Rock Garden Set List Notes Reviews


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Details

Date
December 22, 1978
Venue
Rock Garden London, England (Covent Garden)
Billed As
The Soft Boys
Gig Type
Concert

Notes

also appearing: Luxhound Deluxe

Images at right and review below are from Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys Scrapbook
Images used with permission.

Setlist a bit iffy, based on written set list pictured at right and described below. Seems to feature many of the "lost" songs described in the A Can of Bees CD liner notes.
UPDATE! Thanks to the heroic Lee Cave-Berry, we have unearthed another - much more believable - setlist! In the interest of completeness, we have added it below the original. Also view the image gallery to see the actual document.

Newspaper listing from 'Record Mirror' dated December 22, 1978

Set List

  1. The Gallant Poacher Albion Country Band (probably apocryphal - see below)
  2. Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman Fairport Convention (probably apocryphal - see below)
  3. Mr. Lacey Fairport Convention (probably apocryphal - see below)
  4. Love Poisoning (probably apocryphal - see below)
  5. The Asking Tree (probably apocryphal - see below)
  6. Bonde M'teko Stomp (probably apocryphal - see below)
  7. Horns Large Horns Traditional (probably apocryphal - see below)
  8. Arabian Takeaway (probably apocryphal - see below)
  9. The Face of Death
  10. The Return of the Sacred Crab
  11. Leppo and the Jooves
  12. The Pigworker
  13. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
  14. The Asking Tree
  15. Love Poisoning
  16. The Rat's Prayer
  17. Do the Chisel
  18. Skool Dinner Blues
  19. Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole
  20. Fatman's Son
  21. Let Me Put It Next to You
  22. Setlist 2:
  23. Mr. Lacey Fairport Convention
  24. The Face of Death
  25. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
  26. Love Poisoning
  27. Let Me Put It Next to You
  28. Muriel's Hoof/The Rout of the Clones
  29. The Pigworker
  30. Skool Dinner Blues
  31. Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole
  32. Fatman's Son
  33. Have a Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof)
  34. The Return of the Sacred Crab
  35. The Asking Tree
  36. Leppo and the Jooves

Reviews

Notes from Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys Scrapbook: From the Rock Garden, another baffling set list - starts in I don't know whose handwriting with three British folk rock numbers - The Gallant Poacher, Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman and Mr Lacey - then something illegible, then something crossed out, then Love Poisoning, the Asking Tree, then a medley of Bonde Mteko Stomp (Bonde Mteko was the name of a cottage I briefly rented outside Cambridge, where the band could rehearse), a medley of Horns (Horns Large Horns, an acapella piece from the Albion Country Band) [note: actually seems to be a traditional piece called So Selfish Runs the Hare - bc] a medley of something illegible and [Arabian] Takeaway, then Face of Death, then in Robyn's Handwriting Leppo, Pigworker, Sandra, the Asking Tree, Love Poisoning, a medley of Horns Large Horns and (African) Takeaway, [note - looks like Arabian Takeaway, as per ACoB liner notes -bc] the Rat's Prayer, (Do) the Chisel, School Dinner Blues, Wey Wey (Hep a Hole), Fatman('s Son), (Let Me Put It) Next to You. Does the second part replace the first part (without actually removing it from the list?)

From Morris W:
I have no specific recollection of individual Rock Garden gigs - we played there several times with Andy and Matthew - but the actual set list is clearly from Face of Death on...14 songs sounds about right. Don't remember doing Horns Large Horns/ Arabian Takeaway at all