From an interview in Sounds, issue date June 17, 1978. Copy of interview on page 7 of Kimberley Rew's Soft Boys scrapbook
Metcalfe has been arranging Robyn's work since they got together in 1976. "The last band I was in before this one was kind of a swing band - we'll leave that alone. But then it died and I came up to Cambridge and met Morris and Robyn and the other guitarist.. And we spent about two months playing before that disintegrated.. So we stopped gigging and had a couple of months rehearsal. And then we did our first gig on February 3rd last year at a college function. And we did our first gig in London on March 13th, which was a total, dismal failure because we were all so nervous we were rigid." (Per our records, the Soft Boys' first London gig was actually at the Nashville on February 28 which would make this their second London gig.)