In his four decades writing songs and playing them alone or with friends, the English-born Nashville-based singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has earned a devoted fan base. His songs can mix gleeful surrealism, sexual frustration, drinking, death, sadness, spiders, snakes, and the occasional movie quote. Never one to be at a loss for words, and possessed of the greatest patterned shirt collection in all of folk-alt-psych-pop-dom, the singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist Robyn Hitchcock visited the WNYC studios back in 2006 with his then brand-new electric band, the Venus 3 (REM's Peter Buck and Young Fresh Fellows' Scott McCaughey and the late drummer Bill Rieflin (formerly of Ministry and Revolting Cocks.) Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 play songs from the record, Olé! Tarantula, and waltz, nay tango, around conversation for this edition of the Soundcheck Podcast (from the archives.) 

In his four decades writing songs and playing them alone or with friends, the English-born Nashville-based singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has earned a devoted fan base. His songs can mix gleeful surrealism, sexual frustration, drinking, death, sadness, spiders, snakes, and the occasional movie quote. Never one to be at a loss for words, and possessed of the greatest patterned shirt collection in all of folk-alt-psych-pop-dom, the singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist Robyn Hitchcock visited the WNYC studios back in 2006 with his then brand-new electric band, the Venus 3 (REM's Peter Buck and Young Fresh Fellows' Scott McCaughey and the late drummer Bill Rieflin (formerly of Ministry and Revolting Cocks.) Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 play songs from the record, Olé! Tarantula, and waltz, nay tango, around conversation for this edition of the Soundcheck Podcast (from the archives.)