h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Some girls from the village, including me, are going to the Robbie Williams concert this Friday (11 July) in Mannheim. I wonder if anyone else has been to one of his concerts and what they thought of it...

I'm looking forward to a night out (actually, we'll probably leave mid-afternoon to get a decent place near the front) with a bunch of crazy girls.

Have fun!


HP
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I've been outside the stadium he was inside and really envy you. I saw hiw gig at the Irish castle on TV too and that really looked like fun. I think he's great - but this may be partly due to the younger son's resemblance.

Have a great time TC & friends!

I'm sure you will!!!

Let me ENTERTAIN y-o-uuuuuuuuuu

Have a great time! Let us know what you think afterwards!

Well - look at who's responding!. It's nice to know that not all fans are under 30!

No offence meant, of course.

Holle Polle might just be under 30 ??

we'll I'm a shade over 30... and I fancy him, but then as you know, my one true love is still boy, and he's waaaay younger than Robbie!

Have fun, we'll expect a full report.

Thank you, TC.
Well, not exactly...
However, I have been far under average at Herbert Grönemeyer "Auf Schalke"...

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Hope you enjoy the show. I've heard that Robbie Williams is a great performer.

It's a pity that it was so short.

Were you there too?? Why didn't you say???

Oh wow - I am still recovering. It had to be cut short, as Chris says, because of technical problems. He (RW) was really good about it - he said he'd like to stay and would have done two more songs, but it was getting too dangerous.

Where to start? The concert ticket includes all public transport to and from the venue so I jumped on the train as soon as I could get away from work, leaving my bike at the village station. My friends had got there well before me and we were texting each other the whole time. However, I never found them - well, I knew where they were but no way could I get through that sardine-packed crowd to reach them. So I planted myself near a bar and drunk caipirinas and bacardi & coke when they ran out of limes until my money ran out. I'm not sure I'd have been able to walk if I'd drunk any more anyway.

The bar was behind the sound engineering and Red Cross area so I couldn't see the stage. At all times I could see the screen though, so I didn't miss anything. Sound was perfect. The sun went down and the moon (nearly full) came up and it was a perfect evening. In fact, I was sleeveless and it was sweltering hot.

There were two English fellas standing near me so I chatted to them a bit, but, in the end it didn't matter being on my own.

Never have I seen such complete and utter entertainment. The man is ugly, he's vulgar, he's tattooed which I find repulsive, and he can be really rude and he's still indescribably GREAT.

He came on to the stage from above - upside down as you've no doubt seen pictures of. He started with "Let me Entertain You" of course and this reduced me to tears. He flirted with the girls in the front row, saying to the one "you want my autograph? There are sixt-five thousand people here and you want me to sign my autograph for you?"

And then went on to write a long dedication, reading it out as he wrote. The camera was on the girl who was reacting just as she should. Totally hysterical, crying, laughing - who wouldn't. He spoke to a couple in the audience and got the cameramen to show them to the rest of the crowd and said what a lovely couple they were and that they should get married and have lots of kids and all sorts of comments, but it wasn't embarrassing nor ridiculing them in any way.

Some artistes get a bit narked when everyone sings along, but he went to the other extreme and had a karaoke version of "Strong" on the screen for everyone to join in.

Quite honestly, I wasn't an absolute fan before I went - and I wouldn't say I am now, but while I was there I was totally carried away (alternatively crushed my drinking straws, bawled my eyes out and screamed with the others.) It was an experience not to be missed.

Lots of girls were having problems with the extreme heat and I can imagine that many would have had near-panic attacks at the huge number of people packed in so closely together, but this didn't bother me.

Afterwards, I found my friends and their car by continued frantic SMS-ing (the networks were pretty overloaded, I had to send some 7 or 8 times before they got through!) We got home fine, by taking the opposite route to the others (some people were caught in enormous traffice jams and the trains couldn't take everyone either - some spent their night on the platform) - me and two other girls, still totally wound up, screaming and giggling in the car on the way home.

I got on my bike at about 1 am and rode home still sleeveless and it was still warm. My alcohol level is sinking slowly (clutching a as I write this) although I was out till 3 am last night, jamming with a friend who comes over from England once a year. Apart from him, there were three of us girls again, we sang for about 4 hours non-stop, alc level didn't get much support there, though, because I was driving.

Impressions still in my head:

Those green eyes
Security hosing the crowd down
Robbie in his yellow safety helmet after the unplanned break
Him holding up a pair of frilly pink knickers - "Are these yours, Sir?"
Warm Bacardi and Coke after not only the limes, but also the ice had run out.
Obnoxious woman in front of me walking into the grounds telling her friends in a loud voice all the concerts she had been to (Tina Turner in Toronto, Eros Ramazotti in Hamburg.... who cares?)
the simplicity of the stage decoration and the show itself. Just him singing. Band, 6 dancing girls, sometimes just him and the piano.
That voice.
Did I mention the eyes?
crazy SMS communication
Him grabbing someone's mobile phone and singing into it
The sunset
The moonrise

Welcome back, TC
No, I haven't been there, I just read the news
Now tell me about his eyes

sigh

I ma sooo jealous. Sounds wonderful. Nobody who smiles like that could be called ugly. Slight drool (I'm not alone in this office and, as I said before, he looks a bit like my younger son)

I never drooled at RW!

But I sure enjoyed his concert in Roskilde 1999.

(I'm not really sure how much of his 2001 concert I saw )

Sounds like you had a great time, TC
Sorry you were short-changed, but you got an eyeful anyway *rolls eyes*


I'm a shade over 30 too....