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	* Dusted Reviews - The Soft Boys * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Soft Boys' melding of 60s psych, lyrics with a literary bent, and a finely-honed sense of post-punk absurdity created a basic template that was expanded upon by everyone from R.E.M. to Pavement to Evan Dando, their sound influential to the point that Underwater Moonlight now sounds strangely contemporary and fresh.
		In their day, the Soft Boys were met for the most part with blank stares and general critical indifference.
		The crucial distinction is that the Soft Boys aren't drawing from that era as an influence.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/419 (859 words)

	Matador Records \| The Soft Boys
		Soft Boys guitarist Kimberley Rew is making a rare solo appearance at London's Spitz on November 29.
		Since we're always catering to shut-ins, misanthropes and agoraphobes, the Soft Boys will be playing live on WFMU, Tuesday, October 29 between 3 and 6pm (EST) on Brian Turner's program.
		The Soft Boys’ ‘Underwater Moonlight’ lineup of Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberly Rew, Matthew Seligman and Morris Windsor are currently rehearsing for a U.S. tour in early 2001, followed by European dates.
	www.matadorrecords.com /the_soft_boys (698 words)

	Delusions of Adequacy Reviews - The Soft Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Soft Boys may very well be the best kept secret in the last twenty years of pop music.
		When the Soft Boys announced that they were launching a reunion tour to coincide with the long overdue reissue of Underwater Moonlight, fans had to temper their enthusiasm with a bit of skepticism.
		Not many, but the Soft Boys proved to be among the blessed few, tearing through their long lost gems like the intervening years had been minutes.
	www.adequacy.net /reviews/s/softboys.shtml (695 words)

	Soft Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Soft Boys poster from Cambridge,1979, for a concert promoting their first album "A Can of Bees...
		The Soft Boys were a post-punk, neo-psychedelic rock and roll band from the UK featuring Robyn Hitchcock, who later...
		The Soft Boys are not one of them...
	www.musicbyartist.com /Soft-Boys.html (402 words)

	The Soft Boys - Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The prehistory might admits to be: In July 1980 the four British published the album "Underwater Moonlight" on behalf of softly Boys, a marvelously diagonal like melodische Verquickung of Byrds guitars, Psychedelic Music and garage skirt.
		Only in the course of the 1980er years was it shown like very the quartet of its time ahead was, when - particularly in the United States - young of volume shot such as mushrooms from the soil, which made themselves it comfortable with Rickenbacker guitars in the Neo-60ies sound.
		Robyn Hitchcock's psychedelic flashback: Soft Boys at the Junction, Cambridge
	www.thesoftboys.com /press.html (1434 words)

	Robyn Hitchcock
		From his first crab-drenched utterances with The Soft Boys, a band who stood alone in its finest psychedelic brocade amidst the gob-splattered punk and ailing pomp-rock musical landscape of the late Seventies, Robyn Hitchcock has emerged as the single most engaging talent this grey and septic isle has to offer.
		I think The Soft Boys was a kind of one and a half trick pony; I do think they were good, and it was nice playing to a pretty well packed Astoria when in their day, I don't think the band ever played to more than about 300 people.
		The Soft Boys was very guitar-heavy, and so if I had a guitar riff there'd be two people playing it and you'd really know it, or if the other guitarist was competing with me you'd get that clash and you could really notice it.
	www.terrascope.org /robyn.html (5081 words)

	Psychedelic music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Initially, the the Beach Boys, with their squeaky-clean image, seemed unlikely as psychedelic types.
		A British counterpoint to the Paisley Underground was a number of post New Wave bands, most notably The Soft Boys and the solo albums of their singer Robyn Hitchcock, and The Teardrop Explodes and their vocalist Julian Cope.
		Hitchcock was heavily influenced by Syd Barrett and John Lennon, which accounts for part of the sound, though his famous flow-of-consciousness inter-song links in concerts is also responsible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychedelic_music (1910 words)

	VH1.com : The Soft Boys : Soft Boys Reuniting For Tour
		The Soft Boys, the influential English psych-pop band that launched the career of singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, will reunite for the first time in 20 years for a short tour in March.
		Unlike many of their contemporaries in the punk era, the Soft Boys embraced the influence of Pink Floyd, particularly the band's early, whimsical phase with frontman Syd Barrett.
		The reissue, which will be the only commercially available Soft Boys record in the United States, will include eight bonus tracks, among them "He's a Reptile" (RealAudio excerpt), a single recorded during the original Moonlight sessions but left off the album.
	www.vh1.com /artists/news/1374882/12052000/soft_boys.jhtml (404 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: The Soft Boys
		For the uninitiated, The Soft Boys are probably best known as the band that Robyn Hitchcock fronted before he moved on to work with many of the same folks under the Egyptians moniker.
		Arriving in the midst of the original punk explosion, the Soft Boys were defiantly intelligent and harmonic in an era that celebrated blunt aggression.
		"Old Pervert" reminds us that The Soft Boys are a rock band, dishing up an opening riff thunderous enough to send the Blues Explosion packing with their tails between their legs.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/apr-2-01/soft.html (738 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Spotlight: Soft Boys
		Although the boys are not really saddled with the pathos and age that Hitchcock's thespian imagery conjures, it's been 20 years since this particular lineup (Hitchcock, guitarist Kimberly Rew, bassist Matthew Seligman, and drummer Morris Windsor) played together.
		Although much is being made of the Rew/Hitchcock "reunion" as Soft Boys, the latter insists this is neither a reunion tour nor a retrospective, but merely a celebration of the fact that the album has been, well, celebrated.
		Though his re-integration surprised some folks (Rew was the only original Soft Boy to not rejoin Hitchock in his Eighties band, the Egyptians), he says working with Hitchcock again was a natural progression throughout the Nineties.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-03-16/music_feature16.html (1407 words)

	Latest News: Soft Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		But she holds a soft spot in her heart for the Club Ali bey Mangavat in Antalya, Turkey.
		The US-trained army recruits boys at the age of 12, amplifying Chava's adolescent...
		First of all, because the soft, rounded triangular shape was unthinkable at the...
	www.headlinescenter.com /latestnews/Soft+Boys (340 words)

	Campus Circle Magazine
		Indeed, you’d be tempted to say the Soft Boys are Hitchcock’s best backing band since his early ’90s Egyptians, except that the Egyptians were the best band he’d had since the Soft Boys themselves.
		Not everybody’s unsuccessful early work is cited reverently by acts like R.E.M. and the Replacements as a crucial influence, and few can boast a twenty-year-old album in their discography that hasn’t dated a bit in the interim.
		No point in elaborating it." Nevertheless, the Soft Boys’ signature two-guitar sound is still at the fore of the band’s approach to the songs.
	www.campuscircle.net /interviews/softboys.htm (724 words)

	Kimberley Rew- Soft Boys, Katrina and the Waves
		After a 20 year hiatus, no one (especially not the band members themselves) could have predicted a reunion of the Soft Boys but there were those four gents again, prepping for a tour with a show at Austin's SXSW music festival this March.
		Fate was kind enough to co-ordinate the Soft Boys reunion around the same time (in conjunction with the reissue of Underwater Moonlight by Matador), giving the gifted player and writer an old/new opportunity to make his mark again.
		We were going nowhere but the Soft Boys had a deal with a Canadian company called Attic so the Waves were able to take over that deal and put out two records there.
	www.furious.com /perfect/kimberleyrew.html (2486 words)

	eye - The Soft bulletin - 03.22.01
		On the day of our phone conversation, Hitchcock is celebrating his birthday by eating rice and pondering the state of a world fuelled by marketing and conservative media.
		The thing is, this tour marks the first time Hitchcock, guitarist Kimberley Rew, bassist Matthew Seligman and drummer Morris Windsor have played as the Soft Boys since their last reunion in 1994.
		While it's true that the Soft Boys' music is known to a mere fraction of Beatles fans, they have rabid devotees -- primarily comprised of music critics and fellow musicians.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.22.01/music/softboys.html (793 words)

	Beck: 'Sea Change'
		In the late '70s, British cult favorites the Soft Boys made quirky music that both flew in the face of punk and influenced countless alternative bands to follow, from R.E.M. to Travis.
		After the belated reissue of Underwater Moonlight and triumphant reunion tour, the Soft Boys are back with their first studio album in 22 years.
		Most reunions are based purely on filling the bank accounts, but the Soft Boys' motivation isn't strictly selling tons of records.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/music/articles/1010cdspins10.html (982 words)

	Soft Boys: Nextdoorland: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Though the music of the Soft Boys was hopelessly out-of-step with the times in which it was created, it has aged beautifully.
		Hitchcock has achieved a much higher degree of public awareness with his solo career than the Soft Boys ever saw, and the other members of the quartet have pursued their own paths through two decades of changing music, often playing on each other's records and even occasionally writing together.
		Here's hoping the Boys don't quit again on us too soon, as this new evidence proves they've hardly run their course.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/s/soft-boys/nextdoorland.shtml (566 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Live Shots
		It wasn't until "The Queen of Eyes" that the Soft Boys finally bloomed with Byrdsy-to-Beatles jangle underscored with that ever-subtle hint of Syd Barrett.
		For three brief minutes, however, with the set's penultimate song, "I Wanna Destroy You," the Soft Boys were the monsters of pop.
		Immediately after it was over, the Soft Boys should have played it again.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-03-16/music_live32.html (431 words)

	Ink 19 :: The Soft Boys / Kimbereley Rew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Soft Boys, oozing out of Cambridge, England, carved a unique and mostly-unrecognized niche in the British music scene of the late '70s and early '80s.
		The Soft Boys built up to Underwater Moonlight, one of those rare impeccable albums, to the typical critical acclaim and popular neglect.
		Hitchcock took Windsor and original Soft Boys bassist Andy Metcalfe, dubbed them the Egyptians, and went on to release many albums with them, along with a handful of solo efforts.
	www.ink19.com /issues/december2002/musicReviews/musicS/softBoysKimbereley.html (840 words)

	The Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		, the new Soft Boys album, will be released on Matador Records on September 24th.
		Following a date at the Mean Fiddler (for which you can get tickets here) in London on October 17th, the Soft Boys will be touring North America in support of the album into early November, with UK dates planned to follow.
		Mixed by Pat Collier, Great Central Revisited features guest appearances by Robyn Hitchcock and former Soft Boy Andy Metcalfe, as well as Dave Mattacks, Vince de la Cruz, Patch Hannan, Julian Dawson, Lee Cave-Berry, and Tom Dalpra.
	www.thesoftboys.com /underwatermoonlight (397 words)

	The Phoenix Online - Welcome to Nextdoorland
		If one were to listen consecutively to “Underwater Moonlight” and “Nextdoorland,” the two most recent albums by the Soft Boys, the fact that 22 years have passed between their original releases would not be immediately apparent.
		Emblazon it all you like with qualifiers like punk, psychedelic and sugary; at its essence the Soft Boys ken is pure rock ‘n roll.
		They may have become, as Hitchcock says, “grown-up and cuddly,” but the Soft Boys stop short of living up to the negative connotations of their name.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /org/phoenix/2002/2002-10-24/living/12318.php (309 words)

	Neumu - 44.1kHz
		But it was hardly noticed at the time, and after it came out in 1980, the Soft Boys broke up.
		One of the Soft Boys, guitarist Kimberly Rew, wrote a couple of the best pop songs of the 1980s — "Goin Down to Liverpool," a minor hit for The Bangles, and "Walking on Sunshine," a irresistible blast of populist pop soul that will be in movie trailers until the end of time.
		Another Soft Boy, head muse Robyn Hithcock, has become one of the cultiest cult artists ever, never quite breaking through to the mainstream, but sustaining an extremely high-quality and somewhat prolific output since the group broke up.
	neumu.net /fortyfour/2003/2003-00021/2003-00021_fortyfour.shtml (945 words)

	Seattle Weekly - music: Seems Like Old Times
		Back with their first new album in 22 years, the Soft Boys return to a world that feels eerily familiar.
		But back in 2000 when the Soft Boys re-formed for a U.S. tour marking the 20th anniversary of their classic Underwater Moonlight, the British quartet, at the very least, proved the band rightly deserves its place in the pantheon of cult combos.
		THE SOFT BOYS' clever pop constructions were essentially ignored during their original brief existence, which came smack-dab in the middle of the U.K. punk explosion.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0244/music-holdship.shtml (852 words)

	Bongo Beat: Kimberley Rew: Great Central Revisited
		Kimberley Rew is the lead guitarist for The Soft Boys (new CD coming this fall) & the writer of "Walking On Sunshine" with his other group Katrina & The Waves.
		The Soft Boys reunited to rerelease their Underwater Moonlight album and record a new album in 2001.
		Andy Metcalfe: Andy Metcalfe is an original Soft Boy as well as co-producer of Rew's first album.
	www.bongobeat.com /greatcentrev.php (439 words)

	Soft Boys Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It is interesting to see both the Soft Boys, and Chris Hamburger and Kimberley Rew's band, called (in this incarnation) "The Hamburger Waves" on the same bill.
		Even though their first album is still several months away, it is the Soft Boys who are headlining and have the coveted privilege of a scheduled start time.
		With the Waves in decline and the SB's on the rise it is not surprising that around this time Kimberley jumped ship and became a Soft Boy.
	www.njaz.com /sboys.htm (177 words)

	FFWD Weekly - October 3, 2002
		Sure, 22 years is a long time between records, but with Nextdoorland, the Soft Boys have taken up right where they left off with their 1980 debut Underwater Moonlight.
		While listeners may notice some familiar snippets that recall the sitar freak-outs of "Positive Vibrations" or the leazy audio dribble of "Old Pervert," manipulated in subtle yet arresting ways, the boys never rely on self-referentiality to make things interesting.
		Frantically attempting to make up for so much lost time and still revolving somewhere around the "Beatle-tree," as Hitchcock has called it, The Soft Boys have certainly planted their own seeds of twitchy complacency in the frolic along the way.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2002/1003/cd6.htm (209 words)

	Salon.com Audio \| The Soft Boys: "Nextdoorland"
		The comeback album from the Soft Boys -- 22 years after their classic LP "Underwater Moonlight" -- reveals the quartet as sardonic, romantic and multilayered as ever.
		This should come as no surprise to followers of songwriter Robyn Hitchock, who, as a solo artist in the intervening years, has been putting out evolving versions of his singularly off-center take on the world.
		In the late '70s, the Soft Boys chose to cut against the grain of the nascent U.K. punk zeitgeist, developing instead a highly melodic but penetrating sort of music informed by the Byrds, John Lennon, Syd Barret and Captain Beefheart.
	www.salon.com /audio/music/2002/10/14/soft_boys/index.html (352 words)

	Seattle Weekly - music:
		Arriving on the heels of last year's expanded two-CD reissue of the groundbreaking 1980 album Underwater Moonlight and a subsequent Soft Boys reunion tour, Nextdoorland is a 2002 rock 'n' roll tour de force.
		So even though it would be slightly misleading to suggest that the third Soft Boys album was 22 years in the making--"gestation," maybe; "procrastination," definitely--if taking an enforced exile yields such a start-to-finish pleasure, perhaps more bands should consider a similar trajectory.
		Born in Romania and trained in Greece as a civil engineer and architect, Iannis Xenakis was one of the first classical composers to twist mathematical, statistical logic around the rushing, spiraling noise of '50s/'60s avant-garde abstractions.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0237/cd-staff.shtml (834 words)

	Satanosphere \|\| Your Music Business Update #9 - We Have Ways of Making You Talk: Listen to Our Rick Astley Records
		Since their tour was a success, the Soft Boys rather unceremoniously got back together and recorded a new album, Nextdoorland, and released it last month.
		For Soft Boys fans, Nextdoorland is simply a continuation of their career, with Kim's very crisp, very treble guitar lines showing that they've been sorely missed since the band went on a very long hiatus.
		I, too, noticed at that Soft Boys reunion gig that Kim looked like there could be nobody in the world happier than he.
	www.satanosphere.com /story/2002/10/9/21515/7416 (2701 words)

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