The Lemur Blog ❤ Rewind was finally released on July 1 ! The reason I haven't blogged it yet is because I was on Gotland til July 5 and I needed some time to… Read full post »
Chromewaves ❤ Photo via We Are Soldiers We Have Guns I'd never heard of Spanish site Buffet Libre before, but they've made a hell of a first impression with their enormous, 58-song… Read full post »
Fried my little brain ❤ Yes. Breaking out of the fire door at the A10 Russian Bar at 10am in the morning because i’d passed out with a bong in my left hand and chalk… Read full post »
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ As Robyn Hitchcock embarks on another reissue campaign of his solo albums, I wonder what's taking so long to refurbish his earlier recordings with The Soft Boys. Matador gave the… Read full post »
Mewzick ❤ MP3: You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory - Johnny Thunders ( YSI )That's right, another something that absolutely had to be done. HAD TO BE. The Specials ,… Read full post »
SYDNEYSOUNDER ❤ Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade is this saturday night.... always great fun - for the gay and the straight alike; always entertaining. Great memory from last year of… Read full post »
Dollar Bin Jams ❤ I've been thinking about Roustabout! lately, which in turn makes me nostalgic for (among other Happy Valley institutions ) the Bullet Parade. Hyperbole aside, the Bullet Parade is the definitive… Read full post »
The Architectural Dance Society ❤ One thing Robyn Hitchcock does very well - something very few other artists do as well, at least none I can think of off the top of my head -… Read full post »
Some Velvet Blog ❤ 30 Days In The Hole - Humble Pie Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not - X Underwater Moonlight - The Soft Boys Blonde In The Bleachers - Okkervil… Read full post »
The Rising Storm ❤ While we’re a little ahead of the era , I’d like to throw in this post-70’s classic from The Soft Boys. Full of great songs, that get to you slowly,… Read full post »
Berkeley Place ❤ A.K.A.: TEN REASONS I LOVE ROBYN COVERS 0. ZIP FILE of tracks 1-8, which are the second set of the 7.1.07 show posted earlier this week (wherein Robyn covered the… Read full post »
Walrus Music Blog ❤ The Soft Boys were, musically, one of the tightest bands of the late 70s/early 80s. Punk was beginning its transformation into what would eventually be considered new wave (post-punk) and… Read full post »
MOG Most discussed tracks ❤ 1980 saw the release of “Underwater Moolight” from the soon to be very influential British power-house of a band, The Soft Boys . Robyn Hitchcock on vocals, Andy Metcalf on… Read full post »
Armagideon Time ❤ I was doing some research ( translation: flipping through justifiably forgotten comic books from the 1980’s) for an upcoming post when I came across this advertisement: It was in one… Read full post »
out the other... ❤ What a weekend... actually I should say, what a Saturday night. Nashville, you completely came through for me at Mercy Lounge - I was thrilled to see a decent-sized crowd… Read full post »
Largehearted Boy ❤ Baltimore's Jennifers released their latest album, Colors From the Future , on January 1st. The only cover on the album is the Soft Boys' "Queen of Eyes," which also appeared… Read full post »
The Smudge of Ashen Fluff ❤ Michael [Stipe] and Mike [Mills] joined Peter [Buck], Scott, Bill Reiflin and Robyn Hitchcock during an encore from Robyn and the Venus 3's set in Oxford, England tonight. The band… Read full post »
An Aquarium Drunkard ❤ Robyn Hitchcock's 2006 album Olé! Tarantula was such a strong comeback it re-kindled my interest in The Soft Boys 2004 reunion album, Nextdoorland , which then whetted my appetite to… Read full post »
The Merry Muses Of Caledonia ❤ So they say, "Why Decca Says . . . . ?" And I say, "Don't you know the story?" It's about The Beatles. You know, The Beatles. The tale been… Read full post »
Mars Needs Guitars ❤ "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through' narrow… Read full post »
Joe de Vivre ❤ Read full post »
33/45 ❤ Best animal ever! I think this thing needs a theme song. "Rock Lobster"? Something by Super Furry Animals? The Soft Boys - "Where Are the Prawns?" Read full post »
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