I really like that live album and tried a studio album ("Tropical Fish Mandela" is the only track I remember) which I found rather disappointing so didn't really pursue it any further. The lyrics are great and "My Wife and My Dead Wife" still makes me chuckle to this day.
And yes my Dad is certainly the coolest 60 year old I know. As well as Robyn Hitchcock he has been involved in videos with Black Flag, Alien Sex Fiend, Hanoi Rocks, Link Wary and lots of very dodgy old punk bands. He has even met Jimmy Page (at a studio in St Annes where he recorded "Jugula" with Roy Harper).
Sadly he has also fell in with a bunch of old hippies and as well as filming the last proper Stonehenge in 1984 (Roy Harper, The Enid and Hawkwind) he filmed Hawkwind on thier preposterously OTT "The Chronicle of The Black Sword" tour (the one based on the Elric The Womanslayer novels by Micheal Moorcock where Moorcock actually appeared on stage amid swirling dry ice and read sections of his books to introduce each song -- it was all very "Spinal Tap"). He even got to know Nick Turner briefly -- a man who managed the extraordinary feat of getting himself thrown out of Hawkwind for taking too many drugs.
Most recently he has been filming the Blackpool Punk festival and had the most unpleasant task of interviewing Gary Bushell about his recently reformed band "The Gonads" and had to listen to Bushell explain how he had slpit the band up in the first place as punk had "sold out" and had started it up again as in recent years the Punk revival has re-discovered its roots. Nothing to do with the rise and subseuqent demise of your career in tabloid journalism then Gary?
You'll find some streaming clips from various videaos some of which my Dad has ben invovled in at
http://rameses.com/screenedge/music.htm. You'll find Robyn Hitchcock about half way down.
Matthew
[This message was edited by Matthew Robinson on THURSDAY 10 October 2002 at 10:46.]
