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| Born in London, England, in 1953. Education: Attended Cambridge University. Member of acoustic quartet Maureen and the Meatpackers, early 1970s; with bassist-keyboardist Andy Metcalf and drummer Morris Windsor, formed band the Soft Boys, 1976; group disbanded, 1981; group re-formed as the Egyptians, 1984; signed with A&M Records, and released Globe of Frogs, 1988; released Respect, 1993; signed with Warner Brothers and released Moss Elixir, 1996; released soundtrack to Jonathan Demmedirected Hitchcock film Storefront Hitchcock, 1998. Addresses: Record company—Yep Roc Records, P.O. Box 4821, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-4821. Publicist—Yep Roc, Nic Brown, phone: (336) 395-1141, e-mail: nic@yeproc.com, or Tresa Redburn, Dept. 56, phone: (818) 702-6253, e-mail: tmumba@aol.com. |
Singer, songwriter, guitarist
"I wished for the impossible when I was a kid," British rocker Robyn Hitchcock once told Rolling Stone. "When I couldn't realize it, I retreated into fantasy." Thirty-some years and eleven albums later, the eccentric Hitchcock has yet to fully emerge. With his witty lyrics and surrealist imagery, the singer/songwriter has created an elaborate fantasyscape populated by bizarre life forms—slimy amphibians, antennaed insects, and creepy crustaceans. And behind the artist's psychedelic inventions is a devoted cult following; Hitchcock's fans have developed quite a taste for his peculiar brand of primordial soup.
Born in London in 1953, Hitchcock developed an "intense contempt for normalcy in all its forms" at an early age, he told the San Francisco Chronicle. Inspired by Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," he gravitated toward music as a means of expressing that contempt. At 16, Hitchcock discovered William Shakespeare and avant-garde rock figure Captain Beefheart, the two influences that would establish the foundation for his unique musical perspective. In the early 1970s his interest in Shakespeare led him to study English at Cambridge University, while the allure of Beefheart propelled Hitchcock to the coffeehouse folk scene, where he explored his burgeoning musical style as a solo guitarist.
On the coffeehouse circuit Hitchcock developed the distinctive right-hand picking style that Guitar Player called "a kind of finicky folk that's not sentimental enough for the coffeehouses, and too acerbic and sharply poetic for most rock audiences."
Following the demise of his short-lived acoustic quartet, Maureen and the Meatpackers, Hitchcock formed his first recording group with bassist and keyboardist Andy Metcalf and drummer Morris Windsor in 1976. Dubbed the Soft Boys, the art-punk rock band derived its title from two William Burroughs novels, The Soft Machine and The Wild Boys. Its mission: to "avoid cliche whenever possible." That was the group's "manifesto," Hitchcock told the Chronicle.
It was with the Soft Boys that Hitchcock perfected his signature surrealist style, characterized by a psychedelic quality that was typical of the musicians of his generation. Although the Soft Boys developed a consistent following after the release of the band's first recordings in 1977 and 1978, their irreverent pop sound was ultimately drowned out by angrier young men like the Sex Pistols; unable to withstand the punk rock tide, the group disbanded in 1981.
Three years later the Soft Boys were reborn as the Egyptians; in addition to Hitchcock, Metcalf, and Windsor, the group counted two new members, Otis Horns Fletcher and Roger Jackson. The band fared well in the United States in its new incarnation. The albums Fegmania!, Gotta Let This Hen Out!, and Elements of Light, released on the alternative Slash and Relativity labels, rated high on college radio playlists. The band's reputation was enhanced by the enthusiastic endorsement of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, with whom they began a lasting musical collaboration. In 1988 the Egyptians recorded Globe of Frogs, their first album on the major label A&M. Queen Elvis and Perspex Island followed in 1989 and 1991, respectively.
Perspex Island, Hitchcock's first recording with an outside producer, Paul Fox, was "mixed on a car stereo in L.A. because it's designed to be listened to in traffic," reported the Chicago Tribune. The album showed a different aspect of Hitchcock's talent. "There's a side of me I've been hesitant to reveal in the past," he told Pitch magazine. "I've always avoided being too vulnerable, too open, afraid of coming off maudlin."
The emotional openness reflected on Perspex Island seemed to reflect Hitchcock's new-found contentment, which may have had something to do with contributions from Peter Buck and R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe. Buck played guitar and mandolin on eight of the album's 11 tracks, and Stipe contributed vocals to the cut "She Doesn't Exist."
Despite its sincerity, Perspex Island did not sacrifice the surreal imagery so dear to Hitchcock's die-hard fans. The album's title, in fact, was inspired by an acrylic material that's used to make souvenir paperweights; trinkets are suspended in the substance, creating a fossilized Jello effect. "Birds in Perspex," one of the singles off the album, "is basically about wanting something that's dead or frozen to suddenly reanimate, " Hitchcock explained in an A&M Records press release. In fact, that "something" does come alive on the album's cover, a creature-filled composition of Hitchcock's own making.
Critics were overwhelmingly positive about Perspex Island's accessible love songs, assuring Hitchcock that his fear of "coming off maudlin" was unfounded. Quickly becoming a college favorite, the album was praised not only for its exacting rhythms and three-part harmonies but also for its disarming candor. The first single, "So You Think You're in Love," rose to the top of the CMJ Album Network, Gavin Report, and Radio and Records Alternative charts.
Fittingly, Perspex Island's popularity mirrored Hitchcock's feelings about his shift in musical style. He told Spin, "It's taken about half my life to actually stagger into accepting being Robyn Hitchcock. My aim now is to write songs that have emotion."
Hitchcock followed up Perspex Island with 1993's Respect, which he dedicated to his late father. He earned critical praise for such songs as "The Yip Song," "When I Was Dead," and "Wafflehead." The album also featured Hitchcock's guitar mastery on the solo instrumental "Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom." Reviewing the album for Rock: The Rough Guide, Iain Smith wrote that the album was "Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians most finely crafted work to date."
Respect was Hitchcock's final album for A&M. He signed to Warner Brothers for his 1996 release Moss Elixir. In 1998 director Jonathan Demme filmed Hitchcock's solo live performances in the concert film Storefront Hitchcock, and a soundtrack album was released. His last album for the label was 1999's Jewels for Sophia. Subsequent releases on independent labels have yielded positive results. Of Luxor, released in 2003, All Music Guide critic Brian Downing wrote: "There is not only a strong sense of his own musical past evident, but also the past of pop music in general; sort of like a musical tea party with the ghosts of Syd Barrett, John Lennon, and Bob Dylan as the special guests."
Spooked, released in 2004, and Ole! Tarantula, released in 2006, featured guest appearances by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings on the former and Peter Buck, Ian McLagan, and Kimberley Rew, recording as the Venus 3, on the latter. Ole! Tarantuala was notable for Hitchcock's songwriting collaboration with XTC mainstay Andy Partridge, "'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)." According to All Music Guide critic James Christopher Monger: "His greatest strength has always been his ability to toss a clear nugget of profundity into his most surrealist rants…. It's that perfect balance of sadness, vitriol, and absurdity that makes Hitchcock (when he's on) such a legendary social commentator. He's the jester, the king, the convict, and the executioner all wrapped up into one."
Selected Discography
(With the Soft Boys) Underwater Moonlight (import), Armageddon, 1980.(With the Egyptians) Fegmania!, Slash, 1985.Gotta Let This Hen Out!, Relativity, 1985.Element of Light, Relativity, 1986.Globe of Frogs, A&M, 1988.Queen Elvis, A&M, 1989.Perspex Island, A&M, 1991.Respect, A&M, 1993.Solo releases I Often Dream of Trains, Relativity, 1984.Eye, Twin/Tone, 1990.Moss Elixir, Warner Bros., 1996.Storefront Hitchcock, Warner Bros, 1998.Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival, Varese, 1998.Jewels for Sophia, Warner Bros., 1999.A Star for Bram, Editions PAF!, 2000.Robyn Sings, Editions PAF!, 2002.Luxor, Editions PAF!, 2003.Spooked, Yep Roc, 2004.Obliteration Pie, 3rd Japan, 2006.Ole! Tarantuala, Yep Roc, 2006.This Is the BBC, Hux, 2006. Sources
Books
Rock: The Rough Guide, Rough Guides, Ltd., 1999.
Periodicals
Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1992.
Guitar Player, April 1992.
High Fidelity, May 1988.
Lincoln Journal (Lincoln, NE), September 1991.
Los Angeles Reader, September 13, 1991.
Musician, September 1991; April 1992.
Pitch (Kansas City, MO), August 21, 1991.
Pulse!, September 1991.
Rolling Stone, January 29, 1987; November 4, 1991.
San Antonio Light, August 18, 1991.
San Francisco Chronicle, September 22, 1991.
Spin, September 1991; October 1991.
Washington Post, January 31, 1992.
Online
All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com (Nov. 14, 2006).
Additional information for this profile was obtained from an A&M Records press release, 1991.
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Robyn Hitchcock is one of England's most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. Despite having been persistently branded as eccentric or quirky for much of his career, Hitchcock has continued to develop his whimsical repertoire, deepen his surreal catalog, and expand his devoted audience beyond the boundaries of cult stature. He is among alternative rock's father figures and is the closest thing the genre has to a Bob Dylan (not coincidentally his biggest inspiration).Starting his career as a folkie in Cambridge, England, Hitchcock has been compared to such other British folk-rock figures as Roy Harper and the Incredible String Band, specifically because of his acoustic guitar and loopy vocal style, though his rock voice bears shades of John Lennon and Syd Barrett. Switching gears early to front the Soft Boys, a punk-era band specializing in melodic, chiming jangle pop and clever lyrics (Underwater Moonlight remains a classic of the genre), it wasn't long before he quit the band life and made his solo debut. Black Snake Diamond Role (1981) confirmed his reputation as an oddball thanks to his titles "Brenda's Iron Sledge" and "Acid Bird," among others. The psychedelia of Groovy Decay (1982) followed, as did the all-acoustic I Often Dream of Trains (1984). By 1985, Hitchcock's unpredictable songsmithing coalesced on Fegmania! Later that year, the live document Gotta Let This Hen Out! demonstrated his command of the stage. In 1988, he landed his first major U.S. label contract with A&M Records and followed the signing by releasing the ambitious Globe of Frogs (1988) and Queen Elvis (1989). He continued to record (Perspex Island, 1991; Respect, 1993) and receive college radio airplay, though once the momentum of the A&M years begun to lag, Hitchcock bounced back in 1996 with the return-to-form Moss Elixir (Warner Bros.), which embraced his folk roots. Storefront Hitchcock, the soundtrack to the Jonathan Demme-directed concert film, followed in 1998.
Upon release from his contract with Warner Bros., Hitchcock self-released A Star for Bram (Editions PAF!, 2000), a collection of outtakes and leftover recordings from the Jewels for Sophia (1999) sessions. In 2002 he released Robyn Sings, a double-disc collection of Bob Dylan songs culled from various live appearances in America and abroad during 1999-2000. The stripped-down Luxor followed in 2003, released in conjunction with his 50th birthday. In 2004, he took not only a bit role in Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate, but released Spooked (Yep Roc Records) a one-off collaboration with alternative country artists Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, recorded over a period of six days in Nashville. A Japanese-only compilation of his work was released in 2005, while 2006 offered This Is the BBC, a collection of his BBC sessions from the '90s, as well as Olé! Tarantula, a new batch of surreal pop tunes recorded with members of the Minus 5.
In 2007, Hitchcock became the subject of a documentary by director John Edginton (Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects) -- a behind-the-scenes look at Hitchcock's work with Nick Lowe, John Paul Jones, Peter Buck, Bill Rieflin, Gillian Welch, and other collaborators in the Venus 3 project. A companion live EP of the Venus 3's subsequent American tour was released at the same time. In late 2007, Yep Roc began reissuing all of Hitchcock's earlier work, culminating in the boxed collection I Wanna Go Backwards. Hitchcock delved back into the archives for 2008's Shadow Cat, a collection of unreleased material from the latter half of the '90s, and also for Luminous Groove, a box set of early Egyptians releases and rarities. Goodnight Oslo, his second release with the Venus 3, and the live CD/DVD set I Often Dream of Trains in New York arrived in 2009. The following year, Hitchcock dropped Propellor Time, a collaboration with the Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Nick Lowe, and John Paul Jones (as well as the Venus 3) that was three years in the making. ~ Denise Sullivan & J. Scott McClintock, Rovi
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 Live @ Iron Horse., Northampton, MA 28 March 2005 |
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| Born | 3 March 1953 |
| Genres | Alternative rock, Jangle pop, Psych folk |
| Occupations | Musician, actor |
| Instruments | Guitar, piano |
| Associated acts | Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians The Venus 3 I Was A King |
| Website | http://robynhitchcock.com |
Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar.
Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with The Soft Boys, Hitchcock afterward launched a prolific solo career. Hitchcock's musical and lyrical styles have been influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Syd Barrett. Hitchcock's lyrics tend to include surrealism, comedic elements, characterisations of English eccentrics, and melancholy depictions of everyday life.
He was signed to two major American labels (A&M Records, then Warner Brothers) over the course of the 1980s and '90s, but mainstream success has been limited. Still, he has maintained a loyal cult following and has often earned strong critical reviews over a steady stream of album releases and live performances.
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Biography
Early life and recording career
Born Robyn Hitchcock in London, England and educated at Winchester College,[1] he began his recording career in 1976 with the Cambridge-based punk/New Wave band The Soft Boys, a local group with an interest in the odd concept of 'psychedelic punk'. After the group broke up in 1981, Hitchcock began recording as a solo artist.
1980s
Hitchcock released his solo debut, Black Snake Diamond Röle in 1981, which more or less replicated the sound of his previous band, as it featured instrumental backing by several former Soft Boys. He followed it in 1982 with the generally critically maligned Groovy Decay, a record which he would ultimately disown.[2] Following his solo acoustic album I Often Dream Of Trains in 1984, he formed a new band, The Egyptians, comprising former members of The Soft Boys (Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor, supplemented at first by early keyboardist Roger Jackson), resulting in their 1985 debut Fegmania!, which featured typically surrealist Hitchcock songs such as "My Wife and My Dead Wife" and "The Man with the Lightbulb Head". (A live album, Gotta Let This Hen Out!, was released at the end of that year.) Their popularity grew with the 1986 album Element of Light and they were subsequently signed to A&M Records in the U.S. The album Globe of Frogs, released in 1988, further expanded their reach, as the single "Balloon Man" became a college radio and MTV hit, followed in 1989 by "Madonna Of The Wasps" from their Queen Elvis album. In 1989 they also teamed up with Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Peter Holsapple of The dB's, playing two gigs as Nigel and the Crosses, mostly covers.[3][4] The Crosses also had their cover of "Wild Mountain Thyme" included on a Byrds tribute album, though Hitchcock always alluded to the Bryan Ferry version when performing it live with the Egyptians.[5]
1990s
At the beginning of the decade, Hitchcock took a break from the Egyptians and A&M Records to release another solo acoustic album, Eye, then resumed with the band's Perspex Island release in 1991. 1993's Respect, influenced a great deal by his father's death,[6] marked the last Egyptians release and the end of his association with A&M Records. Early in 1994, after disbanding the Egyptians, he embarked on a short reunion tour with The Soft Boys. His work received a slight boost in 1995 when his back catalogue (including both solo releases and Egyptians albums) were re-packaged and re-issued in the United States by the respected Rhino Records label. For the rest of the decade he continued recording and performing as a solo artist, releasing several albums on Warner Brothers Records, such as 1996's Moss Elixir (which featured the contributions of violinist Deni Bonet and guitarist Tim Keegan), and the soundtrack from the Jonathan Demme-directed concert film Storefront Hitchcock in 1998. The 1999 release Jewels for Sophia, also on Warner, featured cameos from Southern California-based musicians Jon Brion and Grant-Lee Phillips, both of whom often shared the stage with Hitchcock when he played Los Angeles nightclub Largo. An album of outtakes from the Sophia sessions called A Star For Bram, released on Hitchcock's own label, followed, and his subsequent albums appeared on a variety of independent labels.
2000s
In 2001, Hitchcock reunited and toured with Kimberley Rew, bassist Matthew Seligman, and Morris Windsor for the Soft Boys' re-release of their best-known album, 1980's Underwater Moonlight. The following year they recorded and released a new album, Nextdoorland, which was accompanied by a short album of outtakes, Side Three. The reunion proved to be short-lived, although they did re-form again in 2006 to perform a live concert of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd covers in London, benefiting Médecins Sans Frontières.
During a short tour with Grant-Lee Phillips of Grant Lee Buffalo, Hitchcock co-produced and co-starred in a concert film of the tour shot in Seattle titled Elixirs & Remedies.
The 2002 double album Robyn Sings comprised cover versions of Bob Dylan songs, including a live re-creation (performed in 1996) of Dylan's so-called Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1966 concert. Hitchcock celebrated his 50th birthday in 2003 with a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London at which his then-new solo acoustic album Luxor was given away as a gift to all those attending, and an original poem of his was read by actor Alan Rickman.[7] He continued collaborating with a series of different musicians, as on the album Spooked, which was recorded with country/folk duo (and longtime Hitchcock fans) Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. In 2006 Olé! Tarantula was released with The Venus 3, a band which consisted of longtime friends and collaborators R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Young Fresh Fellows' frontman Scott McCaughey, as well as Ministry's Bill Rieflin (by then also R.E.M.'s full-time drummer). The song "'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)" was written with Andy Partridge of XTC.
In 2007, he was the subject of a documentary Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects directed by John Edginton,[8] shown on the U.S. Sundance Channel and in the UK on BBC Four (and later released on DVD). "Food, sex and death are all corridors to life if you like. You need sex to get you here, you need food to keep you here and you need death to get you out and they’re the entry and exit signs."
The filmmaker eavesdrops on Hitchcock at work on his latest collection of songs with contributors including Nick Lowe, former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, Peter Buck and Gillian Welch. The film culminates with Hitchcock and the band taking the songs on the road in America. A live EP with The Venus 3, Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas, was released in conjunction with the documentary. The film also includes candid interviews with Hitchcock, who reveals much about the source of his work: "At heart I'm a frightened angry person. That's probably why my stuff isn’t totally insubstantial. I'm constantly, deep down inside, in a kind of rage."
Late in 2007, Hitchcock's music was again re-packaged and re-released in the U.S., as Yep Roc Records began an extensive reissue campaign with three early solo releases and a double-CD compilation of rarities, which would be available separately or as part of a new boxed set release, I Wanna Go Backwards.[9]
In 2008, that boxed set was followed up with Luminous Groove, a boxed set of three early Egyptians releases and two further discs of rarities. In 2009, the electro-pop artist and remixer Pocket released an EP featuring Hitchcock called "Surround Him With Love", while Hitchcock released an entirely separate new album, Goodnight Oslo, with the Venus 3. At the end of the year, a live album called I Often Dream Of Trains In New York documented the late-2008 onstage re-creation of his acclaimed 1984 acoustic album (a limited-edition deluxe version also included the materials to construct a kind of moving-image generator called a phenokistoscope).
2010s
Concurrent with the redesign of his official website in early 2010, Hitchcock began to offer an occasional series of "Phantom 45s" as downloads, each "45" being two newly-recorded songs that would initially be offered as a free download. He also released the Propellor Time album, containing new material partially based on the "Sex, Food, Death" sessions shown in the 2007 documentary, but mainly featuring the Venus 3. In 2011, he released Tromsø, Kaptein, an album of songs written in Norway, and released physically only in that country. Robyn was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform "I Often Dream Of Trains" at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, to be curated by Mangum in March 2012 in Minehead, England.[10]
Interests
Additionally, Hitchcock has an interest in acting, literature and art. He writes short stories, paints (often in a whimsical, surrealist style) and draws in the cartoon-strip mode. Many of Hitchcock's album covers bear his paintings or drawings, and his albums' liner notes sometimes include a printed short story. His live concerts usually include a considerable amount of story-telling, in the form of imaginative and surreal ad-libbed monologues in his lyrical style.
Hitchcock collaborated with director Jonathan Demme in 1998 for a live concert and film Storefront Hitchcock, and later appeared in Demme's 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate, in which he played double agent Laurent Tokar. He also appeared in Demme's Rachel Getting Married in 2008, singing and playing guitar in the wedding-party band.
In September 2008 Hitchcock joined the Disko Bay Cape Farewell expedition to the West Coast of Greenland. Cape Farewell is a UK based arts organisation that brings artists, scientists and communicators together to instigate a cultural response to climate change. Other voyagers on the trip included musicians Jarvis Cocker, KT Tunstall and Martha Wainwright.
Personal
Robyn is the son of novelist Raymond Hitchcock and the brother of artist Lal Hitchcock. He is not related to Alfred Hitchcock.
Album discography
Releases marked "with the Egyptians" are credited on the album as by "Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians". Similarly, releases marked "with the Venus 3" are credited on the album as by "Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3". Others are credited as solo albums, although they may contain some group recordings.
Original studio albums
- Black Snake Diamond Röle, 1981
- Groovy Decay, 1982
- I Often Dream of Trains, 1984
- Fegmania!, 1985 (with the Egyptians)
- Element of Light, 1986 (with the Egyptians)
- Globe of Frogs, 1988 (with the Egyptians)
- Queen Elvis, 1989 (with the Egyptians)
- Eye, 1990
- Perspex Island, 1991 (with the Egyptians)
- Respect, 1993 (with the Egyptians)
- Moss Elixir, 1996
- Jewels for Sophia, 1999
- Luxor, 2003
- Spooked, 2004
- Olé! Tarantula, 2006 (with the Venus 3)
- Goodnight Oslo, 2009 (with the Venus 3)
- Propellor Time, 2010 (with the Venus 3)
- Tromsø, Kaptein, 2011
Compilations of rarities, demos, alternate takes and out-takes
- Groovy Decoy (A re-worked version of Groovy Decay, featuring demo versions of many of that album's songs), 1985
- Invisible Hitchcock (Outtakes and rarities, 1980–1986), 1986
- Gravy Deco (A compilation of the Groovy Decay and Groovy Decoy sessions), 1995
- You & Oblivion (Outtakes and rarities, 1981–1987), 1995
- Mossy Liquor ("Outtakes and prototypes" from Moss Elixir), 1996
- A Star for Bram (Outtakes from Jewels for Sophia), 2000
- Obliteration Pie (Japan-only collection of live tracks, rarities, and new studio re-recordings), 2005
- I Wanna Go Backwards (Boxed set of reissues and rarities), 2007
- Shadow Cat (Outtakes and rarities, 1993–1999), 2008
- Luminous Groove (Boxed set of reissues and rarities), 2008
Live albums
- Gotta Let This Hen Out!, 1985 (with the Egyptians)
- Give It To The Thoth Boys - Live Oddities, 1993 (Cassette only release sold on tour 1993) (with the Egyptians)
- The Kershaw Sessions, 1994 (with the Egyptians)
- Storefront Hitchcock, 1998
- Storefront Hitchcock L.P., 1998
- Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival, 1998 (with the Egyptians)
- Robyn Sings, 2002 (Double live album of Bob Dylan cover songs)
- This is the BBC, 2006
- Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas (Live EP), 2007
- I Often Dream of Trains in New York, (CD+DVD), 2009
Best-of compilations
- Robyn Hitchcock, 1995
- Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians: Greatest Hits, 1996 (with the Egyptians)
- Uncorrected Personality Traits (Rhino Records best-of compilation of solo material), 1997
Compilation appearances
- Time Between - A Tribute to The Byrds (Imaginary Records), 1989
- Pave The Earth (A&M Records), 1990
- More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album (Birdman Records), 1999
- Ernie: Songs of Ernest Noyes Brookings (Gadfly Records), 2001
- Listen To What The Man Said – Popular Artists Pay Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney (Oglio Records), 2001
- Wig in a Box (Off Records), 2003
- Terry Edwards Presents Queer Street (Sartorial Records), 2004
- I Want You (She's So Heavy) – Abbey Road Now! (Mojo Magazine Free CD), Oct 2009
- Dark Globe – The Madcap Laughs Again! (Mojo Magazine Free CD), Mar 2010
References
- ^ Winchester College Register 1992, page 526
- ^ The Rough Guide to Rock, Peter Buckley, 2003
- ^ "R.E.M. side-projects". Remchronicle.com. http://www.remchronicle.com/side-projects.php?name=Nigel%20and%20the%20Crosses. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ^ "Robert Loerzel interviews Hitchcock". Murmurs.com. http://www.murmurs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86121. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ^ (video) live performance Wild Mountain Thyme @5:20[dead link]
- ^ RollingStone.com, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians: Respect Review, 1993.
- ^ The Museum of Robyn Hitchcock (Official Site)[dead link]
- ^ Otmoor Productions – Welcome – Robyn Hitchcock – Syd Barrett story[dead link]
- ^ Pitchfork Media, Robyn Hitchcock: I Wanna Go Backwards Review, 2007.[dead link]
- ^ "ATP curated by Jeff Mangum". Atpfestival.com. http://www.atpfestival.com/events/jeffmangum.php. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
Further reading
- "Robyn Hitchcock: I wanna go Backwards" — an article at Crawdaddy!.
- "The Barrett/Hitchcock Connection" — an article at Perfect Sound Forever.
- Interview with Robyn Hitchcock with Andy Carvin in 1993.
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- The Museum of Robyn Hitchcock (official site)
- The Asking Tree: Robyn Hitchcock Discography and Gigography Database
- Otmoor Productions Documentary Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death... and Insects
- fegMANIA! – Robyn Hitchcock news and information listserv
- The Glass Hotel – comprehensive site including "Glass Flesh" tribute project
- Robyn Hitchcock collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
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