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Robyn Hitchcock
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival,
6 October 2012
Background information
Birth nameRobyn Rowan Hitchcock
Born (1953-03-03) 3 March 1953 (age 71)
Paddington, London, England
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician, actor
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • piano
  • harmonica
  • bass
Labels
Website 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. After leading the Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing the influential Underwater Moonlight , in June 1980, [1] Hitchcock launched a prolific solo career.

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Hitchcock's earliest lyrics mined a rich vein of English surrealist comic tradition and tended to depict a particular type of eccentric and sardonic English worldview. His music and performance style was influenced by Bob Dylan, and by the English folk music revival of the 1960s and early 1970s. This was soon filtered through a then-unfashionable psychedelic rock lens during the punk rock and new wave music eras of the late 1970s and early 1980s. [2] This combination of musical styles won Hitchcock's band of the time, The Soft Boys, an enthusiastic if small fanbase. However, the Soft Boys' final album together, Underwater Moonlight, posthumously earned them a glowing reputation (particularly in America) as a major influence on bands like R.E.M.

After finding a measure of success in the latter 1980s in America, Hitchcock's lyrical and musical horizons broadened further to encompass a range of approaches while still retaining a recognisably surreal, but more serious, signature style. He has recorded for two major American labels (A&M Records, then Warner Bros.) over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, and was the subject of a live performance/documentary film ( Storefront Hitchcock ) by major motion picture director Jonathan Demme in 1998. Since the turn of the millennium he has also finally received belated critical recognition in his home country. Despite this, mainstream success remains limited. He continues to tour and record prolifically and has earned strong critical reviews over a steady stream of album releases and live performances, and a dedicated "cult following" [3] for his unique body of work.

Career

The Soft Boys to the Egyptians (1972–1993)

While at art school in London around 1972, Hitchcock was a member of the college band the Beetles. [4] [5] In 1974, he moved to Cambridge, where he did some busking, and joined a series of local bands: B.B. Blackberry and the Swelterettes, the Worst Fears, and Maureen and the Meatpackers. [6] His next group, Dennis and the Experts, became the neo-psychedelia band The Soft Boys in 1976, recording their first EP, "Give It to the Soft Boys", at Spaceward studios, Cambridge, in 1977. [7] [8] After recording A Can of Bees (1979) and Underwater Moonlight (1980), the latter of which was described in Rolling Stone as a "classic" and influential on bands such as R.E.M. and The Replacements, [1] the group broke up in 1981. [9]

In 1981, Hitchcock released his solo debut, Black Snake Diamond Röle , which included instrumental backing by several former Soft Boys. [9] He followed it in 1982 with the generally critically maligned Groovy Decay . [10] 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". [9] (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. [9] The album Globe of Frogs , released in 1988, further expanded their reach, as the single "Balloon Man" became a college radio and MTV hit, [9] 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. [11] [12]

At the beginning of 1990, 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. [9] 1993's Respect , influenced a great deal by his father's death, [13] marked the last Egyptians release and the end of his association with A&M Records.

Reunions and solo career, 1994–2006

Early in 1994, after disbanding the Egyptians, Hitchcock 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), [14] and the soundtrack from the Jonathan Demme-directed concert film Storefront Hitchcock in 1998. [15] 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 followed, released on Hitchcock's own label. [16]

In 2000, the Italian music writer Luca Ferrari released a long interview with Hitchcock, A Middle Class Hero (Stampa Alternativa), in the form of a 96-page booklet in English and Italian accompanying a three-song CD of unreleased tracks. [17]

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. [18] [19] The following year they recorded and released a new album, Nextdoorland, accompanied by a short album of outtakes, Side Three. [20] The reunion was short-lived.

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. [21] 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. [22]

The Venus 3 to present

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Hitchcock at Coolidge Corner Theatre in 2010

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, [23] 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.; 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 . [24] 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 phenakistoscope). In 2009, he contributed to The Decemberists' concept album The Hazards of Love , performing the short instrumental solo "An Interlude." Also in 2009, Hitchcock provided the score for the film Women in Trouble, a feminist/exploitation "chick flick".

Concurrent with the redesign of his official website in early 2010, Hitchcock began to offer a 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. Hitchcock 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. [25] The album Love From London (working title: File Under Pop) was released on Yep Roc Records on 5 March 2013. The label also released his subsequent record, The Man Upstairs , on 26 August 2014. April 2015 saw Hitchcock team up with Emma Swift to release a limited Record Store Day 7" single "Follow Your Money", backed with a stripped back cover of Neil Young's "Motion Pictures." [26] The pair subsequently toured, releasing another 7" single double A side with the songs "Love Is A Drag" and "Life Is Change", produced by Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake. [27] In 2017, he released his eponymous album Robyn Hitchcock . [28] Working with Brendan Benson as co-producer, the album saw a return to a full band sound after his previous release, with guest appearances from Gillian Welch and Emma Swift.

Hitchcock wrote the song "Sunday Never Comes" for the 2018 film Juliet, Naked , which was sung in the movie by Ethan Hawke's character, an aging, reclusive musician. [29] He later released a companion video of his own version of the song. [30]

Hitchcock backed by Yo La Tengo in 2019 at Huichica Walla Walla, Washington Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo.jpg
Hitchcock backed by Yo La Tengo in 2019 at Huichica Walla Walla, Washington

In September 2019, Hitchcock collaborated with XTC frontman Andy Partridge on a four-song EP Planet England , co-writing the songs and both singing. [31] [30] In 2020, he released The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities , an album of outtakes recorded in 2013 as demos for The Man Upstairs. [32] [33] He also appeared on Emma Swift's album of Bob Dylan covers, Blonde on the Tracks , recorded between 2017 and 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee and produced by Wilco's Pat Sansone. [34]

Personal life

Hitchcock was born in Paddington in West London, son of novelist Raymond Hitchcock (writer of Percy ). [35] He grew up in the small village of Abbots Worthy, Hampshire, near Winchester. [36] He was educated at Winchester College, [37] where he was a "groovy and alternative" friend of Julia Darling, daughter of a physics teacher at the college; his song "Underground Sun" is about her. [38] While at Winchester College, he is introduced to Aldous Huxley's autobiographical tale of drug use, The Doors of Perception , [39] and to the music of Bob Dylan, [40] The Beach Boys, [41] The Beatles, [42] Jimi Hendrix, [43] and Pink Floyd. [44] Even though he objected to worship, [45] he joined in singing a "cornucopia of tunes" of Church of England hymns including "Eternal Father, Strong to Save", "Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer", and "Jerusalem", which he describes as "fabulous, permanent songs". [45] After leaving Winchester in 1972, he went to art school in London. [4]

He 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 appeared in Demme's Rachel Getting Married in 2008, singing and playing guitar in the wedding-party band. [46] In September 2008, he 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. [47] In August 2015, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee. [48] He lives in East Nashville with his wife [49] Emma Swift and their cats. [50] He had a daughter, Maisie, from a previous relationship; [51] she died in 2023 of peritoneal cancer. [52]

In his 2024 memoir 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, Hitchcock stated "I am [as a boy] what would in the twenty-first century be called 'on the spectrum': it turns out that I have most of the symptoms of Asperger's, at the high-functioning end of autism." [53]

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Compilations

Live albums

Best-of compilations

Compilation appearances

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