A Robbie Williams Australian Tour 2014 has been announced.
Rumours of a return tour from Robbie Williams have been running since the release of his latest studio offering, last year’s Swings Both Ways, and today Chugg Entertainment confirms that the rumours are true.
The Swing Tour Live will see the one and only Robbie Williams making his long overdue return Down Under for a national run of headline dates this September
With 55 million global album sales to his name, Robbie Williams is one of Britain’s premier pop superstars, known for his cheeky wit as much as his hit-studded albums.
It’s been nearly eight years since the British superstar treated Australian audiences to his myriad talents on the live stage. In December 2006 Williams undertook a stadium tour of monumental proportion across Australia.
Having completed a colossal stadium tour three years earlier, the anticipated rush for tickets for these shows saw promoters go on sale over two days to cope with the demand, and right they were with a monstrous nine stadium shows selling out over just one day. By the end of that tour, Robbie Williams had played to almost 500,000 Australians. Add to this that 2.6 million Robbie Williams albums have been sold in Australia to date – making that 1 in 10 Australians who own a Robbie album – it’s a certainty that the love affair continues.
Robbie’s latest album Swings Both Ways is the follow up to his original 2001 swing release, Swing When You’re Winning, and reunites the singer with songwriter and producer Guy Chambers; the creative pairing responsible fors ome of his biggest hits – you may have heard of them, ‘RockDJ’, ‘Feel’, ‘Millenium’, ‘Let Me Entertain You’, ‘Supreme’, and trademark ballad ‘Angels’.
Swings Both Ways features duets with stars such as Lily Allen, Rufus Wainwright, Kelly Clarkson, Michael Buble and Olly Murs and debuted at #1 in the UK and #5 on the ARIA charts, and within the first 4 weeks of release, the album was certified Gold in Australia. This is his eleventh chart-topping album in the UK, which now means that he draws level with Elvis Presley as the male solo artist with the most number one albums.
Of this latest offering, Robbie states, “First of all I wanted to do a Swing album, because I wanted to do a Swing album. I always knew I’d do another and I think now is the perfect time to do it. I’m enjoying show-biz and I’m enjoying my life and my understanding of where I am now is that there needs to be an event every time I bring out a record.
…It’s different – it’s not all covers, I had some songs that I wanted the world to hear and check out and maybe become part of the fabric of their lives, if I’m lucky enough, that I’ve had a hand in writing. So it’s very very similar to the last one, and very different – and hopefully I’m off to romance the world!”
Advance tickets for Robbie Williams’ The Swing Tour Live in Australia will be available at the Visa Entertainment presale for all Visa Credit, Debit and Prepaid cardholders from 9am (local time) Wednesday 26 February 2014 until 5pm (local time) Friday 28 February 2014 or until presale tickets sell out at www.visaentertainment.com.au.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public, via Ticketek, at 10am (local time) Tuesday 4 March 2014.
Robbie Williams Australian Tour 2014
Thursday 11th September – Perth Arena, Perth
Tickets: www.ticketek.com.au 132 849
Tuesday 16th September – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Tickets: www.ticketek.com.au 132 849
Monday 22nd September – Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
Tickets: www.ticketek.com.au 132 849
Saturday 27th September – Allphones Arena, Sydney
Tickets: www.ticketek.com.au 132 849
