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Robyn Hitchcock celebrates Bob Dylan’s birthday
The Basement
Sydney, NSW, Australia
2014-05-23
Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
Live at the Basement
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a wobbegong recording
opening set by Brendan Gallagher (not recorded)
01.This Wheel’s On Fire
02.banter
03.Lo And Behold!
04.banter
05.Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
06.Million Dollar Bash
07.banter
08.Too Much Of Nothing
09.banter
10.Tears Of Rage
11.Robyn invites Jenny Shimmin
12.Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) *
13.Robyn invites Brendan Gallagher
14.Please, Mrs. Henry * #
15.banter
16.Nothing Was Delivered #
17.Robyn invites Emma Swift
18.Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread > Tiny Montgomery # %
19.I Shall Be Released # % (Emma Swift lead vocals)
20.banter
21.Open the Door, Homer * # %
22.banter
23.You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere * # %
24.audience
encore
25.banter
26.Clothes Line Saga
27.banter
28.Not Dark Yet
Robyn Hitchcock – acoustic guitar, vocals
* Jenny Shimmin – banjo
# Brendan Gallagher – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
% Emma Swift – acoustic guitar, lead and backing vocals
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Event Details
Robyn Hitchcock describes his songs as ìpaintings you can listen toî. The eclectic English born singer- songwriter is temporarily relocating to Australia, neatly avoiding the ferocious English summer, in pursuit of the two passions in his life ñ painting and songwritingÖ so we asked him if he would be so kind as to play some shows while he was here.
Bob Dylan’s Birthday
In 2002 Robyn Hitchcock released ‘Robyn Sings’, an album comprised entirely of Bob Dylan songs. All Music has this to say of the album – “Without sounding sacrilegious, Hitchcock’s voice is more pleasing than Dylan’s and his acoustic guitar playing is also better, making his versions, much like the Byrds’ and Jimi Hendrix’s before him, arguably superior to the Dylantakes.”
To celebrate Bob’s 73rd birthday ‘Robyn sings Dylan’ will be performed at The Basement Sydney on Friday May 23 and at The Flying Saucer Club Melbourne on Friday May 30th .
Robyn is anticipating a few musical friends dropping by for these special shows so why not make it an imperative to join them.
Robyn Hitchcock
Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Robyn has played with many respected musicians including John Paul Jones, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, Peter Buck & Mike Mills, Nick Lowe, Abigail Washburn, Alejandro Escovedo, Martin & Liza Carthy, Howe Gelb, Krystle Warren, Graham Coxon and Johnny Marr.
Robyn has released numerous albums featuring such songs as ‘Where Are The Prawns’, ‘I Wanna Destroy You’, ‘The Cheese Alarm’, ‘The Man With the Lightbulb Head’, ‘My Wife and My Dead Wife’, ‘Raymond Chandler Evening’, ‘Globe of Frogs’ , ‘To Be Human’, ‘Where Do You Go When You Die’, ‘Madonna Of The Wasps’ and recently a lament for the Arctic polar thaw ‘There Goes The Ice’, recorded with KT Tunstall, with whom, alongside Martha Wainright and Jarvis Cocker, he was on a Cape Farewell environmental expedition to Greenland in 2008.
Robyn 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.
Robyn’s has influenced a diverse range of musicians including R.E.M, Apples In Stereo, The Decemberists, Grant Lee Phillips, The Replacements and Amanda Palmer.
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ROBYN HITCHCOCK
Bob Dylanís Basement Tapes
Live at the Basement
Fresh from two secret guest appearances at the Melbourne Caravan Club 4-day ëBobfestí Robyn Hitchcock announces he will be performing for one show only Bob Dylanís Basement Tapes at the most appropriate venue in Australia ñ Sydneyís Basement.
Recorded with The Band at Woodstockís ëBig Pinkí house, the Basement Tapes are part of rock and roll history. With Dylan recovering from a career changing motorcycle accident he and The Band got together initially play covers for the sheer fun of it. Eventually though Dylan began to introduce new works to the mix, many of which (including “I Shall Be Released”, “This Wheel’s on Fire”, “Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)”, “Tears of Rage” and “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”) would become Dylan standards.
Adding to the legend of these recordings Dylan decided rather than release them himself, he would provide the songs to other musicians, inviting them to record their own versions. To this end a white label disc featuring 14 of the new songs was pressed up and circulated to friends and other musicians.
Recordings of the songs by artists such as Peter, Paul & Mary, The Byrds, Ian & Sylvia, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger, Manfred Mann, Fairport convention and The Band started racing up the charts and appearing on albums leading and the interest in the original Dylan recordings led to the release of rockís first bootleg album, The Great White Wonder.
Eventually in 1975 Dylan consented to the release of 16 of the recording on Bob Dylan and the Band album ëThe Basement Tapesí immediately being proclaimed by the New York Times as ìone of the greatest albums in the history of American popular musicî.
The legend never finished there though with more than 5 hours of recordings appearing unofficially over the years and an entire book was written about the sessions (Greil Marcus ëinvisible Republic/ The Old Weird Americaí). The direction of rock music itself was changed as a result of The Basement Tapes. Bob Dylan delved further into his roots history with ëJohn Wesley Hardingí, The Band recorded the seminal ëMusic From Big Pinkí, the Beatles abandoned studio gimmickry for the back to basics ëLet It Beí and The Byrds with Gram Parsons sent America in the direction of country rock.
On Friday May 23rd Robyn Hitchcock will perform the major new works written and recorded by Bob Dylan during those memorable sessions.
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Fine people of New South Wales, tonight Iíll be joining the superlative Robyn Hitchcock for a performance of Bob Dylanís The Basement Tapes at The Basement Sydney. It will be a hoot. The lovely Jenny Shimmin from Oh Willy Dear will also be bringing her banjo magic. Itís going to be a night of great songs, lovely harmonies and excessive polka dots.
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