Private House
Details
- Date
- July 14, 2021
- Venue
- Private House Nashville, Tennessee
- Billed As
- Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift
- Gig Type
- Online
Notes
'Sweet Home Quarantine' online show on StageIt.com
Emma is back from Australia and they have returned to Nashville.
They said they were staying at a friends house, not currently their own.
The cats were still in the UK!
Set List
- The Cheese Alarm Robyn solo
- There Goes the Ice Robyn solo
- Feed the Tree Belly Robyn solo
- Insanely Jealous Robyn solo
- Trams of Old London
- Heaven
- Glass Hotel
- Sayonara Judge
- The Yip Song
- My Next Divorce Improvised short improvised song
- Somewhere Apart Robyn solo
- Queen Elvis
- Queen of Eyes incomplete
Reviews
Review by Adrienne Meddock from Zub Records
It’s Bastille Day, we’re in strange digs in Nashville, and The Emma is here as promised! She’s back from a long Covid-disrupted trip to Australia, we’re meeting up in the US to prepare for the Newport Folk Festival dates for Blonde on the Tracks. Tubby and Ringo have been spared travel for the month or so in the US by remaining in London.
Somebody ring it!?! We start with Groover favorite ‘The Cheese Alarm.’ RH tells us he wrote in 1997 outside a Chicago Hotel. The biggest improvement since those days? One can get oat lattes all over the place! We transition from the dairy to the approaching climate revolt with a song Robyn and KT Tunstall put together on a 2008 expedition of artists who were taken to see first-hand the impact of climate change.”There Goes the Ice.
A pair of birthday dedications were next.To celebrate Tanya Donelly’s birthday Reg played her ‘Feed the Tree’ and for the late Soft Boy Matthew Seligman, ‘Insanely Jealous. Lovely.’
The sweaty Nixons, so prevalent in London’s summer, are in abundance in Nashville. RH needed to “wipe those old Nixons that follow me from continent to continent.”
Enter...Emma! “You look like one of my better dreams,” he beamed. It’s great to have them reunited, as is evident by the next song, their duet ‘Trams of Old London.’ It's perfect and we are all reminded it has been a hard two months.
One of my favorites, ‘Heaven’ is one Robyn tells us he’d been pining to sing again with Emma. We also get wonderful duets on ‘Glass Hotel,’’Sayonara Judge,’ and a “spritely dismal” ‘rendition of The Yip Song.’
A little mock prickly banter and they break into song, RH improvising ‘My Next Divorce’ and Emma jumping right in. Groovy marital decay?
‘Somewhere Apart,’ ‘Queen Elvis,’and a wee bit of ‘Queen of Eyes’’ finishes off this Sweet (Someone else’s) Home Sweet Quarantine. Good to have the voice and the banter and the presence of Emma back.
It’s Bastille Day, we’re in strange digs in Nashville, and The Emma is here as promised! She’s back from a long Covid-disrupted trip to Australia, we’re meeting up in the US to prepare for the Newport Folk Festival dates for Blonde on the Tracks. Tubby and Ringo have been spared travel for the month or so in the US by remaining in London.
Somebody ring it!?! We start with Groover favorite ‘The Cheese Alarm.’ RH tells us he wrote in 1997 outside a Chicago Hotel. The biggest improvement since those days? One can get oat lattes all over the place! We transition from the dairy to the approaching climate revolt with a song Robyn and KT Tunstall put together on a 2008 expedition of artists who were taken to see first-hand the impact of climate change.”There Goes the Ice.
A pair of birthday dedications were next.To celebrate Tanya Donelly’s birthday Reg played her ‘Feed the Tree’ and for the late Soft Boy Matthew Seligman, ‘Insanely Jealous. Lovely.’
The sweaty Nixons, so prevalent in London’s summer, are in abundance in Nashville. RH needed to “wipe those old Nixons that follow me from continent to continent.”
Enter...Emma! “You look like one of my better dreams,” he beamed. It’s great to have them reunited, as is evident by the next song, their duet ‘Trams of Old London.’ It's perfect and we are all reminded it has been a hard two months.
One of my favorites, ‘Heaven’ is one Robyn tells us he’d been pining to sing again with Emma. We also get wonderful duets on ‘Glass Hotel,’’Sayonara Judge,’ and a “spritely dismal” ‘rendition of The Yip Song.’
A little mock prickly banter and they break into song, RH improvising ‘My Next Divorce’ and Emma jumping right in. Groovy marital decay?
‘Somewhere Apart,’ ‘Queen Elvis,’and a wee bit of ‘Queen of Eyes’’ finishes off this Sweet (Someone else’s) Home Sweet Quarantine. Good to have the voice and the banter and the presence of Emma back.