The Museum of Robyn Hitchcock
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| Robyn will be doing a short US tour in November, performing I Often Dream Of Trains with Terry Edwards on keyboards, horns, & bass and Captain Tim Keegan on guitar. They will be appearing in NYC at Symphony Space on November 22, which is being filmed by John Edginton for the Sundance Channel and DVD release on YepRoc. More dates will be announced in a couple months. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robyn was on NPR's new show, The Bryant Park Project. The video is great, a 2 camera shoot in a radio studio! Direct link to the piece: Video on the BPP blog: Robyn was interviewed on San Francisco's KQED radio program, The California Report, as part of their California Song series. It can be heard here: Colin Meloy of The Decemberists was guest DJ on NPR's All Songs Considered. He played "I Often Dream of Trains" as part of his set. Listen here: Robyn is featured on NPR's Best Song in the World Today PopMatters debuts "20 Questions", a weekly feature of short, sassy questions aimed to encourage playful responses that reveal the gist of the artist. Robyn is the subject of the first one. Robyn can be seen playing "Sounds Great Dead" with Terry Edwards, on YouTube. Robyn, with Terry Edwards, will be performing "Sounds Great When You're Dead" on BBC 2's "Later...With Jools Holland" Friday, February 1. It will be up on the "Later" website for a week thereafter. Robyn on the BBC |
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At the Fast 'n' Bulbous Beefheart night at the Knitting Factory on 9 April 2008, Robyn and Gary Lucas performed "China Pig" and "Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes I Do." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joey the Chinchilla with Richard Bishop & RH, Hollywood 11 April 2008 |
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Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death & Insects is being released on DVD March 25th. From writing, recording and life on the road to live performances with the Venus 3 (Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey andBill Rieflin), this original documentary also features appearances by Nick Lowe, John Paul Jones, Chris Ballew and Gillian Welch. DVD Extras includes brand new songs and a special rooftop performance, direct from Hitchcock's London home. |
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| During radio stations KUT's SXSW 2007 Music Festival celebration, Jeff McCord welcomed Robyn Hitchcock to Studio 1A for an interview which can be heard here: http://kut.org/items/show/7689 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I Wanna Go Backwards In addition to the exclusive box set packaging, all three albums will also be simultaneously re-released separately. Individual album versions will also feature the bonus tracks included on the box set versions as well as the enhanced liner notes. In addition to compact disc format the set will also be released in an eight-record vinyl box set version complete with original LP artwork. Released by Yep Roc on November 13, 2007 |
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Robyn on Cooking with Rockstars Robyn interview in The Cleveland Scene |
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Robyn busking in Cambridge in 1976! Recently discovered photos by Alan Crease. According to Robyn, |
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Robyn and Jonathan Demme, New York, March 2007 |
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Robyn and Jon Brion, Los Angeles, April 2007 |
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Photos from the recent Games for May concert can be seen here. |
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New LP Release |
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Storefront Hitchcock and Jewels for Sophia being reissued on June 26 by |
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On July 2 Satorial Records in the UK is releasing Readymades which includes a song by Robyn called "Painkiller Song" recorded wth Jon Brion. The disc also includes songs by The Higsons, Butterfield 8, Gallon Drunk, Lydia Lunch, Terry Edwards and others. |
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Sundance |
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The documentary by John Edginton, Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death and Insects will be debuting at the SXSW film festival. It then makes its television debut on the Sundance Channel on Tuesday, March 27 at 10pm ET/PT. Tracking Robyn's work with the Venus 3 from recording sessions at his West London home in July 2006 through live performances in December, the hour-long film also features appearances by musicians including Morris Windsor, Nick Lowe, John Paul Jones, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings. |
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An EP by Robyn and the Venus 3 titled Sex, Food, Death and Tarantuals will be released by Yep Roc Records on March 6. Featuring an array of live and unreleased tracks, the seven song CD version will be free with purchase of Ole! Tarantula at participating independent record stores, and will also be sold separately. A nine song version of the EP (including 3 songs not available on the CD version) will be available for download. CD EP track listing: Downloadable EP track listing |
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| The recently completed film One Winter Story is a surf movie by Elizabeth Pepin and it includes four songs by Robyn. It has been selected as one of 17 US films to represent the United States at the international Input competition. For more info, go to www.input2007.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robyn has contributed two poems, "They Came From the Future" and "I Caught Intelligence," to the short story anthology, Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. This is being published February 5 by Pyr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An interview with Robyn by Dennis Cook appears at Jambase. An interview with Robyn appears on the Fender website. |
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21 Dec 06 The line up on Saturday was me on guitar, Terry Edwards on keyboards and horns, Paul Noble on bass, and Morris Windsor on drums and vocals. On Sunday we were joined by Kimberley Rew on guitar and vocals. Compere/auctioneer on Saturday was Mark Ellen, on Sunday it was Adam Buxton. The shows were organised by Michèle Noach and Deke Eichler. James Kliffen from MSF spoke about the situation in Darfur, which is the money raised here will be targeted. We'd like to thank everybody who came along to support MSF and give us an excuse to play this unbelieveable music. Many thanks! Happy Solstice, Robyn |
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Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 live radio appearances: March 16 Amazon has posted a streaming interview with Robyn, during which he performs these songs: "Ole Tarantula," "Adventure Rocket Ship," "Creeped Out American Girl," and "English Girl." December 7 December 4 November 28 November 13 November 10 November 9 November 8 WNYC
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Videos Video of Robyn, Peter, & Sean at Real/Rhapsody's SXSW party can be seen here. Adventure Rocket Ship (performance video) Adventure Rocket ship (animated video) |
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Robyn's storyboards for "Adventure Rocket Ship" video can be seen here. |
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| The CD, Rough Trade 2 will be released October 2nd and features the Soft Boys recording of "I Wanna Destroy You" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robyn talks with Mark Ellen about Syd Barrett for a Word Podcast. This is how you find it on the iTunes store: |
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Robyn has a song, "I Wish I Was Doing This" on the compilation CD Graciously released by Funzalo Records. One third of the proceeds go to the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity's Musician's Village Project to aid in thier work in the Gulf Coast area. Available through the label: |
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Robyn appears on the new Live & Direct Volume 7 from WYEP Radio in Pittsburgh. He performs 'We're Gonna Live In The Trees". These CDs are normally available as a thank you gift with a pledge of $75 to WYEP. As a special invitation to fans of Robyn's, the CD can be purchased for $15. Please email your request to WYEP's Membership Director Kathleen Radock at kathi@wyep.org. More info at: http://wyep.org/member/liveanddirect.asp |
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New Recording Track List: |
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Underwater Moonlight by The Soft Boys has been used in a video shot mostly underwater and can be seen at the Greenpeace website. |
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New Photos View photos here. The March issue of Believer Magazine has an interview with Robyn, which he feels is the most in depth one he's given in recent years. |
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On-Line Photos Playing drums with Robyn is Jamie Huggins from the band Of Montreal, based in Athens GA. Additional photos of Robyn & Scott McCauhey in performance can be found here. |
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"Here is a cat in Seattle named Hitch. He is wearing my glasses." |
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New Japanese CD Release This is now available for purchase at our on-line store. Purchase from our UK store here. Track List
Robyn will be doing a short Japanese tour in October: For more information: http://www.mplant.com/robyn.html |
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Editions PAF! Gift Pack |
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Radio Robyn can be heard in this Yep Roc podcast. Robyn is one of the artists invited to create a playlist of music they love on Rhapsody radio. You can hear it here. Robyn's appearance with Jon Langford from The Mekons on WXRT from Chicago can be heard on April 25, 2005 at 10 pm CST. We also now have an archive of other radio appearances in a new section found here. Robyn's appearance on a Dutch radio program can be heard for the next Listen here for the following Dutch program: |
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Is Ready To Be Sold! Robyn performs the song "Crumble Like Dust" on the Spyda compilation CD Elixirs & Remedies, the Robyn Hitchcock and Grant Lee Phillips concert |
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New Song A recent recording of Robyn performing "I Often Dream of Trains" appears on For The Kids Too!, which is released Oct. 19 on Nettwerk America. Other artists on the CD include Butterfly Boucher, Nada Surf, David Mead, Ron Sexsmith, and Matthew Sweet. |
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The Bike Show Archive |
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Robyn played a few songs on KEXP in Seattle in early September, 2004, which can be heard here. |
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Robyn recommends reading this article by Michel Faber, about his planned visit to Afghanistan to write about Medecins Sans Frontieres (the organization for whom he and guests are doing the "White Album" benefit for in early August). |
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INHERITANCE is scheduled to hit the video stores on Feb.8, 2005. This is a The movie features two of Robyn's songs: "A Man's Gotta Know His |
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The Manchurian Candidate, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schrieber opens in US cinemas on July 30th. Robyn Hitchcock has a cameo appearance in the movie as Laurent Tokar, a double agent. |
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August 7 and 8 at 3 Kings
The money will go to Darfur, Sudan, where MSF are now helping to improve life for many stricken people. We hope to do another session at the 3 Kings for MSF before too long. Michèle Noach (who organised the event) and I would also like to thank: Adam Buxton, Ed Harcourt, Callina de la Mare, Terry Edwards, and Romeo Stoddart for helping out with the show; Peter Blake for donating artwork to the after-show auctions; Liz Crawford, Michel Faber, and Vicky Hawkins for MC-ing between sides 2 and 3; and Deke Eichler and Simon Griffin for "Number 9." - Robyn photos by Michèle Noach |
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A Slipping-Down Life directed by Toni Kaylem and starring Guy Pearce and Lili Taylor is on limited US movie release. Guy Pearce plays a rock musician in the film, and sings "Elizabeth Jade" (also "You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You, Baby") on the soundtrack on Commotion Records. |
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Magnet InterviewMagnet interview was published in the Feb/March 2004 issue. Available online at www.magnetmagazine.com |
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Queer StreetThe new Terry Edwards compilation CD, "Queer Street" includes Robyn |
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Wig In A BoxRobyn appears on the charity album called Wig In A Box based on Hedwig And The Angry Inch. It features a wide range of performers covering Hedwig songs, and a new song of Robyn's based on the Hedwig experience. Called "City Of Women," he's joined by Kimberley Rew on guitar and vocals, Morris Windsor on drums and vocals, Paul Noble on bass, and Terry Edwards on saxophone. The album will be released October 21st and can be obtained through www.offrecords.com. |
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Robyn in New Fiction AnthologyRobyn wrote a story for the fiction anthology Carved In Rock, published by Thunder's Mouth Press in the spring of 2004. It also includes contributions from Kinky Friedman, Larry Kirwan, Jim Carroll, Joan Jett, Greg Kihn, Richard Hell, Ray Davies, Graham Parker, Eric Burdon, Mark Laidlaw & John Shirley, Suzzy Roche, Johnny Strike, Pamela Des Barres, John Entwistle, Pete Townsend, Lydia Lunch, Excenne Cervenka, Wayne Kramer, Steve Earle, Ann Magnuson, Willie Nile, Mick Ferren, Mary Lee Kortes, Steve Wynn, M Gira, and Ray Manzarek. |
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BAD PENNY TO AIR ON BBC1 TEATIME TELLYRobyn's "The Yip Song" is used as the theme tune to the surreal kids' sitcom Bad Penny, created and written by Dean Wilkinson (www.deanwilkinson.co.uk). It's been airing on the digital CBBC channel and is to be shown on terrestrial August 2004. It'll be on weekday teatimes BBC1. See www.badpenny-online.co.uk for the exact dates. Bad Penny stars Anne Foy as Penny who's actually the good one constantly trying to thwart the bizarre criminal activities of her roguish family. The cast also includes Graham Fellows a.k.a. comedian John Shuttleworth. More of Robyn's music is used in the show as well as tracks from The Stranglers, The Cure, Love And Rockets and Martin Newell. |
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Recommended Book:Leviathan by Peter BlegvadAbout which Robyn says: "Peter's mind stalks elegantly across the crags and swamps of day-to-day. Exitentialism, illuminating all it sees and then some. You should give Leviathan to someone you really like – yourself, perhaps. And the drawings are exquisite. Viva! el Blegvad." |
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Robyn Reccomends
We raised a total of £5,665 for Médecins Sans Frontières over the two nights of "The White Album Against The War" at the Three Kings. Darren,Kim, Morris, Paul and I had a great time saturating ourselves in this late Beatle music and playing it at point-blank range without oxygen cylinders. Thank you to everyone who came to the gigs.