Updated: 04/10/05

WEBSITE CRASH!!
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WIN AMSTERDAM TICKETS!
We have 20 pairs of tickets for Robbie's final warm-up show before Berlin, taking place this Wednesday 5th October at the Paradiso, Amsterdam!! To be in with a chance of winning a pair, all you need to do is send your answers to the following questions, along with the details required below to: amsterdam@robbiewilliams.com
The competition closes at 5pm today, Monday 5th October, so be sure to send in your entries quickly!
1. How many dates did Robbie play at the Amsterdam Arena in July 2003?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3

2. Robbie's first ever solo gig in Amsterdam was at:
a) the Milky Way
b) the Milky Bar Kid
c) the Milk Float

3. Which album track from the forthcoming Intensive Care, also featured on the current single Tripping, has Robbie been closing his warm-up shows with?
a) Sin Sin Sin
b) Tripping
c) Make Me Pure

ATTENTION!!! I have received many emails from fans asking about tour dates and when and where they can purchase tickets from for next year. Please be aware that NO OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT has been made regarding tour dates and ticket sales. Until something official is announced please DO NOT purchase any tickets from websites advertising RW concert dates for 2006. Please wait for an official announcement which should be made soon. For all tour news please keep a regular watch on www.whatsyourfuture.com, once an announcemnt has been made on Robbie's official site, news and details about ticket sales will follow. thanks. :)

ROBBIE'S EVIL TWIN REVELS IN HIS FULL OCTANE DEVILRY
For his first British date since his triumph at Live8, Robbie Williams played the Astoria on Charing Cross Road in London last night: a venue with the capacity of the queue for the loos at the sort of enormo-domes he usually patronises.
The gig was one of two warm-up performances - the other was in Paris two nights earlier - for a show at the Velodrom in Berlin next Sunday, which will launch his forthcoming album, Intensive Care; that show will also be screened live in cinemas across Europe.
'It'll be rubbish compared to this,' Williams said with characteristic candour during one of his many chats between songs, sometimes even perched on a stool to emphasise the intimacy.
No wonder fans had camped out overnight to secure a ticket, or parted with £1,000 to buy one over the internet. Even that would have been value for money. No one else would dare to start such a show with the opening line from their unreleased record, but then it's a cracker: 'Here I stand/ Victorious/ The only ever man to make you come.' And he repeated it three times. When it came to the second song, 'Feel', he could already step back from the mic and let the audience - predominantly of women, plus his peers in the entertainment industry such as actor David Walliams - sing that first anthemic chorus.
Later, he singled out the fan who had been at the front of the overnight queue (who was identified only as Brett) and rewarded him with an instant recording of the next song.
The singer says he has 'an evil twin who inhabits my body when I'm on stage', and his full octane performance smacked of the devilish. The set comprised Williams classics - 'Angels', 'Rock DJ' - and impressive songs from the new record (co-written with new band member Stephen Duffy). There were also excerpts from the pop canon: a snatch of Donna Summer as well as The Specials, plus a burst of the Sugababes' current hit 'Push The Button'.
Stripped to jeans and a sparkling T-shirt (and with occasional glimpses of his tattoos, to tantalised screams), he explained that his management would have to pay publishing money to the relevant songwriters, so he then sang: 'one for [Gary] Barlow' - a burst of Take That's 'Back For Good' to help out his former bandmate. It seems a long time since his boy band days now. Intensive Care is the singer's seventh album and his most ambitious to date, but on the evidence last night of the response to the single he releases tomorrow, 'Tripping', he will be able to carry his vast audience with him.
He let slip that a world tour will shortly be announced. There is a line in the song with which he finished, 'Make Me Pure', that runs 'I never have to try, I just dial it in.' Not so far on this evidence he hasn't.

TRIPPING..... For Australian fans Tripping is released TODAY! Dont forget to pick up your copy!

LONDON ASTORIA...
Two thousand Robbie Williams fans packed the London Astoria tonight to watch their idol.
In the small intimate venue Williams wooed the crowd with a collection of old hits and tracks from his new album, Intensive Care, due to be released on October 24.
It was the second of three warm-up gigs before its official launch at the Velodrom in Berlin, Germany on October 9.
Williams performed in Paris on Thursday and will perform again in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
Chants of “Robbie, Robbie”, reverberated around the venue before Williams, dressed in blue jeans, black leather jacket and blue T-shirt with a sparkling motif, came on stage.
The sound as he entered the stage was deafening.
The audience was a sea of arms and mobile phones held aloft by fans to take photos of their idol.
The first track, Ghosts, a song from his new album, met with a mixed reception, though when Williams teased the largely female crowd with lyrics like “I’m taking you home”, they roared with approval.
Next Williams and his six-strong band launched into his smash hit “Feel” and the crowd burst into song.
One fan, Nicole Guala, 22, of Mile End, London, said: “He’s brilliant. I had to queue for hours to get a ticket, but it’s been worth it.”

AMSTERDAM...
Following Robbie's performance at the Bataclan last night, it was announced this evening that Robbie will play a secret show in Amsterdam next Wednesday 5 October .... watch this space for a special competition to win tickets to the final warm-up gig for Berlin, as well as details on where and when to buy them!

MAKE ME PURE VIDEO EXCLUSIVE!
CD:UK this Saturday (1 October) from 11.30 am
The track also features as a b-side to the new single Tripping which is available in the shops from Monday 3rd October.

ROBBIE IN TOP FORM IN PARIS...
Just 1600 fans packed into the Bataclan to watch Robbie perform his first full show since Knebworth in 2003.
Competition winners from Robbiewilliams.com travelled from all over Europe to attend the gig. One of the winners, Sophie Taupin, described the performance as "fantastic, marvellous, incredible ... Mr Williams was perfect!"
Robbie will be playing the Astoria in London tomorrow, look out for a review of the gig as well as the names of the lucky competition winners who attended! For some fantastic pics from the Paris gig visit The Tour section in our FORUM.
all news items from www.whatsyourfuture.com

INTENSIVE CARE....track by track.
Ghosts - Throughout the recording of ‘Intensive Care’, Robbie was revisiting a lot of his favourite songs from the 1980s, particularly the Human League's ‘Louise’, about a man who sees a former lover at the bus stop and realises he still has deep feelings for her. With ‘Ghosts’, Robbie wanted to write Louise's response, and so this freewheeling melody is drenched in lost-love pinings and the very sweetest melancholy. The vocal harmonies in the chorus, meanwhile, which are almost hymnal, enhance its emotional clout exponentially.
Tripping - Erroneously described in the press as Robbie Williams' reggae song, ‘Tripping's’ rolling rhythm actually owes a greater debt to the early work of The Clash. "It's something like a mini gangster opera," Robbie says, "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch combined." The chorus features a tight-trousered falsetto that climbs the scales like a fireman climbs a ladder, and almost touches disco on its lofty ascent. The first single to be lifted from ‘Intensive Care’ and, alongside 2004's ‘Radio’, one of his more idiosyncratic creations.
Make Me Pure – ‘Make Me Pure’, as Robbie will tell you and producer Stephen Duffy will confirm, is a song without a chorus, "just six or seven verses, and a bit at the end." This is the singer in conversation with himself, a 31 year-old man off the drink and drugs but wanting, nevertheless, to push the barriers of his newly-found sobriety, and to still have occasional illicit fun. "It's also about turning 30 and realising that there is still a big void in my life," he says. "And that's a woman, a partner, a wife." Heartache clearly suits him, for this fabulous song.
Spread Your Wings – ‘Spread Your Wings’, a lyrical sister to the opening ‘Ghosts’, finds Robbie in nostalgic mood once more, returning, in spirit, to his native Stoke-on-Trent and a girlfriend of old. Celebrating the 1980s, it name checks the long-forgotten Oran Juice Jones and Jocelyn Brown, and suggests that we shouldn't "let the dreams out of your head". His motivation for this one? "I want to write songs that will still break peoples' hearts in 20 years time," he says. "And I hope, and reckon, this one will do just that."
Advertising Space - Perhaps the most conclusive confirmation that the pairing of Robbie Williams and Stephen Duffy was a wise one, ‘Advertising Space’ possesses wraparound majesty, and is almost profoundly cinematic. "This is my ‘True Romance’ song," he says, "the one where, like Christian Slater in the film, I like to believe I have direct access to Elvis Presley every now and then." Elegiac and mournful, it describes a superstar's tragic fall from grace. Robbie jokingly describes it as his own ‘Candle In The Wind’. It's not, of course. It's less cheesy by a full Edam, for starters.
Please Don't Die - "I would never presume to know how it feels to lose a loved one," Robbie says, but ‘Please Don't Die’, by far the most poignant moment on the album, concerns a family member who died of cancer last year. An intimately personal lyric about love, memory and honour, this features the flipside of Robbie Williams, one a million miles away from the persona who sang ‘Rock DJ’. "Look around, there's no one here to love me, hold me," he sings in a very quiet and very tender voice.
Your Gay Friend - Starting with a jubilant "whoo hoo", ‘Your Gay Friend’ is Intensive Care's most frivolous moment, and also its most mischievous. "I'll be your gay friend/Cos your marriage never ends/so we fuck and fight again," he sings. Its author declines to say who the song's subject is about - "the less said about that the better". Its Lucozade spritz is as infectious as its lyrical content is potentially contentious.
Sin Sin Sin - One of the first efforts Robbie wrote with his new songwriting partner Stephen Duffy, ‘Sin Sin Sin’, with its metronomic beat, is an engagingly hypnotic song about a dirty old man who craves a shag. "Basically," Robbie grins, "it's about the kind of bloke I will turn into myself one day." Despite its sly content, this features his most mannered vocal to date, reminiscent of Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant, but with even finer annunciation. His mother would be proud; Stephen Duffy already is. "As soon as we'd completed this track," Duffy says, "I thought we might just have a future together."
Random Acts – ‘Random Acts’ is a song about magic. In the two years Robbie worked on ‘Intensive Care’, he also found the time to develop an interest in magic and the occult, studying the published works of occultist Aleister Crowley and dabbling in spells of his own. He likes to describe this particular song as "mystical and magical", one made for the inner Gandalf in us all. "I am just a simple man with simple expectations," he sings, perhaps somewhat disingenuously.
The Trouble With Me - It is, by now, common knowledge that few people write self-lacerating songs with the unflinching eloquence of Robbie Williams, and ‘The Trouble With Me’ is one of his very best. Written by a man of maturity now desperate to find the woman of his dreams, he begins it thus: "You see the trouble with me/I've got a head full of fuck/I'm a basket case/I don't think I can love." Stephen Duffy, the album's producer, points to these lyrics - which, like all of Robbie's lyrics, come straight off the top of his head with the minimum of architecture - as confirmation of his genius wordplay.
A Place To Crash – ‘A Place To Crash’, Robbie says with no little pride, is the only Rolling Stones riff Keith Richards has yet to write, and so Stephen Duffy wrote it instead. Cocksure, robust and possessed of a swagger that suggests it was born in leather trousers, this brash anthem is undoubtedly a future live favourite, its "AH YEAHs!" tailor-made for a full stadium singalong. After one minute and 29 seconds, Robbie shouts "GUITAR!" He's not done that before. King of Bloke And Bird - The final song on ‘Intensive Care’ is also the most maudlin, a profoundly affecting acoustic paean to the futility of searching for love, Robbie casting himself here as disaffected and dejected. Its poignancy is, at times, unbearable, its lip tremors genuinely affecting. At the time of writing, Robbie reckons he won't be playing this song live as it is simply "too painful". But catch him on another day, and he is much more positive about it. "This is me trying to imitate Neil Young but sounding, instead, like Kermit the Frog," he says. Miss Piggy should be so lucky...

ROBBIE TO PERFORM AT MTV EUROPE AWARDS...
With just under 6 weeks to go before the MTV Europe Music Awards take place in Lisbon on 3 November 2005, MTV today revealed the nominations, the host, some of the performers and the sponsors of the 12th annual event, set to air live from the Atlantic Pavilion, Lisbon.
The ultimate showman, Robbie Williams, is set to electrify Lisbon with a live performance of ‘Tripping', his ska-pop single from the eagerly awaited new album ‘Intensive Care' which is released on 24 October 2005. The follow up to the 2002 smash ‘Escapology', and his 8th album, Robbie will cement his European comeback with what is sure to be an unforgettable live performance.

VOTE FOR ROBBIE!!!!
Vote for Robbie in this years European MTV Awards to be held in Lisbon. He is up for two awards, best Male and Best Pop and we need your vote! Get voting here!

THE MAKING OF TRIPPING....
Watch a small clip and go behind the scenes of Tripping here.

ROBBIE PERFORMS LIVE IN PARIS AND LONDON THIS WEEK!
Robbie will perform 2 very special shows this week; warming up for his incredible show at Berlin's Velodrome on 9th October, this week will see Robbie live in Paris on Thursday September 29th and in London this Saturday 1st October. Right now, we can only reveal the dates of these intimate shows but, those of you who are members of the Inner Sanctum or who have subscribed to whatsyourfuture.com should watch their Inboxes for details of a competition to win 1 of 20 pairs of tickets to the London show!! Whats more, we are also announcing details today of a competiton on how to win tickets for Paris. This competition is open to all visitors of this site; check out the news story 'WIN tickets for Paris'.
Details of how to buy tickets for these shows are not yet announced....watch this space.
Check out www.whatsyourfuture.com for all details....

WIN TICKETS FOR PARIS!
Today it was announced that Robbie will play in paris this Thursday September 29th. Details of how to get tickets are not yet available but RobbieWilliams.com has 20 pairs of tickets up for grabs. In order ot be in with a chance to win a pair, all you need to do is send you answer to questions to paris@robbiewilliams.com
1. Robbie launced one of his previous albums in Paris. Was it:
a) Life Thru A Lens
b) I've Been Expecting You
c) Escapology

2. Robbie last played a live date in Paris on:
a) July 1st 2003
b) July 2nd 2003
c) July 3rd 2003

3. Which of the following songs has Robbie previously said picked up on French vibes?
a) The Road To Mandalay
b) Something Beautiful
c) Misunderstood

WIN TICKETS TO SEE ROBBIE WILLIAMS LIVE THIS SATURDAY IN LONDON!!!
Ahead of his incredible one-off show at Berlin's Velodrom on October 9th, Robbie will be performing to a more intimate audience at a secret warm up show at London's Astoria this Saturday 1st October. Details of how to get tickets have yet to be announced, but we have 20 pairs of tickets up for grabs exclusively for members of the RobbieWilliams.com Inner Sanctum and to mailing list members of www.whatsyourfuture.com.
To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets for Robbie's only show in the UK this year, all you need to do is send your answers to the following questions, along with the details required below to: london@robbiewilliams.com
1. Which of the following was the first ever venue Robbie performed at as a solo artist in London?
a) The Forum
b) Brixton Academy
c) Hammersmith Palais

2. During which album launch did Robbie play a secret gig at The Scala?
a) I've Been Expecting You
b) Sing When You're Winning
c) Swing When You're Winning

3. Which song did Robbie open with at the Royal Albert Hall on 8th June 1998?
a) Have You Met Miss Jones?
b) I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen
c) Let Me Entertain You

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TAKE THAT RE-UNITE FOR DOCO.
All five former members of Take That - including Robbie Williams - have reunited to take part in a forthcoming documentary about the Nineties boy band.
Williams, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Jason Orange have contributed interviews for the the 90-minute Take That… For The Record, which has been produced by talkbackThames and Syco and will be screened by ITV1 prior to the release of a new Sony BMG-issued CD and DVD.
The documentary marks the first time since Take That split a decade ago that they have all contributed to a project on the act, which achieved eight UK number one singles and sold 25m albums around the world.
Never Forget - The DVD will be released on November 14 at the same time as a new best of by the group and will include all their hits, live concert performances, photo gallery and fly-on-the-wall footage.
The new best of, Never Forget - The Ultimate Collection, will include 16 of their singles plus live versions of Relight My Fire and Pray and a remix of Relight My Fire.

INTENSIVE CARE...
'Intensive Care' was recorded in Robbie Williams' bedroom high in the Hollywood Hills and co-written with Stephen Duffy over the course of 24 months. In this time, the pair were wildly experimental, creating songs that sounded, variously, like Gang Of Four, Bloc Party and Kraftwerk, before finally settling on a style that they felt most comfortable with. "Lyrically, this is the best album I've written," Robbie says, "although I do say that before every album comes out. But I think I mean it this time. Anyway, I'm very pleased with it, and very pleased with the way it worked out with Stephen [Duffy]. It's given me a whole new perspective on the future, as well." Ultimately, says its author, the album is inspired, at least in part, by the Human League's classic 1984 single 'Louise', about a man who sees his former girlfriend at a bus stop and realises that he still has strong feelings for her.
"It's one of my all-time favourite tracks," he says, "and I liked the idea of writing from Louise's point of view. And so several tracks on the album, things like 'Ghosts' and 'Spread Your Wings' in particular, run along similar themes, about ex-lovers who still yearn for one another. There's a lot of pining on this record, I think."
Identifiably the work of someone taking stock of his life - see 'Ghosts', 'Make Me Pure' and the mesmerising 'Advertising Space' - 'Intensive Care' is richly melancholic and steeped in nostalgia. While recording it, Robbie would revisit the key songs of his youth - everything from Oran Juice Jones' 'The Rain' to Prefab Sprout's 'When Love Breaks Down'.
"When I think about school and hear some of the songs from the 80s, it breaks my heart, it really does," he says. "But I think I might have finally purged myself of that, it might finally be out of my system, which is probably a good thing. But it's definitely been an influence in the making of this album. I wanted to write the kind of songs that could break somebody else's heart in 15, 20 years, and give them the same sense of nostalgia as my favourite songs gave me."
But the mood isn't uniformly melancholic here. The first single, 'Tripping' (to be released Sunday 2nd October 2005), is Robbie's attempt at a "mini gangster opera", all cocksure strut and disarming falsetto, while 'A Place To Crash' out-swaggers the Rolling Stones in pursuit of rock'n'roll hedonism.
The single TRIPPING instore Sunday 2nd October.
The album INTENSIVE CARE instore Sunday 23rd October.

INTENSIVE CARE TRACKLISTING
Robbie's new eagerlay awaited album 'Intensive Care' is out on 24th October, and, for the first time, we are able to reveal the full tracklisting....
The album was written during two years of continous writing with Stephen Duffy and was recorded exclusively in L.A.
Tracklisting...
1. Ghosts
2. Tripping
3. Make Me Pure
4. Spread Your Wings
5. Advertising Space
6. Please Don't Die
7. Your Gay Friend
8. Sin Sin Sin
9. Random Acts Of Kindness
10. The Trouble With Me
11. A Place To Crash
12. King Of Bloke And Bird

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from Australian OK! magazine...read the full article here.