9:30 Club
Details
- Date
- March 28, 1986
- Venue
- 9:30 Club Washington, DC
- Billed As
- Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
- Gig Type
- Concert
Notes
Parts of this (tracks 8 through 13) and the 11-13-86 gig released as THE HOODED ONE bootleg
Live photos by kgslick on Instagram
Assumption made they are from this show, seems to be confirmed by the video footage.
Note that on the video, the final song (Leppo and the Jooves) appears first for some reason. Still, great to have the video! From the uploader's decription: "I found this on Ebay years ago- I saw someone selling it and knew exactly what it was. The 9:30 club had a (somewhat legendary) semi professional video system with a Umatic camera and soundboard audio. A bunch of VHS copies hit trading circles back in the 80s of bands like Embrace, Government issue, etc.. so when this came up on Ebay, I wasn't going to get outbid. Haha.
Then I went to play it on the other umatic machine I had and it would not play- the tape seemed completely damaged and victim of sticky shed syndrome (look it up), so I shelved it. Then, my friend Mark at FET Electronics fixed my good umatic machine and here it is. Would you look at that. Beautiful."
Live photos by kgslick on Instagram
Assumption made they are from this show, seems to be confirmed by the video footage.
Note that on the video, the final song (Leppo and the Jooves) appears first for some reason. Still, great to have the video! From the uploader's decription: "I found this on Ebay years ago- I saw someone selling it and knew exactly what it was. The 9:30 club had a (somewhat legendary) semi professional video system with a Umatic camera and soundboard audio. A bunch of VHS copies hit trading circles back in the 80s of bands like Embrace, Government issue, etc.. so when this came up on Ebay, I wasn't going to get outbid. Haha.
Then I went to play it on the other umatic machine I had and it would not play- the tape seemed completely damaged and victim of sticky shed syndrome (look it up), so I shelved it. Then, my friend Mark at FET Electronics fixed my good umatic machine and here it is. Would you look at that. Beautiful."
Set List
- Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl
- The Cars She Used to Drive
- Acid Bird
- Lady Waters and the Hooded One
- Fifty Two Stations
- The Man With the Lightbulb Head
- I Often Dream of Trains
- Sounds Great When You're Dead
- Bass
- Ted, Woody, and Junior
- Egyptian Cream
- Brenda's Iron Sledge
- Kingdom of Love
- Goodnight I Say
- Uncorrected Personality Traits
- Tell Me About Your Drugs
- Leppo and the Jooves
Media
YouTube video of 1 hour of show from the 9:30 Club camera system! (slight editing mistake, last song appears first)
Audio on Archive.org (From Tews Cassette Archive)
Video on Archive.org (same source as video above)
Audio on Archive.org (from the video source)
Reviews
The Washington Post
April 2, 1986
Hitchcock & The Egyptians
by J.D. Considine
Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians are a decidedly eccentric band. What else can be said of a group whose leader would introduce a song with a deadpan dissertation on homosexual periodicals of the mid-1960s? But, as the band ably demonstrated at the 9:30 Club Friday night, such nonsense is unlikely to impede the British group's success. If anything, it ought to accelerate things.
Although The Egyptians made for a crack rhythm team, Hitchcock remained the focus of this localized insanity. With a droll delivery and an endearingly ragged voice, he pulled laughs from the giddy non-sequiturs of "Brenda's Iron Sledge" and played up the B-movie effects in "The Man With the Lightbulb Head". A lot of the fun came from his lyrics and the comically surreal stories that prefaced some of his songs. But his melodic sense was no less impressive, as much in the wacky quartet harmony of "Uncorrected Personality Traits" as in the Beatlesque flourishes of "Egyptian Cream" and "Ted, Woody And Junior".
April 2, 1986
Hitchcock & The Egyptians
by J.D. Considine
Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians are a decidedly eccentric band. What else can be said of a group whose leader would introduce a song with a deadpan dissertation on homosexual periodicals of the mid-1960s? But, as the band ably demonstrated at the 9:30 Club Friday night, such nonsense is unlikely to impede the British group's success. If anything, it ought to accelerate things.
Although The Egyptians made for a crack rhythm team, Hitchcock remained the focus of this localized insanity. With a droll delivery and an endearingly ragged voice, he pulled laughs from the giddy non-sequiturs of "Brenda's Iron Sledge" and played up the B-movie effects in "The Man With the Lightbulb Head". A lot of the fun came from his lyrics and the comically surreal stories that prefaced some of his songs. But his melodic sense was no less impressive, as much in the wacky quartet harmony of "Uncorrected Personality Traits" as in the Beatlesque flourishes of "Egyptian Cream" and "Ted, Woody And Junior".