Accelerating To Forever

Photo by Emma Swift

Hello dear reader,

I hope this finds you drifting like the summer’s bee towards the solstice, humming and serene. This comes to you from a darkened room where I cogitate before dawn, pondering my next move.

It’s only a few days since the band and I wrapped up our tour in California. It was fab trip, and now it’s behind us. Now we’re embarking on a fun excursion through these fair cities:

June 3 - The Southgate House Revival, Newport KY
June 4 - The Magic Bag, Ferndale MI
June 6 - Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland OH
June 7 - Sportsmen’s Tavern, Buffalo NY
June 10 - Bearsville Theater, Woodstock NY
June 12 - Ardmore Music Hall, Ardmore PA
June 13 - White Eagle Hall, Jersey City NJ
June 14 - Brighton Music Hall, Boston MA
June 17 - Rams Head On Stage, Annapolis MD
June 19 - Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro NC
June 20 - The Grey Eagle, Asheville NC
June 26 - Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence Kansas

Ticket link for all shows are here.

Electric music - rock’n’roll - to me, is demonic and I relish playing with this combo of talented musicians. This run has Patrick Berkery on drums, Todd Bolden on bass, and Rick Lollar on guitar. We’ll also by joined by Jeremy Fetzer and his Telecaster in Philly, Jersey City and Boston. We’re playing songs going from Underwater Moonlight all the way up to my latest record The Confuser. For many years, I’ve mostly toured solo acoustic, but it’s great to rock again while I’m still swaying upright. I savour the unhinged currents of electricity flowing from my fingers, to my guitar strings, to my amp, to your ears - the key to psychic abandon unlocked in the mind and body. Yaysville!

2026 is turning out to be a busy year for me. The Confuser lands on July 24: the album is a rocking celebration of chaos, spiked with a few love songs. A few weeks before that, my latest memoir appears on July 7: entitled Stranded in the Future it looks back on the chaos I surfed (and caused) on my way to forming the Soft Boys in the mid-1970s. I’ll be promoting these two artefacts for the rest of the year, in America and Europe. We have all eternity in which to not exist - now’s the chance to get things done!

The birds are chirping their hieroglyphic songs to each other and dawn lightens the sky. It’s time for me to crawl back into the cave of sleep for an hour. May the summer stars be with you and your headaches be few.

Love on ye,

Robyn H

Pre-order/pre-save The Confuser here.
Pre-order signed copies of Stranded in the Future here.