(This program was broadcast Sunday, February 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org)
Author’s note by Wayne Cresser
I hope that anybody who follows my radio broadcasts and associated playlists here on The Mischief Time Blog, or live on 90.3 FM, WRIU Kingston and streaming at wriu.org, has enjoyed the shows from the vaults since the week of January 11. Before snowstorm related parking bans canceled live-in-the studio opps for a couple of weeks (1/18 and 1/25) and before I was kidnapped by pirates last Sunday (2/1), I spent the second weekend of the year in New Orleans, which I learned, is now being referred to as the Hollywood of the South because of all the film and television production happening there. Most recently in the theaters, the horror film, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and the dramedy, Ella McKay, were shot on the streets of that grand old city.
Certainly, I will have more to say about all that further on down the road, but first, I must say that even though I was up against Superbowl XL, a professional football contest that this year, featured our local club, the New England Patriots, I think PT 118 was one of the best so far, simply because of its main attraction, the inimitable Robyn Hitchcock, who has the rare distinction of being the subject of two film documentaries, Jonathan Demme’s Storefront Hitchcock (1998) and John Edginton’s , Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death…and Insects (2007).
And the way I like to think of Mr. Hitchcock is this: he is the result of a meetup that took place in the ether between Syd Barrett, Bob Dylan, Lewis Carroll and John Lennon. Maybe they drank tea together and lunched on finger sandwiches, maybe they talked poetry, and maybe from their collective psyche they launched a single new persona in the form of Robyn Hitchcock. Alright, yeah.
2/9/2026
All Songs written and performed by Robyn Hitchcock (unless otherwise indicated)
From Storefront Hitchcock (with Tim Keegan and Deni Bonet)
Spleen Rap
I’m Only You
Yip! Song
From Spooked (with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings)
Welcome to Earth
Television
We’re Gonna Live in the Trees
From Storefront Hitchcock
Alright Yeah
Covers
Baby Let me Follow You Down from Robyn Sings (traditional)
Waterloo Sunset from 1967, composed by Raymond Douglas Davies
The Ghost in You from The Man Upstairs, composed by Richard and Tim Butler
Eclectic Hitchcock
Balloon Man (with the Egyptians) from Globe of Frogs
Globe of Frogs (with the Egyptians)
N.Y. Doll from Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death… and Insects
Sunday Never Comes from Juliet Naked, composed by Robyn Hitchcock, performed by Ethan Hawke
My Wife and My Dead Wife (with the Egyptians) from Gotta Let This Hen Out
From Storefront Hitchcock
Spoken Word Intro
Beautiful Queen
I Want to Destroy You from Underwater Moonlight, composed by Robyn Hitchcock, performed by the Soft Boys
From Wonderwall, songs composed by George Harrison
In the First Place
The Inner Light
From A Mighty Wind
When You’re Next to Me, composed by Eugene Levy, performed by Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara (as Mitch and Mickey)
A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow, composed by Michael Mckean and Annette O’Toole, performed by Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara (as Mitch and Mickey)
Just Between You and Me 
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