(((folkYEAH!))) presents the legendary Robyn Hitchcock!
Sunday, May 18th
Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
$28 in advance / $33 day of the show
21+
ROBYN HITCHCOCK
With a career now spanning six decades, Robyn Hitchcock remains a truly one-of-a-kind artist: surrealist rock ’n’ roller, acoustic troubadour, poet, painter, and writer . From The Soft Boys’ art-rock and The Egyptians’ Dadaist pop to solo masterpieces like 1984’s milestone I Often Dream of Trains and 1990’s Eye, Hitchcock has crafted a striking oeuvre rife with recurring marine life, obsolete electric transport, ghosts, cheese and what one writer has described as “morbid eroticism.”
Robyn moved to Nashville in 2015 and gravitated to the Music City community, recording 2017’s Robyn Hitchcock with an array of local talent including co-producer Brendan Benson. In 2019, he joined forces with XTC’s Andy Partridge for the four-song EP, Planet England.
Music aside, Hitchcock has appeared in a number of films, three of them by the late Jonathan Demme: 1998’s concert documentary Storefront Hitchcock as well as roles in 2004’s The Manchurian Candidate 2008’s Rachel’s Getting Married.
Locked down in Nashville by the global pandemic of 2020, he and his partner Emma Swift began their Sweet Home Quarantine livestream series, broadcasting weekly sets with their two cats, Ringo and Tubby. They also launched their own label and press, Tiny Ghost. 2021 saw the publication of Hitchcock’s first book, Somewhere Apart: Selected Lyrics 1977-1997, featuring 73 songs and 34 illustrations in a beautiful cloth-bound edition. In 2022 his first album for Tiny Ghost SHUFFLEMANIA! was released, recorded at home during lockdown with long-distance collaborators including Johnny Marr (Manchester) Sean Ono Lennon (New York) Kimberley Rew (Cambridge) and Davey Lane (Melbourne).
June 2024 will see his second book, 1967 – How I Got There and Why I Never Left, published in the US by (?). To accompany this Tiny Ghost will release 1967 – Vacations in The Past an album of the pop hits of that year covered by Robyn on acoustic guitar with some of his friends in Cambridge and Melbourne.
Meanwhile a collection of new songs is due for release in early 2025.
“I like to keep busy,” says Hitchcock: “We have all eternity to not exist.”
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