Metro
August 17, 2000
Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians -- Live At The Cambridge Folk Festival
BBC Music
by Richard von Busack
He banishes dirt to the land of wind and ghosts! Join him or die! Can you not see that he is serious? R. Hitchcock is the Mr. Sparkle of Folk Rock. His music is like that strange episode of The Simpsons wherein our beloved pal Homer discovers that he is actually the logo for a dishwashing detergent company from Hokkaido, Japan. Those lucky enough to have seen Hitchcock at The Stone in Palo Alto about the same year or so as this 1992 live show in England still remember the singer's Beatleesque harmonies, his comic/sinister psychedelic non-sequiturs, the chiming of his guitar on ought-to-have-been hits like "Globe of Frogs" and "Railway Shoes". My favorite is "The Yip Song", a better memorial to WWII vets than Saving Private Ryan. P.S.: The liner notes do not reflect the order of the songs, perhaps another one of Hitchcock's little jokes.
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