Robbie Williams Rewind – Details, episodes & analysis

We’re delighted to welcome Thom Rylance from The Lottery Winners onto the show! After wowing audiences across Europe when they supported Robbie Williams on his massive stadium tour this summer, Thom explains how Robbie first contacted him and how it’s changed the band’s future for the better.

We hear which gigs were Thom’s favourites, why he thinks he and Robbie are quite similar both on and off the stage, and how he felt to be playing to stadium crowds for the first time.

Follow them on Instagram: @thomrylance and @thelotterywinners

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

We were incredibly lucky to attend Robbie’s Long 90’s gig at Dingwalls in Camden, where he performed both his debut solo album Life Thru A Lens and his brand-new record BRITPOP from start to finish! 

With phones banned inside the venue, we set out to capture some of the vibe by chatting with fans in the queue about which Life Thru A Lens songs they were most excited to hear, and which BRITPOP tracks have already become favourites.

We’re joined by Mark from Northern Ireland, creator of the amazing @brit_cult Instagram page, who explains why he started his page, why he loves Robbie and his highlights from this unforgettable show. 

Plus, Mandy from the UK helps us relive the gig, track by track, as we piece together every moment we can remember from Robbie’s smallest ever ticketed concert! 

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

We’re delighted to bring you another Better Man interview - we’re joined by singer Adam Tucker, who provided vocals for Robbie Williams in the film.

Adam tells us about the unique way he secured the role and explains why it was necessary to have someone younger sing some of Robbie’s vocals, to match the Robbie reflected in the film.

He discusses the integration of CGI and the unique experience of blending his singing with Jonno Davies’s portrayal of Robbie, before WETA worked their special effects magic to create the finished movie.

Adam even shares details of some voice notes he received from Rob of previously unrecorded songs, to help him capture the essence of Robbie.

You can follow Adam on Instagram at @theadamtucker, or on TikTok at @_adamtucker.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

Exclusive Better Man interviews! 

We’re delighted to welcome not one, but FIVE actors from Robbie’s biopic, Better Man, onto this very special episode of the podcast! 

We chat with the guys who play Take That: Jake Simmance (Gary Barlow), Jesse Hyde (Mark Owen), Chase Vollenweider (Jason Orange) and Liam Head (Howard Donald). This is the first joint interview the four actors have given and it’s as fun and fascinating as you’d hope, especially as they’ve become best friends in real life! 

As if that wasn’t exciting enough, we also bring you ANOTHER interview, with Frazer Hadfield who plays Robbie’s friend ‘Nate’ in Better Man! 

We hear about all of their audition processes, how they prepared for their roles and what their favourites scenes to film were. They reflect on the cultural significance of Take That & Robbie and tell us about the times they’ve seen Robbie live or met him. 

They celebrate Jonno Davies’s incredible portrayal of Robbie, discuss the technical marvels of filmmaking, and share the challenges of costume and makeup. 

They share insights into their characters, the challenges they faced, and the nostalgia and personal connections associated with Robbie and Take That’s music. 

This is definitely an episode you won’t want to miss! 

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

Did you love the Boybands Forever documentary which Robbie was featured in recently? It was a great show, but it was also really sad to hear the negative sides of what most of the 90s/00s boybands went through. They each discussed their rise to fame and what they hysteria was like, but also how it affected their mental health, and left some of them with no money in the end.

There’s one 90s boyband member who’s been discussing this topic and more with other pop stars on his own YouTube channel, The Accidental Pop Star, for a while. So, we’re thrilled to be joined by Ally Begg from Bad Boys Inc to hear about his 90s boyband experience, as well as his memories of meeting and seeing Robbie live many times.

Bad Boys Inc had 6 Top 40 singles and a Top 20 album and were created by one of Take That’s early producers, Ian Levine, to rival Take That. Ally fills us in on how he felt about that, what being in Bad Boys Inc was like and why the band split after just one album. He also tells us what happened the first time he met Take That, and why he ended up going to some of Robbie’s earliest solo gigs and rehearsal shows. Robbie once suggested a put down to use with anyone being snide, that Ally still uses to this day!

Find Ally’s show at https://www.youtube.com/@theaccidentalpopstar 

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

Join us on the red carpet at the European Premiere of Robbie Williams’s film, Better Man! We were very lucky to be invited to interview some of the cast of the movie in London – hear our chats with Robbie, Ayda, Director Michael Gracey, Jonno Davies who plays Robbie, Raechelle Banno (Nicole Appleton), Carter J Murphy (young Robbie), Steve Pemberton (Poppa Pete), Jake Simmance (Gary Barlow) and Karina Banno (Natalie Appleton).

You can also watch a video version of this episode on our YouTube channel.  

Better Man is released in cinemas from 26th December in the UK and Ireland. Dates vary for other countries so check Robbie’s website for details.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

We’re very excited to have yet another member of Robbie’s band join us on the podcast!

Backing vocalist Sara Jane Skeete is one of Robbie’s longest serving band members, having joined him in late 2005.

She tells us how she became a backing singer and what it was like to work with artists from Kylie to Michael Jackson, before joining Rob.

She shares some great memories of touring with Rob all around the world as well as how she battled Crohn’s Disease whilst doing so.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

Christina from Denmark returns to tell us all about her experience watching Lufthaus make their debut performance on a UK stage at Creamfields.  Jocelyn from USA is back to explain how she was lucky enough to attend the world premiere of Robbie’s Better Man movie at Telluride Film Festival, as well as the Canadian premiere at Toronto Film Festival. Don’t worry, we don’t discuss any Better Man spoilers, except for the one big surprise that we think everyone knows by now!
 
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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

We’re joined by Emma from the UK to discuss all of our favourite moments from Robbie’s incredible Hyde Park gig, including that special Danny Dyer duet! Emma explains what made her a fan and recalls her best memories from all the tours she’s attended.

We also review the four collaborations that Robbie has been a part of in the last 18 months: Sober with Lucy Spraggan, Punk’s Dead with SOFT PLAY, Une Tahitienne à Paris with Mareva Galanter as well as the Felix cat food advert song, It’s Great To Be A Cat.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.

We’re thrilled to welcome the co-writers of Morning Sun and many more incredible tracks to the podcast - Richard Scott and Scott Ralph.  We’re excited that Rich has returned to the show after we interviewed him and his brothers Kelvin Andrews and Danny Spencer in 2022.

This time we’re also joined by their longtime friend Scott Ralph, the final quarter of Robbie’s songwriting crew from Stoke-On-Trent.  Scott shares what happened when he was invited to LA to write with Robbie alongside his friends, and recalls some hilarious (and embarrassing!) moments.

Rich and Scott have penned lots of swing-style songs with Robbie such as Soda Pop and On The Fence, as well as Under The Radar classics like Super Tony and Underkill.   We hear about UFO hunts and an impromptu Gollum cameo at a BRITS after-party - we didn’t stop laughing throughout and can see why Rob loves writing with his Stokie mates.

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**About Robbie Williams Rewind**
Join husband and wife Matt and Lucy, as they rewind through legendary pop star Robbie Williams’ solo career.  Each episode, they have a guest fan to help us relive Robbie’s incredible music and tours.
Visit: robbiewilliamsrewind.com to discover more episodes, track listings & photos!
Follow: @rewindrobbie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube,  X & TikTok.