First Avenue Set List Notes Reviews Media

Details

Date
April 11, 1988
Venue
First Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota
Billed As
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
Gig Type
Concert
Guests
Peter Buck

Notes

Recording commonly mislabeled as 'Chestnut Cabaret' (Philadelphia) - see below.
Peter Buck guests on guitar from 'Birdshead' onwards.

Set List

  1. I Often Dream of Trains (Robyn solo}
  2. Cars She Used to Drive (Andy and Morris join)
  3. Bass
  4. Another Bubble
  5. Unsettled
  6. I'm Only You
  7. Tropical Flesh Mandala
  8. Winchester
  9. Birdshead (enter Peter Buck)
  10. Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) some lines from More Than This at the end
  11. Chinese Bones
  12. Balloon Man
  13. Queen of Eyes
  14. A Globe of Frogs
Encore
  1. I Got a Message For You (Robyn solo)
  2. Uncorrected Personality Traits (Andy and Morris redux)
  3. Listening to the Higsons
  4. The Man With the Lightbulb Head
  5. Heaven
  6. Eight Days A Week The Beatles
  7. If You Were a Priest

Media

Audio recording on Archive.org - incomplete, missing songs after "I got a message for you"
Complete audio recording of show (alternate audience recording)

Reviews

RH & the E's played 1st Ave in Minneapolis on 4/11. I got a traded cassette labelled 'Chestnut Cabaret '88' that I digitized and posted to Dime and someone there corrected me that it was actually the 1st Ave gig. I think that tape made the rounds with bad info and it made its way into the Asking Tree. I might have even got it from RH's A&R guy at A&M. I traded with him a bunch. He may well have got the board tape and mislabelled it on purpose to reduce the likelihood of tracing it back to him. I think the J card is in his handwriting.