Hope & Anchor
Details
- Date
- March 29, 1978
- Venue
- Hope & Anchor London, England (Islington)
- Billed As
- The Soft Boys
- Gig Type
- Concert
Notes
This show features the first known appearances of "Brian O'Lynn" (Later Muriel's Hoof/Rout of the Clones) and The Yodelling Hoover. The Soft Boys surely learned Bryan O'Lynn via Steeleye Span, it was their reading of this traditional Irish jig.
Ad from page 4 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook
Image used with permission.
Ad from page 4 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook
Image used with permission.
Set List
- Give it to the Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Lamb
- The Pigworker
- The Face of Death
- Which of Us is Me
- Look into Your Mirror
- Ugly Nora
- Bryan O'Lynn trad., arr. Robyn Hitchcock et al (First appearance of the trad-inspired jig that would become Muriel's Hoof/Rout of the Clones. Noted as Bryan O'Lynn)
- Fatman's Son
- The Yodelling Hoover
- Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole
- Cold Turkey Plastic Ono Band
- Where are the Prawns?
- Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley
- (I Want to Be An) Anglepoise Lamp
- Hear My Brane Hitchcock, Windsor, Davies, Metcalfe
Encore