Robbie Williams has kicked off his ‘BRITPOP’ tour by welcoming The Lottery Winners and Michelle McManus on stage in Edinburgh – see footage beneath.
The previous Take That star is making ready to launch his first studio album in virtually a decade, additionally titled ‘BRITPOP’, within the autumn (pre-order right here), and he’s previewing the document with a string of stadium dates across the UK. The primary of these went down on the Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Saturday (Could 31).
He opened the present with the stay debut of his new single ‘Rocket’, launched final month and that includes guitars from Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, earlier than unleashing a 23-track career-spanning set.
In attribute style, the present was a theatrical manufacturing, having been launched with a big-screen video of a deepfake Elvis and the declaration that Robbie – the “King of Leisure – is the person to avoid wasting the music trade. For ‘Let Me Entertain You’, he launched himself off a bridge on stage, flying by the air whereas hanging from his ankles, in a tribute to his 2002 album ‘Escapology’.
In the midst of the present, he additionally welcomed Better Manchester indie band The Lottery Winners, who performed with him on ‘Let Love Be Your Vitality’, ‘Sexed Up’ and ‘Sweet’, and 2003 Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus for a model of Take That and Lulu’s ‘Relight My Hearth’.
Try fan-captured footage and reactions beneath.
Scotland – I really like you. That was an unimaginable opening night time. Till subsequent time. Rob x pic.twitter.com/vA1b7aKumw
— Robbie Williams (@robbiewilliams) June 1, 2025
What a famous person. We love you @robbiewilliams pic.twitter.com/Ly0TFHSaOZ
— Kevsie (@Kevsie) Could 31, 2025
Champions League Remaining?
Pfft, woke nonsense
Robbie Williams at Murrayfield is the place it is at. The Best Showman…
Simply good. What an evening pic.twitter.com/FUaKrutzL4
— Murnetti (@CRJM07) Could 31, 2025
The good entertainer #RobbieWilliams pic.twitter.com/hzfBqCAtNs
— Rory O’Connor (@suicideresearch) Could 31, 2025
Say what you want about Robbie Williams , however till you’ve seen him stay, you haven’t seen a live performance at its finest. Pure showman. @robbiewilliams pic.twitter.com/4jBCud73hW
— Kevsie (@Kevsie) June 1, 2025
I can’t recover from how good Robbie Williams was at Murrayfield final night time. The King of Leisure. pic.twitter.com/OOoje8kLPb
— Stuart (@st_ua_rt) June 1, 2025
Robbie Williams performed:
‘Rocket’
‘Let Me Entertain You’
‘90s Medley’
‘Monsoon’
‘Outdated Earlier than I Die’
‘Rock DJ’
‘Love My Life’
‘Robust’
‘The Street To Mandalay’
‘Supreme’
‘Let Love Be Your Vitality’ (with The Lottery Winners)
‘Sexed Up’ (with The Lottery Winners)
‘Sweet’ (with The Lottery Winners)
‘Relight My Hearth’ (with Michelle McManus)
‘One thing Lovely’
‘Millennium’
‘Theme From New York, New York’
‘Come Undone’
‘Youngsters’
‘She’s The One’
‘My Method’
‘Really feel’
‘Angels’
Williams is constant the ‘BRITPOP’ UK tour over the approaching weeks, and you’ll find any remaining tickets right here.
Robbie Williams’ ‘BRITPOP’ UK tour dates are:
MAY
31 – Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
JUNE
6 – Emirates Stadium, London
7 – Emirates Stadium, London
10 – Co-op Reside, Manchester – SOLD OUT
11 – Co-op Reside, Manchester – SOLD OUT
13 – Royal Crescent, Bathtub – SOLD OUT
14 – Royal Crescent, Bathtub – SOLD OUT
AUGUST
20 – Come Collectively Pageant, Newcastle
The brand new album’s cowl art work nods to one in all Robbie’s most iconic seems to be, the pink tracksuit worn to Glastonbury Pageant in 1995 when he partied with Oasis on the peak of the Britpop period.
In one other name again to that period, Williams is notably happening tour concurrently the Gallagher brothers’ return.
Robbie just lately spoke to NME on the Ivor Novello Awards, the place he picked up the Icon Award. Reflecting on whether or not ‘BRITPOP’ will recapture the hedonism of the ‘90s, he stated: “If hedonism is Jaffa Cake-based or Cadbury’s Fruit And Nut, then I’m in. The whole lot else I’ve bought to park till I die. If I don’t park it, it’ll kill me.”
Elaborating on his guitar-heavy new sound, he continued: “I used to be taking part in it protected and I’ve not been driving my very own automotive. I’ve not had my fingers on the wheel by second-thinking myself and guessing what folks like. I simply wished to do one thing that I like.”
