4 Croakers
Does anyone else recall this show at Dingwalls in London?
It started off, if I remember correctly, billed as a Minus5 show, and slowly transformed into what I had hoped would be a very low key R.E.M. show.
It was the evening before Mr Bucks start of air rage trial. All the band were in London to lend their support.
What transpired was a show which starred, in no particular order, Robyn Hitchcock, Mike Mills, Scott McCaughey, Ken Stringfellow, Kimberly Rew, and sadly not Messrs Stipe or Buck.
I remember the show with little clarity after all these years, but do remember shots of Tequila being passed from audience to band.
Happy daze.
The following below is from the rem timeline.
11 November 2001 - Dingwalls, London, England
The Minus 5: Wang Dang Doodle / One After 909 / Your Day Will Come / Good Times Rock n Roll / Dead From The Waist Down / I’ve Been High / (I’ve Got A) Lyrical Stance / Desperate For Someone
Ken Stringfellow: Down Like Me / Your Love Won’t Be Denied / This One’s On You / One Morning / Reveal Love / The Lover’s Hymn / Here’s To The Future
Robyn Hitchcock: Ted, Woody And Junior / Chinese Bones / (A Man’s Gotta Know His Limitations) Briggs / Om / Queen Of Eyes
The 4 Croakers: (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville / Electrolite / I’m So Hungry For Love / San Francisco / California Dreamin’ / All Along The Watchtower / A Day In The Life / Something / Airscape / Here Comes The Sun / Kung Foo Fighting
encore: God Only Knows
notes: Performance by Mike Mills, Ken Stringfellow, Robyn Hitchcock and Scott McCaughey. ‘I’ve Been High’ featured Ken Stringfellow on vocals and Robyn Hitchcock on ‘Electrolite’. Mike sang on ‘Dead From The Waist Down’, ‘(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville’, ‘California Dreamin’, ‘Something’ and ‘God Only Knows’, among others. Kimberly Rew of the Soft Boys also played guitar on the Soft Boys songs, and some others.