“The mythical past is very magnetic. People all have their own imaginary land that they’re drawn back to where they think things were better,” Robyn Hitchcock tells me. “I’m in my own little world of antique electronic electric transport and Beatles records, Syd Barrett outtakes and, you know, Dali and Magritte and de Chirico pictures, and Roger Moore and any old mythological past that I can dig up. We can all cherry-pick our personal Eden in our comfort zone now. For a lot of people, it’s actually the late 1980s, so they come out and see me, and I can make them feel 17 again, you know?”