There could be two music icons on the same stage in Newcastle this summer, with Robbie Williams inviting Sam Fender to join him for a duet at a massive festival in June and saying the People Watching star would ‘make an old man very happy’ if he accepted.
Excitement was huge back in the autumn when it was announced that the city would play host to the biggest festival it has ever seen, with Come Together taking over the Town Moor and bringing some of music’s biggest names to get in on the action. Take That star turned global icon Robbie was the first headliner to be announced, with him kicking things off on June 4, at the top of a packed bill that also includes Kaiser Chiefs, Perrie Edwards and Andrew Cushin.
While not there in person, Robbie sent a special video message to be played at the Come Together launch at the plush Above rooftop bar in Newcastle city centre last week, saying how excited he was at the prospect of playing ‘in the Toon’ for the first time in a decade. And, speaking to ChronicleLive on Wednesday evening, he was full of superlatives and terms of endearment when it came to the city and its people.
One of those being Brit winning North Shields musician Sam, who also has his own gigs in June, with the matter of three sold out nights at St James’ Park in his diary. Robbie spoke very highly of Sam and how much he loves his music and wasn’t backward in coming forward when it came to extending an invite for him to join him on stage in front of tens of thousands of people at Come Together, which has also signed up Kings of Leon as its second headliner.
Issuing a public appeal for Sam to duet with him, Robbie said: “Let me tell you this, I want Sam Fender to come sing with me. I would love that! If he would grace me with his presence that would make an old man very happy.”
Addressing his captive audience at the festival press launch last week and promising big things, TEG Live Europe’s CEO, Toby Leighton-Pope said: “In year one we can probably go to about 70,000 people in the park, maybe more, which makes us the biggest site in the UK; bigger than Hyde Park, bigger than anything in any other town. So then you kind of run the numbers and go ‘OK so who can we attract?’ I didn’t want to start small, so year one…Robbie Williams and Kings of Leon, who both sold out Hyde Park.”
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Moving onto Robbie specifically, Toby continued: “It’s going to be a superstar event. I met with Robbie’s people who have been really supportive. Robbie hasn’t played here (Newcastle) in about a decade. There’s not a venue big enough for him to play in. He’s got a stage and a production level that he wants to supply; it just doesn’t fit into the arena sadly, so we’re supplying a stage, probably the biggest stage you’ve ever seen on the Moor.”
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