Robyn Hitchcock - Outpost in the Burbs, Montclair, NJ, 10-8-2021

So what has Robyn Hitchcock been up to lately? As I write this is late October 2021, I can report that he's spent most of the past year and a half performing home concerts, due to the coronavirus pandemic. He's streamed these shows on the Internet, but only for paying viewers. I'd like to post some of those someday, but only after enough time has passed so that won't interfere with his revenue stream.

However, in the last month or two, he's switched to going on tour again. He has a policy where he's okay with the sharing of bootlegs from live shows (and allows an archive of them at archive.org), so that frees me up to post something new from him. This concert from earlier in the month is an audience recording, but it's a very good one. It essentially has the same high quality sound as a soundboard. So I figure it's worthy of being shared here.

I didn't do much to this, though I broke the talking parts into their own tracks and boosted their volume a bit, as I often do with concert recordings.

The set list isn't particularly unusual. He's written a bunch of new songs, enough for a new album soon, I'm sure. But unfortunately he only played one of them on this night, "Ghost in Sunlight." He seems to have been in a bit of a John Lennon mood, commenting on Lennon's voice, playing a song he said was inspired by Lennon's style, and then playing two Lennon covers during the encore.

This concert is an hour and 42 minutes long.

01 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Tonight (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 Vibrating (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 I Pray When I'm Drunk (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 Chinese Bones (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 Luminous Rose (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 Sinister but She Was Happy (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 Sally Was a Legend (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 Adventure Rocket Ship (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
14 Ole Tarantula (Robyn Hitchcock)
15 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
16 Flavour of Night (Robyn Hitchcock)
17 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
18 Somewhere Apart (Robyn Hitchcock)
19 Ghost in Sunlight (Robyn Hitchcock)
20 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
21 I Saw Nick Drake (Robyn Hitchcock)
22 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
23 Victorian Squid (Robyn Hitchcock)
24 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
25 Saturday Groovers (Robyn Hitchcock)
26 Mad Shelley's Letterbox (Robyn Hitchcock)
27 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
28 I Often Dream of Trains (Robyn Hitchcock)
29 The Queen of Eyes (Robyn Hitchcock)
30 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
31 I Wanna Destroy You (Robyn Hitchcock)
32 Isolation (Robyn Hitchcock)
33 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
34 No. 9 Dream (Robyn Hitchcock)
35 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
36 Madonna of the Wasps (Robyn Hitchcock)
37 Cynthia Mask (Robyn Hitchcock)

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The cover art photo was taken at another concert this same month, October 2021.