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Robyn Hitchcock "Trolley Bus 2" 2010

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar...
...Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with The Soft Boys, Hitchcock afterward launched a prolific solo career. Hitchcock's musical and lyrical styles have been influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Syd Barrett. Hitchcock's lyrics tend to include surrealism, comedic elements, characterisations of English eccentrics, and melancholy depictions of everyday life. His themes include the eternal contingencies of existence — namely: death, sex, and eating. (Recognising these themes, he released an EP in 2007 called Sex, Food, Death and Tarantulas.)
He was signed to two major American labels (A&M Records, then Warner Brothers) over the course of the 1980s and '90s, but mainstream success has been limited. Still, he has maintained a loyal cult following and has often earned strong critical reviews over a steady stream of album releases and live performances.

trax:
01 Be Here Now (Studio Outtake) 02 Blue Moon of Kentucky (PT Session Vocal Nick Lowe) 03 Candyman (Nashville with the Tennessee Crawdads) 04 Changes (3 King Halloween 2010 MSF Benefit) 05 Copper Kettle (Propellor Time session) 06 I Still Miss Someone (PT Session Vocal Scott McCaughey) 07 LIfe On Mars (Live at the 3 Kings Halloween 2010 MSF Benefit) 08 Pink Moon in C (Studio Outtake) 09 Quicksand (Live at the 3 Kings Halloween 2010 MSF Benefit) 10 Song for Bob Dylan (3 Kings Halloween 2010 - MSF Benefit) 11 Very Cellular Song (Lead Vocal Mike Heron at Petsival 2009) 12 Wang Dang Doodle (Propellor Time session)

mostly because Mike Heron is featured on this collection I couldn't find them doing a Very Cellular Song togather but found ‘Olé' and . . . . 

Mike doing his very own Cellular Song on Record Store day back in 2013

The Mike Heron Band - "A Very Cellular Song" live at Record Store Day 2013

See above for more Mike Heron

Mike Heron - Feast onwards . . . .

forgot to post Feast of Stephen as I frequently used to on Boxing Day (look it up) as it reminds me of my brother Steve (always) so here goes more than just that with a live version with Robin in Bloomsbury and another revelatory song I found only recently on Mike’s album ‘Echo Coming Back’ another haunting song and just listen to the voices on choral back up including the mercurially voiced Linda Thompson

 A winter favourite ‘Feast Of Stephen’ Robin Williamson and Mike Heron live - Bloomsbury 1997

The original here which I adore and stands as a winters evening favourite from Smiling Men With Bad Reputations which I used to strongly identify with . . . . . . . 

 Mike Heron - Feast of Stephen - Smiling Men With Bad Reputations

and finally this . . . . . . check this out!

Singing The Dolphin Through 

MIKE HERON

 

The Incredible String Band: Albums 1966 - 1970 | URBANASPIRINES (9 albums)

The Incredible String Band 1966 - 1970 - URBANASPIRINES

"The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a British psychedelic folk band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Edinburgh in 1966. The band built a considerable following, especially in the British counterculture, notably with their albums The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, and Wee Tam and the Big Huge. They became pioneers in psychedelic folk and, through integrating a wide variety of traditional music forms and instruments, in the development of world music."

Now I have said quite lot about following The Incredible String Band and I only recently posted ‘Painting Box’ as a song of the day and this therefore from Kostas is a great introductory biog and introduction to their music starting as it does with their work with Clive Palmer. I followed them about the time of the release of 5000 Spirits and left them when Mike started his solo work (Smiling Men With Bad Reputations is still a favourite) and have pretty much everything he released on his own as well. The last time we saw them was in Leicester when I was at the Art school there and we noticed posters or handbills possibly done by students that they had stuck on lampposts advertising “The Increbidle Strong Bond” which we began to refer to them as for the rest of the time we followed them. 

Around the time the scientology message was coming through I fell out with them and was bitterly disappointed they had followed anything thing so crass and controlling as the thought control cult. Robin and his partner and Mike continue to make music as far as I am aware and it is reported that Rose became Lady Mayoress of the Welsh town of Aberystwyth [sic]. Licorice seems to have disappeared into the Arizona desert where she is said to have set off hitchhiking and has not been heard of since 1990. Whether she nestles still in the malign bosom of Scientology is doubtful but possible and when last heard from Rose certainly mentioned that there was a strong ‘possibility she was dead'

 Mike talks about Smiling Men . . . . . . . 

every year I usually post Mike’s Feast of Stephen as a memory of the time of year and to remember my brother Steve . . . . . . . . it makes me feel safe and winterful! (it’s a word!)

so here’s another track from the album

Flowers of The Forest

something you can dance to on a Saturday?

Why of course

Call Me Diamond . . . . . . . (check out the sax solo Dudu Pakwana!)

Remembering . . . . here on the extraordinary TV show with Julie Felix far ahead of its time here Robin and Mike do the Half Remarkable Question . . . . . . 

The Incredible String Band  - Live