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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 03:06:03 +0100
From: Jonathan M
Subject: Setlist, Stockholm December 22nd

..and I have just returned from the first RH gig of my life! Here's a setlist and some comments for you:

Location: Stampen (a "jazz pub" in the Old Town of Stockholm)
Audience: 250 - 300 (?)

Setlist:
(acoustic guitar:)
1. Mexican God
2. Me and Mr Kennedy (the lyrics slightly rearranged compared to the version posted earlier on the list. It here began with "Coming into Harrisburg". "Coming into Paradise" came later (naturally), perhaps as the third verse. And this time Sebadoh were mentioned in the lyrics, though I can't remember the exact wording.) Not a very good song, however.
3. Chinese bones
4. My wife and my dead wife (RH: "This song I wrote for Frank Sinatra, for his Duets album." Lyrics changed to: "Frankie, she says..")
5. Queen Elvis (Harmonica on. "It could break your sister's heart" changed to: "It's already broken your father's heart". After the song someone in the audience shouted "What was that song about?", whereupon Robyn answered: "About the way it takes a million nobodies to make one somebody.")
6. Beautiful girl ("We're going through a hole in the air/ We're going through a hole in the air/ Well, I hope they serve us some prawns up there")
7. Glass hotel
8. The yip song ("This is a Christmas song about death from cancer")

(change to electric guitar: "This is the second half of the show, this is with the band")

9. Autumn is your last chance
10. I often dream of trains
11. I am not me (Lyrics changed to: "You say: Don't turn your back" and "You say: That's your excuse."
12. Queen of eyes
13. Madonna of the wasps
14. You and oblivion ("This is about an old friend of mine who went mad, while I stayed sane." A very passionate performance of this one, which surprised me. For the first time I didn't find it dull and monotonous.)
15. Airscape ("This is for Michele". Echoing the old "This is for Cynthia"...)
16. Freeze

Encore:
(acoustic guitar:)
17. Uncorrected personality traits (country version, with community singing)
18. A song I couldn't identify, beginning with the line "You can set your watch by me, I'm a regular guy". A recurring line (with variations) was "in the pulse of my heart, I'm coming to you" (and the like). Anyone know it? Quite a nice tune it was.
19. Clean Steve (on request from the audience, actually) ("This one is great if you've heard it before, otherwise it goes on a bit". A fierce harmonica solo and lots of changes in the lyrics: "The father of my boy/ He tore apart a stethoscope/ although it was my pride and joy", "but he wasn't really home/ Instead I talked to his wife Claire/ upon the telephone" etc.)
20. No, I don't remember Guildford ("This is about someone from Guildford in denial. And Denial's pretty close to Guildford.")
(change to electric guitar:)
21. Sally was a legend ("This is for Sally and Lawrence who have come all the way here from somewhere else")
22. Kingdom of love
23. Insanely jealous

All in all, a very nice concert. But he had a bleedin' grand piano standing beside him all evening and didn't bother to touch it. Grrrr. (which is Swedish for *growl*). Sadly, I won't be able to see him in Gothenburg on the 25th and 26th (Christmas celebration in Sweden is mainly on Dec. 24th, so a gig on Christmas day isn't as strange as it might seem to some of you folks.). On the other hand, he said he hoped the Soft Boys could make it over here some time in the summer!

En frvjdefull jul till eder alla!

J.M.