[Quoted] From Sounds (12 Oct 85):

Sounds gives Robyn Hitchcock's new live album, 'Gotta Let This Hen Out'
5 stars:

	"That was a song about the West Country before a lot of you were
	born and after most of you were dead," Robyn Hitchcock states to
	his audience after regaling them with 'Acid Bird'.  And from
	him, it makes perfect sense.

	Hitchcock has come and gone about a dozen times and some would
	say he's never really been here at all.  This would be a tenable
	statement if not for his naggingly eccentric and spendidly
	fantatsic music.  Hitchcock has interpreted whatever he goes
	through into a unique edifice.

	Poached *en* situ at The Marquee, Hitchcock sounds in command on
	this album and the feeling efficiency with which the band
	dispatch 'Heaven', every bit the measure of its title, and
	'America' makes one realize that the fable of the prophet being
	ignored in his own country has only limited application.  There
	is nothing faintly second-hand about Hitchcock and if you've
	never discovered him... you should do it.

						RALPH TRAITOR