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Refimprove|date=August 2010Infobox musical artist | name = The Soft Boys| image = Softboyspic.jpg| caption =| image_size = | background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Cambridge, England | genre = Post-punk , neo-psychedelia | years_active = 1976–1980, 1994, 2001–2003| label = Two Crabs, Armageddon, Matador Records|Matador | associated_acts = Katrina and the Waves , Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians | website =| current_members =| past_members = Robyn Hitchcock Kimberley Rew Morris Windsor Alan Davies Matthew Seligman Andy Metcalfe Rob Lamb Charles Partridge (Backing Vocals on (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp) The Soft Boys were a pop band during the punk era led by Robyn Hitchcock ,cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/robyn-hitchcock-p4493/biography |title=Robyn Hitchcock & #124; AllMusic |author=Denise Sullivan |accessdate=9 June 2011 whose initially old fashioned music style of psychedelic/folk-rockcite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-soft-boys-p5472/biography |title=The Soft Boys & #124; AllMusic |author=Denise Sullivan |accessdate=9 June 2011 became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of Underwater Moonlight .cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/underwater-moonlight-r1968164/review |title=Underwater Moonlight - The Soft Boys & #124; AllMusic |author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |accessdate=9 June 2011 The band formed in 1976 in Cambridge, England as Dennis and the Experts comprising Robyn Hitchcock (guitar), Rob Lamb - half brother of Charlie Gillett - (guitar), Andy Metcalfe (bass), and Morris Windsor (drums). Alan Davies (guitarist)|Alan Davies replaced Lamb after only four gigs late in 1976, and Kimberley Rew replaced Davies. Matthew Seligman replaced Metcalfe in 1979. The band broke up in 1980 after Underwater Moonlight . They briefly re-formed for a UK tour in 1994 and then again in 2001 for the 20th anniversary of Underwater Moonlight and the release of a new album, Nextdoorland (in 2002). They disbanded once again in 2003.
Live at the Portland Arms (cassette, 1983; LP, 1988)
Where Are The Prawns (cassette, 1994)
Nextdoorland (2002)
Side Three (CD EP) (2002)
Compilation albums
Two Halves for the Price of One (1981) (Studio rarities and live tracks)
Wading Through a Ventilator (EP) (1984) (Contains Give It To The Soft Boys EP, plus extra tracks)
Raw Cuts (EP) (1989) (A retitled version of Wading Through a Ventilator )
1976-81 (2 CD) (1993) (Best-of, plus rarities, out-takes and live tracks)
Underwater Moonlight... And How It Got There (2 CD) (2001) (Contains all of Underwater Moonlight , plus an additional disc of demos, rehearsals, and out-takes)
Singles and EPs
Give It To The Soft Boys 7" EP: "Wading Through A Ventilator" b/w "The Face Of Death" and "Hear My Brane" (1977)
"(I Want to Be an) Anglepoise Lamp" b/w "Fatman's Son" (1978)
Near the Soft Boys 7" EP: "Kingdom of Love" b/w " Vegetable Man " & "Strange" (1980)
"I Wanna Destroy You" b/w "Old Pervert" (1980)
"Only the Stones Remain" b/w "The Asking Tree" (1981)
"Love Poisoning" (1982)
"He's a Reptile" b/w "Song No. 4" (1983)
"The Face of Death" b/w "The Yodelling Hoover" (1989)
An album financed by Radar Records was recorded at Rockfield Studios in 1978, at the same time Rush (band)|Rush was recording Hemispheres (Rush album)|Hemispheres there. The resultant album was never released although one or two of the tracks have had subsequent release as part of compilations.
References
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External links
http://www.fegmania.org/ Fegmania!, Robyn Hitchcock archive, and home of the web's main Robyn Hitchcock discussion group, Fegmaniax!
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/VegetableFriends/ VegetableFriends, the original Robyn Hitchcock - Syd Barrett Discussion Group.
http://www.glasshotel.net/gh The Glass Hotel
http://www.archive.org/details/SoftBoys The Soft Boys collection at the Internet Archive 's live music archive
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