Robyn Hitchcock Celebrates Bob Dylan’s 73rd Birthday

Friday 30 May

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RESERVED SEATS STILL AVAILABLE

To celebrate Bob’s 73rd birthday The Flying Saucer Club is proud to present ‘Robyn sings Dylan’. In 2002 Robyn Hitchcock released ‘Robyn Sings’, an album comprised entirely of Bob Dylan songs. All Music has this to say of the album – “Without sounding sacrilegious, Hitchcock’s voice is more pleasing than Dylan’s and his acoustic guitar playing is also better, making his versions, much like the Byrds’ and Jimi Hendrix’s before him, arguably superior to the Dylan takes.”

ABOUT ROBYN HITCHCOCK

Robyn Hitchcock describes his songs as “paintings you can listen to”.  The eclectic English born singer- songwriter is temporarily relocating to Australia, neatly avoiding the ferocious English summer, in pursuit of the two passions in his life – painting and songwriting… so we asked him if he would be so kind as to play some shows while he was here.

Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Robyn has played with many respected musicians including John Paul Jones, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, Peter Buck & Mike Mills, Nick Lowe, Abigail Washburn, Alejandro Escovedo, Martin & Liza Carthy, Howe Gelb, Krystle Warren, Graham Coxon and Johnny Marr.

Robyn has released numerous albums featuring such songs as ‘Where Are The Prawns’,  ‘I Wanna Destroy You’, ‘The Cheese Alarm’,  ‘The Man With the Lightbulb Head’, ‘My Wife and My Dead Wife’, ‘Raymond Chandler Evening’, ‘Globe of Frogs’ , ‘To Be Human’,  ‘Where Do You Go When You Die’, ‘Madonna Of The Wasps’ and recently a lament for the Arctic polar thaw ‘There Goes The Ice’, recorded with KT Tunstall, with whom, alongside Martha Wainright and Jarvis Cocker,  he was on a Cape Farewell environmental expedition to Greenland in 2008.

Robyn collaborated with director Jonathan Demme in 1998 for a live concert and film ‘Storefront Hitchcock’, and later appeared in Demme’s 2004 remake of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’, in which he played double agent Laurent Tokar.

Robyn’s has influenced a diverse range of musicians including R.E.M, Apples In Stereo, The Decemberists, Grant Lee Phillips, The Replacements and Amanda Palmer.

Robyn is anticipating a few musical friends dropping by for this special show so why not make it an imperative to join them.

Tickets from $30+bf
  • Ticket Pricing
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    Allocated Seating $45+bf
  • Standing Room $30+bf
  • At the Door $35
Doors Open:
6.30pm (Seats/Dining)
8pm (GA)
Showtime(s):
8.40pm