According to our records, Robyn has played this song 3 times, most recently at Robyn and Emma's house
on January 12, 2022.
He first performed it at Teatro del Arte
on April 28, 2015, 6 years and 8 months earlier.
Title
Artist
Label
Type
Year
The Man Upstairs
Robyn Hitchcock
Yep Roc Records
Album
2014
Patreon 2021
Robyn Hitchcock
Internet
2021
Venue
Billed As
City
State
Country
Date
Teatro del Arte
Robyn Hitchcock
Madrid
Spain
04/28/2015
Loco Club
Robyn Hitchcock
Valencia
Spain
04/29/2015
Robyn and Emma's house
Robyn Hitchcock
London
England
UK
01/12/2022
Comments
Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2021
I wrote SOMEBODY TO BREAK YOUR HEART in Joe Boyd’s flat in London. Joe had gone away for a while, and I was there, sitting at a table, eight years ago now. He was due to produce my upcoming album that autumn (which he did, with Jerry Boys engineering) and I was assembling material for it. The album we came up with was deliciously sparse - no double-tracking, no drums: only the essential ingredients, beautifully recorded by Jerry. But listening to these demos, they’re sparser still - even the lyrics haven’t fully congealed yet. Production serves a song up to you, but it can also distance it from you. For all its flaws, the original version is often the most intimate.