Posted to the Fegmaniax list on February 15, 1999

Dear Fegs,
February 13 99 is a day that for sure I will always remember, because for the first time I could see a RH live in Mezzago
Mezzago Bloom was very crowded: I was a bit surprised, because RH is not very weel-known here in Italy (although there is at least a mega-fine like me), put Bloom is very popular for very good music in Milano's neighbourhood.
It was a good surprise hearing Soft Boys hits like Only the Stones Remain and Kingdom of Love, along with '84 and '86 gems like Autumn is your Last Chance, I Often Dream of Trains and The Lizard.
I could appreciate some of my favorite songs, like Queen Elvis, Freeze, Beatiful Girl, You And the Oblivion, The Chirico Street. Perhaps I'm saying something it could seem obvious to you Fegs, but I really liked both the first part (acoustic, concluded with the Yip Song), and the second (with electric guitar, that Robyn plays wonderfully, with some bis - RH been acclaimed by the people), and Robyn's sense of humour, introducing most of the songs with some kind of anglo-italian preamble...
Very good, I WAS THERE, that was great!
Thanks to woj for the tour dates announce!
Daniele
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this show was quite a bit more sedate than the bologna affair, though he did torque the energy level up for a few songs. paolo had the record-level set a bit too high, which is a shame because it was a damned fine show. when robyn's toured the continent in the past, he's usually stuck with quite similar setlists. but as we can see, such was not the case this time around, leastwise not for these two particular shows. according to "the asking tree", this is the first time Swirling has been performed since 3/1/92! absolutely beautifully, too. i'm wondering what the record is for longest gap between performances of a given song? heh heh, is there a way to ask robynbase to search for that, john? The Lizard was stunning. and *then* he tacked a monster Freezesque guitar solo onto the end of it! wow!
Etews