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.
