Includes a postcard signed by Robyn Hitchcock.

Robyn Hitchcock is a rocknroll surrealist. Born in London on March 3rd, 1953 he describes his songs as pictures you can listen to. As much a child of Dali, De Chirico, and JG Ballard as of his 1960s musical heroes, he is a master of the absurd, reveling in the beauty of the unexpected. His first publicly visible band The Soft Boys (1976 – 81) has remained an influential art-rock touchstone for generations of musicians. I just want to be an obscure cult fringe, he told the NME in 1978; the NME didnt believe him, but hes been true to his ambition. Without ever breaking the surface of pop culture Hitchcock has floated at a tangent to the mainstream for nearly 5 decades. His songs have been performed by REM, The Replacements, Neko Case, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Lou Barlow, Grant Lee Phillips, Sparklehorse, and Suzanne Vega with the Grateful Dead among others. A confirmed outsider, he noneth