NO one can accuse Robbie Williams of not being honest.
The Rock DJ singer admitted he delayed his thirteenth album Britpop because of a certain . . . Taylor Swift.
Robbie performed an intimate gig at Dingwalls in Camden[/caption]
Robbie said his new album Britpop will be out next February[/caption]
At his most exclusive gig in years, at Dingwalls in Camden, London, Robbie said: “We are all pretending it’s not about Taylor Swift but it f***ing is.
“You can’t compete with that one.
“The truth, I want 16 No1 albums and you know Taylor then decided to put her album out the week before me and I just went ‘for f***s sake . . .”
Robbie currently holds the record jointly with The Beatles on 15 No1 albums.
Robbie added: “I said just do it in February when no one has an album out.
“I was worried about making people wait but I was like ‘f*** it’.
“I want a 16th album at No1. I’m sorry I’m f***ing being selfish.
“But how many times in your life do you get to have the most No1 albums the UK has ever had?!”
Robbie’s Britpop album is all about the late Nineties and early Noughties and he certainly turned back the clock with his gig.
Phones were banned meaning fans were living in the moment rather than watching the gig on a small screen.
And boy was it enforced.
We watched as eagle-eyed security pulled a number of people out of the crowd who they caught filming.
A source said: “The show is being filmed for a special next year and the no-phone rule was super strict.
“If you were caught you were taken out and made to delete the video before being allowed back in.”
Robbie played both his debut album Life Through A Lens and Britpop in full.
Before introducing new song It’s Okay Until The Drugs Stop Working, Robbie revealed he hopes to use the album and his back catalogue to create a West End show.
Robbie said: “My plan is to have a musical called Britpop: The Musical.
“If it ever got made, this song I am about to play will be the ending of Act I before the interval.”
‘TRAUMATIC LEVEL’
Proving the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, Robbie revealed 13-year-old daughter Teddy writes her own music.
He said: “She was doing it as a six and seven year old.
“She used to write these songs and sing with such hurt and you can feel it in her heart that she was feeling something so deeply on a traumatic level.
“I used to think ‘I hope it’s not about me’.
“She goes ‘oh it’s about being excluded from her friends’ and that deep feeling when you are shamed and you are pushed out of the tribe.
“At that moment I released I’d been there too and written the same songs.
“We have all these terms for things now, people are sick of them and I get it. ADHD, neurodivergent, dyslexia, dyspraxia.
“But I am so glad that those things exist as at least I don’t feel like a freak now.”
Robbie played both his debut album Life Through A Lens and Britpop in full[/caption]
The show is being filmed for a special next year[/caption]
