I Can Hear the Grass Grow Releases Gigs Comments

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Author
Roy Wood
Original Band
The Move
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 17 times, most recently at Robyn & Emma's house on December 18, 2024. He first performed it at Green Man Festival on August 22, 2009, 15 years and 3 months earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
Patreon 2023 Robyn Hitchcock Internet 2023
1967: Vacations In The Past Robyn Hitchcock Tiny Ghost Album 2024
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
Green Man Festival Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock Brecon Beacons Wales UK 08/22/2009
Swedish American Hall Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock San Francisco California US 09/22/2010
Largo at the Coronet Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock Los Angeles California US 09/23/2010
The Birchmere Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock Alexandria Virginia US 03/09/2011
MASS MoCA Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock North Adams Massachusetts US 03/12/2011
World Café Live Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 03/14/2011
Detroit Institute of the Arts Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock Detroit Michigan US 03/18/2011
Old Town School of Folk Music Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock Chicago Illinois US 03/19/2011
The Basement Joe Boyd w/ Robyn Hitchcock Sydney New South Wales Australia 11/09/2011
Robyn & Emma's house Robyn Hitchcock Nashville Tennessee US 08/19/2024
The Portland Arms Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 09/07/2024
The Jericho Tavern Robyn Hitchcock Oxford England UK 09/10/2024
EartH Robyn Hitchcock London England UK 09/14/2024
Robyn & Emma's house Robyn Hitchcock Nashville Tennessee US 09/19/2024
Golden Gate Park Robyn Hitchcock San Francisco California US 10/05/2024
StageOne Robyn Hitchcock Fairfield Connecticut US 11/02/2024
Robyn & Emma's house Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Nashville Tennessee US 12/18/2024

Comments

From Robyn on Patreon in 2023
Although Kimberley Rew and I have played guitar off and on together for 45 years, this session is the first time we have recorded with two acoustic guitars in the studio. He’s very kindly adding his strength to mine for a crop of songs from 1967 - a year when he, too, was soaking in all the miraculous pop music that flooded the airwaves back then.

Whatever happens to you at puberty fuels you for life. We take direction from our 14-year-old selves, and follow the way their young forefingers point for the rest of our days. For kids like Kim and myself, they pointed to music - luckily enough.

I’ve written a memoir of how I went through that portal while the world outside went through a world-sized portal: ‘1967 - How I Got There and Why I Never Left’, due for publication in the UK by Little, Brown in June 2024.

To add to whatever fanfare I can muster, I’m recording an acoustic album of many of the hits of the day - the first batch of which I’m recording with Kim. The album will be available separately from the book, btw. Here is a rehearsal take of ‘I Can Hear The Grass Grow’, written by Roy Wood, which was a smash for The Move. For more about them, check out Joe Boyd’s classic memoir ‘White Bicycles’, an account how many of those songs came to be.

Acoustic guitars RH & Kimberley Rew. Vocals by RH. Recorded by Steve Stewart at Remote Farm studios. Mixed by Charlie Francis at Stwdio Penty.