Robbie Williams is bracingly honest about 1999 Slane gig in new Netflix doc
"I had to go on stage in front of thousands of people, feeling like you're on the 100th floor, the room's burning..."on 28 August 1999 earmarked the first properly huge gig of the entertainer's career after he split from Take That and decided to fly solo.By this point, Williams had both Life Thru A Lens and I've Been Expecting You albums released, and was hard at work on what would be his 2000 hit record, Sing When You're Winning.
In the decades since, Robbie Williams has repeatedly said that performing at Slane was one of the highlights of his career, but from the new perspective on the upcoming self-titledDuring a behind-the-scenes interview in the series' second episode, an off-camera interviewer asks Williams if he is excited to headline Slane, to which he replies:
"Slane is three days away, and I'm really scared. I've been in a black depression for the last five weeks and came out of it last week. So I'm not excited about very much at the minute, but I'm doing my job. I'm here and I'm doing my job. I really want to enjoy Slane, but I'm really scared of it. "I'm scared of everything at the minute. I was in bed fucking worrying about it last week. Wouldn't get out of bed. Dunno why I'm scared. Just... me confidence has left and my job is all about confidence. We have lots of work to do and I'm not really that bothered. With anything.
The documentary then cuts to footage from the Slane gig, with Williams giving it everything he's got, and the crowd absolutely lapping it up. And this isn't the one and only time that Ireland features heavily in the Robbie Williams documentary, as his Dublin gig in June 2006 kicked off the European leg of his Close Encounters Tour, coinciding with the release of his opinion-splitting album Rudebox. Which would also turn out to be his last tour for almost a decade.
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