Largo

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Details

Date
April 03, 1999
Venue
Largo Los Angeles, California (West Hollywood)
Billed As
Robyn Hitchcock
Gig Type
Concert
Guests
Jon Brion, Grant Lee Phillips, Neil Finn

Set List

  1. Gene Hackman
  2. Queen Elvis
  3. Viva Sea-Tac
  4. Balloon Man
  5. Wild Mountain Thyme The Byrds
  6. I'll Get You The Beatles
  7. It Is Obvious Syd Barrett
  8. Sleeping with Your Devil Mask Robyn switches to electric
  9. Trams of Old London enter Grant Lee Phillips
  10. The Crystal Ship The Doors enter Jon Brion on piano
  11. All Tomorrow's Parties Velvet Underground
  12. Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus
  13. I Feel Beautiful
  14. Antwoman Jon on drums
  15. The Underneath Jon on drums
  16. Coming into Los Angeles Neil Finn
  17. Private Universe Neil Finn
  18. Thank Heavens for Flanagan improv, Neil Finn
  19. The Burglar Song Neil Finn
  20. Lester Neil Finn
  21. Michael and the Slipper Tree snippet, Neil Finn
  22. Into Temptation Neil Finn, Jon Brion
  23. Fall At Your Feet Neil Finn, Jon Brion, Grant-Lee Phillips
  24. Four Seasons in One Day Neil Finn, Jon Brion, Grant-Lee Phillips
  25. Honey Don't Think Grant-Lee Phillips, Neil Finn, Jon Brion
  26. The Shallow End Grant-Lee Phillips, Neil Finn, Jon Brion
  27. Sinner Neil Finn, Jon Brion, Grant-Lee Phillips
  28. Visions of Johanna Bob Dylan Robyn with Jon Brion, Grant-Lee Phillips and Neil Finn from here to end.
  29. I've Got a Feeling The Beatles
  30. One After 909 The Beatles
  31. Don't Let Me Down The Beatles
  32. Wipe Out The Surfaris
  33. Country Rose Improvised
  34. She Said She Said The Beatles segues into
  35. Arnold Layne Pink Floyd
  36. Sound and Vision David Bowie medley
  37. Rock Your Baby George McCrae medley
  38. When You're In Love With a Beautiful Woman Dr. Hook medley
  39. All You Need Is Love The Beatles
  40. Soul Kitchen The Doors
  41. White Christmas Bing Crosby with alternate lyrics improvised by Robyn.

Media

Audio recording of show

Reviews

Robyn came out in exactly the same outfit as the night before, though awfully disheveled this time. After "We are the Underneath" Robyn and co. retired, claiming they would go backstage to drink, but saying a REALLY special guest would be showing up shortly (causing a mock indignant expression from Grant). Speculation ran rampant, as you'd imagine, until Flanagan appeared and introduced Neil Finn.

Neil played a short (but lovely) set, mostly of fairly obscure songs. One of them he said his 3-year-old son collaborated with him on; one other he'd never before done on stage. A wonderful little interlude.

Robyn, Grant, and Jon came back out, and Neil announced that he was going to do something he'd always wanted to do... play the drums. Which he did for the rest of the night.

After a couple of songs, Neil protested that he wasn't really qualified on drums. The others responded with some laudatory words, and launched into Wipeout. Heh. Neil was fine back there, at least until "All You Need Is Love," which turned out to be a tad more complicated than he'd realized.

Still, another memorable night at Largo. Viva Sea-Tac had a different ending this time, which sounded like a lot of ad-libbing. Devil Mask was a shocker, as was Sleeping Knights. When Robyn, Grant, and Jon get going on their rock songs, it's really something special; I wish they did more of Robyn's tunes like that than just the few that concluded the first set.

One more thing: Robyn looked pretty worn out most of the night, and seemed to drink a lot. It looked like he had an awful lot of wine on stage (for that matter, I counted four Guinnesses consumed by Jon while performing). After the show, some Fegs waited around for a chance to talk to him or get autographs, and were told he wouldn't be coming out; he was too exhausted.

'til next time,
- Chris