Robbie Williams Announces New Album 'BRITPOP' With First Single Rocket Featuring Tony Iommi
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Jason Hetherington
Robbie Williams has announced a new studio album.
'BRITPOP' will arrive through Columbia Records in the autumn, though a release date is still to be confirmed. It marks a return to the more guitar-led sound showcased by the superstar after departing Take That in the mid-'90s, with its title paying homage to the Britpop era that has inspired his career. He explained:
"I set out to create the album that I wanted to write and release after I left Take That in 1995. It was the peak of Britpop and a golden age for British Music. I’ve worked with some of my heroes on this album; it’s raw, there are more guitars and it’s an album that’s even more upbeat and anthemic than usual. There’s some ‘Brit’ in there and there’s certainly some ‘pop’ too - I’m immensely proud of this as a body of work and I’m excited for fans to hear this album. I also can’t wait to perform a song or two from it on my upcoming ‘BRITPOP’ tour, which I’m opening in the UK, naturally."
To coincide with the announcement, Williams has shared the first single from the record, Rocket, a collaboration with heavy metal pioneer Tony Iommi. Written by Williams, Iommi, Karl Brazil and Tom Longworth, the high-energy rocker serves up a guitar solo from the Black Sabbath legend alongside driving drums and an anthemic chorus. The song's accompanying video will premiere on Friday (May 23).
Williams' BRITPOP Tour will kick off next weekend with a performance at Edinburgh's Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium on May 31. The stadium trek, which was originally titled Robbie Williams Live 2025, will also visit Newcastle, London, Manchester, Bath and Dublin, before dates in various European countries. Tickets are on sale now.
His last standard studio album, 'The Heavy Entertainment Show', arrived back in 2016. Since then, he put out a festive record, 'The Christmas Present', in 2019, 'XXV', a compilation of re-worked and orchestrated tracks from his 25 years in music, in 2022, and more recently, 'Better Man: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack', which accompanied his 2024 musical biopic.
Meanwhile, Iommi, will reunite with the other original members of Black Sabbath this summer for their first performance together in 20 years. Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward will perform a special concert billed as Back To The Beginning on July 5 at Birmingham's Villa Park. It will see Ozzy play his own set before joining Sabbath for what will be his final performance, alongside a huge line-up including Metallica, Tool, Guns N' Roses, and Slayer. Tickets are on sale now.
Credit: Album cover photography by Julian Broad; painting by Kate Oleska based on the photo by Mick Hutson
UPDATE 23/05: Watch the video for Rocket below.
Robbie Williams Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sat May 31 2025 - EDINBURGH Scottish Gas Murrayfield
Wed June 04 2025 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Town Moor
Fri June 06 2025 - LONDON Emirates Stadium
Sat June 07 2025 - LONDON Emirates Stadium
Tue June 10 2025 - MANCHESTER Co-op Live
Wed June 11 2025 - MANCHESTER Co-op Live
Fri June 13 2025 - BATH Royal Crescent
Sat June 14 2025 - BATH Royal Crescent
Thu June 19 2025 - COPENHAGEN Parken (Denmark)
Sun June 22 2025 - AMSTERDAM Johan Cruijff ArenA (Netherlands)
Wed June 25 2025 - GELSENKIRCHEN VELTINS Arena (Germany)
Sat June 28 2025 - WERCHTER TW Classic (Belgium)
Mon June 30 2025 - HANOVER Heinz von Heiden Arena (Germany)
Wed July 02 2025 - PARIS LA Defense Arena (France)
Sat July 05 2025 - BARCELONA RCDE Stadium Cornella (Spain)
Wed July 09 2025 - LEIPZIG Red Bull Arena (Germany)
Sat July 12 2025 - VIENNA Ernst Happel Stadion (Austria)
Thu July 17 2025 - TRIESTE Stadio Nereo Rocco (Italy)
Mon July 21 2025 - BERLIN Waldbuhne (Germany)
Tue July 22 2025 - BERLIN Waldbuhne (Germany)
Sat July 26 2025 - MUNICH Olympiastadion (Germany)
Fri August 01 2025 - KAUNAS Darius and Girenas Stadium (Lithuania)
Sun August 03 2025 - RIGA Mezaparks (Latvia)
Thu August 07 2025 - STOCKHOLM Stadion (Sweden)
Sun August 10 2025 - FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank Park (Germany)
Wed August 13 2025 - STAVANGER Forus Travbane (Norway)
Sat August 16 2025 - TRONDHEIM Granasen (Norway)
Sat August 23 2025 - DUBLIN Croke Park
Sun September 07 2025 - PRAGUE O2 Arena (Czech Republic)
Tue September 09 2025 - KRAKOW Tauron Arena (Poland)
Fri September 12 2025 - BUDAPEST MVM Dome (Hungary)
Sat September 20 2025 - HELSINKI Olympiastadion (Finland)
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