Alex Wood Hall
Details
- Date
- November 15, 1977 (uncertain)
- Venue
- Alex Wood Hall Cambridge, England
- Billed As
- The Soft Boys
- Gig Type
- Concert
Notes
Also possibly appearing: The Waves / Blotto (see review below)
Per Kimberley Rew scrapbook (pg 1), this was a Solidarity Benefit at Alex Wood Hall sometime in November 1977. Scrapbook includes the setlist which seems to have notes on who plays which guitar parts
Setlist from page 1 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook
Image used with permission.
Per Kimberley Rew scrapbook (pg 1), this was a Solidarity Benefit at Alex Wood Hall sometime in November 1977. Scrapbook includes the setlist which seems to have notes on who plays which guitar parts
Setlist from page 1 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook
Image used with permission.
Set List
- Give it to the Soft Boys Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Lamb
- Cold Turkey Plastic Ono Band "first Alan, then Robyn"
- Where are the Prawns?
- I Want to Be An Anglepoise Lamp
- Hear My Brane Hitchcock, Windsor, Davies, Metcalfe
- The Pigworker "Robyn after last verse, Alan in final stretch"
- Substitute The Who
- Ugly Nora
- It'll Be Me Jerry Lee Lewis "Robyn intro"
- The Face of Death
- Which of Us is Me
- Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley
- Wading Through a Ventilator
Reviews
Either this gig or the one at Alex Wood Hall in December seem to be the one mentioned on Kim's web site, at which the first version of the Waves also played. From his Biography:
Also in Rew’s college year was Katrina and the Waves’ drummer Alex Cooper. The pair formed the first version of the Waves. A notable gig was Cambridge’s Alex Wood Hall in 1977; on the bill were Robyn Hitchcock’s Soft Boys, and Blotto, featuring Rew’s future wife, bass player Lee Cave-Berry.
Also in Rew’s college year was Katrina and the Waves’ drummer Alex Cooper. The pair formed the first version of the Waves. A notable gig was Cambridge’s Alex Wood Hall in 1977; on the bill were Robyn Hitchcock’s Soft Boys, and Blotto, featuring Rew’s future wife, bass player Lee Cave-Berry.