It'll be nostalgia on steroids

IN just a few weeks when Robbie Williams steps under the lights of Murrayfield on the first night of his tour, he has one objective.

- BY TOM BRYANT

"I want to make people happy and transport them somewhere else... if only for a couple of hours," he says.

But the singer knows he has more than his army of fans to satisfy. There's his 10-year-old son Charlie to think about.

"I did this gig in Munich to 125,000 people, the place is going wild, and I'm singing Let Me Entertain You. I looked over to the VIP section, and Charlie has just got his head down playing on his iPad," Robbie laughs.

"But at Hyde Park last year, I came off, and afterwards, he was just looking at me with these wide eyes, like he had a moment of recognition that his dad was somebody other than somebody that tells him to stop misbehaving."

Charlie will join Robbie's daughter Teddy, 12, six-year-old Coco, and son Beau, four, at various stages of the stadium tour which kicks off in Edinburgh on May 31, before more shows in London, Manchester, Bath and Newcastle.

It comes after a frenetic 12 months for the star that included promoting last year's autobiographical Better Man film, as well as his upcoming art exhibition Radical Honesty.

In a curious twist of fate, Robbie is going to be on the road at the same time as newly-reformed Oasis, with whom he shares an interesting history.