Hear My Brane Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

Details

Author
Hitchcock, Windsor, Davies, Metcalfe
Performances
97

Releases

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

Gigs

Billed As Venue City State Country Date
The Soft Boys Alma Cambridge England UK 07/07/1977
The Soft Boys The Royal Hotel Luton England UK 08/12/1977
The Soft Boys Alma Cambridge England UK 09/02/1977
The Soft Boys Icknields Hall Letchworth England UK 09/09/1977
The Soft Boys Corn Exchange Cambridge England UK 10/07/1977
The Soft Boys Southbank Poly Cambridge England UK 10/14/1977
The Soft Boys Alma Cambridge England UK 10/22/1977
The Soft Boys Alma Cambridge England UK 11/13/1977
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 11/15/1977
The Soft Boys London School of Economics (LSE) Cambridge England UK 11/18/1977
The Soft Boys Jesus College Cambridge England UK 11/29/1977
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 12/01/1977
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 01/07/1978
The Soft Boys The Roundhouse London England UK 01/20/1978
The Soft Boys Pembroke College Cambridge England UK 01/28/1978
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 02/04/1978
The Soft Boys Alma Cambridge England UK 02/05/1978
The Soft Boys Mid-Herts College Welwyn Garden City England UK 02/11/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 02/13/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 02/14/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 02/20/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 02/21/1978
The Soft Boys Winchester Art School Winchester England UK 02/24/1978
The Soft Boys The Roundhouse London England UK 02/26/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 02/27/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 02/28/1978
The Soft Boys North East London Polytechnic London England UK 03/09/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 03/29/1978
The Soft Boys Elms Court (Oxford Elm Park Centre) Botley England UK 04/01/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 04/02/1978
The Soft Boys Rainbow Theatre London England UK 04/08/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 04/15/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 04/21/1978
Robyn Hitchcock Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 04/29/1978
The Soft Boys The Penthouse Scarborough England UK 05/05/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 05/06/1978
The Soft Boys The Roundhouse London England UK 05/07/1978
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 05/13/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 05/14/1978
The Soft Boys Marquee London England UK 05/25/1978
The Soft Boys Nags Head High Wycombe England UK 05/27/1978
The Soft Boys Rock Garden Middlesbrough England UK 06/02/1978
The Soft Boys Tiffany's Edinburgh Scotland UK 06/05/1978
The Soft Boys Stowaway Club Newport Wales UK 06/07/1978
The Soft Boys Roots / F Club Leeds England UK 06/08/1978
The Soft Boys Rafters Manchester England UK 06/09/1978
The Soft Boys Portsmouth Polytechnic Portsmouth England UK 06/17/1978
The Soft Boys Marquee London England UK 06/18/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 07/02/1978
Leppo & the Jooves Hope & Anchor London England UK 08/26/1978
The Soft Boys Alma Cambridge England UK 08/28/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 09/15/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 10/06/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 10/14/1978
The Soft Boys 77 Club Nuneaton England UK 10/17/1978
The Soft Boys London College of Printing London England UK 10/19/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 10/20/1978
The Soft Boys Rock Garden London England UK 10/27/1978
The Soft Boys Downing College, Cambridge University Cambridge England UK 10/28/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 11/11/1978
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 11/16/1978
The Soft Boys Leicester University Leicester England UK 11/21/1978
The Soft Boys Russell Club "Factory" Night Manchester England UK 11/24/1978
The Soft Boys Eric's Liverpool England UK 11/25/1978
The Soft Boys Lady Mitchell Hall Cambridge England UK 11/27/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 12/08/1978
The Soft Boys Corn Exchange (Heads) Cambridge England UK 12/23/1978
The Soft Boys North East London Polytechnic London England UK 01/11/1979
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 01/12/1979
The Soft Boys Mid-Herts College Welwyn Garden City England UK 01/20/1979
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 02/03/1979
The Soft Boys Reading University Reading England UK 05/09/1979
The Soft Boys Woods Plymouth England UK 05/16/1979
The Soft Boys Nashville Rooms London England UK 06/02/1979
The Soft Boys Astoria London England UK 01/13/1994
The Soft Boys The Concorde Brighton England UK 01/14/1994
The Soft Boys Astoria London England UK 01/15/1994
The Soft Boys Corn Exchange Cambridge England UK 01/17/1994
The Soft Boys Railway Inn Winchester England UK 10/16/2002
The Soft Boys Mean Fiddler London England UK 10/17/2002
The Soft Boys Variety Playhouse Atlanta Georgia US 10/21/2002
The Soft Boys 40 Watt Club Athens Georgia US 10/22/2002
The Soft Boys WXPN - World Café Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 10/24/2002
The Soft Boys WFMU Jersey City New Jersey US 10/25/2002
The Soft Boys Maxwell's Hoboken New Jersey US 10/25/2002
The Soft Boys The Bowery Ballroom New York New York US 10/26/2002
The Soft Boys Mercury Lounge New York New York US 10/27/2002
The Soft Boys The Double Door Chicago Illinois US 10/28/2002
The Soft Boys First Avenue Minneapolis Minnesota US 10/29/2002
The Soft Boys Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US 10/31/2002
The Soft Boys Slim's San Francisco California US 11/02/2002
The Soft Boys House of Blues West Hollywood California US 11/04/2002
The Soft Boys BBC 6 Music London England UK 11/28/2002
The Soft Boys Jux Tap Sarzana Italy 01/16/2003
The Soft Boys Teatro Toscanini Chiari Italy 01/18/2003
The Soft Boys The Zodiac Oxford England UK 01/27/2003
The Soft Boys Boat Race 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