- Date
- April 02, 2001
- Venue
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Two Bells
Seattle, Washington
- Billed As
- Robyn Hitchcock
- Gig Type
- Concert
- Guests
- Morris Windsor, Scott McCaughey, Kurt Bloch
Unannounced show on a day off during the Soft Boys tour
From Matthew Seligman's tour diary from underwatermoonlight.comTonight, Robyn, Morris and Scott from the YFF and some others are doing an acoustic set at the 2 Bells not far from the hotel so I think I'll go along in cub reporter mode and try and photo/bootleg it ..... Kurt's there and Scott arrives soon afterwards. I start recording the set when it happens (a couple of hours later) but I'm falling asleep and almost topple off my chair although Rick (who is on this leg of the tour) sees it and stops me. All I can remember from the set is Scott doing a pretty song and Robyn playing harmonica on it. When it's time to go, I'm too tired to walk so I experiment with standing there and letting the earth rotate under me - it works and I'm back to the hotel in a few minutes.
Seattle Weekly
April 12, 2001
The Soft Boys
by "M. Gnome"
It'd be nice to have a Tractor crowd as well-behaved as the crew of 30 or so who packed the Belltown diner Two Bells last week for another visit by Robyn Hitchcock. In town for the Soft Boys reunion (which sold out the Croc a few nights later), Hitchcock and drummer Morris Windsor joined Young Fresh Fellows Scott McCaughey and Kurt Bloch for an impromptu, literally unplugged, late-night set. Wryly dubbing his makeshift band the "Young Fresh Boys", Hitchcock led the quartet through songs by both represented bands and covers of Dylan and Beatles classics, as well as more obscure fare. Sloppy as hell and interrupted by Hitchcock's beer runs to the bar, the jam held the audience's attention despite the lack of amplification. And with nary a "shhhh" to mar the evening. You betcha!