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Williams unhappy with X Factor launch
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Watch Robbie's performance here.
According to The Mirror, Williams said that his first live performance in three years was stifled by jammed stage doors putting him off his stride.
The 35-year-old told how he had a striking pose prepared for the moment he burst on to the set to sing his new single 'Bodies', but that was thrown into disarray.
He said: "At this point in the rehearsals the music starts... The doors open...but live...The music starts...The doors don't open.
"So we're a few seconds in and the doors remain closed...a few more seconds and they're still closed.
"Now I don't know if you've ever had 10 million people plus ready to judge you on your first performance back in three years...
"But let me tell you, if the door between you and them isn't opening that's enough to throw you right off your stride.
"I had to wedge it open myself. That wasn't part of the show.
"That was brute strength and now heavy nerves, shifting something I probably wouldn't be able to move in the cold light of day. So there's a bad start. I had a whole pose planned and what not. But that went out of the window."
However despite his comeback not quite living up to its expectations, Robbie insisted he was thrilled with his performance and declared defiantly in his blog: "I think the boy is back.
"After a bizarrely odd start to the 3.30 minutes I started to find my feet. The audience was immense and the love in the room was palpable.
"It all felt so electric. Like three years of anxiety leaving my body."
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