hey, while this thread is up here, anyone have the "rout of the clones" bootleg? i have it on tape, but no way to digitize...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'll get it to you. Any other requests? You have Portland Arms, I assume? And Day They Ate Brick?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
thanks! yeah, i've got portland arms. not sure about day they ate brick, what's on that? was actually thinking about compiling the ultimate soft boys live album, since robyn doesn't seem to want to do it. but most of the stuff i have is on tape, and I slept on the just add cones website downloads ... :(
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Day They Ate Brick is the Radar demos. I'll see what my best-sounding live stuff is and get it to you. Probably not today though.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
DO IT NOWjk, really appreciate it!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
sounds interesting... The Floating Palace
Curated by renowned English eccentric Robyn Hitchcock, The Floating Palace is an intimate evening of free-wheeling musical collaboration featuring KT Tunstall, Eliza & Martin Carthy, Krystle Warren and Howe Gelb.
It's a simple concept: musicians admire each other, are a little envious of each other, and, given the chance, like to play with each other. But normally they only get the chance to do this in the studio, or after hours. For the first time before a paying audience, we present a carousel of exceptional 'roots' artists; all lit within by their passion for music, accompanying each other on songs they know and songs they've only just met.
Robyn Hitchcock is joined by award winning Scottish songstress KT Tunstall, folk legends Martin and Eliza Carthy, American singer Krystle Warren and alt country experimentalist Howe Gelb.
Make sure you don't miss this very special evening if the Floating Palace swings by your city. You can catch them live on the following dates:
05/02/2012 - Glasgow ABC1 as part of Celtic Connections 201206/02/2012 - Gateshead, The Sage08/02/2012 - London, Barbican Centre11/02/2012 - Brighton, Dome12/02/2012 - Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 January 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
In high school, my local public library had Invisible Hitchcock. It was brilliant!
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners) (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 26 January 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Fucker always does such interesting events in the UK.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 January 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
i know! was sort of disappointed that the Floating Palace wasn't, you know, actually a boat. Though I think he's already done shows on boats.
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 January 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah he did a thing where he performed on a ferry to the Isle Of Wight and then led people around his favorite places there incl. the beach which inspired "Airscape"
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 January 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
One day one of these events will be so compelling I'll simply have to get on a plane.
But I did get to see him with Joe Boyd, which was fun. He usually gets to Boston almost annually so I can't complain too much.
Gotta think he'll be quiet this year, he's been quite prolific lately.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 27 January 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
A limited list, but hey!.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 September 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
It does my heart good to see someone rate Lysander that high. The best song on Perspex Island, IMO.
you've also identified the pulsing heart of Globe of Frogs (vibrating + Chinese bones)
Interesting that you have shorted the green and gold 'indoor' albums (trains/eye). While I agree with conventional wisdom that the former is a robyn peak, I do think eye is a bit overrated, including by robyn himself.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 9 September 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
Vibraaatiiiinng
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 September 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
And in the demons hatBom.Bah bom.Bah bom.Discolored flowers grewBom.Bah bom.Bah bom.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 9 September 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
nothing off I Often Dream of Trains?
― campreverb, Saturday, 9 September 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Man, I Often Dream of Trains/Fegmania was a great period.
― timellison, Saturday, 9 September 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
When occasionally I get bitter about not having written “Boys Of Summer” I remind myself that Don Henley never wrote “Give Me A Spanner, Ralph”— Robyn Hitchcock (@RobynHitchcock) January 6, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
I daresay it's time for a new odds and sods comp of 2000s outtakes.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 7 January 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
hear hear!nice recording of robyn's recent dylan celebration here: https://archive.org/details/rhitchcock2018-12-27.flac16
― tylerw, Monday, 7 January 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
Oh man I really hope Robyn covers boys of summer
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 January 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link