Robbie Williams delivered a high-energy performance at Sydney's New Year's Eve celebrations, captivating the crowd with his flamboyant stage presence and classic hits.
Robbie Williams set fire to Sydney Harbour for a good 40 minutes before the bridge exploded at midnight. Allow me to reintroduce myself. This is my band, this is my arse and you better be good. Because I am phenomenal,” Williams said by way of introduction, part way through his openerHe’s still got it: Robbie Williams on New Year’s Eve in Sydney . If you’ve never seen Williams in person, it is hard to encapsulate the flamboyant front he brings to live performance.
He is part vaudeville, part Vegas, part stadium rocker, a boy-band tart, a crooner and sometimes just a very naughty boy, as he was keen to remind us throughout his eight-song set.And though this was nominally a New Year’s Eve gig, Williams brought more than a wink and a nod to acknowledging the real (only) reason he was on this harbour stage 10 minutes before midnight.“A narcissist’s dream,” he said of having his life turned into a film. He might also have mentioned the narcissist’s dream of the ABC handing over 35 minutes of its telecast to promoting that movie, but instead he just asked everyone to do him a favour by seeing it., and it was hard to begrudge a man having this much fun with his performance, his crowd, and with the ABC people who hired him to pretend he was here because it was New Year’s Eve., there was no doubt he’d enjoyed every minute, and the crowd loved him right back. It was that kind of night, full of goodwill and nary a dud act to be found across the three hours of the post-9pm show. The producers crammed in 27 songs and nine performers before Williams took to the stage. Hosts Charlie Pickering, Zan Rowe and Concetta Caristo are by now skilled at tap-dancing their way through the links between acts, and it mostly runs smoothly and without obvious glitches.Oz music royalty in the form of Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger) and Paul Dempsey (Something For Kate) opened the 9pm show with a six-song se
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