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Details

Date
March 29, 1986
Venue
Irving Plaza New York, New York (Manhattan)
Billed As
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
Gig Type
Concert

Notes

From the New York Times dated March 28, 1986
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place at East 15th Street (477-3728).
Strange images and surreal predicaments fill the songs of Robyn Hitchcock, a British songwriter with a droll, nightmarish imagination. ''People go by on their legs and their hands,'' he sings in ''America.'' ''Go to the doctor - he understands.'' Mr. Hitchcock's tunes bend 1960's styles - folk-rock, psychedelia, garage-rock - and the Egyptians, his band, plays with the drive of a punk band; he sings his oddball narratives in a wryly conversational voice. Opening the show, tomorrow at 11:30 P.M., will be the Dancing Hoods, a Long Island band that uses coiling folk-rock guitar riffs behind defiant lyrics. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians are scheduled at 1 A.M. Tickets are $12 (advance) or $14 (at the door).

The late start may explain the short set!

Set List

  1. Nightfall The Incredible String Band
  2. The Shape I'm In The Band
  3. Another Bubble
  4. I'm Only You
  5. Queen of Eyes
  6. Kingdom of Love
  7. Brenda's Iron Sledge
Encore
  1. Uncorrected Personality Traits
  2. Listening to the Higsons

Media

Audio recording on Archive.org

Reviews

I met super RH fans Sandra & Trudi Miller at a 1986 Egyptians show at Irving Plaza. Joey Ramone was in the audience! This was the first time I saw Robyn live on the USA leg of the Hen Out tour. Anyway these two female Robyn fans from Howard Beach were passing out flyers and were networking a future RH fan club so I sent them a letter and soon was corresponding with them from my old apartment in New Haven. I've scanned this stuff now of course I'm trying to reconnect with them here on this [facebook] Fegmaniax page if possible..

Chris F

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That Irving Plaza show was the first time I saw Robyn. Opening act was the "Dancing Hoods," whose singer Bob Bortnick actually got me into Robyn (he was also manager of Zig Zag records in Franklin Square, Long Island) and Hoods guitarist was Mark Linkous, who went on to become Sparklehorse. One of my favorite shows ever.

Douglas M