Rob gig banned by sheikh

Robbie Williams has been banned from holding a huge concert at a racecourse in Dubai…because his last gig there terrified the ruling sheikh’s horses. The pop star was paid £1million for a sell-out concert at the Nad Al Sheba racecourse – home to the Dubai Gold Cup – in April last year.

But plans for a repeat performance have been shelved after noise from the last concert – the biggest ever held in Dubai – caused a loss of form for billionaire Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s thoroughbred Arabian mares.

Dubai Racing Club chief Frank Gabriel said: “It affected their state of mind and their performance. That will never happen again.” (G. Hodgson, Sundaymirror.co.uk)