If the tiered prices that are now standard at major concerts also applied to swimming pool visits, some swimming pool visitors would probably also be annoyed that access to the swimming pool is not possible with their admission ticket. They should have paid a little more for that. But there would also have been a sunbathing area by the pool. Many spectators who were only able to view the Robbie Williams concert at the Munich Exhibition Center from the side screens despite the 150 meter wide stage due to the auditorium layout felt similarly excluded.
With a view of the almost 100,000 visitors, Williams himself commented on the problem of the fans who were placed too far away from the stage: “I could get my penis out of here and they wouldn’t even see it.” Now, the long-distance visibility of penises is not to be discussed here. However, the fact that even in the better-off gold area of the spectator area Robbie himself could only be seen as a glittering dot when he danced down the catwalk in the appropriate jacket is all the more annoying for some visitors, as it was suggested to them when buying tickets that said catwalk until would lead to her place.
“If I had known how far I was from the stage now, I would have paid the few euros more for the platinum area in front of the stage,” said a visitor who had traveled from Cologne especially for the concert. People who try to make a living with the same money for a whole month may rightly dismiss it as a luxury problem. However, people who make a living from music know that they hardly make any money from sales of sound recordings. Most people prefer to use supposedly cheaper to free online services to listen to music.
Expensive tickets? Better to try your luck off-site.
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Many spectators who had paid for the concert followed the show mainly on the big screens. Because, as Williams himself noted, many fans were sitting very far away.
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So now you’re trying to get even more money with more expensive concert tickets. Conversely, those who are willing to pay for this naturally also expect a corresponding level of comfort, which can sometimes fail due to a lack of pork schnitzel. At least the same thing was criticized at the Helene Fischer concert, which the same Austrian organizer Klaus Leutgeb had organized a week earlier at the same exhibition center.
The organizer withdrew the press tickets from journalists after they reported on Helene Fischer
The colleagues from Munich Mercury and the tzwho had reported about it, the organizer promptly withdrew the press tickets that had already been secured for Robbie Williams. According to the motto: Only those who write positively about us are allowed to report. With a photo in which Robbie Williams characteristically stretches his middle finger, Klaus Leutgeb tweeted before the concert that “a few regional and controlled hacks MEDIA shouldn’t take away our joy”: “Keep it up you poor NEIDERS.”
The fans didn’t let the dispute between the organizer and some journalists spoil the fun.
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Almost a hundred thousand spectators experienced the show. The dimension was also unusual for the British superstar.
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Of course, it is not explained by whom the colleagues are supposed to be controlled. They would write nonsense just to satisfy regional interests. The Association of Munich Cultural Organizers, among others, had criticized such regional interests as neglected when the Munich economics officer Clemens Baumgärtner from the CSU had granted the foreign organizer a concert venue with the exhibition center, which Munich organizers were allegedly always denied.
The fact that Baumgärtner also wanted to leave the Theresienwiese to the external organizer for a Rammstein New Year’s Eve concert further heated up the discussion. However, it did not address envy, as Leutgeb tweeted, but injustice, which incidentally was not prevented by the Munich City Council. Ultimately, Leutgeb himself withdrew from the New Year’s Eve concert project, about which the band announced that they had not agreed at all.
But just as the announced storm had spared Robbie Williams’ concert, the debate that escalated into a dispute did not prevent Robbie Williams himself from celebrating his 25th stage anniversary as a solo star in a great way. Although without the orchestra, with which the jubilarian dresses his hits on the new album, which will be released in September. But with a band that prepared a sound bed with fat brass, stylish organ sound and provocative guitar parts, in which the British superstar sometimes lolled invitingly lasciviously.
Even James Brown would have enjoyed a show like this, which sometimes also emphasized the soul roots of Britpop. Accompanied by the chorus of enthusiastic fans, who had once again started singing the last song “Angel”, Williams finally left the stage as a superstar.