Vingt Et Un: Tokyo Bay Cruise Set List Notes Reviews Media

Details

Date
October 10, 2006
Venue
Vingt Et Un: Tokyo Bay Cruise Tokyo, Japan
Billed As
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3
Gig Type
Concert
Guests
Glenn Tilbrook

Notes

Fan party on the boat
Glenn Tilbrook guests on vocals & guitar from 'Back In The U.S.S.R.' onwards, as well as lead vocals on 'You Can't Do That' & 'Up The Junction', Robyn sings lead on 'Electrolite'.

Set List

  1. Full Moon In My Soul
  2. I Still Miss Someone Johnny Cash Scott McCaughey lead vocals
  3. Back In the U.S.S.R. The Beatles
  4. Dear Prudence The Beatles
  5. Ole! Tarantula
  6. You Can't Do That The Beatles Glenn Tilbrook lead vocals
  7. Day Tripper The Beatles
  8. Band of Gold Freda Payne Glenn Tilbrook lead vocals
  9. Electrolite R.E.M.
  10. Up the Junction Squeeze Glenn Tilbrook lead vocals
  11. Marie Provost Nick Lowe Scott McCaughey lead vocals
  12. The Authority Box
  13. Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)
  14. Hungry For Love Johnny Kidd & the Pirates
  15. Find a Finger The Minus 5 Scott McCaughey lead vocals
  16. A Day in the Life The Beatles
  17. The Ballad of John and Yoko The Beatles
  18. Rainbow Bridge Improvised improvised song played as the boat went under the Rainbow Bridge
  19. Wang Dang Doodle Howlin' Wolf

Media

Audio recording of show
YouTube video

Reviews

Some photos and a review in Japanese by "Tadd"pole galaxy, translated to English below
For around half an hour after the boat departed we ate and had a few drinks inside the cabin, before moving outside onto the deck. The performance started against a backdrop of Tokyo Bay at night. Although not full, the moon was out and this prompted Robyn to begin the show with a solo rendition of "Full Moon in My Soul". Robyn was then joined by Scott and Peter, and after a few more songs by Glenn. Bill watched the performance for quite some time from the side, but he was later introduced by Robyn and started playing
tambourine. They sang plenty of Beatles songs. When the boat got close to Haneda airport and we could hear the din of planes taking off and landing, they played "Back in the USSR" to great effect. Robyn also played songs of his own including "Ole Tarantula" and "Authority Box", with Glenn and Chris singing the chorus on "A Globe of Frogs" (1988), and Peter played guitar for "Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)" after practicing the song before the party.

Among the cover songs, possibly the most pleasant surprise of the evening was when Robyn sang the REM song "Electrolite". The only Squeeze number sung by Glenn was "Up the Junction". Glenn's songs have complex chord progressions, which probably makes them unsuitable for playing as a band on such occasions. When requested
to play a Nick Lowe song, Scott sang "Marie Provost". Howlin' Robyn closed the extremely enjoyable performance lasting roughly one hour and 20 minutes by singing "Wang Dang Doodle" (written by Willie Dixon), and we spent the short time left on the boat eating dessert in the cabin.

[thanks to Mike for the English translation]