This is the reason the podcast exists.

The gang shudder in apprehension as they open the lid of Robbie Williams's seventh solo album, 2006's Rudebox. A dividing line in Robbie's discography, a transfixing disasterpiece that permanently altered his career trajectory, once the Rudebox is opened, it cannot be closed. Boy, do we have an episode for you.

After hours of research, we have the first Robbie Hole Exclusive of the show (2025 UPDATE: We don't), we have a line-by-line analysis of the colossus of bad ideas that is the title track, and a deep dive into the catastrophic reaction to the album that gave rise to Robbie The Alien Hunter (this is not a joke). This barely scratches the surface, if any document is to prove that Robbie Williams is the strangest figure in British pop music, let it be this. OK then, back to basics, grab your shell toes and your fat laces.

(Down The Robbie Hole was recorded from 2019-2020)