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The Soft Boys were an English rock band led by Robyn Hitchcock primarily during the 1970s,[3] whose initially old-fashioned music style of psychedelic/folk-rock[4] became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of Underwater Moonlight.[5]

The Soft Boys
Background information
OriginCambridge, England
Genres
  • Post-punk
  • alternative rock[1]
  • neo-psychedelia
  • new wave[2]
Years active1976–1981, 1994, 2001–2003
LabelsTwo Crabs, Armageddon, Matador
Past membersRobyn Hitchcock
Morris Windsor
Andy Metcalfe
Rob Lamb
Alan Davies
Kimberley Rew
Matthew Seligman (deceased)

The band formed in 1976 in Cambridge, England as Dennis and the Experts comprising Robyn Hitchcock (guitar), Rob Lamb (half-brother of radio host and author Charlie Gillett) guitar, Andy Metcalfe (bass), and Morris Windsor (drums).[6] Alan Davies replaced Lamb after only four gigs late in 1976, and Kimberley Rew eventually replaced Davies.[6] Matthew Seligman replaced Metcalfe in 1979.[7]

The band broke up in 1981 after Underwater Moonlight. Rew formed the more mainstream pop group Katrina and the Waves, while Hitchcock went on to a prolific career with a similar whimsical, surrealistic style,[7] forming Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians in 1984 with fellow Soft Boys Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe, who went on to tour and record for ten years. They were briefly joined by Rew and Seligman in a re-formed Soft Boys for a UK tour in 1994 to mark the release of a box set of their work, and then reformed again in 2001 without Metcalfe for the 20th anniversary of Underwater Moonlight and the release of a new album, Nextdoorland, in 2002. They disbanded once again in 2003.

Seligman died in 2020 of complications from COVID-19.[8][9]


Discography



Albums



Compilation and live albums



Singles and EPs


An album financed by Radar Records was recorded at Rockfield Studios in 1978, at the same time Rush was recording Hemispheres there. The resultant album was never released, although one or two of the tracks have had subsequent release as part of compilations.


References


  1. "The Soft Boys | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  2. "Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians". Warr.org. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  3. Denise Sullivan. "Robyn Hitchcock". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  4. Denise Sullivan. "The Soft Boys". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  5. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Underwater Moonlight - The Soft Boys". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  6. Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 261/2. ISBN 0-85112-579-4.
  7. Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1108. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.
  8. Irwin, Corey. "Bassist Matthew Seligman Dead of COVID-19". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  9. Crowley, James (18 April 2020). "Musicians Mourn the Loss of Soft Boys, David Bowie Bassist Matthew Seligman". Newsweek.com. Retrieved 21 April 2020.



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The Soft Boys waren eine zwischen 1976 und 1980 aktive englische Rockband aus Cambridge. Laut Allmusic waren sie eine der einflussreichsten Gruppen im Bereich der zeitgenössischen alternativen Musik.[1]
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The Soft Boys (traducible como los debiluchos)[1] fue una influyente banda de Rock psicodélico y post-punk procedente de Cambridge, Inglaterra. Se suele asociar la banda con los orígenes del movimiento punk. Se formó en 1976 bajo el nombre de Dennis and the Experts y estaba formada por Robyn Hitchcock, cantante y principal compositor que más adelante realizaría su carrera en solitario y Kimberley Rew, guitarrista que más tarde también formaría parte de Katrina and the Waves. Además fueron miembros originales Rob Lamb como guitarrista, Andy Metcalfe como bajo y Morris Windsor en la batería. Lamb fue remplazado por Alan Davies tras cuatro conciertos en 1976. La banda se disolvió en 1981 tras publicar Underwater Moonlight y se volvió a reunir brevemente para una gira por el Reino Unido en 1994 y de nuevo en 2001 para el 20 aniversario de Underwater Moonlight y la puesta a la venta de un nuevo álbum, Nextdoorland. Se disolvieron de nuevo en 2003.



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