{"id":5304,"date":"2009-04-09T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2009-04-09T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T13:38:21","slug":"robyn-hitchcock-the-venus-3-the-cats-cradle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5304","title":{"rendered":"Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 @ The Cat's Cradle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 at the Cat's Cradle last night. This was the (1,2,3,4,5...6?) sixth time I've seen him, and the fourth time I've seen him at the Cat's Cradle. I suppose that means I'm one creepy smile away from getting a restraining order. It was another<\/a> great show.<\/p>\n

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Nikon D90, 18-105mm VR<\/div>\n

The Venus 3 are Scott McCaughey, Bill Rieflin and Peter Buck - all of whom play, in various capacities, with some band called R.E.M., and another called The Minus 5<\/a>. There were a surprising number of people in line who had only a passing familiarity with Hitchcock, and were there to mostly see Peter Buck. Nothing wrong with that of course; Buck's kind of a legend, and I was all gushy over seeing him last time they came to town. <\/p>\n

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Nikon D90, 18-105mm VR<\/div>\n

And Robyn Hitchcock remains Robyn Hitchcock: still as funny and clever and musically interesting as ever. Who else could make a crowd sing along and pump their fists to a line like \"Fuck me baby, I'm a trolley bus!\" ? (OK, maybe Malkmus<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Nikon D90, 18-105mm VR<\/div>\n

This time around, they played mostly songs from the two R.H. & V3 albums, with a few from Robyn's Egyptians-period (including an acoustic \"Lady Waters\"<\/a>, by request, which he said he hadn't played since the mid 80s), a couple of Soft Boys'<\/a> songs, and just a couple from Robyn's many solo-acoustic albums (typically my favorite). But, they're a good enough band that it all sounded great. The new stuff I especially liked live - the songs seem a little too polished in the studio.<\/p>\n

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Nikon D90, 18-105mm VR<\/div>\n

They played Matt Pond PA's \"Last Light\" album on a loop, before the opening band came on. I'll just go ahead and assume that the Cat's Cradle staff reads this blog<\/a>. Kidding, of course. Matt Pond PA played there last year. And I didn't go, because I'm lame.<\/p>\n

There was a silent auction for miniature traffic cones that Robyn had doodled all over. My $50 bid was immediately trumped. I'm not sure how much they eventually went for. Instead, I bought a giant print of a double-decker bus with \"Goodnight Oslo\" (title of their current album) printed on its side. They were numbered prints, and I got number \"200\/200\". I don't know if that means I got the last one they had, or just the last one printed, or if it doesn't mean anything. Anyway, Buck and Hitchcock signed it for me.<\/p>\n

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Nikon D90, 18-105mm VR<\/div>\n

Robyn and Scott McCaughey were both playing these funky-lookin Airline<\/a> guitars. Retro-hipsters!<\/p>\n

The opening band, Durham's Erie Choir<\/a> was quite good, too. It was the first time I'd seen anyone play a wooden box, live.<\/p>\n

Saw Neko Case the night before, and I left the Cat's Cradle last night at 12:45AM, with a 40 minute drive home - in a car reeking of BBQ<\/a>. Fuck I'm tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 at the Cat's Cradle last night. This was the (1,2,3,4,5...6?) sixth time I've seen him, and the fourth time I've seen him at the Cat's Cradle. I suppose that means I'm one creepy smile away from getting a restraining order. It was another great show. Nikon D90, 18-105mm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,37,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-robyn-hitchcock","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}