Here are some quotes of the new Robbie Williams Book called „Somebody Someday“. I put the most important quotes on here, that you can get a little impression about Fil.
In his new clean life Rob does still have moments of nostalgia. „There are some people i miss going out on the piss with and Fil would be one. Heīs definitely the most hardcore out of the Band on the pisshead front. We would always end up being in a pickle, but it would always end up being a funny pickle. I donīt want to reminisce on my drinking days like they werer fun because a lot of them werenīt. Nintety-five per cent of them werenīt. But he is your best man to get drunk with. Heīs funny. Very Sweet. Amazingly talented. Chicks dig him. Sex is an obsession for him, a compulsion. As it is – was – f or me.“
On his second visit in a row to the deeply delicous Italian Restaurant run by the german-speaking Indin, Fil orders exactly the same starter and main course. He might not be sentimental about Girls but he clearly is about food. Well, when youīre on Tour Sex is something different. Itīs a laugh, and thereīs this locker-room humour that goes with it. Everybody on the bus the next days goes, „Waah! Fil got a shag. Come on, tell us about it“, or whatever. Maybe itīs all part of performing. The whole thing is just an ego trip. Get on stage, you get some attention, you come off feeling like a million quid and itīs like the drugs and booze and all the rest of it, itīs all for that reason. The trouble is, these spill over into you – I wouldnīt say normal life – your other life. Thereīs my touring life, then thereīs my home life – and the edges start getting a bit blurred. You get home, he laughs, and you start calling room service, dialling nine for an outside line.
Fil just come out of a long relationship, and to be honest he doesnīt get the whole serial monogamy thing. He looks at all his friends doing it. And I think, how can you possibly have fallen in love so many times and been with so many people? I canīt think of anything worse than having to spend all your time with someone who doesnīt really do it for you. Whatīs the point of that? Over a second bottle of quite pricey Chianti (but what the hell,heīs just got a great publishing deal), Fil suddenly opens up. About his Czech background; growing up in Praque, how his psychologist father had escaped with the family to England when Fil was eight; how their little Fiat 127 with all their belongings stashed on the top got ripped apart at the border. Filīs folks had some hard currency hidden in a vase, which was covered in scrunched-up bits of newspaper and stuff. And this border guard who was searching the car had his hand right in it. If heīd found that, weīd have got sent straight back, but he kind of rummaged around in there for a while and then took his hand out – so we got through. But then, when theyīd finally arrived in Dover three days later, in the middle of a blizzard, the car skidded past them, smashed into a cliff, and nearly wiped them out the second they acutally set foot in Britain....
Settled in Forest Hill, South London, things got worse, as the young Beatles-loving Czech boy found himself having the shit kicked out of him because he coudnīt speak english. That changed pretty quick, he says now. Kids pick up quick if theyīre thrown in the deep end like that – I could speak good english withhin six months. But i was still the whipping post for them.
Filīs Father had taught him to play guitar when he was eight or nine. I knew i was good, man. Thatīs not to be arrogant or anything. It was the one thing i had left to cling to, because the rest of my life was a misery. I used to buck off every lesson i could and go play guitar. Eventually Fil ended up helping with the guitar lessons in the school. One of the young kids heard him and said to a bloke in the room, whoīd been playing guitar for ages, „thatīs Eislerīs good. Dīyou think heīs going to make it?“ and this older guy said, right in front of me, „No chance. Heīs not going to amount to anything. Because itīs too hard. Itīs not going to happen to you. Get used to that idea. Learn something else. Yeah, youīre an all right guitar player, but youīre not going to make it. Look at me.“ But hereīs the beautiful pay-off, Fil grins. Many years later, when heīd served his apprenticeship, played in crappy venues, been in his embarrassing prog-rock band (Nexus), practised eight hours a day, not had the patience to got to music college, been phoned by Guy, whom heīd met doing a gig with Zoe, th e“Sunshine on a rainy day“ woman, joined the Robbie Band, been a part of it as Rob took off as a solo artist, played Slane Castle etc..., he was walking past a pub and he saw a sign with this guyīs name on it, advertising a Christmas Eve gig. I thought, it canīt be. So i walked in. I thought, iīve got to got an check this out. I said „Youīve got to show me a flyer. Is there a picture of this geezer?“ The landlady went, „Yeah sure“ and gets his poster out. Bang. Itīs him. I was like, Yessss! Sadly i was away on Christmas Eve. Otherwise i would have dropped my plans and turned up. But i lef t a note instead, and it was something along the lines of „I donīt know if you remember me, but iīm the kid you said would amount to absolutely nothing. I did amount to absolutely fuck all, just recently, in front of half a million people at Slane Castle. Have a good show, Ta ta“. Something along those lines – and it feld very, very good indead actually.
Filīs musing about his changing attitude to the sexual aspect of rock īnīroll. Iīve been having this little dialogue with myself lately. Itīs quite amusing. I was talking to someone about it the other day, i canīt remember who. Anyway, they said, "You kind of come across as this good-time boy, the party lad, youīre really up for it, but i get the feeling youīve got a bit of a brain behind it, you know whats going on. It was like, "Yeah, of course i know whats going on". The trouble is, you get into a chicken and egg situation. Itīs like, If this is ironic rock and rolling, the fact is iīm actually doing it. So at what point does the ironic come in? Iīve not really sussed that one yet."
Here are some quotes of the new Robbie Williams Book called „Somebody Someday“. I put the most important quotes on here, that you can get a little impression about Fil.
In his new clean life Rob does still have moments of nostalgia. „There are some people i miss going out on the piss with and Fil would be one. Heīs definitely the most hardcore out of the Band on the pisshead front. We would always end up being in a pickle, but it would always end up being a funny pickle. I donīt want to reminisce on my drinking days like they werer fun because a lot of them werenīt. Nintety-five per cent of them werenīt. But he is your best man to get drunk with. Heīs funny. Very Sweet. Amazingly talented. Chicks dig him. Sex is an obsession for him, a compulsion. As it is – was – f or me.“
