{"id":487564,"date":"2025-10-10T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487564\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:50:15","slug":"robbie-williams-to-kick-off-new-album-tour-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487564\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams to kick off new album tour in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hagXkB hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/624074d0-a530-11f0-8469-192d9823e9a2.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Getty Images Robbie Williams wearing a white trackshuit top with a gold Adidas trefoil logo on the upper left chest. He is raising his right hand in the peace symbol.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 bGQwLJ\"\/>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Williams is returning to the city in 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Robbie Williams is coming to Glasgow to kick off his latest tour to support his new album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The singer&#8217;s Long 90&#8217;s Tour begins at the Barrowlands Ballroom in the city on 4 February, 2026 \u2013 two days before the release of Britpop, his 12th solo studio album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He will also play Liverpool on 6 February, the O2 Academy in London on 8 February and Wolverhampton on 9 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The tour was announced as he closed his 2025 run of shows \u2013 which featured a performance at Murrayfield Stadium \u2013 in Camden on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Britpop was set to be released on 10 October but was pushed back until February due to scheduling issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">If it goes to number one, it will be Williams&#8217; 16th album or single to reach that chart position, putting him ahead of The Beatles&#8217; current record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Williams also kicked off his 2025 tour in Scotland, playing at the national rugby stadium in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Fans were treated to a <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czj40p7rrmvo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 jZoZnB\" rel=\"noopener\">guest appearance from singer Michelle McManus<\/a>, who joined Williams on stage for a performance of the Take That song Relight my Fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">His new album also features guest appearances from including Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Supergrass&#8217;s Gaz Coombes, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and Williams&#8217; former Take That bandmate Gary Barlow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The fourth single from the album, Pretty Face, was released on Thursday, following previously released tracks &#8211; Rocket, Spies and Human.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hagXkB hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19bc15f0-a532-11f0-8469-192d9823e9a2.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A general view of the Barrowland sign.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 bGQwLJ\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217; first performance on the tour will be at the Barrowland Ballroom<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He said the album was &#8220;the one he wanted to write&#8221; at the height of his 1990s fame after leaving Take That.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Williams said: &#8220;It was the peak of Britpop and a golden age for British music. I&#8217;ve worked with some of my heroes on this album. It&#8217;s raw, there are more guitars and it&#8217;s an album that&#8217;s even more upbeat and anthemic than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;There&#8217;s some &#8216;Brit&#8217; in there and there&#8217;s certainly some &#8216;pop&#8217; too &#8211; I&#8217;m immensely proud of this as a body of work and I&#8217;m excited for fans to hear this album.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Williams&#8217; career was featured in the 2024 film Better Man, in which he voiced a CGI chimpanzee portraying him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He was also the subject of a 2023 Netflix documentary series charting his struggles with addiction and mental health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Robbie Williams is returning to the city in 2026 Robbie Williams is coming to Glasgow to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-487564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115348310203548131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}