12 Bar Club Set List Notes Reviews Media

Details

Date
January 12, 1996
Venue
12 Bar Club London, England (St. Giles)
Billed As
Robyn Hitchcock
Gig Type
Concert

Notes

Peter Blegvad opened.

Set List

  1. Surgery
  2. Arms of Love
  3. Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom
  4. The Devil's Radio
  5. Point it at Gran
  6. Trilobite
  7. Clean Steve (with a glance at Mark Ellen, up in the balcony)
  8. Fifty Two Stations
  9. Cool Bug Rumble
  10. You and Oblivion Electric set...
  11. Aquarium
  12. Trash (missed out the bit about scoring dope at the Hope, I think, but included bits about Peter Buck, Iggy Pop and MTV)
  13. Only the Stones Remain ("written for Joni Mitchell")
  14. I Often Dream of Trains Encore (electric) "they privatised the damn things overnight"
  15. Visions of Johanna Bob Dylan acoustic
  16. I Got a Message For You (acoustic, no screaming, haven't enjoyed this one so much before, possibly due to the face pulling).

Media

Audio on Archive.org

Reviews

Belated taking the torch of on the spot action news reporting from Mark before passing it on to our next volunteer in this month's Robyn relay, here's a brief report on last Friday's (12-1-96) show.

Robyn had a bad throat. Despite "drinking a jar of honey" (according to the club owner) before the show, Robyn was pretty croaky throughout. Fortunately for those of us in the front row (on cute little child-sized seats) he wasn't sneezing. Unfortunately, the stage was quite tall and Robyn taller still, so we all got stiff necks. And a bit dazzled by the mirror ball, and the lizard shirt featured on the back
of the bargain give-away virgin sampler.

Lots of inter-song banter from a cheery (despite his cold) Robyn, very little of which I can remember.

I think I got all the songs, maybe someone can correct any errors. He changed into a black and white shirt for the encore. Took ages to do so - why doesn't he just wear two shirts, and tear off one after the main set ? It would be much more fun. Though I guess we'd get to see the labels then.

Excellent support from Peter "Man at Cecil Gee" Blegvad. "Thanks to Robert, er, Robyn for asking me to play..."

Jonathan T