Robyn Hitchcock
23 articles
Audio interviews
The RBP Album Club on the Incredible String Band (2013)
Interview by uncredited writer, Rock's Backpages audio, 9 May 2013
Robyn Hitchcock and Scritti's Green Gartside, aided by ringmaster Mark Ellen, discuss and play excerpts from the Incredible String Band's The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. Recorded in 2013 at the RBP Album Club at the Idler Academy in London.
File format: mp3; file size: 79.9mb, interview length: 1h 27' 15" sound quality: ****
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Robyn Hitchcock: Black Snake Diamond Role (Armageddon)
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 5 September 1981
THOSE OF us who never could see all that much of worth in Syd Barrett's music, either solo or with that group he used to ...
Robyn Hitchcock: Groovy Decay (Albion)
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 17 April 1982
WITH THIS new label and second album Robyn Hitchcock looks to be attempting a runner from the substitute Syd Barrett image previously imposed on him ...
Robyn Hitchcock: Phantom of Psychedelia
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
RICHARD COOK follows the Robyn Hitchcock guide to transport — physical, mechanical, mental and musical. ...
The Rain Parade, Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians: Clarendon, London
Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 1 June 1985
SOAK IT UP! ...
Robyn Hitchcock: God Walks Among Us
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, March 1986
IN HIS OWN WORDS, some people expect Robyn Hitchcock to be "a kind of exotic species of plant" or a "wigged-out acid casualty" in the ...
Robyn Hitchcock's Colossal Mutations
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, International Musician & Recording World, July 1986
WHAT DO you get when you cross nursery crimes, rump-bumping beats, hooky melodies that are bittersweet as a bite of watermelon pickle, and batty lyrics ...
One Night in November with Robyn Hitchcock
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, March 1987
AT SCHOOLKIDS Records in Ann Arbor, Bill Holdship, Robyn Hitchcock and myself are looking through the records. It's the evening of the day the Bruce ...
Interview by Deborah Frost, Guitar World, July 1987
LIKE LOU Reed, Bob Dylan and John Lennon, to whom he has been compared, Robyn Hitchcock's lyrics are so brilliant they tend to obscure everything ...
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Hackney Empire, London
Live Review by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 27 February 1988
THE ODD MAN OUT ...
Robyn Hitchcock: Globe of Frogs (A&M)
Review by Jon Young, Musician, March 1988
EXALTED BY an adoring audience, rock 'n' roll cult figures frequently turn amusing quirks into annoying affectations. Happily, this isn't the case with Robyn Hitchcock, ...
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Globe of Frogs (A&M)
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 10 March 1988
"SURREAL," "WHIMSICAL" and "psychedelic" are the standard adjectives that are applied to Robyn Hitchcock's oeuvre, but with his brilliant new album, Globe of Frogs, you ...
Start Making Sense: Robyn Hitchcock finds a method to his madness
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Details, December 1991
A SHARP-dressed man, Robyn Hitchcock never leaves home without his American Express card. But, true to his station as a legendary alternative-rock guru, Hitchcock's plastic ...
Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, October 1992
PRODUCER PAUL Fox came up as a keyboard player in the skinny-tie era. "When I first moved to L.A., there was a big banner on ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1993
IF THERE WERE any justice in the world, Robyn Hitchcock would be an English cult hero. But it's the very English middle-class-ness of the man ...
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians: Respect (A&M) ***½
Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 15 April 1993
ALTHOUGH HE'S gussied them up in images of frogs, fish, food and whatnot, Robyn Hitchcock's obsessions have always been basic and Freudian: sex and death. ...
Robyn Hitchcock Rocks Groovily On
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, B-Side, 1995
ROBYN HITCHCOCK is confused. At least, he's as confused as anyone who's been told they'll be called by a writer in America, with all the ...
The Soft Boys: The Three Kings, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2001
THE ONE-TIME freaks are out tonight, suited and booted for this biz-only reintroduction to Robyn Hitchcock's reconstituted Soft Boys, in the tucked-away, locked-up Clerkenwell pub ...
Just who the hell is Robyn Hitchcock, anyway?
Interview by Jim Yoakum, unpublished, 2004
FUNNYMAN? Serious Artist? Ironic? Fey? Wry? Ask the average punter "Who is Robyn Hitchcock?" and you'll get a variety of replies, from "neo-psychedelic warbler" and ...
Why Is Robyn Hitchcock Better Off Without Hit Records?
Interview by Pete Paphides, The Word, December 2004
ON FIRST impression, only the birds printed all over his shirt detract from Robyn Hitchcock's professorial air. It was his idea to rendezvous in Swiss ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Paste, 1 December 2004
THE FIRST CUT on Robyn Hitchcock's new album deals with a guy stuck in a dysfunctional relationship with his TV set; it's precisely the sort ...
Robyn Hitchcock in Nowhere-Land: I Often Dream of Trains in New York
Film/DVD/TV Review by Michael Azerrad, Rock's Backpages, 14 November 2009
IT WAS FITTING that a Robyn Hitchcock DVD arrived in the mail the same week as the Monty Python documentary debuted on the IFC channel ...
Robyn Hitchcock: He Often Dreams of Packaging
Report and Interview by Larry Jaffee, MediaPack, December 2009
LIKE MANY singer-songwriters, Robyn Hitchcock needs to supplement his boundless creativity with art forms in addition to music. Not surprisingly, when he's not releasing albums ...
see also Soft Boys, The
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