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THE SOFT BOYS
Cambridge, GB
*  1976

Line-Up (2002):

SOFT BOYS (photo)
 

Robyn Hitchcock - voc
Kimberley Rew - g
Matthew Seligman - bg
Morris Windsor - ds

Former Members:

Alan Davies (g, 1976-cca 1977)
Andy Metcalfe (bg, 1976-79)

Albums Discography:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.A Can Of Bees11.05.1979Two Crabs
2.Underwater Moonlight7/1980 Armageddon
3.Only The Stones Remain1981
4.Two Halves For The Price Of One10/1981 Armageddon
5.Lope At The Hive19.08.1983Armageddon
6.Invisible Hits04.11.1983Midnight Music
7.Wading Through A Ventilator2/1984 De Lorian
8.Live At Portland Arms12/1987 Midnight Music
9.1976-819/1993 Rykodisc
10.The Kershaw Sessions7/1994 Strange Roots
11.Nextdoorland24.09.2002Matador

Alan Davies:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Urban Trauma16.11.1998
2.The Alan Davies Show03.05.1999

Kimberley Rew:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Tunnel Into Summer13.03.2000Hypertension
2.Great Central Revisited09.07.2002Bongo Beat
3.The Bible of Bop15.05.2010Tummy Touch

Singles Discography:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Give It To The Soft Boys
(Wading Through A Ventilator / The Face Of Death / Hear My Brane)		16.12.1977Raw
2.(I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp / Fat Man's Son26.05.1978Radar
3.Give It To The Soft Boys
(reissue)		10/1979 Raw
4.Near The Soft Boys EP
(Kingdom Of Love / Vegetable Man / Strange)		6/1980 Armageddon
5.I Wanna Destroy You / (I'm An) Old Pervert (Disco)8/1980 Armageddon
6.Only The Stones Remain / The Asking Tree11.12.1981Armageddon
7.He's A Reptile / Song No. 4
& Robyn Hitchcock		4/1983 Midnight

Kimberley Rew:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.My Baby Does Her Hairdo Long24.07.1981Armageddon

Various:

disbanded 3/1981
reunited 2000

Compilation Appearances:

"Mr. Kennedy" on OST "The Truth About Charlie" (22.10.02, Play-Tone/Epic)
"I Wanna Destroy You" on compilation "The Record Shop - 30 Years Of Rough Trade Shops" (25.9.06, Rough Trade)

Matthew Seligman:

appeared on the SP:

Jack Heard: Sex Machine

appeared on the LP:
Alex Chilton: Live In London (6/82, Aura)
Knox: Plutonium Express (16.9.83, Razor)

Morris Windsor:

appeared on the LP:

Alex Chilton: Live In London (6/82, Aura)
Robin Hitchcock: I Often Dream Of Trains (8/84, Midnight)
Robyn Hitchcock: Ole! Tarantula (3.10.06, Yep Roc)

Kimberley Rew:

appeared on the LP:

Julian Dawson: Under the Sun (12.10.99, Gadfly)
Robyn Hitchcock: Ole! Tarantula (3.10.06, Yep Roc)

Andy Metcalfe:

appeared on the LP:

Robin Hitchcock: I Often Dream Of Trains (8/84, Midnight)
Glenn Tilbrook: The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook (21.5.01, Quixotic)

produced by LP:
Glenn Tilbrook: The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook (21.5.01, Quixotic)

Press References:

&musiQ
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
20032 80Recenze CDalbum review
Melody Maker
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19775117.12.197718Singlessingle review
19775224.12.197714Singlessingle review
19781622.04.197813interview
19782020.05.19784News
19791812.05.19794News
19792026.05.197929Albumsalbum review
19803404.10.198019Singlessingle review
1981210.01.198124Caught In The Actgig review
19811114.03.19814News
19814217.10.198114Albumsalbum review
1994429.01.199421Livegig review
19951729.04.199511A.W.O.L.profile