The Hello and welcome to So the Jaker on songwriting episode 96 this is Brian here as always with my ever faithful

co-host Simon edging ever closer to the century now sigh hey indeed we are won't

be long till we get that telegram from the Queen that applies to podcasts doesn't pretty sure Pretty sure it does yet. Since last we

sat behind the mics plenty has happened I've fathered yet another child. Yeah that's

two so far that you know of. So stopping you rock and roll types.

And yet we still cast aside our crying children to deliver the best the internet has to offer in songwriting chat.

Speaking of which, joining us today is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist whose career has spanned four decades and whose witty, surreal, endlessly inventive songs and spellbinding life performances of one of a devoted cult following.

We're delighted to welcome the singular Robin Hitchcock to the show.

We sure are. He's a truly gifted songwriter, a super interesting guy and, well, pretty much

a national treasure as far as I'm concerned.

Cosine.

He actually reminds me a lot of Andy Partridge who he's collaborated with in the past.

Yeah, they have that same kind of limitless imagination when it comes to song writing, don't they?

Yeah, he's an incredibly prolific artist too, isn't he?

I think the most recent album Man upstairs was his 20th or 21st.

Not want to let the grass grow under his feet are Robin, is he? He sure isn't.

He tours almost constantly too, it seems.

Yeah. Don't know where he finds the energy.

Maybe he's just on the run from the mob.

They're not paying as vig. That could explain it.

Anyway, we met with Robin at his hotel in Liverpool City Centre in late October 2016,

the morning after his show at the Philharmonic,

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