Fegmaniax Digest Volume 3 Number 10 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Furs tune/another Q "American" accents Accents Amherst show Furs tune/another Q Intro...and a question.... Question for Robyn... Robyn and Beatle covers Robyn touring Robyn touring??? accent acoustic fur old interviews robyn in new haven robyn's accent tour virtual interview, irc [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 19:18:57 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Assa To: Mitchell R Dickerman Cc: Fegmaniax Subject: Re: Question for Robyn... Reply-To: Gary Assa What is this about a Robyn Tour??? How's about dates? --------------------------------------------------- 1. Earth is 98% full. Please delete anyone you can. 2. I came, I saw, I deleted all your files. 3. The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out. [][][][][][][][][][] From: mikester@bix.com Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 19:25:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: robyn's accent To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: mikester@bix.com >there's others who don't have much of an accent to start off with. >I'd say Robyn belonged to that category I'd say Robyn's accent comes out naturally, unforced. Now, me, OTHO, I've been told I have a "wicked Boston accent," but on the tribute version we did of "Destroy You," there's a couple of spots where I go, "I........... wanna destroy yew!!!" automaticaly, from hearing Robyn sing it on UM umpteenhundred times. ---Mike ----------------------- "People ask me why I'm obsessed with fish, but it's not true. They're just there." ---Robyn Hitchcock, 3/25/88 ----------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 19:47:45 -0500 From: father bungholio To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: tour Reply-To: father bungholio Gary Assa sez: >What is this about a Robyn Tour??? How's about dates? at this point, it seems to be in the booking stage - no official announcement of dates has been made by anyone that i'm aware of. all i know of is a confirmed date at amherst college on april 9th (i was told this by the guy who booked the show) and a show of uncertain date at toad's place in new haven. woj [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 16:44:39 PST From: lroberts@bellahs.com (Laurence Roberts RD) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: "American" accents Reply-To: lroberts@bellahs.com (Laurence Roberts RD) At last year's show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Robyn did a monologue in an American accent. He was mimicking some actor in particular -- I can't remember now, but perhaps it was Marlon Brando, or was it Jack Nicholson? I found it quite amusing. Larry-bob lroberts@bellahs.com [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 14:19:19 +1300 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Accents Reply-To: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Some people lose their accents when they sing, others increase them. With me, I sound vaguely NZ/English when I speak or sing quietly, when I sing loud I sound like Billy Bragg's next door neighbour. I think it all depends what sort of accent you have to start with, and what sort of singing voice you have. The Beatles still had enough accent when singing to rhyme "aware" with "her" when singing I've Just Seen a Face. But with American music so all-pervasive it's hard not to slip and have words like Chance and Dance rhyming with pants. It's an odd conversation to listen to as an immigrant to NZ, which has yet another accent - one that everyone overseas thinks is Australian :( James Dignan, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk St., St. Clair, Dunedin, New Zealand pixelphone james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz / steam megaphone NZ 03-455-7807 * You talk to me as if from a distance * and I reply with impressions chosen from another time, time, time, * from another time (Brian Eno) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 21:04:17 -0500 From: am497@freenet.buffalo.edu (Michael J. Swedene) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Robyn and Beatle covers Reply-To: am497@freenet.buffalo.edu (Michael J. Swedene) Hello. I was just curious as to what Beatles songs Robyn has covered in his career. I know he has done RAIN, And EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, as well as A DAY IN THE LIFE, BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN. It would be interesting to get these down on a tape all alone, IMHO. A song he should cover by the BEATLES that would be kooky enough for him would be I AM THE WALRUS, or even EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE... Just a thought :) The Man Who Invented himself, -HERBIE <:) -- I'm Looking for NIRVANA Bootlegs, Hitchcock too. "Give an inch and take an inch and what you've got is where you were The Universe is based on Sullen Entropy - It falls apart as it goes on." -Robyn Hitchcock [][][][][][][][][][] From: RAdams7@aol.com Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 22:15:36 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Robyn touring Reply-To: RAdams7@aol.com So Robyn's touring! He hits Chicago, at the Park West, on April 15 -- Tax Day. I'm psyched! [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 22:38:10 -0500 From: father bungholio To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: robyn in new haven Reply-To: father bungholio found out this evening that robyn will be playing at toad's place in new haven on april 5th. unfortuately, i'm in halifax from the 22nd of march to the 9th or april. argh. woj [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 23:11:44 -0800 (PST) From: Bayard Catron Subject: Re: Robyn and Beatle covers To: "Michael J. Swedene" Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: Bayard Catron On Thu, 2 Feb 1995, Michael J. Swedene wrote: > A song he should cover by the BEATLES that would be kooky enough for him > would be I AM THE WALRUS, or even EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE... Someone requested 'Walrus' on their birthday, 4-27-89 at mcCabe's (two days before mine, btw) and robyn very politely apologized that he couldn't play it because he didn't know it. I bet he could have figured out an interesting approximation on the spot though. Anyway, he played 'strawberry fields...' instead. bayard [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 00:55:04 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Re: "American" accents Reply-To: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) >At last year's show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, >Robyn did a monologue in an American accent. He was mimicking some >actor in particular -- I can't remember now, but perhaps it was >Marlon Brando, or was it Jack Nicholson? I found it quite amusing. > >Larry-bob >lroberts@bellahs.com Wasn't this in reference to Hollywood voice-overs on movie trailers? In many of last year's gigs, he spoke about producers running out of money to pay "big name" stars, and so the solution would be to use them twice. "Schwarzennegger.....DeNiro......Pfeiffer....Schwarzennegger again..." My wife and I just looked at the calendar for the Amhearst show....April 9th is a Sunday! Which means that we can attend! Let's all have a "Meet your Fellow Fegmaniax" party somewhere! I am not even familiar with the area (we'll be driving in from Syracuse, Ny about 5hrs away). I'm thinking of the gig....Robyn up on the stage and about 20 Sony D-6's poised right in front of him :) About accents: Robyn is great at doing lots of different accents! He does a great Australian, Cockney, Irish, Scottish. There is a great between-song banter bit on the Oct 90 suny soundboard recording where he tells a story about pickled onions in this odd (I think it is Cockney) accent. He does great voices too. Have any of you heard the "moose mark" story that was broadcast on BBC radio? This is why I'm hoping that Rhino will release his spoken word stuff in their Word Beat label--he is made for spoken word story type of things!! ______________________________________ John B. Jones jojones@mailbox.syr.edu "Evil guy/With your gouging horns, Were you this evil/When you were born ....Sha La La" -Robyn [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 01:00:00 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Re: robyn in new haven Reply-To: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) >found out this evening that robyn will be playing at toad's place >in new haven on april 5th. unfortuately, i'm in halifax from the 22nd >of march to the 9th or april. argh. > >woj Woj-- What a bummer! Will you be home in time for the Amherst show? What am I saying? Aren't you going to be in Halifax? Poor you, you world travelling jet setter you! ____________________________________________________________________________ John B. Jones jojones@mailbox.syr.edu LYRIC OF THE MONTH: "You don't know what I'm thinking cuz I'm not thinking anything, I used to have a thought or two but now I only smile...." -Lisa Germano ____________________________________________________________________________ [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 00:03:26 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: pzzz@mail.utexas.edu (efrat) Subject: robyn's accent Reply-To: pzzz@mail.utexas.edu (efrat) while it cannot be said that robyn's accent is overpowering, it is definitely not unnoticeable. take note of how he says 'privacy' in "superman", and 'zebra' in "let there be more darkness" and then there are things that sound natural only from robyn's mouth, although it has not much to do with the accent (ie: come inside, my little sparrow, let me feeeeeeeeed you to my soul..........) and on the beatles' covers note-- although it's not a beatles' tune, he does "cold turkey" efrat [][][][][][][][][][] From: rjyanco@amhux3.amherst.edu (Richard J. Yanco) Subject: Amherst show To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu (Hitchcock mailing list) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 01:42:32 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: rjyanco@amhux3.amherst.edu (Richard J. Yanco) While the Amherst show is looking utterly un-doable for me (were it on a Saturday it would integrate nicely into a see-my-woman, see-the-family, see-Robyn weekend) I can at least conjecture a bit about the show. Sunday concerts at Amherst College are almost always part of the "Sundays at Eight" concert series. Obviously this identifies the time for you, though there was a transportation mixup for one of the shows I worked (I want to say Shawn Colvin) and the show actually began around 9:30. Still, it should start around 8 pm. There are two possible locations for the concert, depending on ticket sales. Small concerts are in the campus center frontroom, which is absurdly small and thus quite intimate. (This is where the Judybats, Peter Himmelman, John Wesley Harding, The Story, Pat DiNizio, all but the first being S@8 concerts, were assigned.) Seats may or may not be set up. Larger concerts (Matthew Sweet, Tori Amos, Shawn Colvin) are in Buckley Recital Hall, which is also quite small and intimate, but holds about, oh, 500 people. And you have little choice but to sit. Another noticable feature of the Sundays at Eight series is that the concerts are generally billed as acoustic shows. They don't always turn out that way, and there was a small outcry in the student newspaper when Matty Sweet's 11/93 show was 100% electric and really quite loud. (Not quite as loud as when he opened for Robyn, 2/92 in Noho -- I couldn't hear the applause between songs, my ears were so shot.) But, if you take anything away from this message: it'll probably be 8 pm, probably be in the Frontroom without chairs, and *may* tend towards acoustic music. Added bonus: if you show up around 1 or 2 pm, you can help set up the show and get in for free. No seat if it's a sellout, but at least you get in. Rick [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 00:11:26 From: Russ Reynolds To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: old interviews Reply-To: Russ Reynolds Reading Bill's '86 interview jogged my memory a bit... A former acquaintance of mine was in New York for the Soft Boys' first American shows, where he conducted an interview and taped the second show at the 80's. I've got a dub of the concert, but I don't remember if I kept the interview portion. I'll check it out when I'm home and if I have it I'll transcribe it if anyone's interested. It wasn't a particularly in depth interview as I recall, but I do remember the interviewer asking "Do you still do 'Anglepoise Lamp'?"...don't remember the response, but I do remember he started singing a bit of it. Also there was a discussion about covers, and I seem to remember him saying they used to do Velvet Underground's "The Gift" (a brilliant narrative about a guy who mails himself to his girlfriend, who has trouble getting the box open and ends up stabbing him to death accidentally). I'd love to have heard THAT. -Russ rreynmolds@ksjo.com "Where there's a barrel there's a bung" --Mr. Watkins [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 00:55:40 -0800 From: camus@netcom.com (Julian Stewart) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Intro...and a question.... Reply-To: camus@netcom.com (Julian Stewart) Hello, all, I'm quite glad to have found this list (by way of the Jazz Butcher Web page).... My first encounter with Robyn's music was in 1988, when "Balloonman" came out. It made quite an impression on my then 16-year-old self. I bought "Queen Elvis" the following year, and was slightly disappointed. Fortunately, when I started college in 1990, I was re-introduced to him by a wacky friend of mine. I spent countless afternoons smoking, drinking Captain Morgan (?!?!), and absorbing the Hitchcock catalogue. Now that I'm going through my third phase of Hitchcock exposure, I'm finally beginning to appreciate the depth of his musicianship. "I Often Dream of Trains" and "Eye" are probably my two favorite albums.... And now for the question....a good friend of mine, a longtime fegmaniac who has seen Robyn play a good dozen times, swears that he did a Psychedelic Furs cover on a recent tour. Can anyone here confirm this, or point out any recording of such a cover? Thanx in advance.... -julian- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 07:17:55 -0500 From: father bungholio To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: acoustic fur Reply-To: father bungholio rjyanco@amhux3.amherst.edu (Richard J. Yanco) sez: >But, if you take anything away from this message: it'll probably >be 8 pm, probably be in the Frontroom without chairs, and *may* >tend towards acoustic music. well, it's definitely robyn solo so it's definitely acoustic (unless he pulls out the electric for "airscape"). camus@netcom.com (Julian Stewart) sez: > And now for the question....a good friend of mine, a longtime >fegmaniac who has seen Robyn play a good dozen times, swears that he did >a Psychedelic Furs cover on a recent tour. Can anyone here confirm this, or >point out any recording of such a cover? robyn's been known to play "the ghost in you" quite a bit - since 1988 or so. there's a promo 12" with that track as a b-side but it's pretty hard to track down. your best bet is to find someone with a live dub of a show that robyn played it at. woj [][][][][][][][][][] From: mikester@bix.com Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 07:43:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: virtual interview, irc To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: mikester@bix.com >i'm extending the deadline for >questions for our virtual interview with robyn until saturday the 11th. Thanks!!!! ---Mike ----------------------- "People ask me why I'm obsessed with fish, but it's not true. They're just there." ---Robyn Hitchcock, 3/25/88 ----------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] From: mikester@bix.com Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 08:09:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: "American" accents To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: mikester@bix.com >At last year's show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, >Robyn did a monologue in an American accent Before "Dead Wife" on the '92 tour he did an American accented monologue. I think he was making fun of Bruce Springsteen. ---Mike ----------------------- "People ask me why I'm obsessed with fish, but it's not true. They're just there." ---Robyn Hitchcock, 3/25/88 ----------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 11:30:28 From: Russ Reynolds To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Furs tune/another Q Reply-To: Russ Reynolds I don't know about recently, but I saw Robyn at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco before Queen Elvis came out, and at that show he did "Ghost In You". I think a version of that may have come out on a promo cd. He also did a really cool version of Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" at that show. Wish I had a tape. In a sort of related side note, I DO have a tape of another show a while back (I forget which one) where they did a great version of "When I Was A Kid", and at the end where it goes "Let's go and start a family" he yelled something like "let's go and...join the Psychedelic Furs!" here's another question... Some time ago Trudi sent me a tape of a Maxwells, NJ show, and on the tape somebody in the audience kept yelling "do the hedgehog song!" Does anybody have any idea what this is? -Russ rreynolds@ksjo.com "some day I could have a fifty-inch waist" [][][][][][][][][][] From: BRUCE%TOYVAX@Arizona.EDU Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 13:15:50 -0700 (MST) Subject: accent To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: BRUCE%TOYVAX@Arizona.EDU I remeber seeing Robyn at AMH ( S.F. ) were he was intermitantly doing a 'hick' imitation.... it was kind of similar to the americanish accent in Linctus House. That song kind of makes me sad... my (ex) girlfriend and I listened to Eye frquently and that song sort of came to life..... C'est la vie. I can't remeber what he was saying during the hick voice .... it was very similar to Eric Idles Elephant Snout charachter ( drunken hilbilly? ) bh [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 15:16:57 -0500 (EST) From: Vashty Hawkins Subject: Robyn touring??? To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: Vashty Hawkins So he's touring eh?? Any word on him touring in Canada?? VASHTY P.S. When does "You and Oblivion" come out in stores? Is it the beginning of March? I got a flyer about the re-issues at the last RH show I was at but lost it (of course; I could quite easily lose my own head if it wasn't attached to my shoulders, etc.) [][][][][][][][][][] From: Andy Ruppenstein Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 12:33:09 -0800 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Furs tune/another Q Reply-To: Andy Ruppenstein Russ writes about Robyn and the P-furs... >...and at the end ... he yelled...something like "let's go > and...join the Psychedelic Furs!" Ah, but is the inverse also not true? That is, didn't one of the P-furs members (drummer? Vince Ely?) play on one of Robyn's albums - Black Snake Diamond Roll? Andy / ruppen@demog.berkeley.edu [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. Archives can be found on fegmania.wustl.edu:/fegmaniax and ftp.uwp.edu:/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax. 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