A not so close encounter with Robbie

Note for Christmas presents......... Dear Santa, Can I have a camera which does not take crappy night time shots. So here we were with Chris and Richard at Aussie Stadium in the heart of Sydney going to see Robbie Williams. All these photos serve to communicate is that you can see why he has called it the Close Encounters tour. Unfortunately after an hour in a traffic queue I spent another 30 minutes in a beer queue and missed the big entrance.



A massive venue so after going nowhere bigger than Wembley Arena prior to this year I found myself at my second stadium concert venue in as many months. As for the performance? Well having had the tickets for over 6 months it had been eagerly anticipated and we were not disappointed. Some moans from various quarters that he talks too much but that is all part of the Robbie Williams experience. The crowd were kept happy though with "Rock DJ" and Millenium" in the main set whilst "Let Me Entertain you "and "Angels" were saved for the obligatory encore and everyone agreed that he really has to stop fannying around with swing numbers. "Me and My Shadow" is not one we'll be rushing to get on CD or should I say download.

Well we followed all the concert rules, screamed on request, stood up on request, turned on our mobile phones to light up the stadium on request and stamped our feet for the encore. We then followed the final rule of stadium concert viewing...... sit in another traffic queue barely moving for another hour. So we finally arrived in Hornsby at 1am in the morning. This meant 4 hours sleep before getting up to do a 90 minute drive to school the following day.