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Description Nigel & The Crosses (aka Robyn Hitchcock w/REM and friends) 
May 28, 1989 
Borderline 
London, England 
Audience cassette master->DAT->FLAC 

Robyn Hitchcock, plus various combinations of Peter Buck, Peter 
Holsapple, Glenn Tilbrook, Mike Mills, Billy Bragg, Andy Metcalf & 
Morris Windsor. 

Disc 1 (running time: 59:33) 
1. I Wanna Destroy You 
2. She Said She Said [Beatles] 
3. Eight Miles High [Byrds] 
4. Queen of Eyes 
5. Waterloo Sunset [Kinks] 
6. America 
7. Freeze 
8. The Veins of the Queen 
9. Birdshead 
10. Rain [Beatles] 
11. Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) 
12. Bells of Rhymney [Pete Seeger] 
13. The Rumour 
14. Kingdom of Love 

Disc 2 (running time: 28:49) 
Encore: 
15. Listening to the Higsons 
16. Revolution Number One [Beatles] 
17. Sin City [Gram Parsons] 
18. Route 66 
19. You Ain't Going Nowhere [Bob Dylan] 
20. I Saw Her Standing There [The Beatles] 
21. Foxy Lady [Jimi Hendrix] 

From an June 21, 1989 interview with Robyn Hitchcock by Robert 
Loerzel (http://www.robertloerzel.com/Clips/hitchcock.htm): 

I read that you occasionally played with Peter Buck and Peter 
Holsapple and you were calling yourselves Nigel and the Crosses? 

RH: That's right, yeah. We did a Nigel and the Crosses gig. The 
first one was actually at the Cubby Bear in Chicago. It was a sort 
of accident. Holsapple was doing a benefit, and we all got up and 
played with him. We were basically covering ourselves and covering 
other people, doing old Soft Boys songs... basically just pop 
rock. 

Are you planning on playing together again? 

RH: We did one in London last month, which was quite fun. But it's 
a matter of getting everybody in the same place. I'd like to do 
one at Christmas, but it gets expensive. I can't imagine doing a 
Nigel tour. 

I read that you thought of it as an equivalent of the Traveling 
Wilburys? 

RH: (Laughs.) Well, actually the guy put that into my mouth. He 
said, "You mean, is it like the Wilburys?" And I said, "Sort of." 
The Wilburys was a way of relaunching their respective careers, 
you know, which was a brilliant marketing move. With the exception 
of Tom Petty, the rest of them hadn't been doing that well 
recently. I don't know really know whether -- it's different for 
us. We have guest Wilburys. We have Billy Bragg as a guest -- Not 
Wilburys, Nigels, sorry. Billy Bragg was with us, and Glenn 
Tilbrook from Squeeze. So they're kind of honorary Nigels. It's a 
floating outfit. 

Detailed Lineage: 

BP transferred his audience cassette master to DAT, I obtained a copy 
from him in August 1996. Converted to FLAC format by TN February, 
2005. 

DAT-> PC (from Sony PCM-500 into LynxONE digital I/O card) -> FLAC 

Fade in/fade outs via Sound Forge Studio 6.0d. 
cdwave used for track splits. 
 
