Setlist from notes taken at the time of the show.

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

This Alma gig happened on the actual day I moved to Cambridge. I'd just dropped my stuff off at the bedsit I was moving into and, as Alan Davies was already about, we went to see them together. Rob Lamb later joined my pub band, the Ducks on the Wall Gang and, of course Alan Davies became a Soft Boy.

Jim M