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Sun May 18 2025

8:00 PM (Doors 7:00 PM)

Moe's Alley

1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz, CA 95065

Moe's Alley

1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz, CA 95065

$28 in advance / $33 day of show

Ages 21+

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(((folkYEAH!))) presents the legendary Robyn Hitchcock!

Sunday, May 18th
Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
$28 in advance / $33 day of the show
21+

ROBYN HITCHCOCK
With a career now spanning six decades, Robyn Hitchcock remains a truly one-of-a-kind artist: surrealist rock ’n’ roller, acoustic troubadour, poet, painter, and writer . From The Soft Boys’ art-rock and The Egyptians’ Dadaist pop to solo masterpieces like 1984’s milestone I Often Dream of Trains and 1990’s Eye, Hitchcock has crafted a striking oeuvre rife with recurring marine life, obsolete electric transport, ghosts, cheese and what one writer has described as “morbid eroticism.”

Robyn moved to Nashville in 2015 and gravitated to the Music City community, recording 2017’s Robyn Hitchcock with an array of local talent including co-producer Brendan Benson. In 2019, he joined forces with XTC’s Andy Partridge for the four-song EP, Planet England.

Music aside, Hitchcock has appeared in a number of films, three of them by the late Jonathan Demme: 1998’s concert documentary Storefront Hitchcock as well as roles in 2004’s The Manchurian Candidate 2008’s Rachel’s Getting Married.

Locked down in Nashville by the global pandemic of 2020, he and his partner Emma Swift began their Sweet Home Quarantine livestream series, broadcasting weekly sets with their two cats, Ringo and Tubby. They also launched their own label and press, Tiny Ghost. 2021 saw the publication of Hitchcock’s first book, Somewhere Apart: Selected Lyrics 1977-1997, featuring 73 songs and 34 illustrations in a beautiful cloth-bound edition. In 2022 his first album for Tiny Ghost SHUFFLEMANIA! was released, recorded at home during lockdown with long-distance collaborators including Johnny Marr (Manchester) Sean Ono Lennon (New York) Kimberley Rew (Cambridge) and Davey Lane (Melbourne).

June 2024 will see his second book, 1967 – How I Got There and Why I Never Left, published in the US by (?). To accompany this Tiny Ghost will release 1967 – Vacations in The Past an album of the pop hits of that year covered by Robyn on acoustic guitar with some of his friends in Cambridge and Melbourne.

Meanwhile a collection of new songs is due for release in early 2025.

“I like to keep busy,” says Hitchcock: “We have all eternity to not exist.”

(((folkYEAH!))) Presents - Robyn Hitchcock

  • Robyn Hitchcock

    Robyn Hitchcock

    Jangle Pop

    Robyn Hitchcock is one of England’s most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. A surrealist poet, talented guitarist, cult artist and musician’s musician, Hitchcock is among alternative rock’s father figures and is the closest thing the genre has to a Bob Dylan (not coincidentally his biggest musical inspiration).

    Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Robyn has recorded more than 20 albums as well as starred in ‘Storefront Hitchcock’ an in concert film recorded in New York and directed by Jonathan Demme.

    Blending folk and psychedelia with a wry British nihilism, Robyn describes his songs as ‘paintings you can listen to’. His most recent album is self-titled and marks his 21st release as a solo artist. Out on April 21 2017, the album is produced by Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs). Hitchcock describes it as a “ecstatic work of negativity with nary a dreary groove.”

    It has received rave reviews from UNCUT, Rolling Stone, Paste, Tidal and more.

    “A gifted melodist, Hitchcock nests engaging lyrics in some of the most bracing, rainbow-hued pop this side of Revolver. He wrests inspiration not from ordinary life but from extraordinary imaginings…” – Rolling Stone

    “These 10 gems slither, rock, roll, glide and shapeshift, coalescing around Hitchcock’s typically anxious, strained but striking and immediately identifiable vocals.” – American Songwriter

    “Beloved of everyone from Led Zeppelin to REM, Hitchcock has only enhanced his status with this wonderful outing.” – Hot Press

    “Witty, moving and seriously catchy, Robyn Hitchcock is a glorious return for a man who wasn’t really gone in the first place.” – Paste Magazine

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(((folkYEAH!))) Presents - Robyn Hitchcock

Sun May 18 2025 8:00 PM

(Doors 7:00 PM)

Moe's Alley Santa Cruz CA
(((folkYEAH!))) Presents - Robyn Hitchcock

$28 in advance / $33 day of show Ages 21+

(((folkYEAH!))) presents the legendary Robyn Hitchcock!

Sunday, May 18th
Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
$28 in advance / $33 day of the show
21+

ROBYN HITCHCOCK
With a career now spanning six decades, Robyn Hitchcock remains a truly one-of-a-kind artist: surrealist rock ’n’ roller, acoustic troubadour, poet, painter, and writer . From The Soft Boys’ art-rock and The Egyptians’ Dadaist pop to solo masterpieces like 1984’s milestone I Often Dream of Trains and 1990’s Eye, Hitchcock has crafted a striking oeuvre rife with recurring marine life, obsolete electric transport, ghosts, cheese and what one writer has described as “morbid eroticism.”

Robyn moved to Nashville in 2015 and gravitated to the Music City community, recording 2017’s Robyn Hitchcock with an array of local talent including co-producer Brendan Benson. In 2019, he joined forces with XTC’s Andy Partridge for the four-song EP, Planet England.

Music aside, Hitchcock has appeared in a number of films, three of them by the late Jonathan Demme: 1998’s concert documentary Storefront Hitchcock as well as roles in 2004’s The Manchurian Candidate 2008’s Rachel’s Getting Married.

Locked down in Nashville by the global pandemic of 2020, he and his partner Emma Swift began their Sweet Home Quarantine livestream series, broadcasting weekly sets with their two cats, Ringo and Tubby. They also launched their own label and press, Tiny Ghost. 2021 saw the publication of Hitchcock’s first book, Somewhere Apart: Selected Lyrics 1977-1997, featuring 73 songs and 34 illustrations in a beautiful cloth-bound edition. In 2022 his first album for Tiny Ghost SHUFFLEMANIA! was released, recorded at home during lockdown with long-distance collaborators including Johnny Marr (Manchester) Sean Ono Lennon (New York) Kimberley Rew (Cambridge) and Davey Lane (Melbourne).

June 2024 will see his second book, 1967 – How I Got There and Why I Never Left, published in the US by (?). To accompany this Tiny Ghost will release 1967 – Vacations in The Past an album of the pop hits of that year covered by Robyn on acoustic guitar with some of his friends in Cambridge and Melbourne.

Meanwhile a collection of new songs is due for release in early 2025.

“I like to keep busy,” says Hitchcock: “We have all eternity to not exist.”

Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Hitchcock

Jangle Pop

Robyn Hitchcock is one of England’s most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. A surrealist poet, talented guitarist, cult artist and musician’s musician, Hitchcock is among alternative rock’s father figures and is the closest thing the genre has to a Bob Dylan (not coincidentally his biggest musical inspiration).

Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Robyn has recorded more than 20 albums as well as starred in ‘Storefront Hitchcock’ an in concert film recorded in New York and directed by Jonathan Demme.

Blending folk and psychedelia with a wry British nihilism, Robyn describes his songs as ‘paintings you can listen to’. His most recent album is self-titled and marks his 21st release as a solo artist. Out on April 21 2017, the album is produced by Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs). Hitchcock describes it as a “ecstatic work of negativity with nary a dreary groove.”

It has received rave reviews from UNCUT, Rolling Stone, Paste, Tidal and more.

“A gifted melodist, Hitchcock nests engaging lyrics in some of the most bracing, rainbow-hued pop this side of Revolver. He wrests inspiration not from ordinary life but from extraordinary imaginings…” – Rolling Stone

“These 10 gems slither, rock, roll, glide and shapeshift, coalescing around Hitchcock’s typically anxious, strained but striking and immediately identifiable vocals.” – American Songwriter

“Beloved of everyone from Led Zeppelin to REM, Hitchcock has only enhanced his status with this wonderful outing.” – Hot Press

“Witty, moving and seriously catchy, Robyn Hitchcock is a glorious return for a man who wasn’t really gone in the first place.” – Paste Magazine

Please correct the information below.

Select ticket quantity.

Select Tickets

Ages 21+
limit 10 per person
General Admission
$34.89 ($28.00 + $6.89 fees)

Delivery Method

ticketFast
Will Call

Terms & Conditions

This event is 21 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 21 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund.