Close Encounters Tour

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Close Encounters Tour
Tour by Robbie Williams
RobbieW 2006TourPoster.jpg
Promotional advert for the tour
Location
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America
Associated album Intensive Care
Start date10 April 2006
End date18 December 2006
Legs4
No. of shows57
Robbie Williams concert chronology

The Close Encounters Tour was a concert tour by the English recording artist, Robbie Williams. Running from April to December 2006, the tour supported Williams' sixth studio album, Intensive Care . The tour saw Williams play over 50 shows in stadiums across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania. The name is derived from the 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind . The tour sold 1.6 million tickets on its first day of sale in November 2005, breaking the world record for the most concert tickets sold in a single day. [1] Williams held the record for nearly 17 years, until it was broken by Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour, which sold 2.4 million tickets in a single day in November 2022. [2]

Contents

Opening acts

Set list

The following set list is that for the concert on 10 April 2006 at the ABSA Stadium in Durban, South Africa. [3] It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  1. "Instrumental Sequence" (contains elements of "The Five Tones and Mountain Visions")
  2. "Radio"
  3. "Rock DJ"
  4. "Tripping"
  5. "Monsoon"
  6. "Sin Sin Sin"
  7. "Supreme"
  8. "The Trouble With Me"
  9. "Millennium"
  10. "Back for Good"
  11. "Advertising Space"
  12. "There She Goes"
  13. "Ghosts"
  14. "Come Undone"
  15. "Feel"
  16. "A Place to Crash"
  17. "Kids"
  18. "Make Me Pure"
Encore
  2. "Let Me Entertain You"
  3. "Strong"
  4. "Angels"

Tour dates

List of 2006 concerts [4] [5]
DateCityCountryVenue
10 April 2006 Durban South Africa ABSA Stadium
13 April 2006 Cape Town Green Point Stadium
17 April 2006 Pretoria Loftus Versfeld Stadium
21 April 2006 Dubai United Arab Emirates Nad Al Sheba Racecourse
9 June 2006 Dublin Ireland Croke Park
13 June 2006 Brussels Belgium Stade Roi Baudouin
14 June 2006
17 June 2006ParisFrance Parc des Princes
21 June 2006 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena
22 June 2006
24 June 2006
25 June 2006
1 July 2006 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi
2 July 2006
6 July 2006 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium
7 July 2006
10 July 2006 Dresden Germany Festwiese Ostragehege
11 July 2006
14 July 2006 Hamburg Trabrennbahn Bahrenfeld
15 July 2006
19 July 2006 Budapest Hungary Ferenc Puskás Stadium
22 July 2006 Milan Italy San Siro
27 July 2006BerlinGermany Olympiastadion
28 July 2006
1 August 2006 Munich Olympiastadion
2 August 2006
3 August 2006
8 August 2006 Cologne Jahnwiese
9 August 2006
12 August 2006 Hockenheim Hockenheimring
13 August 2006
18 August 2006 Vienna Austria Ernst-Happel-Stadion
19 August 2006
23 August 2006 Bern Switzerland Stade de Suisse
24 August 2006
1 September 2006 Glasgow Scotland Hampden Park
2 September 2006
8 September 2006 Leeds England Roundhay Park
9 September 2006
14 September 2006 Milton Keynes National Bowl
15 September 2006
16 September 2006
18 September 2006
19 September 2006
10 October 2006 Santiago Chile Estadio Nacional
14 October 2006 Buenos Aires Argentina River Plate Stadium
15 October 2006
18 October 2006 Rio de Janeiro Brazil Praça da Apoteose
21 October 2006 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol
22 October 2006
30 November 2006 Perth Australia Subiaco Oval
1 December 2006
5 December 2006 Adelaide AAMI Stadium
9 December 2006Sydney Aussie Stadium
10 December 2006
13 December 2006 Brisbane Suncorp Stadium
14 December 2006
17 December 2006 Melbourne Telstra Dome
18 December 2006
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
14 September 2006London, England Wembley Stadium Relocated to the National Bowl in Milton Keynes due to the incompletion of Wembley Stadium. [6]
15 September 2006London, EnglandWembley StadiumRelocated to the National Bowl in Milton Keynes due to the incompletion of Wembley Stadium. [6]
16 September 2006London, EnglandWembley StadiumRelocated to the National Bowl in Milton Keynes due to the incompletion of Wembley Stadium. [6]
18 September 2006London, EnglandWembley StadiumRelocated to the National Bowl in Milton Keynes due to the incompletion of Wembley Stadium. [6]
19 September 2006London, EnglandWembley StadiumRelocated to the National Bowl in Milton Keynes due to the incompletion of Wembley Stadium. [6]
8 October 2006Caracas, Venezuela Estadio Universitario Cancelled [7]
4 November 2006 Shanghai, China Hongkou Football Stadium Cancelled [7]
10 November 2006 Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong AsiaWorld–Arena Cancelled [7]
14 November 2006 Bangkok, Thailand Aktiv Square Cancelled [7]
18 November 2006 Kallang, Singapore National Stadium Cancelled [7]
22 November 2006 Mumbai, India Brabourne Stadium Cancelled [7]
24 November 2006 Bangalore, India Bangalore Palace Grounds Cancelled [7]

Box office score data

VenueCityTickets sold / AvailableGross revenue
Foro SolMexico City102,956 / 108,414 (95%)$3,626,856 [8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Robbie sets ticket sales record". The Age . 25 November 2005. Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2025. British pop star Robbie Williams has entered the famed Guinness Book of World Records by selling more than 1.6 million tickets for his 2006 world tour in just one day, its editor said today.
  2. ↑ Sharf, Zack (17 November 2022). "Ticketmaster Cancels Taylor Swift Tour's Public Tickets Sale Due to 'High Demand' and 'Insufficient Inventory'". Variety . Archived from the original on 23 November 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  3. ↑ Coetzer, Diane (13 April 2006). "Robbie Kicks Off World Tour in South Africa". Billboard. VNU Business Media. Archived from the original on 18 April 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Robe Light Robbie Williams in Dubai". ULA Group. www.freezepage.com/1372640602TDMOEBGYYG?url=http://www.ula.com.au/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D469%26Itemid%3D80. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "ROBBIE'S SUPER-SIZED WORLD TOUR WILL FINISH IN AUSTRALIA". Chugg Entertainment. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Williams shifts Wembley concerts". BBC News Online . British Broadcasting Corporation. 5 May 2006. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Robbie Williams Cancels Asian Tour Dates". Billboard . VNU Business Media. 16 September 2006. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  8. ↑ "Boxscore Concert Grosses". Billboard. Vol. 118, no. 46. Nashville, Tennessee: VNU Business Media. 18 November 2006. p. 12. ISSN   0006-2510 . Retrieved 22 June 2013.
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