Hear My Brane Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

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Hitchcock, Windsor, Davies, Metcalfe
According to our records, Robyn has played this song 99 times, most recently at Boat Race on January 29, 2003. He first performed it at Alma on July 07, 1977, 25 years and 6 months earlier.
Title Artist Label Type Year
Give it to the Soft Boys The Soft Boys Raw Records Single 1977
(Oh No It's) More From Raw Various Raw Records Compilation 1978
Wading Through a Ventilator The Soft Boys Delorean Record Company Bootleg 1984
Raw Cuts The Soft Boys Overground Records EP 1989
The Soft Boys 1976-1981 The Soft Boys Rykodisc Album 1993
Where Are The Prawns? The Soft Boys Fan Club release 1994
Rout Of The Clones The Soft Boys Bootleg 1995
Maxwell's, New York, 1980 The Soft Boys Handmade Productions Bootleg 1998
Venue Billed As City State Country Date
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 07/07/1977
The Royal Hotel The Soft Boys Luton England UK 08/12/1977
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 09/02/1977
Icknields Hall The Soft Boys Letchworth England UK 09/09/1977
Corn Exchange The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/07/1977
Southbank Poly The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/14/1977
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/22/1977
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/13/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/15/1977
London School of Economics (LSE) The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/18/1977
St John's Pythagoras Room Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 11/24/1977
Jesus College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/29/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 12/01/1977
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/07/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 01/20/1978
Pembroke College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/28/1978
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/04/1978
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/05/1978
Mid-Herts College The Soft Boys Welwyn Garden City England UK 02/11/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/13/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/14/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/20/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/21/1978
Winchester Art School The Soft Boys Winchester England UK 02/24/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 02/26/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 02/27/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 02/28/1978
North East London Polytechnic The Soft Boys London England UK 03/09/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 03/29/1978
Elms Court (Oxford Elm Park Centre) The Soft Boys Botley England UK 04/01/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 04/02/1978
Rainbow Theatre The Soft Boys London England UK 04/08/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 04/15/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 04/21/1978
Alex Wood Hall Robyn Hitchcock Cambridge England UK 04/29/1978
The Penthouse The Soft Boys Scarborough England UK 05/05/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 05/06/1978
The Roundhouse The Soft Boys London England UK 05/07/1978
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 05/13/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 05/14/1978
Marquee The Soft Boys London England UK 05/25/1978
Nags Head The Soft Boys High Wycombe England UK 05/27/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys Middlesbrough England UK 06/02/1978
Tiffany's The Soft Boys Edinburgh Scotland UK 06/05/1978
Stowaway Club The Soft Boys Newport Wales UK 06/07/1978
Roots / F Club The Soft Boys Leeds England UK 06/08/1978
Rafters The Soft Boys Manchester England UK 06/09/1978
Portsmouth Polytechnic The Soft Boys Portsmouth England UK 06/17/1978
Marquee The Soft Boys London England UK 06/18/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 07/02/1978
Hope & Anchor Leppo & the Jooves London England UK 08/26/1978
Alma The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 08/28/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 09/15/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/06/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 10/14/1978
77 Club The Soft Boys Nuneaton England UK 10/17/1978
London College of Printing The Soft Boys London England UK 10/19/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 10/20/1978
Rock Garden The Soft Boys London England UK 10/27/1978
Downing College, Cambridge University The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 10/28/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 11/11/1978
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 11/16/1978
Leicester University The Soft Boys Leicester England UK 11/21/1978
Russell Club "Factory" Night The Soft Boys Manchester England UK 11/24/1978
Eric's The Soft Boys Liverpool England UK 11/25/1978
Lady Mitchell Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 11/27/1978
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 12/08/1978
Corn Exchange (Heads) The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 12/23/1978
North East London Polytechnic The Soft Boys London England UK 01/11/1979
Hope & Anchor The Soft Boys London England UK 01/12/1979
Mid-Herts College The Soft Boys Welwyn Garden City England UK 01/20/1979
Sidney Sussex College The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/26/1979
Alex Wood Hall The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 02/03/1979
Reading University The Soft Boys Reading England UK 05/09/1979
Woods The Soft Boys Plymouth England UK 05/16/1979
Nashville Rooms The Soft Boys London England UK 06/02/1979
Astoria The Soft Boys London England UK 01/13/1994
The Concorde The Soft Boys Brighton England UK 01/14/1994
Astoria The Soft Boys London England UK 01/15/1994
Corn Exchange The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/17/1994
Railway Inn The Soft Boys Winchester England UK 10/16/2002
Mean Fiddler The Soft Boys London England UK 10/17/2002
Variety Playhouse The Soft Boys Atlanta Georgia US 10/21/2002
40 Watt Club The Soft Boys Athens Georgia US 10/22/2002
WXPN - World Café The Soft Boys Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 10/24/2002
WFMU The Soft Boys Jersey City New Jersey US 10/25/2002
Maxwell's The Soft Boys Hoboken New Jersey US 10/25/2002
The Bowery Ballroom The Soft Boys New York New York US 10/26/2002
Mercury Lounge The Soft Boys New York New York US 10/27/2002
The Double Door The Soft Boys Chicago Illinois US 10/28/2002
First Avenue The Soft Boys Minneapolis Minnesota US 10/29/2002
Crocodile Café The Soft Boys Seattle Washington US 10/31/2002
Slim's The Soft Boys San Francisco California US 11/02/2002
House of Blues The Soft Boys West Hollywood California US 11/04/2002
BBC 6 Music The Soft Boys London England UK 11/28/2002
Jux Tap The Soft Boys Sarzana Italy 01/16/2003
Teatro Toscanini The Soft Boys Chiari Italy 01/18/2003
The Zodiac The Soft Boys Oxford England UK 01/27/2003
Boat Race The Soft Boys Cambridge England UK 01/29/2003

Comments

Written by Robyn, Morris, Alan and Andy per the "Where are the Prawns" cassette J card. The unusual spelling of "Brane" was reportedly inspired by the "Molesworth" books by Ronald Searle and Geoffery Willans. Kimberley Rew indicated this in his Soft Boys Scrapbook, and said that in 1978 he bore a resemblance to the character Peason. (p5, p11). See also "Skool Dinner Blues."

Lyrics

Hear my brain a-comin' down your slender track
Ever since I went away I been wishin' I was back
Oh yeah, wishin' I could quack

Feel my head a-comin' through your window pane
The glass knows when the head comes through and then seals up again
Oh yeah, indeed, quite so, in fact

Maybe you'll remember, maybe you'll forget
It doesn't matter very much, it hasn't happened yet
Oh no, it hasn't happened yet

She sells brain cells
She sells brain

Shoot me when I'm hungry, rob me when I'm bad
Teach me foreign languages, but don't give me any food
Oh no, don't give me anything to eat