{"id":925,"date":"2010-09-22T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/09\/robyn-hitchcock-and-joe-boyd-at-largo.html"},"modified":"2010-09-22T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T16:23:00","slug":"robyn-hitchcock-and-joe-boyd-at-largo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/09\/robyn-hitchcock-and-joe-boyd-at-largo.html","title":{"rendered":"Robyn Hitchcock and Joe Boyd at Largo"},"content":{"rendered":"

THURSDAY night sees one of the season’s most intriguing bills: Joe Boyd, who produced folk-rock gods like Richard Thompson and Nick Drake and wrote a wonderful book about his early years, which I described <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>, will appear at Largo with neo-psych demigod Robyn Hitchcock. Both will appear — with Boy’s reading and telling stories, Hitchcock playing the songs described — at the <\/span>Largo at the Coronet<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>

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(Both men have a pretty strong R.E.M. connection, as well.)<\/span>

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<\/a>I’ve been into Hitchcock’s surreal, chiming music since I was a teenager in the mid-’80s, and it was a pleasure to speak to him a few years back for this <\/span>story<\/span><\/a>:<\/span>

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“I tend to sing about things I like the look of,” he says earnestly. “I sing about segmented creatures, like crabs and lobsters, wasps and bees, things with a head, thorax and abdomen — that kind of thing.”<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“And imagining, if people were transparent, what their digestive systems would look like, or what it would be like seeing babies gestating inside other humans. Sometimes the whole thing horrifies me, other times it’s rapturously beautiful.”<\/span><\/i><\/span>

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Let me again commend Boyd’s chronicle <\/span>White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s<\/span><\/i>. I concur with Brian Eno that this is one of the best books about music in ages, and its charting of the social rupture of the period is among the best I’ve ever seen.<\/span>

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Photo courtesy Yep Rock<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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