Alma
Details
- Date
- November 06, 1976
- Venue
- Alma Cambridge, England
- Billed As
- Dennis and the Experts
- Gig Type
- Concert
Set List
- Give it to the Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Lamb
- The Shape I'm In The Band
- Salamander
- It's Not Just the Size of a Walnut
- All Shook Up Elvis Presley
- Give Me a Spanner, Ralph
- Your Loving Ways Jerry Lee Lewis
- Saved Elvis Presley
- New Age Velvet Underground
- I Saw Her Standing There The Beatles
- Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley John Cale version
- Station to Station David Bowie
- Harmony
- Innocent Boy Robyn Hitchcock, Martin Mayer
- Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole
- Look into Your Mirror
- Moody Norway
- Reelin' and Rockin' Chuck Berry
- Return to Sender Elvis Presley
- It'll Be Me Jerry Lee Lewis
- Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley Elvis version
- Sister Ray Velvet Underground
- Sunshine of Your Love Cream
Reviews
The final Experts gig was at the Alma pub on 6 Nov, which I do remember well. Set list attached:
Note that the set kicked off with “Give it to the Soft Boys”, which had been written a week or two earlier. Robyn wrote the riff and most of the words, I contributed the ascending chords and a couple of lines. We played Heartbreak Hotel twice – a la John Cale (from “Slow Dazzle” in the first set and then a la Elvis in the second, which as can be seen was surprisingly old school rock & roll). 10 originals and 13 covers.
TBH Robyn’s originals were what you might call formative works – not as polished as the songs Kimberley was writing for the Waves, for example.
The Experts were not well loved by my coterie. Having been used to Sheboygan being popular, I lacked the fortitude to tough it out in an unpopular band, and so on the 16th November I resigned. I went round to Robyn’s house to talk about it but he refused to leave his bedroom so I kind of shouted through the door. What strange young people we were.
Notwithstanding this parting of the ways, we remained good friends and I spent a lot of time at Robyn’s house throughout early 1977, as much for social as for musical enjoyment. I went to most of the early Softboy gigs in Cambridge and London, including doing a spot of mixing from time to time.
Robert L
"Harmony" and "Moody Norway" were both lightish shuffly things in the style of [Give Me a] Spanner, [Ralph]. Harmony being slightly brighter than Moody Norway as their titles suggest.
Morris W
Note that the set kicked off with “Give it to the Soft Boys”, which had been written a week or two earlier. Robyn wrote the riff and most of the words, I contributed the ascending chords and a couple of lines. We played Heartbreak Hotel twice – a la John Cale (from “Slow Dazzle” in the first set and then a la Elvis in the second, which as can be seen was surprisingly old school rock & roll). 10 originals and 13 covers.
TBH Robyn’s originals were what you might call formative works – not as polished as the songs Kimberley was writing for the Waves, for example.
The Experts were not well loved by my coterie. Having been used to Sheboygan being popular, I lacked the fortitude to tough it out in an unpopular band, and so on the 16th November I resigned. I went round to Robyn’s house to talk about it but he refused to leave his bedroom so I kind of shouted through the door. What strange young people we were.
Notwithstanding this parting of the ways, we remained good friends and I spent a lot of time at Robyn’s house throughout early 1977, as much for social as for musical enjoyment. I went to most of the early Softboy gigs in Cambridge and London, including doing a spot of mixing from time to time.
Robert L
"Harmony" and "Moody Norway" were both lightish shuffly things in the style of [Give Me a] Spanner, [Ralph]. Harmony being slightly brighter than Moody Norway as their titles suggest.
Morris W