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He is playing the Exit/In I highly recommend this show. I can say with a near certainty Gillian and Dave will be there along with others. The last time he played the band was billed as the Nashville Crawdaddies, with no other info. It consisted of Gillian Welch, Dave Rawling, Peter Buck, and John Paul Jones (on mandolin). He never disappoints and I hope we get a good inforoo crowd there. It will be a good Bonnaroo preview. However this is not yet anyway billed as a Venus three show so I think it will be something special. Anyway don't miss out guys this show is well worth it.
^I almost called her but she will see it sooner or later. I bet I will not have to twist her arm to hard. Robyn in Nashville is a special show, he records at Acony Records here in town, that is Gillian and Daves, and Old Crows studio.
It wont be solo I promise, his nash lineups are usually special though. However it usually a cd release not part of a tour, but a full two set Robyn show is special regardless.
True. But it is the Balck Cat. Exit/In > Black Cat. But I may be doing that instead. I forgot about the fact we are going to a show in DC on the 8th as well. I will make it to Nashville soo though.
Post by ellisintransit on Apr 23, 2009 8:54:06 GMT -5
I hate having missed this show. I was looking forward to it but I ended up going to Pittsburgh to visit my old roommate (and got lucky to see both Charlie Hunter AND Andrew Bird while there.) Highly looking forward to the show at Bonnaroo.
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Exit/In, Nashville, TN Monday, April 6, 2009
Robyn Hitchcock is no stranger to Nashville. In 2004 he recorded an album here with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and lately he has made the Belcourt a regular stop when his tours swing through the Southeast. But all of his shows in town over the past twenty years have been mostly acoustic affairs. So when he took the stage at the Exit/In on Monday night with three-fifths of R.E.M. moonlighting at the Venus 3 backing him up, it was something Music City hadn't experiences in quite some time... electric Hitchcock. He even mentioned during the set that it was nice to be playing Nashville in a rock and roll setting again.
So how did Robyn and company kick off their set? With a version of "I Often Dream Of Trains" that was about as acoustic-y as you can get while still playing electric guitars. It was hard to complain about the low key start though, because while the rest of the show might not have been as raucous as The Egyptians sets were in the mid-80s, it was definitely a rock show. The setlist covered the gamut of Hitchcock's career, from the Soft Boys classic "Kingdom Of Love" all the way through his most recent album Goognight Oslo. Peter Buck stuck mostly to playing 12 string throughout the show, only occasionally breaking out a 6 string Rickenbacker to keep things from getting too Byrds-y (any R.E.M. fans who miss his chimey guitar parts from the 80s would be wise to get out to one of these shows). With runs through "Airscape," "Vibrating," "Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)," and an absolutely stellar version of "Madonna Of The Wasps," it was definitely a set for the fanboys (and girls) to get excited about.
After starting the encore with a solo, truly acoustic version of "The Wreck of the Arthur Lee," the band came back out for what Hitchcock described as an "celebrity cameo packed extended encore." The celebrity bit didn't come until the last song though. As R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills took the stage to play guitar, the rest of the band played musical chairs. With Buck on drums, bassist Scott McCaughey on guitar and drummer Bill Rieflin on bass, the band launched into loose but spirited version of "Listening To The Higsons." It might not have been, as Mike Mills described it, "the best show we'll see in Tennessee all year," but it was definitely one hell of a fun night.
