Not Dark Yet Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

Details

Author
Bob Dylan
Original Band
Bob Dylan
Performances
81

Releases

Title Artist Label Type Year
Robyn Sings Robyn Hitchcock Editions PAF! Album 2002
Patreon 2023 Robyn Hitchcock Internet 2023

Gigs

Billed As Venue City State Country Date
Robyn Hitchcock Largo Los Angeles California US 06/18/1999
Grant Lee Hitchcock IOTA Arlington Virginia US 10/15/2000
Grant Lee Hitchcock Joe's Pub New York New York US 10/17/2000
Robyn Hitchcock Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta Georgia US 04/08/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Bottom Line New York New York US 04/12/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Park West Chicago Illinois US 04/16/2002
Robyn Hitchcock KEXP - Variety Mix with Stevie Zoom Seattle Washington US 04/18/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US 04/21/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Great American Music Hall San Francisco California US 04/23/2002
Robyn Hitchcock KCRW Santa Monica California US 04/26/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Largo Los Angeles California US 04/27/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Amoeba Records Los Angeles California US 04/27/2002
Robyn Hitchcock The Horseshoe Tavern Toronto Ontario Canada 07/24/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Calgary Folk Music Festival Calgary Alberta Canada 07/27/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Assembly Rooms - The Supper Room Edinburgh Scotland UK 08/13/2002
Robyn Hitchcock The Rhythm Room Phoenix Arizona US 02/19/2003
Robyn Hitchcock Easy Street Records Seattle Washington US 11/14/2003
Robyn Hitchcock Polish Club Sheffield England UK 10/05/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Maxwell's Hoboken New Jersey US 11/14/2004
Robyn Hitchcock Largo Los Angeles California US 03/09/2005
Robyn Hitchcock Schuba's Chicago Illinois US 04/01/2005
Robyn Hitchcock Barbican Theater London England UK 09/26/2005
Robyn Hitchcock BBC-4 TV London England UK 09/30/2005
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Cannon Hill Park Birmingham England UK 06/24/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Loppen Copenhagen Denmark 07/04/2006
Robyn Hitchcock Rochefort en Accords Festival Rochefort France 08/26/2006
Barry "The Fish" Melton The Bullingdon Oxford England UK 09/11/2006
Robyn Hitchcock Daikanyama: Bob Dylan Summit Tokyo Japan 10/09/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Clarendon Guesthouse Theatre Katoomba New South Wales Australia 10/19/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Magic Bag Ferndale Michigan US 11/09/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 WFMU with Irene Trudel Jersey City New Jersey US 11/16/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Ottobar Baltimore Maryland US 11/20/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Zodiac Oxford England UK 01/07/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Academy III Manchester England UK 01/13/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta Georgia US 03/20/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 World Café Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 03/26/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Iron Horse Northampton Massachusetts US 03/29/2007
Robyn Hitchcock Piazza Vittorio Veneto Modigliana Italy 07/30/2007
Robyn Hitchcock The Southgate House Revival Newport Kentucky US 11/08/2007
Robyn Hitchcock Piazza Sasdelli Casola Valsenio Italy 08/14/2009
Robyn Hitchcock Iron Horse Northampton Massachusetts US 06/09/2010
Robyn Hitchcock Palazzo d'Avalos Vasto Italy 08/01/2010
Robyn Hitchcock Spazio Aliferi Florence Italy 11/23/2013
Robyn Hitchcock 3CR Community Radio Melbourne Victoria Australia 05/02/2014
Robyn Hitchcock The Basement Sydney New South Wales Australia 05/23/2014
Robyn Hitchcock Flying Saucer Club Melbourne Victoria Australia 05/30/2014
Robyn Hitchcock Hermon Chapel Arts Centre Oswestry England UK 10/03/2014
Robyn Hitchcock Eddie's Attic Decatur Georgia US 11/01/2014
Robyn Hitchcock Band on the Wall Manchester England UK 06/02/2015
Robyn Hitchcock Union Chapel London England UK 06/05/2015
Robyn Hitchcock Mono Glasgow Scotland UK 06/08/2015
Robyn Hitchcock Barney Danson Theatre Ottawa Ontario Canada 07/09/2015
Robyn Hitchcock & Eugene Mirman The Grey Eagle Asheville North Carolina US 04/16/2016
Robyn Hitchcock The Standard Knoxville Tennessee US 03/24/2017
Robyn Hitchcock House Of Blues Houston Texas US 04/02/2017
Robyn Hitchcock Jammin Java Vienna Virginia US 05/10/2017
Robyn Hitchcock Harbor Town Amphitheater Memphis Tennessee US 05/28/2017
Robyn Hitchcock KLOS Los Angeles California US 09/27/2017
Robyn Hitchcock Unitarian Church Cambridge England UK 05/17/2018
Robyn Hitchcock Kingskerswell Parish Church Newton Abbot England UK 05/29/2018
Robyn Hitchcock Largo at the Coronet Los Angeles California US 08/30/2018
Robyn Hitchcock Hotel Congress Tucson Arizona US 09/01/2018
Robyn Hitchcock City Winery Atlanta Georgia US 11/07/2018
Robyn Hitchcock & Elf Power 40 Watt Club Athens Georgia US 11/08/2018
Robyn Hitchcock The Chef Restaurant Hoi An Vietnam 12/06/2018
Robyn Hitchcock Michael's On Main Soquel California US 12/29/2018
Robyn Hitchcock Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix Arizona US 04/02/2019
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Robyn & Emma's house Nashville Tennessee US 04/10/2020
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Robyn & Emma's house Nashville Tennessee US 05/24/2020
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 09/18/2020
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 05/19/2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 08/15/2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 01/26/2022
Robyn Hitchcock Starline Social Club Oakland California US 05/22/2022
Emma Swift Private House New York New York US 07/15/2022
Emma Swift Billsville Outside Manchester Vermont US 07/16/2022
Emma Swift Private House Adams Massachusetts US 07/17/2022
Emma Swift Atwood's Tavern Cambridge Massachusetts US 07/20/2022
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 12/14/2022
Robyn Hitchcock Private House Seattle Washington US 03/15/2023
Robyn Hitchcock Claypath Delicatessen Durham England UK 08/19/2023

Comments

From Robyn on Patreon in 2023
“Shadows are falling, and I’ve been here all day.” A bottoming-out song on a bottoming-out record. When I first heard “Time Out Of Mind” it upset me mightily; how outrageous, I thought, that somebody as exalted as Bob Dylan should feel like a wretched lump of middle-aged flesh washed up on the bleak shore of existence. Didn’t he know how loved he was, by millions of us? Did all that adoration do nothing to buoy him up?

But after a while I reluctantly began to let the record sink into me. We all have our own personal Bob, and that’s probably a large part of his problem: how can you live peacefully with a mosaic of misconceptions about you, all mirroring a version of yourself that you’ve already discarded? The Dylan you hear on a new record is never quite the same creature that you learned to love on the previous one.

“Not Dark Yet” was the first of these new songs to get to me. I lay on a hotel bed in Seattle one night in late August 1997 as the dusk powdered into the room, grain by grain, and on TV the news of Princess Diana’s car crash in Paris slipped into the announcement of her death. Over and over I played that song on my Walkman, fumbling with the rewind on it - sometimes it reversed direction and played the other side of the tape. I don’t miss Walkmans much. Eventually it did get completely dark outside and I shuffled out into the Belltown night, to watch Sleater-Kinney play at the Crocodile…

I’ve been singing this song myself for 26 years - almost half as long as I’ve been singing “Visions of Johanna.” I’ve customised it a little, though nothing like as much as Dylan tinkers with his own material. Whatever is happening in my life, or in the world outside, “Not Dark Yet” matches it - and after this, there’s nowhere else to go but up…

Recorded and mixed by Charlie Francis at Stwdio Penty. Voice and guitars by RH.