Rainbow Theatre
Details
- Date
- April 08, 1978
- Venue
- Rainbow Theatre London, England
- Billed As
- The Soft Boys
- Gig Type
- Concert
Notes
Opening for The Damned's farewell gig (although the Soft Boys appear to have opened for them again in March 1982 after both had broken up). Also appearing: Prof and the Prophets and Johnnie Moped. live image credit: Gus Stewart/Redferns
Ads and paper clippings from page 5 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook. Here is a direct link to the image of the page. Image of written setlist via Lee Cave-Berry and Kim Rew - thanks! Images used with permission.
Newspaper listing from 'Record Mirror' dated April 8, 1978
Ads and paper clippings from page 5 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook. Here is a direct link to the image of the page. Image of written setlist via Lee Cave-Berry and Kim Rew - thanks! Images used with permission.
Newspaper listing from 'Record Mirror' dated April 8, 1978
Set List
- Give it to the Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Lamb
- Hear My Brane Hitchcock, Windsor, Davies, Metcalfe
- The Pigworker
- Which of Us is Me
- Cold Turkey Plastic Ono Band
- Where are the Prawns?
- Fatman's Son
- Ugly Nora
- The Yodelling Hoover (replacing Psychedelic Love)
- Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley
- (I Want to Be An) Anglepoise Lamp
- Wading Through a Ventilator
Reviews
Additional photos on Getty Images
By Nick Kent in NME dated April 15, 1978.
The Soft Boys suffered a similarly muddied fate with their sound as well. [Referring to the shoddy sound on stage and inaudible vocals of opening act Prof and the Prophets].
I've seen this band in more impressive circumstances before - namely at the Elvis Costello free gig at the Roundhouse a few months back - so that it would again be grossly unfair to judge them on this outing.
By Nick Kent in NME dated April 15, 1978.
The Soft Boys suffered a similarly muddied fate with their sound as well. [Referring to the shoddy sound on stage and inaudible vocals of opening act Prof and the Prophets].
I've seen this band in more impressive circumstances before - namely at the Elvis Costello free gig at the Roundhouse a few months back - so that it would again be grossly unfair to judge them on this outing.