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Robbie Williams takes stage at Mt Duneed Estate for Day on the Green Show

The master performer did not disappoint an adoring crowd that braved far from ideal conditions at Mt Duneed Estate on Saturday night.

Robbie Williams was at his entertaining best for his Day on the Green show at Mt Duneed Estate on Saturday night. Picture: Mark Wilson.
Robbie Williams was at his entertaining best for his Day on the Green show at Mt Duneed Estate on Saturday night. Picture: Mark Wilson.

The heavens opened on Robbie Williams’s Mt Duneed Estate show in time for his rendition of Angels in Geelong on Saturday night.

It then belted down rain as he performed his last few tunes in front of adoring fans.

“Hey, wow, yeah yeah,” he said as he got the crowd clapping when he hit the stage to begin his Day on the Green show.

GALLERY: ROBBIE ROCKS MT DUNEED ESTATE

And, as you’d expect, the master performer entertained the 23,000 rain poncho-wearing fans.

Less than three months out from his 50th birthday, Williams showed no sign of ageing as he worked the stage.

He played all his hits, sprinkled with covers from other greats like Oasis, and he even performed his own rendition of Aussie rock legend John Farnham’s You’re the Voice.

Yet, by the end of the show Dancing in the Rain might have been just as appropriate.

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Williams paid tribute to the late Shane Warne, getting the crowd joining in a “Warney” chant. But declaring his love of Carlton Football Club was met with a reaction as damp as the weather in the Cats-dominated crowd.

Hearing Come Undone was given a whole new meaning after Williams’s recent Netflix documentary, which laid bare his hard-living rock and roll lifestyle of booze, drugs and depression.

It was good to see him wearing pants on Saturday night after the documentary was shot almost entirely in his underpants.

“This is therapy for me here tonight,” he told the crowd.

Williams said he had come full circle from a 16-year-old in the boy band Take That to the man today, who is the happiest he’d ever been thanks to his wife and four children.

It was Williams’s first show in Australia for five years after playing to a packed paddock at Day on the Green in 2018.

His XXV Tour was supported by Lufthaus, who warmed up the crowd followed by fellow countryman Gaz Coombes.

Originally published as Robbie Williams takes stage at Mt Duneed Estate for Day on the Green Show

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