From Robyn on Patreon in 2023
The idea that light flows from us - that we may be ourselves a source of goodness: what a thought! Can flawed and often diabolical creatures like we humans become a source of spiritual nutrition? We’re busy trying to replace ourselves with Artificial Intelligence. What’s that say about us, and the minds we are creating: will they be any more effective than we have been as stewards of this miracle that the universe has entrusted to our care?
Hard to say on this London-bound train at 6:15 on a Sunday evening. Here’s hoping. But the more damaged we are, the brighter redemption glows in our wreckage, like lamps from the Titanic on the ocean floor; the chance of salvation lies within us all - not necessarily via a conventional
belief system; although a god, a saint, an idol or even a trolleybus can act as a prism through which our prayers/wishes/manifestations can text the Almighty Multiverse. As George Harrison hinted strongly, this lies within us and outside us. Yeah, glow, baby - it’s your time!
This is a first draft of a song that I really hope will be on my forthcoming LP. Most of the material has been demoed here on Patreon - I hope y’all enjoy the record when it’s done, which should be this autumn. Thank you for your continued support in this world of stained-glass carnivores; love on ye, RH
From Robyn on Patreon in 2026
Here, growing amidst the weeds of the recent past, I have unearthed two demo recordings from 2023. They were recorded by Steve Stewart at Remote Farm Studio just outside Cambridge, with Kimberley Rew and myself on electric guitars, Lee Cave-Berry on bass, and Mal Hyde-Smith playing the drums.
I’d recorded acoustic versions of both these songs in Cardiff a few months earlier, and put them up on Patreon. The full band takes on these were left unfinished, with no vocals; Kimberley and I started on the acoustic 1967 project instead, which I then completed in Sydney, Australia. It was a confusing time in my life, but then, life is always confusing. My new album is called The Confuser, and I suppose these two songs could be considered precursors to it, the same way that Thursday could be a demo for Saturday.
Last month I rediscovered these two tracks and finished them off here in Nashville with Brad Jones engineering. They were fun to sing and play on, though I don’t think that either of them belongs on the new album. Here they are anyway, in glorious stereo, for your listening pleasure…