The Roundhouse
Details
- Date
- May 07, 1978
- Venue
- The Roundhouse London, England (Camden)
- Billed As
- The Soft Boys
- Gig Type
- Concert
Notes
Opening for Magazine and Pop Group
First ad image from Melody Maker dated April 29, 1978
Second ad and backstage pass from page 6 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook. Setlist image from the Rew collection via Lee Cave-Berry (thank you!)
Images used with permission.
First ad image from Melody Maker dated April 29, 1978
Second ad and backstage pass from page 6 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook. Setlist image from the Rew collection via Lee Cave-Berry (thank you!)
Images used with permission.
Set List
- Give it to the Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Lamb
- Hear My Brane Hitchcock, Windsor, Davies, Metcalfe
- Cold Turkey Plastic Ono Band
- (I Want to Be An) Anglepoise Lamp
- Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
- Mystery Train Junior Parker
- Where are the Prawns?
- Fatman's Son
- The Pigworker
- Psychedelic Love
- The Return of the Sacred Crab
- Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley
Reviews
From Michael Branton in SOUNDS, June 17, 1978:
...let's wind the Timex back a few days, when The Soft Boys opened a show at The Roundhouse, a fete which also featured those erratic young monsters, The Pop Group, as well as the more fluid Magazine.
Onstage -- his face gleaming with silver paint like a polished chrome appliance -- Robyn leads the band though twelve songs of laudable intensity, pausing midway only to remove his wide-brimmed hat and veil. Your journalist takes careful notes, scrawling phrases between beer-stains like, "Driving beat...strong lyric phrasing...vocal harmonies are almost parodies of '60s Pop...seemingly-unstructured guitar work...Overall comments: nice effort, bad mix."
...let's wind the Timex back a few days, when The Soft Boys opened a show at The Roundhouse, a fete which also featured those erratic young monsters, The Pop Group, as well as the more fluid Magazine.
Onstage -- his face gleaming with silver paint like a polished chrome appliance -- Robyn leads the band though twelve songs of laudable intensity, pausing midway only to remove his wide-brimmed hat and veil. Your journalist takes careful notes, scrawling phrases between beer-stains like, "Driving beat...strong lyric phrasing...vocal harmonies are almost parodies of '60s Pop...seemingly-unstructured guitar work...Overall comments: nice effort, bad mix."