It was a Roxy Music tape bought from a Seaford record shop which inspired Robyn Hitchcock's masterpiece according to the cult singer-songwriter.

Robyn opened his celebration of 1984 album I Often Dream Of Trains with an endearingly ropey version of Bryan Ferry's Eighties classic Avalon (although he noted that the original had much better chords).

The dark green cover of the Roxy Music album had inspired him to write a dark green album of his own. And the songs still sounded fresh more than 20 years on, reproduced acoustically with the assistance of multi-instrumentalist Terry Edwards and support act, Worthing's own Tim Keegan, on acoustic guitar.

All the classic Trains tracks were there, from the wistful nostalgia of Trams Of Old London to a brilliant three-part harmony on the comic Uncorrected Personality Traits. There was also a healthy selection of music written at the same time, including My Favourite Buildings, apparently written about the destruction of some of Seaford's old architecture.

Robyn added his own surreal take on modern life between songs, with references to "the smoking age" now gone and pointing out that "admitting you voted for Blair the first time is like saying you've got Elton John's first three albums".