Exclusive: Robbie tour fear

Quoted from: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk

'Exclusive Singer was scared by five months on the road
Beverley Lyons

ROBBIE Williams claims he was worried about the length of his current Close Encounters tour... in case he found it too hard to keep up the pace.
The singer, who has gigged for seven weeks of his five-month 2006 tour, said: "I've only toured for, at the most, one month at a time when I was in Take That and in my solo career.
"This tour's five months and I was very concerned that I wasn't going to get through it or that something would happen.
"I got very scared of the length.
"But it's easy. I've done two months and I'm still here - two arms, two legs. I've still got a voice. I'm good."
Robbie, who plays Hampden Park in Glasgow on September 1 and 2, said that everything on the tour has been going really well.
"I can't believe how fast it is actually getting from one gig to another," he added.
So far he's played arenas in Dublin, Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam, and he reckons one of his highlights was in the San Siro Stadium in Milan.
He said: "Italy had just won the World Cup when I got on stage in this huge stadium that looked like the Death Star from Star Wars on the outside. The San Siro Stadium just carries on forever and the crowd just doesn't stop.
"And it was like I'd been invited to their party because they'd won the World Cup."
He also found his first night in Munich more of a pleasure than a chore.
"I don't know why it was," he said. "I think it was because the weather wasn't so hot.
"Everywhere else we've been has been really, really hot.
"But the first night in Munich it threatened to rain and I think that just gives the crowd more energy because the sun is sapping for me and the crowd.
"I think I performed the best on the first night, the best I have performed this year.
"I hope the people who were at that concert that night agree with me."
Robbie says he can't wait to visit River Plate Stadium in Argentina and the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.
"I'm looking forward to doing that," he said.
"And that's South America. That's thousands of miles away from Stokeon- Trent. Why are they buying tickets, you know?"
Although Robbie has been enjoying playing songs such as Sin Sin Sin, Come Undone, Feel and Angels in his sci-fi themed concerts, he reckons he's not had as many laughs on tour this time round.
He admitted: "There's not a lot of shenanigans, really. My best friend on tour would be Johnny and we wind people up.
"There's been no tricks or anything.
"It's difficult to say whether there's been shenanigans because I'm either in my hotel room or I'm at the venue."
Robbie believes he owes it to his fans to be on top form, so he's been keeping out of nightclubs.
He said: "You know I can't go out really and sometimes I can't even go to the hotel bar. So there's not been a lot of shenanigans. There's just been a lot of 'let's watch this movie' or 'let's do a quiz'.
"Because 1.6. million or 2.8 million people have turned up and bought the tickets, I've got to turn up and give them a good show.
"It's scary."
And you can hear Robbie's concert in Vienna live on radio. Emap Radio Events, the Glasgow-based team which runs the Up Close gigs and the Live + Loud pop festival, is behind one of the biggest radio events in years.
On Saturday, Emap stations across Scotland - Clyde 1, Forth One, Tay FM, NorthSound 1, MFR, West FM and Radio Borders - join an exclusive network of radio stations across Europe, Africa, Australia and the Middle East to broadcast two hours of Robbie's concert live from the Ernst Happel Stadium in the Austrian capital.
The concert broadcast will be produced for the entire network by Radio Clyde engineering supremo Gary Lovatt from a state-ofthe- art outside broadcast truck backstage.'