Acoustic Café: Recording Sesh for Episodes 26, 27 and 99
Details
- Date
- April 14, 1995
- Venue
- Acoustic Café: Recording Sesh for Episodes 26, 27 and 99 Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Billed As
- Robyn Hitchcock
- Gig Type
- Radio
- Guests
- Deni Bonet
Notes
This entry serves as both placeholder for the live session that was used for later Acoustic Cafe episodes, as well as an entry for Episode 27 specifically.
Recorded: 4/14/1995
Broadcast date: week of 7/17/95 - 7/23/95
Big thanks to our friends at Lobster Time, who documented and archived the two-CD volume for this radio show. (For just the Robyn stuff, go for the Good Times version.) Amusingly, Acoustic Cafe seems to have the first two songs listed as "Egyptian Queen", and "Things I Still Love" - possibly conflating the titles of the two songs that were not used from this session, Beautiful Queen and Arms of Love.
'Arms of Love' and 'Beautiful Queen' were recorded at this session but not broadcast for episode 27. (See review below). Arms of Love was broadcast the weekend before, on Episode 26 and also was used for Episode 99. Beautiful Queen was used only on Episode 99.
From the executive producer of Acoustic Cafe: "Another little fun fact: Robyn requested to do a mix of the songs himself... in 1995, there was no other option but to ship the 1/2in. 8-track reel-to-reel tape to him in London for him to mix to DAT tape and return. It must've cost $200 round trip!"
Recorded: 4/14/1995
Broadcast date: week of 7/17/95 - 7/23/95
Big thanks to our friends at Lobster Time, who documented and archived the two-CD volume for this radio show. (For just the Robyn stuff, go for the Good Times version.) Amusingly, Acoustic Cafe seems to have the first two songs listed as "Egyptian Queen", and "Things I Still Love" - possibly conflating the titles of the two songs that were not used from this session, Beautiful Queen and Arms of Love.
'Arms of Love' and 'Beautiful Queen' were recorded at this session but not broadcast for episode 27. (See review below). Arms of Love was broadcast the weekend before, on Episode 26 and also was used for Episode 99. Beautiful Queen was used only on Episode 99.
From the executive producer of Acoustic Cafe: "Another little fun fact: Robyn requested to do a mix of the songs himself... in 1995, there was no other option but to ship the 1/2in. 8-track reel-to-reel tape to him in London for him to mix to DAT tape and return. It must've cost $200 round trip!"
Set List
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Egyptian Cream
(used for Episode 27)
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interview
-
Sinister But She Was Happy
(used for Episode 27)
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interview
-
De Chirico Street
(used for Episodes 27 and 99)
-
Arms of Love
(used for Episodes 26 and 99)
-
Beautiful Queen
(used for Episode 99)
Reviews
I had intended to post this from Robyn's appearance two weeks ago on the Acoustic Cafe program but between an (unexpected) out-of-town trip and a research paper, it has been a little busier than usual around ye olde household.
Anyway, the Robyn appearance did occur on Acoustic Cafe. I am sitting here in my office listening to my copy of it. In the first segment, Robyn starts off playing an incredible string version of "Egyptian Creme". Deni really gets into her violin playing during the song. Then, Robyn talks with the Acoustic Cafe host about the reissue of the albums. He says he doesn't like some of the original songs on the albums anymore but that if he didn't include them, the albums would then be bootlegged and he didn't want that to happen so he just decided to include everything. Then, to close up the first segment, Deni and Robyn play "Sinister" which since listening to several times now, I have really really come to enjoy.
To start the second segment, both Robyn and Deni talk about the recording of these new songs. Robyn says that some of them were recorded in a graveyard in the UK while some others were recorded in a small cafe in Washington DC. He says that he and Deni are getting very proficient in the songs because they have played a lot of "2 a night" clubs during this tour. Then, Robyn says that he and Deni will be in the studio in July and August in Britain with an album out early next year. Then to close things, Robyn played "De Chirico Street", once again with Deni on violin. I know that Acoustic Cafe taped more songs than just what was played because the week before, they played a live version of "Arms of Love" from the same recording session. I don't know how many songs they were able to record altogether but I am certainly pleased with the four that I have heard played.
Stephen
Anyway, the Robyn appearance did occur on Acoustic Cafe. I am sitting here in my office listening to my copy of it. In the first segment, Robyn starts off playing an incredible string version of "Egyptian Creme". Deni really gets into her violin playing during the song. Then, Robyn talks with the Acoustic Cafe host about the reissue of the albums. He says he doesn't like some of the original songs on the albums anymore but that if he didn't include them, the albums would then be bootlegged and he didn't want that to happen so he just decided to include everything. Then, to close up the first segment, Deni and Robyn play "Sinister" which since listening to several times now, I have really really come to enjoy.
To start the second segment, both Robyn and Deni talk about the recording of these new songs. Robyn says that some of them were recorded in a graveyard in the UK while some others were recorded in a small cafe in Washington DC. He says that he and Deni are getting very proficient in the songs because they have played a lot of "2 a night" clubs during this tour. Then, Robyn says that he and Deni will be in the studio in July and August in Britain with an album out early next year. Then to close things, Robyn played "De Chirico Street", once again with Deni on violin. I know that Acoustic Cafe taped more songs than just what was played because the week before, they played a live version of "Arms of Love" from the same recording session. I don't know how many songs they were able to record altogether but I am certainly pleased with the four that I have heard played.
Stephen