Robbie Williams announces Manchester Co-op Live show for next summer

Robbie Williams has announced a string of dates across the UK, Ireland and Europe next summer.

The Robbie Williams Live 2025 tour will come to Manchester’s Co-op Live on Wed 11 Jun, along with dates at London’s Emirates Stadium, Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium and Dublin’s Croke Park.

On the tour announcement, Robbie said: “This tour is going to be my boldest yet – I can’t wait to see you next year. There will be songs from the movie ‘Better Man’, and some new music too…but more on that soon”

Williams holds several records for live performances. He still holds the Guinness World Record for his 2006 world tour – selling more than 1.6 million tickets in a single day. As well as the record attendance of 375,000 fans over three nights at his legendary Knebworth shows –  which has never been broken in the UK.

The tour announcement comes ahead of the release of Robbie’s musical biopic film Better Man which hits UK cinemas on Boxing Day, and sees Williams portrayed as a CGI monkey throughout.

Based on the true story of Robbie’s life and directed by Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), the film is told from Robbie’s perspective, following his journey from hildhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his record-breaking solo career.

Discussing the film, director Michael Gracey honed in on Robbie referring to himself as a monkey over and again: “Robbie would say things like, ‘I’m up the back dancing like a monkey.’ After a while, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to represent Robbie as a monkey in the film?’ Because Robbie is telling this story – and that’s how he sees himself.”