Hope & Anchor Set List Notes

Details

Date
September 30, 1979
Venue
Hope & Anchor London, England (Islington)
Billed As
The Soft Boys
Gig Type
Concert

Notes

This gig seemingly featured two of the demo songs recorded for Radar, "The Lonesome Death of Ian Penman" and "I Wanna Appreciate You". "Lonesome" seems to be a nod to Bob Dylan's "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". (Ian Penman was a music journalist coming to prominence the time). An excerpt of "I Wanna Appreciate You" apparently can be heard on the "Underwater Moonlight... And How It Got There" re-release, at least the timeline seems to fit. However, there are a lot of songs that begin "I Wanna..." so it may be a different tune.

Intriguingly, "..Destroy You" seems to have replaced "When It Gets Dark," an apparently otherwise unknown tune. Possibly another Radar Demo? We have never heard of this song.

Setlist from page 23 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook
Image used with permission.

Set List

  1. He's a Reptile
  2. Do Policemen Sing? Maureen and the Meatpackers
  3. I Wanna Destroy You
  4. The Lonesome Death of Ian Penman exact song is a guess, listed as just "Lonesome" on the setlist
  5. The Face of Death
  6. I Got the Hots
  7. I Wanna Appreciate You exact song is a guess, listed as just "Appreciate" on the setlist
  8. Alien
  9. Insanely Jealous
  10. Old Pervert Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew, Morris Windsor, Matthew Seligman
  11. Underwater Moonlight