the lack of strong songs is writ large.Even the album's most popular number, 'Candy', sounds terribly ordinary.The first 80 minutes of his show fails to ignite.
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It says something that a cover from Fresh Re – the Co Kildare kids who have become a YouTube sensation – appears to generate more excitement than the man who has invited them to the stage.It takes Take That's 'Never Forget' to provide a much-needed break from the high-tempo, but homogenised, racket.Williams' showman capabilities rouse themselves for the set's final third thanks to 'Millennium' and 'Rock DJ'.The encore sees him take the home straight at a gallop. 'Real Love' and 'She's the One' are sung back word-perfect while 'Angels' is one giant karaoke session. Williams simply sings the opening verse and then points his mic at the audience and they do the rest.
.The ego has landed - the ex-Take Thatter makes Hampden roarWith 45,000 fans here to see the headliner, Robbie made sure that he wasn’t going to be upstaged by his support act, the charismatic telly-star of X Factor, whose energy kept Robbie's legion of adoring, largely female fans rapt in the run-up to the main course.Appearing in spectacular style 20 metres above the stage from a gold-cast bust of his own face, it's safe to say Robbie made a big entrance. As he saluted the crowd and slid down a zip-wire through a haze of colourful dry ice on to a smaller stage in the audience, the fans went wild. It seemed that the ego had well and truly landed as an array of giant props reflected his image, alongside two massive screens and a stage consisting of a giant crown.As the appropriately entitled ' belted out, Robbie's unbridled energy exploded as he ran around the stage and played up to the fans and cameras throughout. As he walked up to a secondary smaller stage, and like the clown character he often portrays, he put a pair of Scottish saltire boxers shorts on his head (thrown to him by an audience member) and outstretched his arms like a pop messiah. Returning to the main stage to a giant metal bust of himself, he posed and fooled around, as the head opened and released multi-coloured balloons.‘’, ‘,’ ‘’ and ‘’ were all crowd-pleasers, but the emotive ballads also held their own, with ‘' and his biggest anthem ‘’ sweeping the massive audience up in a immense singalong.After his successful reunion and subsequent return to being a solo performer, Robbie undoubtedly seems re-energised. A larger-than-life show from a very much larger-than-life performer.
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