Kinda wish we had an advent calender here at HQ… It’d be set at 71 days left until Mr Robbie Williams lands in Australia and 53 days until his super-exciting-in-this-neck-of-the-woods album Reality Killed The Video Star is released.

As we previously blogged, Robbie is heading thissaway for the ARIA Awards on Nov 24, performing his first single Bodies (#1 most added at Oz radio, which explains why you can’t escape it, not that this is a bad thing). Can.Not.Wait.

As for the album – the critics at Music Week in London are just a leeetle excited:

“…a glorious pop album that wears its influences on its sleeves… Trevor Horn’s production has given the album a fuller, richer sound than any of the artist’s previous releases, as Robbie unashamedly pays homage to some of his musical heroes. The Pet Shop Boys connection, which began with Neil Tennant’s backing vocals on No Regrets and continued on Rudebox’s cover of We Are The Pet Shop Boys, is evident here again on Last Days Of Disco (which includes the line “don’t call it a comeback”) and, most especially, on Difficult For Weirdos. And, having started his solo career with a cover of Freedom, Robbie returns to George Michael with the Amazing/FastLove-like Starstruck.”

In other words, don’t just tale my word for it. Robbie FTW.