Robbie Williams and band play intimate show at tiny Melbourne jazz bar The Paris Cat
ROBBIE Williams has played a tiny show in Melbourne during his arena tour, delighting fans by performing a heartfelt song with an extremely rude title.
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ROBBIE Williams has returned to his favourite Australian haunt for a secret club show during his arena tour.
Shortly after touching down in Melbourne on Wednesday, Williams and his band took over intimate jazz club The Paris Cat.
Williams and his musical director and songwriting partner Guy Chambers fell in love with the Goldie Place club last year after performing there on a night off from the Swings Both Ways tour.
Paris Cat owner Serge Carnovale was delighted with the night. “It’s always difficult to keep a lid on such an event but somehow we made it happen,” he said. “The band and crew are awesome and Robbie loves the club.”
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Williams’ band got their moment to shine, performing covers of Amy Winehouse and Tina Turner songs as the singer and his father Pete watched on.
The band were then joined by local artists including Jude Perl, Fem Belling, Alinta Chidzey and Elly Poletti.
The UK superstar later belted out a new tune called Mother F-----, affectionately written for his young son Charlton.
The lyrics of Mother F------ include “One day you’re going to be told how daddy let his demons out” and a chorus that runs “Your cousin is a cutter, your grandad’s in the gutter, your mother is a nutter, one of the things you get from me and your mother is you’re a bad mother f---er.”
“Teddy’s my little girl, she needs that looking after energy,” Williams explained to News Corp earlier this year.
“Charlie’s my little boy and he needs that ‘Oh you’ve fallen down? Well get up’ energy. That manly, go-out-there-and-take-all-before-you energy. He’s got a song I would have loved to have written about me when I was 13. I’m a bad mother f----er. I would have loved that as a teenager.”
Mother F----- is one of many songs Williams wrote with Melbourne musicians Tim Metcalfe and Flynn Francis.
The trio have started writing for Williams’ next album during the superstar’s stint in Melbourne this week.
Williams is also planning on getting the local pair to join him on stage in Melbourne, possibly to perform HES (Heavy Entertainment Show) from last year’s fan club album Under the Radar Volume 1, a rarity on this tour.
When in town last year Williams declined an offer to record in a plush studio to travel to the suburbs of Melbourne to record in a low-tech home studio.
“It was wonderful being allowed into somebody’s home, it’s that family environment,” Williams said. “Melbourne is not too dissimilar to where I’m from in Stoke on Trent. Similar kind of people — good hearts, warm, funny, sarcastic. I love it there.”
The song is also included in the setlist for Williams’ hits-filled Australian tour, where his father Peter has been getting on stage to join in on the hit Better Man.
Williams kicks off a three night stint at Rod Laver Arena on Thursday, with tickets still available for the final show on Saturday.
Meanwhile Williams has put the call out to work with British chart topper Ed Sheeran.
“He’s a person who’s time has definitely come,” Williams says of Sheeran. “He’s a man who played Wembley Stadium by himself, just with a guitar. He’s phenomena, he’s gone into the minds and hearts and souls of millions of people. He’s got a career for life and he’s incredibly talented and I want to work with him!”
Williams is also a major fan of Taylor Swift. “She’s got lightning in a bottle. She’s where the hits are at the minute. Bruno Mars is the king of writing the hits right now, he’s on the longest purple patch I’ve seen for ages. I’m quite envious of them both having the baton right now. Envious in a good way. I’m not seething with jealousy, but I am going ‘Oh, I wish I had that one’.”
However the singer is tight-lipped about his mate Adele’s new record.
“She’s such a secret squirrel. I know she’s pleased. You just get the feeling it’s going to be another corker, you know that’s going to happen, she’ll come back and conquer the world again.”
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