Robbie Williams – review

Academy, LeedsRobbie Williams has a phone in his pocket, and only his wife, who could give birth at any moment, has the number. "If it rings, do I stay or go?" he asks. "Stayyyyyyyyy!" scream 2,300 voices as Leeds is engulfed in a hurricane of near-orgasmic adulation, perhaps the closest modern pop gets to Beatlemania.Surely only the Take That star would schedule his first four solo dates in six years – in unusually intimate venues, which received 500,000 ticket applications – at the same ti...

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