SPACE
Details
- Date
- March 29, 2023
- Venue
- SPACE Evanston, Illinois
- Billed As
- Robyn Hitchcock
- Gig Type
- Concert
- Guests
- Emma Swift
Notes
Kelley Stoltz and Bart Davenport had to pull out due to testing positive for COVID.
All songs were Robyn solo acoustic except where noted.
Set List
- The Shuffle Man
- Balloon Man
- My Wife and My Dead Wife
- The Inner Life of Scorpio
- The Devil's Coachman
- I Am This Thing
- Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom
- Flavour of Night Robyn on piano
- The Man Who Invented Himself Robyn on piano
- Harry's Song Robyn on piano
- Ghost in Sunlight Robyn on piano
- The Lizard
- set break
- My Mind is Connected. . . Robyn on electric guitar?
- I Often Dream of Trains Robyn on electric guitar?
- The Sir Tommy Shovel Robyn on electric guitar?
- Airscape Robyn on electric guitar?
- Sally Was a Legend Robyn on electric guitar?
- The Yip Song with Emma, acoustic
- Glass Hotel with Emma, acoustic
- The Man Who Loves the Rain with Emma, acoustic
- So You Think You're in Love with Emma, acoustic
- Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) with Emma, acoustic - with some lines from 'More Than This' by Roxy Music
Encore
- Lately I've Let Things Slide Nick Lowe
- The Calvary Cross Richard and Linda Thompson
Media
Audio recording of show
Reviews
A few additional show notes:
*He started with a few songs, then quipped that "the virus" got Kelley and that "Once again, I'm in the position of opening my own show."
*At one point, he led the crowd in deep breathing (maybe a Ted Lasso reference, with him being our Zava)
*He remarked that it looked like we'd all come out the other end of middle age and asked us, "How was it?"
*He mentioned that he would be back at Chicago's Old Town School in October.
*He mentioned (and imitated) Richard Thompson a few times--mostly because he'd noticed that RIchard Thompson had played SPACE several times.
*The final Emma song was actually Flesh #1/More Than This, then back to Flesh #1 again--a real 70s variety show move on R & E's part!
*At the encore, Robyn asked for requests and, in the face of the cacophony that resulted, said that there were some bugs to be worked out with democracy.
*The most noteworthy thing about "Ghost in Sunlight" (other than it was the one song I couldn't identify) is that it boasted several full-out Robyn screams, like nothing I've heard in any of his other songs.
Lynn H
*He started with a few songs, then quipped that "the virus" got Kelley and that "Once again, I'm in the position of opening my own show."
*At one point, he led the crowd in deep breathing (maybe a Ted Lasso reference, with him being our Zava)
*He remarked that it looked like we'd all come out the other end of middle age and asked us, "How was it?"
*He mentioned that he would be back at Chicago's Old Town School in October.
*He mentioned (and imitated) Richard Thompson a few times--mostly because he'd noticed that RIchard Thompson had played SPACE several times.
*The final Emma song was actually Flesh #1/More Than This, then back to Flesh #1 again--a real 70s variety show move on R & E's part!
*At the encore, Robyn asked for requests and, in the face of the cacophony that resulted, said that there were some bugs to be worked out with democracy.
*The most noteworthy thing about "Ghost in Sunlight" (other than it was the one song I couldn't identify) is that it boasted several full-out Robyn screams, like nothing I've heard in any of his other songs.
Lynn H