To give Jonathan a break, I'm doing this week's report.
My first visit to the 12 Bar Club, and it must be the smallest venue I've ever seen a gig in. Very intimate, very hot and lots of friendly people, including a surprising (to me at least) number of Americans. (I'm not saying that I was surprised that the Americans were friendly, but that they were there. Don't want anyone to get offended :-) )
Stood next to Robyn at the bar. This presented me with the problem of what can I possibly say to him that wouldn't sound completely stupid. Rather than pretend I hadn't noticed him, the cowards way out, I asked him if there was going to be a single from the new album. He said that there wasn't going to be a single but there was some vinyl - I think he meant Mossy Liquor - end of conversation. He walked off with a can of Guinness.
Support was from Homer. Quite enjoyable, but slightly depressing subject matter in the lyrics.
Robyn's set was somewhat marred by the very drunk member of the audience who was singing along very loudly and very out of tune with the bits of songs that he could remember the words to. I don't think Robyn noticed, but everyone else did. Fortunately, he didn't know many of the songs, and disappeared for good during the electric portion of the set.
There were several new songs in the set, Robyn said he was getting them ready for the film, and an album to be recorded in one day, IIRC.
Here is the set list, courtesy of Jonathan. New songs are marked with a * and the titles may or may not be completely correct.
Acoustic -
Eerie Green Lanterns *
Madonna Of The Wasps
Devil's Coachman
No, I Don't Remember Guildford *
I'm Only You
I Something You
Glass Hotel
Where Do You Go When You Die *
Let's Go Thundering *
Electric -
I Am Not Me
Never Stop Bleeding
Airscape
Freeze *
Encore -
Acoustic -
Heliotrope
Then joined by most of Homer for the rest of the songs and took up electric guitar -
Alright, Yeah
De Chirico St ('the first time I've played this with an electric guitar')
Beautiful Queen
Queen Of Eyes
Shirt report for the obsessives
Main set was a lizard shirt
Encore was plain white shirt
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Rob C