Robyn and Emma's house
Details
- Date
- February 17, 2021
- Venue
- Robyn and Emma's house London, England
- Billed As
- Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift
- Gig Type
- Concert
Set List
- Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom Robyn solo
- Let Me Put It Next to You Robyn solo
- The Devil's Radio Robyn solo
- Surgery Robyn solo
- You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You Baby
- Up To Our Nex
- Keep Finding Me Robyn solo
- Wuthering Heights Kate Bush vocals by Emma singling along to a recording of the song Karaoke style. Song was not completed
- Just Like a Woman Bob Dylan
- Arms of Love Robyn solo
- Flesh Cartoons
- Mad Shelley's Letterbox
Reviews
Review by Adrienne Meddock from Zub Records
Guest Groover again, for another RH requests Sweet Home Quarantine show with our heroes Robyn, Emma, Tubby, Ringo, and the furry cabal. These Wednesday evenings are a real lifeline to me in this endless, trying isolation that is Covid Days. Well, pip, pip, let’s look lively and start the grooving!
It is ‘Serpent At The Gates of Wisdom,’ with a nice spoken word discourse about Yahweh being expelled from the Garden, back when he was known as Steve. In and out of the usual lyrics, RH sings a line about “Space Oddity on the phone,” since someone’s phone played a bit in the background during the performance. Quick one he is.
‘Let Me Put It Next to You’ follows by request. RH claims when they played it in the Soft Boys, there were so many people playing it was hard to tell what the last chord was….
Next up, since Limbaugh was in the news today, was the song RH wrote with him in mind, moss elixir’s ‘Devil’s Radio.’ The lyrics were updated for the occasion, “Limbaugh, now he’s finally in limbo…” A quick chat with Perry the Lobster led into You & Oblivion’s “Surgery,” by request. Robyn is having fun with these songs tonight.
Emma joined with Tubs and announced Robyn got his first Covid injection, an occasion for which he’d washed his hair, which was in floppy splendor tonight. They mused on Guy Pearce, Pricilla, Queen of the Desert, and launched into ‘You Got A Sweet Mouth on You Baby,’ from Jewels for Sophia. Very nice with Em’s harmonies. Oblivion, they tell us, is always with us, a bit like the Holy Spirit.
On to RH + Venus 3 territory, with ‘Up to Our Nex’ from Goodnight Oslo. Robyn does a great drum break with hand motions and beat box vocals, and it is all upbeat. Emma passed along queries from the comments about why the “nex” spelling and there is no answer but a digression on Bluetooth and the man RH met in London with a perfectly round head who was a Turkish Capricorn born on Christmas. Somehow, I think that summed up RH’s interaction with Bluetooth technology.
Emma left for a task and Robyn solo is in great voice with an insistent, driving guitar on ‘Keep Finding Me,’ the Luxor tune. Robyn laments not having a fader and says Perry will get one and operate it.
Emma returns, and we now know her task: a backing track is playing and breaks into an ambitious ‘Wuthering Heights’ in the original super-high Kate Bush key. I never cottoned to Kate, but Em’s enthusiasm makes this fun.
The duo play their Dylan duet, ‘Just Like A Woman.’ Their voices are perfectly suited for the song and for the arrangement. I can appreciate their love of the song, but that love is not contagious as far as I am concerned. As a little kid, I found these lyrics demeaning (and I WAS a little girl at the time) and I appreciate their interpretation but the JLAW mental block I have is deep and wide and tall.
Emma leaves Robyn to play ‘Arms of Love,’ an always welcome tune, Emma and Perry returned for the requested ‘Flesh Cartoons,” which has a few stutters, but it is great anyway.
‘Mad Shelly’s Letterbox’ followed, highlighting inventive harmonies™ by Em, and that’s it for Grooving this Wednesday. Next Wednesday we are promised a George Harrison birthday celebration and I think that is a guaranteed treat.
--Adrienne Meddock, whose letterbox is full of extended warranty offers
Guest Groover again, for another RH requests Sweet Home Quarantine show with our heroes Robyn, Emma, Tubby, Ringo, and the furry cabal. These Wednesday evenings are a real lifeline to me in this endless, trying isolation that is Covid Days. Well, pip, pip, let’s look lively and start the grooving!
It is ‘Serpent At The Gates of Wisdom,’ with a nice spoken word discourse about Yahweh being expelled from the Garden, back when he was known as Steve. In and out of the usual lyrics, RH sings a line about “Space Oddity on the phone,” since someone’s phone played a bit in the background during the performance. Quick one he is.
‘Let Me Put It Next to You’ follows by request. RH claims when they played it in the Soft Boys, there were so many people playing it was hard to tell what the last chord was….
Next up, since Limbaugh was in the news today, was the song RH wrote with him in mind, moss elixir’s ‘Devil’s Radio.’ The lyrics were updated for the occasion, “Limbaugh, now he’s finally in limbo…” A quick chat with Perry the Lobster led into You & Oblivion’s “Surgery,” by request. Robyn is having fun with these songs tonight.
Emma joined with Tubs and announced Robyn got his first Covid injection, an occasion for which he’d washed his hair, which was in floppy splendor tonight. They mused on Guy Pearce, Pricilla, Queen of the Desert, and launched into ‘You Got A Sweet Mouth on You Baby,’ from Jewels for Sophia. Very nice with Em’s harmonies. Oblivion, they tell us, is always with us, a bit like the Holy Spirit.
On to RH + Venus 3 territory, with ‘Up to Our Nex’ from Goodnight Oslo. Robyn does a great drum break with hand motions and beat box vocals, and it is all upbeat. Emma passed along queries from the comments about why the “nex” spelling and there is no answer but a digression on Bluetooth and the man RH met in London with a perfectly round head who was a Turkish Capricorn born on Christmas. Somehow, I think that summed up RH’s interaction with Bluetooth technology.
Emma left for a task and Robyn solo is in great voice with an insistent, driving guitar on ‘Keep Finding Me,’ the Luxor tune. Robyn laments not having a fader and says Perry will get one and operate it.
Emma returns, and we now know her task: a backing track is playing and breaks into an ambitious ‘Wuthering Heights’ in the original super-high Kate Bush key. I never cottoned to Kate, but Em’s enthusiasm makes this fun.
The duo play their Dylan duet, ‘Just Like A Woman.’ Their voices are perfectly suited for the song and for the arrangement. I can appreciate their love of the song, but that love is not contagious as far as I am concerned. As a little kid, I found these lyrics demeaning (and I WAS a little girl at the time) and I appreciate their interpretation but the JLAW mental block I have is deep and wide and tall.
Emma leaves Robyn to play ‘Arms of Love,’ an always welcome tune, Emma and Perry returned for the requested ‘Flesh Cartoons,” which has a few stutters, but it is great anyway.
‘Mad Shelly’s Letterbox’ followed, highlighting inventive harmonies™ by Em, and that’s it for Grooving this Wednesday. Next Wednesday we are promised a George Harrison birthday celebration and I think that is a guaranteed treat.
--Adrienne Meddock, whose letterbox is full of extended warranty offers