Robbie was in town!

Yesterday were the recordings of College Tour with the one and only Robbie fucking Williams  (I'm sorry for fucking, but you'll understand why I am writing that when you see College Tour tonight, 20.25u NTR, NL3) in the Dutch Pop Temple Paradiso and I was one of the 500 lucky bastards/students who could join the show(!)

If you not already do, you'll gonna love him after you have seen the show tonight. Robbie is charming, a gentleman, he has a huge bunch of humour and self-mockery and he has that very sexy little arrogance which - yet - makes him so attractive - even after 39 years and gaining weight for "30 pounds".

Before the interview started, we were told we could ask him any question (but we weren't allowed to take pictures). It seemed that mr. Williams had left his past of alcohol&drugs behind, that he got over it, and that he could speak openly about it now he came into calmer waters (married in 2010 with Ayda Field and became father of daughter Theodora Rose Williams (Teddy) – since 2012), although,  as being a sensitive person, he had to sweep a little tear away during the show.

When the alcohol&drugs topic was brought up, he told that he could not blame his fame to the addictions: “Even if I was a carpenter […] I would have become an alcoholic”. He also never regretted being famous, that’s actually what he always wanted to be, thus in a next life he would do the same. Simultaneously he's kind of afraid that he is not good at anything else, because the only thing he was good at at school were the social activities, “I hope I’m dyslexic”.

Besides the predictable alcohol&drugs topic (and a – desperate/daring? - “can I have a kiss from you”-question), the questions diverge. Williams told about and showed the Elvis Pray he does with his crew before the start of every concert and about a very awkward moment he had when he asked what the green thing was he had in his hand (namely a cucumber), he showed his new tattoo, answered the question if his image of being a sex bomb influences his family life and my question about what his ultimate dream concert would be like, the answer was surprising, but also related to his newest album. Twan Huys (the presenter) showed Robbie’s several performances at Paul de Leeuw and his guest role in Little Britain, something he definitely wants to do more in the future.

This was just a selection of the several funny, touching and honest moments of the show. Go see it tonight, or, if you can’t – for whatever reason – go to uitzendinggemist.

                       Robbie in Little Britain