Review + Photos: Robyn Hitchcock at the Chapel
Robyn Hitchcock (photo: William Wayland) Words by Elaine Blakely Robyn Hitchcock, England’s legendary singer-songwriter of nearly four decades, performed a solo set to a partially-seated full house at the Chapel on December 27, 2018. It was his premiere performance celebrating the 51st anniversary of Bob Dylan’s 8th studio album, John Wesley Harding, originally released December 27, 1967. On a stage set like a living room with worn-out end tables and lamps, Hitchcock performed all the songs off the Dylan LP on acoustic guitar, harmonica, and sometimes an upright piano. Between songs he told witty, surrealistic stories and spoke with the audience [...]
Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Lee Fields and the Expressions, Robyn Hitchcock and more
(illustration: Cassidy Miller) Want even more giveaways? Sign up for our newsletter for access to extra contests. To enter for a chance to win tickets to any show below, email contest@thebaybridged.com with the name of the band and the date of the show you’re entering in the subject line and your full name in the body of the email. Winners will be selected at random no later than 24 hours before the listed show and notified via email. Thursday, December 27 An Evening with Robyn Hitchcock @ The Chapel 9pm, $25, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Friday, December 28 [...]
Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Robyn Hitchcock, Cathedrals and more
(illustration: Cassidy Miller) To enter for a chance to win tickets to any show below, email contest@thebaybridged.com with the name of the band and the date of the show you’re entering in the subject line and your full name in the body of the email. Winners will be selected at random and notified via email. Thursday, June 8 Robyn Hitchcock, Raderson @ The Chapel 8pm, $25, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, June 8 Cathedrals, Rituals of Mine, Yassou @ Mezzanine 8:30pm, $18, 21+. Buy advance tickets here. Friday, June 9 Bilinda Butchers, No Vacation, Tanukichan @ Rickshaw Stop [...]
Robyn Hitchcock to celebrate his 60th birthday at The Fillmore (Win tickets to the show!)
With almost four decades in music, first with The Soft Boys, then as a solo artist, the 500-plus song catalog of Robyn Hitchcock might seem, to an outsider, impenetrably massive. It seemed that way to me, anyway, but diving in at the beginning -- which is to say, the second Soft Boys album, Underwater Moonlight, followed by the terrific solo sets Black Snake Diamond Role and I Often Dream of Trains -- reveals a penchant for wonderfully bizarre, lyrical songwriting that cements Hitchcock's place as one of music's great weirdos (and I mean that as a high compliment). On Thursday, [...]
Mixtape: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012 Preview Mix (Podcast #287)
Mixtape: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012 Mix (Podcast #287) By its twelfth year, you'd be forgiven for taking the annual occurence of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival for granted. The passing of founder Warren Hellman in December, however, brought with it a reminder that tens of thousands of people didn't always flock to Golden Gate Park for three free days of music each fall. In fact, when one takes all of those elements -- the large crowds, the no-cost attendance, the numerous off-the-dial performers -- into consideration, the festival's continued vitality seems less inevitable and far more astonishing. True to its [...]