Opening act: Johanna Kunin

Image of show preview and concert ad from Flagpole magazine dated March 14, 2007

Setlist approximate, possibly incomplete

Review and photos on Facebook by Chris McKay
March 21, 2007 (Late) - Robyn Hitchcock And The Venus 3 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, Georgia
From my diary:
Frank (DeFreese, bassist for The Critical Darlings) met me at the door of the 40 Watt and as I chatted with one of the door people, I caught a rare appearance by Fred Schneider of The B-52's. It's rare because contrary to popular belief, The B-52's don't live in Athens and haven't since circa 1979.
I've never seen him here but apparently he's in town working on a new album.
The drummer for Pylon (who is one of the crew based in Hawaii for Lost) was also there.
In fact, there were many of the old school Athenians in attendance.
Who could bring 'em out you ask?
Why Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 of course.
Besides Robyn being the cult-legend that directed The Soft Boys and The Egyptians, his current band is made up of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Bill Rieflin (formerly of Ministry and current R.E.M. drummer) and Scott McCaughey (of The Minus 5).
Of course, I ran into R.E.M.'s manager Bertis and got to say a quick hello. I've enjoyed every minute we've managed to grab together.
Since I was so late, I missed the opportunity to get a pre-show trade shot with Robyn.
Honestly, I was still lucky as Robyn's tour manager Brian allowed me and only me to shoot the show while turning down others, including one great photographer that I know that traveled hundreds of miles to be here. I felt really bad for him.
I think the only reason that I was allowed was because of the thumbs up from Barrie.
Robyn’s crew were cool with anything the 40 Watt show wanted. Hell, they’re all friends at this point, so I was fortunate to get over that hurdle.
Robyn's show was very quiet.
I must say that I was so exhausted that I felt like I was going to keel over on occasion.
Still, I made it through.
Robyn was his usual twisted and hilarious self. As spectacular as the band was, the rest of the guys were definitely not much more than his backup band.
By the time I had walked around the room and come back, Frank had already deserted.
Instead, I spoke with Patterson (Hood) from Drive-By Truckers for a bit.
We bonded a little about how much Robyn sounded like Al Stewart.
He said that he'd always thought that and never heard anyone else say it. That comforted me because I thought I was alone in thinking it.
Velena asked me to stick around 'til post-show for the trade.
I was so tired that I could hardly stand up but I hung around anyway.
The Venus 3 came out and signed autographs almost immediately.
I couldn't wait for them to finish to get a shot with all of the band members, but I did do a quick shot with Velena, Barrie and Robyn and it was fun to get a few minutes to talk with Robyn one on one.
Right after we got the pic and had some small talk, Robyn went out to sign, too.
Why don’t I have a picture with him or one of those cool, signed posters? No idea. Lost opportunity in the missed of a grabbed opportunity, I guess.