Robbie Williams really wants to play Glastonbury

"I'd like my moment on the Pyramid Stage in front of a record-breaking amount of people"

Robbie Williams has revealed that he would like to play at Glastonbury again in order to have his “moment on the Pyramid Stage in front of a record-breaking amount of people.”

The former Take That singer released his latest album, ‘‘Heavy Entertainment Show‘, last week, and will embark on a UK tour in June 2017. There was some speculation that, as the tour ends in London on the Friday of the festival, Williams might perform at Glastonbury – his first appearance at the festival since 1998.

However, Williams addressed these links in a recent press conference and admitted that the festival’s 2017 edition will probably pass him by.

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“If they asked me I do it, but I don’t think it’s gonna be next year,” Williams told reporters at a London press conference yesterday (November 7). “I would love to do Glastonbury. I’ll probably [be having that weekend off]. I would like my moment at the Pyramid Stage in front of a record-breaking amount of people.”

Read more: Glastonbury 2017 – everything you need to know

These remarks come after Williams recently reminisced about how indie fans “looked down on him” the last time he performed at the Somerset festival.

“There was a sort of indie fundamentalist mentality that was with us all the way through the ’90s that was very apparent to me, where I was literally looked down on when I was in conversation with a lot of people in various drinking establishments,” he said. “It was like people were scared that it was going to rub off on them; the Butlins redcoat or the Pontins bluecoat thing.

“We live in a very different world than we used to,” he continued. “I don’t think someone who’d left a pop band would feel the same way now. You know, one of One Direction being seen walking around Glastonbury isn’t the same as me walking around Glastonbury in 1995.

“When I was at Glastonbury it felt like the rest of the festival was like: ‘What the fuck are you doing here, you cunt?’” he added. “And I sort of wanted to be OK with the big boys, I wanted to be accepted, there’s a playground mentality that carries on through life and at that time, I wanted to be accepted by the bullies, and that became part of the very fabric of my DNA: ‘Oh, I’ll be accepted by these people eventually, right, here’s my new album. Oh, they’re not accepting me, they’re not coming.’”

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See Williams’ 2017 UK dates below.

Fri June 02 2017 – MANCHESTER Etihad Stadium
Tue June 06 2017 – SOUTHAMPTON St Marys Stadium
Fri June 09 2017 – EDINBURGH BT Murrayfield Stadium
Tue June 13 2017 – COVENTRY Ricoh Stadium
Sat June 17 2017 – DUBLIN Aviva Stadium (Lansdowne Road Stadium)
Wed June 21 2017 – CARDIFF Principality Stadium
Fri June 23 2017 – LONDON Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

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