Robyn Hitchcock / Saturday Live, BBC Radio One September 1984

Robyn Hitchcock
Saturday Live
BBC Radio One
September 15, 1984
(or possibly September 1, 1984)

01 Andy Batten-Foster - Intro
02 Robyn Hitchcock - Sometimes I Wish I Was Pretty Girl
03 Robyn Hitchcock - Flavour Of Night
04 Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Batten-Foster - Talk
05 Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
06 Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Batten-Foster - Interview
07 Robyn Hitchcock - Ye Sleeping Knights Of Jesus

Okay, Voodoo Gang!  Are you still hungry for some more Hitchcock?  Well, here's the dessert course.  It's short, but sweet.

This is another tape I got in trade back in the 1980s.  As the recording had to make it from England to California, there are several generations along the way.  There's some hiss, but not too much.

There's a version of this up at Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/robynhitchcock1984-09-01 ) and it's FAR WORSE than my copy.  That one is jam-packed with hiss, you'll find my copy far more delicious. 

My cassette had this listed as "Saturday Club." I try to check everything before I post. Misinformation accretes to circulating shows like barnacles to a boat on the way to the ice wall that surrounds the flat Earth. Never forget: just because it's written down doesn't make it true, and if it's on the Internet...check it twice.

"Saturday Club" ran from 1957 to 1969. Both my copy and the Archives copy identify it as Saturday Club, but as that show ended in 1969, that can't be right.  In the notes to the Archives.org version, a comment identifies this as "Saturday Live" and the host is Andy Batten-Foster. Can anyone confirm that this was really Mr. Batten-Foster?  

The Archives version dates the show as the 1st, while my cassette says the 15th.  Both days are Saturday.  The Hitchcock Gigography has BBC shows listed on both days, with no set list for the 1st and a set list matching mine on the 15th. 

It's possible the show was recorded on the 1st and broadcast on the 15th, but that's a guess, not a fact...so I'm posting this with both dates.

https://mega.nz/file/rJQAHLZS#q5ZEz_MCZoM6m59S0jtwDqck2J--7sctCyuUoKxnmZA

Robyn Hitchcock / First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, April 11, 1988

 Robyn Hitchcock
& the Egyptians
with Peter Buck
First Avenue Club
Minneapolis, MN
April 11, 1988

01 Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn talks
02 Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
03 Robyn Hitchcock - The Cars She Used To Drive
04 Robyn Hitchcock - Bass
05 Robyn Hitchcock - Another Bubble
06 Robyn Hitchcock - Unsettled
07 Robyn Hitchcock - I'm Only You
08 Robyn Hitchcock - Tropical Flesh Mandala
09 Robyn Hitchcock - Winchester
10 Robyn Hitchcock - Birdshead
11 Robyn Hitchcock - Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)
12 Robyn Hitchcock - Chinese Bones (tape flip at end)
13 Robyn Hitchcock - Balloon Man
14 Robyn Hitchcock - Queen of Eyes
15 Robyn Hitchcock - A Globe of Frogs
16 Robyn Hitchcock - crowd noise 2 minutes
17 Robyn Hitchcock - I Got A Message To You 
18 Robyn Hitchcock - Uncorrected Personality Traits
19 Robyn Hitchcock - Listening To The Higsons
20 Robyn Hitchcock - crowd noise two minutes
21 Robyn Hitchcock - The Man With The Lightbulb Head
22 Robyn Hitchcock - Heaven
23 Robyn Hitchcock - Eight Days A Week
24 Robyn Hitchcock - If You Were A Priest

While I had this marked as "FM," there are no announcers or station breaks.  The two long bits of low volume crowd noise would be "dead air" to a radio station and an announcer would have come on to keep the audience from switching channels, so I am 99% sure this was a soundboard

I found a version posted at Archive.org.  Their version had a tape flip at the end of "Chinese Bones"...which matches the tape flip on my copy, so they're from the same original source.  
Mine is NOT the same provenance, however.  I got this in trade over thirty years ago.  The Archive version ends after "I Got A Message To You."  My cassette continues for another twenty-three minutes, with six more songs.

Both their version and mine have some hiss and static here and there, but not so much that you won't enjoy this.

This is the main course, there will be a Robyn Hitchcock dessert served later on today.

https://mega.nz/file/zQ4m0AbJ#K-W83Iis1j651drzKzQ0sNsjJ1etqZjkVseghOytTwo

Robyn Hitchcock / Revolver Records, San Francisco, CA 1986

Robyn Hitchcock

Revolver Records
San Francisco, CA 
1986
audience tape

01 Robyn Hitchcock - San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
02 Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London
03 Robyn Hitchcock - Ted Woody and Junior
04 Robyn Hitchcock - Book of Love
05 Robyn Hitchcock - We Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones
06 Robyn Hitchcock - Dr. Sticky
07 Robyn Hitchcock - That's When Your Heartaches Begin

This is NOT GOOD.  It's probably recorded on a boombox, although it may as well have been some child's My First Sony.  It's got people bumping the microphone, talking, and Hitchcock sounds distant.  That said, it's not the worst thing I've ever heard and Hitchcock completists will want a copy.

I got this in trade and kept it around because I used to shop at Revolver Records.  It was a great record store (and sort-of still is, as it was bought out in the 1990s by the bookstore down the block and is still selling music, just under the name Green Apple Music).

No date...but Hitchcock played the I-Beam twice in 1986, on March 17 and November 1.

https://mega.nz/file/uVxBHAKZ#LwYkk1P-rlclOsgYvFbAAJ00wZ-p3Yq519xvk-gSSdg

Robyn Hitchcock / S.U.N.Y, Binghamton, NY - Oct. 2, 1990 - 3rd gen tape from soundboard

 Robyn Hitchcock
S.U.N.Y (State University of New York)
Binghamton, NY
October 2, 1990
soundboard, 3rd generation tape

01. Robyn Talks
02. Oceanside
03. Robyn Talks
04. Madonna Of The Wasps
05. Clean Steve
06. Robyn Talks
07. Raymond Chandler Evening
08. The Devil's Coachman
09. Wax Doll
10. Wey Wey Hep A Hole
11. Robyn Talks
12. Queen Elvis
13. Autumn Is Your Last Chance
14. Robyn Talks
15. Bass
16. Robyn Talks
17. My Wife And My Dead Wife
18. Beautiful Girl
19. Applause
20. Robyn Talks
21. I Got A Message For You
22. Chain Mary To The Bed
23. Cynthia Mask
24. Applause
25. Robyn Talks
26. Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl
27. I Often Dream Of Trains

https://mega.nz/file/qYYxBSCQ#QtdjxFRiuAX61hU9YzkyDlWtRrWeaUxr_t5bUVZ_uHo

Here's another tape I got in trade.  It's Robyn Hitchcock, solo, acoustic...just him and his guitar.  There is probably a version out there from the master cassette but I've never tracked one down. This version sounds quite good and will do while we wait for the master cassette to turn up.  

In Session @ Marc Riley - First Flush

 Someone has to do the stupid job. Recording an entire radio broadcast and cut it in pieces. Picking what's good. That's what i'm doing more than  a year ;)

Marc Riley 

 A first flush, a lot more to come

Furman, Ezra - 6 Music session 12 Nov 2019

01 Thermometer (6 Music session 12 Nov 2019)
02 Calm Down (6 Music session 12 Nov 2019)
03 Transition From Nowhere To Nowhere (6 Music session 12 Oct 2019)
04 Rated R Crusaders (6 Music session 12 Nov 2019)
05 What Can You Do But Rock N Roll (6 Music session 12 Nov 2019)

 Hawkwind - 6 Music session 14 Nov 2019

01 Last Man on Earth (6 Music session 14 Nov 2019)
02 65 Million Years Ago - In the Beginning (6 Music session 14 Nov 2019)
03 Spirit of the Age (6 Music session 14 Nov 2019)
04 Silver Machine (6 Music Session 14 November 2019)

Bonus: Silver Machine (Paris Theatre, 28 Sep 1972)

Hitchcock, Robyn - 6 Music session 23 Oct 2019

01 When I Was a Kid (6 Music session 23 Oct 2019)
02 Those Guys Are All Dead Now (6 Music session 23 Oct 2019)
03 Take Of Your Bandages (6 Music session 23 Oct 2019)
04 I Wanna Destroy You (6 Music session 23 Oct 2019)

Steer, Paddy - 6 Music session 7 Nov 2019

01 Lumpy Fatman (6 Music session 7 Nov 2019)
02 You Let My Tyres Down (6 Music session 6 Nov 2019)
03 Wind Factory (6 Music session 7 Nov 2019)

Warmduscher - 6 Music session 30 Oct 2019

01 Fill It Don't Spill It (6 Music session 30 Oct 2019)
02 Midnight Dipper (6 Music session 30 Oct 2019)
03 Disco Peanuts (6 Music session 30 Oct 2019)

@!!@

Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - The Triple Door, Seattle 2009

Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3
The Triple Door
Seattle, WA
March 21, 2009

Notes from source; thank you too!
Hitchcock started his musical life with The Soft Boys before embarking on a solo career. The Venus 3 are his touring band of the moment, although they also recorded together his last studio album, and consist of two Seattle-based members, Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger, guest vox for many bands, including Minus 5) on vocals, and Scott McCaughey (Minus 5) on bass, and R.E.M. bandmates Bill Rieflin (N.I.N., Ministry etc.) on drums, and Peter Buck on guitar.

01 intro/talk
02 Out Of The Picture
03 Airscape
04 talk
05 The Lizard
06 What You Is
07 Hurry For The Sky
08 N.Y. Doll
09 Viva Sea-Tac
10 Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)
11 The Authority Box
12 talk
13 Saturday Groovers
14 Madonna of the Wasps
15 Up To Our Nex
16 talk
17 Jewels for Sophia

01 The Ghost Ship (solo Robyn)
02 The Wreck of the Arthur Lee (solo Robyn)
03 Creeped Out
04 talk
05 I'm Falling
06 talk
07 Goodnight Oslo
320kbps of ghost ship mp3 http://rapidshare.com/files/287762215/Rohi3.rar