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The Soft Boys: The Three Kings, London

Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2001

THE ONE-TIME freaks are out tonight, suited and booted for this biz-only reintroduction to Robyn Hitchcock's reconstituted Soft Boys, in the tucked-away, locked-up Clerkenwell pub run by the one-time owner of The Hope & Anchor, where they played their first residency, back in the hostile punk days of 1978.

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