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| Empire Theatre, Liverpool - 13
February 1990 Set-list from a fairly poor audience recording. At one point you can clearly hear a girl having a go at the taper for standing in front of her (and presumably being a bit tall!). One of the other things you hear her say is that she paid £3.50 for her ticket like everyone else (how things have changed since!). Audience Recording: Full show, 80 mins, Quality B- Kiss This Thing Goodbye Opposite View When I Want You Empty As Soon As The Tide Comes In You're Gone Stone Cold Sober This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Hatful Of Rain The Return Of Maggie Brown You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (one verse only) Nothing Ever Happens Move Away Jimmy Blue Maggie May (cover of the Rod Stewart song) Kiss This Thing Goodbye (reprise) [Return to top] |
| Glasgow Pavillion - 24
Feb 1990 There are a couple of recordings of this show knocking around. There is a superb one hour radio broadcast, and also an audience recording of the whole show. The tracks broadcast on radio are starred below: Radio recording: Partial show, 60 mins, Quality A+ Audience recording: Full show, 90 mins, Quality B Kiss This Thing Goodbye * The Opposite View * When I Want You * Empty * As Soon As The Tide Comes In * You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Spit In The Rain This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere * Hatful Of Rain * The Return Of Maggie Brown * You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (cover of the Beatles song) Nothing Ever Happens Move Away Jimmy Blue Blue Boy (cover of a Lloyd Cole song) * Maggie May (cover of the Rod Stewart song) * Kiss This Thing Goodbye (reprise) including * Shang A Lang (cover of the Bay City Rollers song) * Waterfront (cover of the Simple Minds song) * [Return to top] |
| Gross Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany - 24 March 1990 Audience recording: Partial show, 40 mins, Quality B+ Kiss This Thing Goodbye Opposite View When I Want You Empty You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Nothing Ever Happens [Return to top] |
| Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany - 26 March 1990 Audience recording: Probably partial show, 60 mins, Quality A- Kiss This Thing Goodbye Opposite View When I Want You Empty You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Nothing Ever Happens The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Hatful Of Rain The Return Of Maggie Brown Maggie May [Return to top] |
| Glasgow Barrowlands - 12 April 1990 Audience recording: Full show, 90 mins, Quality B Opposite View Hatful Of Rain When I Want You Empty As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Nothing Ever Happens This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Kiss This Thing Goodbye Spit In The Rain The Return Of Maggie Brown Move Away Jimmy Blue Maggie May (cover of the Rod Stewart song) A Hard Day's Night (cover of the Beatles song - joined on stage by support act The Katydids) [Return to top] |
| Glasgow Barrowlands - 13 April 1990 Excellent show playing to their home town. For the last two songs, the Dels were joined on-stage by the Katydids, the support band for this short April tour. The Katydids were a London based band fronted by Susie Hug and they produced two albums around 1990, before splitting up. There has been recent interest in the band as Travis are big fans of their work. Susie Hug appeared with Travis on one of the b-sides to More Than Us, and recent reports are that Travis were the backing band for her latest solo album. Audience recording: Full show, 90 mins, Quality B You're Gone Stone Cold Sober You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (cover of the Beatles song) Nothing Ever Happens This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere The Opposite View Hatful Of Rain When I Want You Empty As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) Kiss This Thing Goodbye Spit In The Rain The Return Of Maggie Brown Move Away Jimmy Blue Maggie May (cover of the Rod Stewart song) It's All Over Now (cover of the Rolling Stones hit) A Hard Day's Night (cover of the Beatles song) [Return to top] |
| Paradiso, Amsterdam - 23 April 1990 Audience recording: Full show, 90 mins, Quality B Kiss This Thing Goodbye Opposite View When I Want You Empty As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Spit In The Rain This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Hatful Of Rain The Return Of Maggie Brown You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (cover of the Beatles song) Nothing Ever Happens Maggie May (cover of the Rod Stewart song) Move Away Jimmy Blue Kiss This Thing Goodbye (reprise) [Return to top] |
| The Roxy, Los Angeles - 10 May 1990 Audience recording: Partial show, 60 mins, A- Hatful Of Rain Opposite View When I Want You Empty As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) You're Gone Stone Cold Sober (audience recording only has first minute of this song) This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Kiss This Thing Goodbye The Return Of Maggie Brown Move Away Jimmy Blue / You Can't Always Get What You Want [Return to top] |
| Key Largo Nightclub, Portland, Oregon 17 May 1990 No setlist I'm afraid - but here's a scan of a flyer:  [Return to top] |
| Fine Line Cafe, Minneapolis
- May 1990 On the day of this show the Dels also did an interview on local radio which included live versions of Nothing Ever Happens and No Holding On. Radio recording: Partial show, 60 mins, Quality A- Opposite View When I Want You Empty As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Spit In The Rain This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Kiss This Thing Goodbye The Return Of Maggie Brown [Return to top] |
| Boulder Theatre, Colorado - 22 May 1990 No setlist, but here's a concert poster:  [Return to top] |
| Glastonbury Festival - 23
June 1990 For some reason this set was broadcast on German radio. Radio recording: Partial show, 60 mins, Quality A Opposite View Hatful Of Rain When I Want You As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) Nothing Ever Happens You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Spit In The Rain The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere The Return Of Maggie Brown Kiss This Thing Goodbye [Return to top] |
| Roskilde Festival, Denmark - 28 June 1990 Radio recording: Partial show, 20 mins, Quality A Stone Cold Sober Maggie May (cover of the Rod Stewart song) Spit In The Rain Kiss This Thing Goodbye The Return Of Maggie Brown [Return to top] |
| Lenox, Mass - 10 July 1990 Audience recording: Partial show, 55 mins, Quality A- Hatful Of Rain Opposite View When I Want You Empty You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Spit In The Rain The Return Of Maggie Brown Kiss This Thing Goodbye [Return to top] |
| Norwich UEA (University of East Anglia) - 7 November 1990 Don't know much about the actual show, but Justin and Dave Cummings did an interview on UEA College radio a couple of days later. It turns out that Dave Cummings used to go to UEA - he graduated in 1981 with a degree in English and American literature. Amongst the things that crop up in the interview are that Justin isn't really looking forward to the gig at Hammersmith Odeon, which is that night (see below). He says he once saw John Cougar Mellencamp play there and the atmosphere was fairly poor. Radio recording: Interview only, 20 mins, Quality A- [Return to top] |
| Hammersmith Odeon, London - 9 November 1990 Don't know very much about this show, but it was reviewed in The Times shortly afterwards. The review can be found here on Alison's Official US site Among the songs played were (predictably): Kiss This Thing Goodbye Stone Cold Sober Scared To Live Nothing Ever Happens Spit In the Rain The most unusual moment though must have been when the band were joined on-stage by Vic Reeves to cover the Free song, Ride on Pony! For those who don't know, Vic Reeves is a comedian famous for Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Shooting Stars, the re-make of Randall & Hopkirk deceased and various other shows with his normal side-kick Bob Mortimer. He also had a UK number one single with the Wonder Stuff, when they covered Dizzy. [Return to top] |
| Edinburgh Playhouse - 20 November 1990 Audience recording: Full show, 95 mins, Quality B+ Opposite View Kiss This Thing Goodbye When I Want You Always The Last To Know As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) Empty You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Spit In The Rain Scared To Live This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Hatful Of Rain Move Away Jimmy Blue / You Can't Always Get What You Want Bye Bye Pride (cover of the Go-Betweens song) You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (cover of the Beatles song) Nothing Ever Happens Cindy Incidentally (cover of the Faces song) The Return Of Maggie Brown [Return to top] |
| Glasgow Barrowlands - 18 December 1990 Audience recording: Full show, 90 mins, Quality B+ The Boys Are Back In Town (cover of the Thin Lizzy song) Kiss This Thing Goodbye Opposite View When I Want You Always The Last To Know As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) Empty You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Scared To Live This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Hatful Of Rain Spit In The Rain Charlie's Bar You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (cover of the Beatles song) Nothing Ever Happens The Return Of Maggie Brown Move Away Jimmy Blue [Return to top] |
| Glasgow Barrowlands - 20 December 1990 Audience recording: Full show, 90 mins, Quality B The Boys Are Back In Town (cover of the Thin Lizzy song) Kiss This Thing Goodbye Opposite View When I Want You Always The Last To Know As Soon As The Tide Comes In Don't Cry No Tears (cover of the Neil Young song) Empty You're Gone Stone Cold Sober Scared To Live This Side Of The Morning The Ones That You Love Lead You Nowhere Hatful Of Rain Spit In The Rain Charlie's Bar The Mighty Quinn (brief snippet of this Bob Dylan song before segueing into...) You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (cover of the Beatles song) Nothing Ever Happens The Return Of Maggie Brown [Return to top] |