Robyn went on a Spring Break trip to Rio de Janeiro with some fans and WHFS listeners in 1994. From
his report it sounds like it was only an OK time. He did play a short set at one point and the relevant details are below as reported by Robyn.
The corpse has gone, but the living are still with us. If everyone on the beach fell down dead now, the place would stink in a couple of days. And the beach isn't even that crowded. The sea is full of leaves and the occasional plastic sack. I've been writing songs all day. Woken this morning by a live on-air phone call from WHFS, wanting to know if the lucky customers were having a good time. Well, presumably they enjoyed the live sex show last night. And they managed to sit through me playing six songs into a primitive P.A. in a courtyard by a noisy main road last night. Some of them came and sat at a table afterwards whilst I played requests and we passed dodgy Brazilian drinks around. Some of them are real live-wires -- mostly the men, natch -- like Beavis and Butthead if they had any enthusiasm for anything. But probably more good-natured. Though, it pissed me off when Renalto, the tour guide, was trying to point out the frightening level of prostitution in some parts of town and they all hooted and made squelching noises. Renalto said, "Are you going to listen to me or just laugh?" "Laugh," they replied.