Danceteria
Details
- Date
- September 04, 1980
- Venue
- Danceteria New York, New York (Manhattan)
- Billed As
- The Soft Boys
- Gig Type
- Concert
Reviews
This gig was mentioned (with incorrect date) in a 2001 piece in The Observer:
[In...]1980, an English quartet called the Soft Boys played the last show of their only U.S. tour–which consisted of eight appearances in and around Manhattan–at the late, lamented Danceteria. The crowd was sparse, mainly Anglophiles and import hounds who’d managed to track down a copy of the band’s thinly distributed new album, Underwater Moonlight , but the performance did not reflect the disappointing turnout. As they tore into “The Queen of Eyes” and “Positive Vibrations”–tunes with buoyant pop melodies that recalled the glory days of the Byrds and Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd–the band sounded like they had a bright, paisley future ahead of them. Yet within a matter of months, the Soft Boys, disillusioned with the music business and tired of each other, would be no more.
[In...]1980, an English quartet called the Soft Boys played the last show of their only U.S. tour–which consisted of eight appearances in and around Manhattan–at the late, lamented Danceteria. The crowd was sparse, mainly Anglophiles and import hounds who’d managed to track down a copy of the band’s thinly distributed new album, Underwater Moonlight , but the performance did not reflect the disappointing turnout. As they tore into “The Queen of Eyes” and “Positive Vibrations”–tunes with buoyant pop melodies that recalled the glory days of the Byrds and Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd–the band sounded like they had a bright, paisley future ahead of them. Yet within a matter of months, the Soft Boys, disillusioned with the music business and tired of each other, would be no more.