Robyn on tour with Motor Boys Motor.
Not sure who was opening for who.

Translation of tour announcement.
Double tour with this nice, hard and rough British band MBM and Robyn Hitchcock (ex-leader of Soft Boys). Both have LPs out. If you get through the cover of Motor Boys Motor, there is good and nice music on the grooves.

Live photos from The National Library of Norway. There are a total of 45 images there, well worth a look!

Morris Windsor - drums
Keith Bradshaw - bass

Setlist incomplete

Following information from Facebook correspondence with Njål Hole A and Ole S in 2025. It has been edited to form a narrative.

[Robyn] did a short Norwegian tour, split with Motor Boys Motor. Don't know if they also had gigs elsewhere in Scandinavia on this tour. The last show was at Kjelleren (or whatever it was called at the time) at Chateau Neuf, trying to remember where the first one was. From memory, their last song, the encore was The Doors' The End (with slightly changed lyrics).

Hitchcock and the band played The End by The Doors at both shows in Oslo, probably on most/all shows on the mini tour. Can't remember any other covers (or the set list). Do remember Hitchcock switching the Father/Mother bit of the lyrics.

I (Ole S) used to have an audience tape of both RH and MBM from Kjellern/Chateau Neuf. RH also did Over You, a Bryan Ferry song. I heard a soundboard version of the latter from the same show at RHs timeline here on FB some time ago, so somewhere in the RH camp somebody has a pro recording of the Kjellern/Chateau Neuf show or some of it, at least. BTW, at least the RH photos (see above) are from the Club 7 gig, according to willy b.

The two shows in Oslo, were in clubs basements, Club 7 under what was then (from memory) an office building, where the main road was one level up, the entrance at lower street level, and the actual club down a flight of stairs (a lot of great artists played there), Kjelleren was the basement club of the Chateau Neuf amfi theatre stage (back then owned by the Oslo student union).
I imagine most of the shows around the country were also in basements or in what had been (and some maybe still doubled as) literal bomb shelters. During the seventies, when towns and communities got the idea that youths didn't do as much stupid and harmful thing if they were busy, were provided somewhere to do fun stuff under not too strict (but some) supervision, a lot of places decided bomb shelters and industrial/office basements could double as youth clubs, some initially for youngsters, some teenagers, some different days for different age groups. A lot of these later became either regular, commercial venues, or were possible to rent for that use.


From Morris Windsor on Facebook in 2025
Wow! The itinerary! Never seen that...what a find!
I am indeed the drummer and I have the desk cassette of the gig! We did do Messages of Dark in a sort of Sly and Robbie style, but no off-beat chops...
The bass player was Keith Bradshaw, of the notorious Bollock Brothers and a former employee of Alaska Studio!