Robbie Williams sings for Lima fans after second concert is cancelled

Robbie Williams sang for fans outside his Lima hotel on Thursday, 24 September, after authorities closed the venue for his second concert in the Peruvian capital. San Miguel municipality said evacuation procedures had not been followed after his first show at Arena 1 Park the previous night. The promoter, One Entertainment, said it had addressed the concerns but could not secure permission for Thursday’s performance to proceed. It has promised a new date, leaving ticket-holders waiting for details.

Why the second show was cancelled

Williams performed at Arena 1 Park on Wednesday, 23 September. A second concert was due there the following evening. Municipal manager Jorge Román Saavedra told RPP Noticias that the venue had been temporarily closed because the evacuation procedures set for the event were not followed. He confirmed that Thursday’s show would not take place at the venue. The closure followed the first concert; the available reports do not establish that the first performance itself was stopped.

Saavedra said the company organizing the concert was responsible for evacuating people both inside and outside the venue. He described a municipal plan with four alternatives for people leaving: routes towards Gamarra and Independencia, the Belén bridge, and a group of 40 buses intended to carry attendees. He said the procedures observed after Wednesday’s show did not match the plan. Those are the municipality’s findings as described to RPP, rather than the results of a published independent inspection.

RPP reported that, before the event was authorized, the municipality had received a positive safety opinion from Lima Metropolitan authorities and a resolution from Peru’s Interior Ministry. Saavedra said responsibility for carrying out the evacuation arrangements still rested with the organizer. The municipality said it had referred the matter to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Crime Prevention and a consumer-protection commission. The reports do not establish the outcome of either referral.

A short performance outside the hotel

As the scheduled concert did not go ahead, fans gathered outside the Belmond hotel in Miraflores, hoping to see Williams. Infobae Perú reported that he came out after 7 p.m. with guitarists and sang portions of ‘Angels’ for the crowd. The account describes fans holding up phones and other items as they watched. A BBC News video report also recorded the brief singalong outside the hotel after the cancellation.

Williams showed the gathering a Peru shirt bearing his surname, according to Infobae. The outlet reported that he told fans he was heartbroken about missing the second concert and hoped to return soon. The BBC report likewise described him as ‘broken-hearted’. His remarks expressed regret and hope; they did not give a confirmed date or venue for another performance.

One attendee told Infobae she had travelled from Cusco for the cancelled concert and found the hotel appearance worthwhile despite the cost of her ticket and journey. Her account illustrates what the brief encounter meant to one person. The retained reports do not establish how many ticket-holders travelled to Lima, how many people gathered at the hotel, or how the wider audience responded.

What ticket-holders know

One Entertainment apologized to people who had bought tickets for Thursday’s show. In its 24 September statement, reported by RPP, it said the concert would be rescheduled after coordination with Williams’s team and that a new date would be announced. The statement was a commitment to seek another performance, not confirmation of when or where it would happen.

For now, the established sequence is a completed first show on 23 September, a municipal closure and cancelled second show on 24 September, followed by Williams’s hotel singalong that evening. The municipality and promoter disagree about the status of the safety concerns before the second show. The available reports provide neither a published technical finding that settles that dispute nor confirmed replacement arrangements for ticket-holders.