Last night, surrealist singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock officially closed the week-long Indie Memphis Film Festival with a sold-out concert at Studio on the Square.
After a comedic entrance through the exit door, Hitchcock strapped on an acoustic guitar and launched into a performance that spanned more than an hour and included favorites such as “Bass” and “Raymond Chandler Evening,” both from 1986’s Element of Light. His musical yarns and hilarious in between chatter veered from subject to subject, touching on ants, George W. Bush’s DNA, the Pyramid, Johnny Cash’s train dreams, Brian Epstein’s sexual proclivities and the afterlife.
