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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

** NOTE: You MUST send us your Full Name, Address, Age and Daytime Phone Number (and mobile if you have one) with your answers. The closing time for the competition is 3.00pm BST on Thursday 29th September 2005. The winners will be contacted by telephone by 12.00 noon BST on Friday 30th September.

Good luck!

Best wishes,

Inner Sanctum
http://www.robbiewilliams.com

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1. war das nicht im Hammersmith Palace in 1997. da war ich naemlich? forum war doch erst 1998, oder?
2. weiss das jemand?
3. i will talk bollocks...

witzig dass alle meinen, es handle sich um RAH-Swing, und dass vor allem keiner mehr weiss, dass er mit 'Mack The Knife' angefangen hat damals... ;)

Hier ne Review vom Observer:

Robbie's evil twin revels in his full octane devilry

Caspar Llewellyn Smith
Sunday October 2, 2005
The Observer

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 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.