Close Encounters Tour
The Close Encounters Tour is Robbie Williams' 2006 World Tour. It kicked off in Dublin's Croke Park on June 9th, and is scheduled to end in Melbourne in December. The tour has been a great sucess financialy, with every date selling out the morning the tickets go on sale.
Set List
Until the Milan concert on 22 July 2006, the set list ran like so:
- Radio
- Rock DJ
- Tripping
- Monsoon
- Sin Sin Sin
- The Trouble With Me
- Make Me Pure
- Me and My Shadow (With Jonathan Wilkes)
- Strong (Also with Jonathan Wilkes)
- Back For Good
- No Regrets
- Advertising Space
- A Place To Crash
- Come Undone
- Feel
- Let Me Entertain You
- Angels
However, this changed from the 23 July Milan date, and is expected to stay this way until the end of the tour. The setlist now runs like this:
- Radio
- Rock DJ
- Tripping
- Monsoon
- Sin Sin Sin
- Millennium
- Make Me Pure
- Me and My Shadow (With Jonathan Wilkes)
- Strong (Also with Jonathan Wilkes)
- Back For Good
- Advertising Space
- Come Undone
- Feel
- Let Me Entertain You
- Rudebox
- Angels
- Kids
Support Acts
The Ordinary Boys were originally meant to be one of the support acts, but dropped out at the last minute. Orson took their place going on first.
Basement Jaxx were the top support act, which surprised many people, as the band are doing their own sold out arena tour in December. Many thought that the Jaxx were too big to do a support slot. The support slot also conicides with the release of their latest album, Crazy Itch Radio.
At most concerts, the times run :
- 6pm - 6:35pm: Orson
- 7:05pm - 7.55pm: Basement Jaxx
- 8:35pm - 10:25pm: Robbie Williams
[www.robbiewilliams.com | Official Site]