Details

Date
November 22, 2003
Venue
Largo Los Angeles, California (West Hollywood)
Billed As
Robyn Hitchcock
Gig Type
Concert
Guests
Jon Brion, Grant Lee Phillips, Ethan Johns, David Garza

Notes

(late)

Set List

  1. The Main Thing Roxy Music
  2. Take A Chance With Me Roxy Music
  3. To Turn You On Roxy Music
  4. True To Life Roxy Music
  5. Degrees of Nice Improvised
  6. W Sucks (But Rumseld Is the Anti-Christ)
  7. brief Dylanish improv
  8. We're Bad People, We're Just Freaks Improvised
  9. Hey Bulldog The Beatles
  10. You Know My Name (Look Up My Number) The Beatles
  11. How Do You Sleep? John Lennon
  12. The Ocean Velvet Underground
  13. Sound and Vision David Bowie medley
  14. Rock Your Baby George McCrae medley
  15. When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman Dr. Hook medley

Reviews

Hitchcock at the Largo 11/22

(acoustic)
I'm Only You
I've Got the Hots For You
Balloon Man
So You Think You're in Love
My Wife and My Dead Wife
Sound of Sound
Solpadeine
One L
Glass Hotel
You Remind Me of You

(Enter Grant Lee Phillips on bass and vocals, and Jon Brion on keyboards and vocals)
Sleeping With Your Devil Mask
Cynthia Mask
Uncorrected Personality Traits (country style)
Queen Elvis
I Feel Beautiful


(2nd set, same three plus Ethan Johns on drums)--started with the entire second side of Avalon by Roxy Music
The Main Thing
Take A Chance With Me
Anything to Turn You On
True To Life

next they did several improvised sounding songs--I'll give approximate titles
Degrees of Nice (very good)
Everybody Knows (that W sucks, but Rumsfield is the anti-Christ)
? (very Dylan-ish, but aborted after one verse)
We're Bad People, We're Just Freaks

then they went on to some on-the-spot covers:
Hey Bulldog--the Beatles
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)--the Beatles (excellent)
How Do You Sleep?--John Lennon (stunning)
The Ocean--the Velvet Underground (very loose, very great)

David Garza joined them on keyboards and they closed the show with a medley:
Sound & Vision--David Bowie
Rock Me Baby--?
When You're in Love With a Beautiful Woman--?


All in all, it was another great Largo show. Robyn said that Tuesday's show would have no repeats from Saturday's. He seemed to be in a great mood and was extremely talkative. Robyn confirmed at one point that he was now married and is really excited about the prospect of spending more time in the US next year playing more shows and recording a new album.

That pretty much covers it for the moment, but there's more to come on
11/25. Stay tuned... Marc