I first discovered this concert about a week ago (as I write this in January 2026). When I gave it a listen, my initial thought was that it wasn't worthy of being posted here, due to sound quality issues. The recording I found was an audience bootleg with mere middling sound quality. But it's fortunate I discovered this when I did, and not earlier, because in recent weeks I've learned some audio editing techniques to improve problematic recordings like this one.
The first thing I did was use MVSEP to separate the vocals from the instruments. Then I ran just the vocals through MVSEP's "reverb removal" feature. I've discovered that doesn't do much to the instruments, but it can really improve the vocals if they're separated out first. That got rid of a lot of echo and murkiness on the vocals. But the sound of his talking between songs was still problematic. So I additionally ran all of those tracks through Adobe's vocal enhancer. It only works on talking, not singing, but it does wonders it enhancing vocal clarity.
Doing all that took a lot of work. But I think it made a big difference. This recording still has some issues, but I think it sounds pretty close to a soundboard-level bootleg now.
Note that the previous year, Hitchcock did a special concert at the same venue, which consisted entirely of covers of Syd Barrett songs. I've posted that here as well. He made a comment in this concert that he's already thinking about doing another theme type show in 2026. Let's hope this becomes a new yearly tradition for him.
Curiously, even though he played virtually all 1967 songs, there wasn't much overlap with the songs from his "1967: Vacations in the Past" album. The only songs from that one were "Waterloo Sunset," "See Emily Play," "No Face, No Name, No Number," and "A Day in the Life." And by the way, a couple of the songs were actually first released in 1966: "Sunshine Superman" and "Rain." And "Only a Northern Song" by the Beatles wasn't released until 1969. But I could see why he included it, because it actually was recorded by the Beatles in February 1967. It was considered for inclusion on their "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album but didn't make the cut, so it didn't come out until the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack.
Hitchcock was supported by a small band, with a few guests coming and going. The last song, "A Day in the Life," sounds a bit different because he got off the stage and performed it in the middle of the audience, with the crowd singing along.
This album is an hour and 33 minutes long.
01 Baby, You're a Rich Man (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Only a Northern Song (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 Astronomy Domine (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 Lucifer Sam (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 See Emily Play (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 Waterloo Sunset (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
11 Soul Kitchen (Robyn Hitchcock)
15 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
12 The Crystal Ship (Robyn Hitchcock)
13 No Face, No Name, No Number (Robyn Hitchcock)
14 Andmoreagain (Robyn Hitchcock)
19 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
16 Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Sunshine Superman (Robyn Hitchcock)
17 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
18 Electricity (Robyn Hitchcock)
20 Zig Zag Wanderer (Robyn Hitchcock)
21 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
22 I'm Waiting for the Man (Robyn Hitchcock)
23 The End (Robyn Hitchcock)
24 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
25 I Am the Walrus (Robyn Hitchcock)
26 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
27 Rain (Robyn Hitchcock)
28 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
29 A Day in the Life (Robyn Hitchcock)
30 talk (Robyn Hitchcock)
https://bestfile.io/en/Mvp8hiR5cwbcNHw/file
The cover is from promotional material for the concert. It's almost unchanged, except I widened it some to get it to fit into a square space.
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