The Boys
| The Boys | |
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 The Boys live in Düsseldorf ( ZAKK ) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Punk rock |
| founding | 1976, 1999 |
| resolution | 1980 |
| Website | http://www.theboys.co.uk/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Matt Dangerfield | |
Guitar, vocals |
Honest John Plain |
| Casino Steel | |
Electric bass |
Kent Norberg (since 2014) |
| Martin H-Son (since 2013) | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Jack Black (1976-1982) |
Vocals, electric bass |
Duncan Reid (Kid) (1976-2011) |
Drums |
Vom Ritchie (1999–2012) |
bass |
Steve Fielding (2013-2014) |
The Boys (English. "The boys" or "the boys" ) called himself a Founded in London in 1976 English musical group formed by the Beatles , the Rolling Stones , Velvet Underground , the New York Dolls and the Ramones were affected. The band was referred to by the press in the late 1970s as the "Beatles of Punk ". The musicians saw themselves as a pop group , as they were less concerned with the political attitude than with the music, and their hairstyles and clothing were also rather inconspicuous. The band broke up in 1980. After various commemorative concerts in 1999 and 2000, she released a new studio album in 2010 and has been on tour again since then .
Band history
1976-1982
Matt Dangerfield had turned the basement of his rented apartment in London's Maida Vale into a recording studio. There punks from the first hour met, such as Mick Jones , Tony James , Bryan James , Rat Scabies , Gene October and Billy Idol . The bands The Damned , The Clash , Generation X and the Sex Pistols recorded their songs there. There he met Casino Steel, a former member of the Hollywood Brats , and together with him and Honest John Plain , a college friend from the Leeds art school and two other young musicians, Duncan 'Kid Reid and Jack Black, founded the band The Boys.
With the songs composed by Dangerfield and Steel, their first appearances in renowned English clubs were very successful and the record company NEMS became aware of them. In January 1977 the boys signed a five-year deal with the label, making them the first English punk band to get an album deal. First, however, their first single I Don't Care / Soda Pressing came out. At the same time they went on tour in England as the opening act with John Cale . In May 1977 they finished their first album, which due to the inadequacy of the record company was not available in stores until early September, when a lot of other punk bands released their first album and competed with The Boys. An abridged version of Plains' punk anthem First Time came out in late July 1977, received huge acclaim, and was named single of the week by Sounds . John Peel then invited the band to his radio show. The single had just reached number 77 on the UK charts, with the debut album The Boys at number 50 when news of Elvis Presley's death hit the music world . Since NEMS was part of RCA , they now freed up all resources to meet the increased demand in the market for Elvis' records. The boys' records left the charts because no one could buy them.
Despite these defeats, the band had built up a large fan base, especially in Europe where their live performances with the catchy punk-pop music were immediately popular. In February 1978 the single Brickfield Nights came out and a month later their second album Alternative Chartbusters . Due to the failure of the record company, it did not appear in time for the tour to be able to promote it there and therefore missed the charts. Nevertheless, John Peel invited her again. The second peel session was started on May 2nd, 1978. In the summer of 1978 there was another scandal with NEMS, which refused to pay for the recordings in Rockfield Studios for the third album with the working title Junk , and the studios refused to release the master tapes with the fifteen recordings. Fortunately, Dangerfield had saved some of the monitor mixes that appeared on the Odds And Sods and Punk Rock Rarities albums many years later. The band took up the fight with NEMS and went on strike, whereupon they managed to break away from the contract in 1979.
Her new album To Hell with the Boys , which was preceded by the single Kamikaze , was released on Safari Records in the fall of 1979 . In the spring of 1980 the boys appeared in The Old Gray Whistle Test and played several concerts as the opening act for the Ramones on their England tour. The single Terminal Love was released in February, and a third radio session was broadcast on the BBC. The song You'd Better Move On by The Rolling Stones was covered as their next single before Steel left the band to return to Norway. The Boys then went on a tour of France and in between flew to Germany, where they performed You 'Better Move On on the TV show Musikladen .
In late autumn 1980 the band released their penultimate single Weekend , which was the record of the week on "Peter Powell Radio 1". The accompanying video was shown in “Noel Edmonds Multi Colored Swapshop”. Still, the single missed the charts again. The January album Boys Only and the single Let It Rain also became a commercial failure and Safari Records dropped the band. This resulted in the breakup of The Boys. For two concerts in New York, an Italy and a Spain tour, the band reformed at times with changing members, but then gave their last concert for the next 17 years in Ibiza Castle , high above Ibiza .
Revival 1999
Although the boys had little commercial success, they achieved a high degree of popularity. Die Toten Hosen covered various titles and attracted new fans to the boys' music. In the late 1980s and 1990s, some of the original albums were released on CD, as well as unreleased material, such as the album Powercut , on which Campino was a guest singer.
In 1998 Thee Michelle Gun Elephant had a hit with a cover of Soda Pressing and Sick of You in Japan. This led to the re-release of various boys albums in 1999, including The Peel Sessions , of which more than 30,000 copies were sold in Japan alone. Vinyl Japan also released the first Boys Tribute CD Satisfaction Guaranteed , which supported thirteen bands from around the world. A second tribute album You Wanna Know What It's Like? , supported by twenty-one international bands, was put together in Italy and released at short notice.
Encouraged by these successes, The Boys decided to return from retirement and accepted the invitation to Japan. There they gave two successful concerts on July 31st and August 1st, 1999 with Vom Ritchie on drums. In this line-up, they also played at the Sun Festival in Berga , Spain on September 23, 2000. Jack Black made a guest appearance and drummed with Kamikaze . For the first time in twenty years, five Original Boys appeared together on stage. The first concert in England in twenty years followed on July 6, 2001 at The Holidays in the Sun punk festival in Morecambe and The Boys were shown on the BBC's "North West Tonight" news program.
On December 21, 2000, The Boys gave their first concert in Germany in Düsseldorf. There they were, together with TV Smith, one of the supporting acts for Die Toten Hosen, who invited them to take part in their 2002 “Grillparty” festival on the Loreley . The Boys played in front of 5,000 fans on September 6, and the following evening they accompanied Die Toten Hosen on stage in front of 20,000 fans for the songs First Time and Brickfield Nights .
In December 2008 the Boys released a new 7 "single: Jimmy Brown , together with the older track I Love Me on the B-side, on the German label" Still-Unbeatable-Records ", as a limited edition of 500 copies.
The Mattless Boys
In October 2010 Vom Ritchie's label Drumming Monkey Records released the album The Mattless Boys with thirteen new songs, recorded by the musicians Honest John Plain, Duncan Reid, Casino Steel, Vom Ritchie and the guitarist Petter Baarli from the Backstreet Girls . The album was planned as a solo album by Honest John Plain, but evolved into a project that included all of The Boys' musicians with the exception of frontman Matt Dangerfield. In July 2011 Duncan Reid left the band.
Punk rock menopause
Supported by Steve Fielding on bass, the band went on tour again in May 2014 and gave nine concerts in Germany. In July 2014 the studio album Punk Rock Menopause was released for which the boys recorded well-known compositions from their repertoire as well as thirteen new pieces. In addition to the original line-up of the band Matt Dangerfield, Honest John Plain, Casino Steel, the musicians Steve Fielding on bass, Stephane Reynaud and Martin H-Son on drums were involved in the recordings for the album.
Discography (albums)
- 1977: The Boys
- 1978: Alternative chartbusters
- 1979: To Hell with the Boys
- 1980: Boys Only
- 1989: The Boys / Alternative Chartbusters
- 1990: Odds & Sods
- 1990: Live at The Roxy
- 1993: Live at the BBC - with The Vibrators
- 1995: The Best of the Boys
- 1996: Complete Boys Punk Singles Collection
- 1996: Powercut
- 1997: Powercut - unplugged
- 1999: BBC Sessions
- 1999: The Peel Sessions
- 1999: Sick on You
- 1999: The Very Best of the Boys
- 1999: Punk Rock Rarities
- 2014: punk rock menopause
The Mattless Boys
- 2010: The Mattless Boys
Videos
- 2002: The Boys Live in Germany 2001
The Yobs
The Boys regularly exchanged the "B" and "Y" in their names at Christmas time and became "The Yobs". Then they appeared wearing stocking masks and disguised as Santa Clauses.
Albums of yobs
- 1980: The Yobs Christmas Album
- 1991: Xmas 11
- 1995: Leads 3 Amps Utd. 0
- 2001: The Worst of the Yobs
Individual evidence
- ↑ the boys: power cut, eastwest records gmbh, 0630-18041-2
- ↑ Loreley open-air theater (September 6–8, 2002). Die Toten Hosen, September 2002, archived from the original on March 2, 2013 ; Retrieved October 20, 2013 .
- ↑ www.still-unbeatable-records.de
- ↑ a b The Mattless Boys - The Mattless Boys. Discogs , accessed January 5, 2016 .
- ↑ The Boys - Punk Rock Menopause. bucketlistmusicreviews.com, July 9, 2014, accessed July 13, 2014 .
- ↑ Booklet for the album Punk Rock Menopause .
Web links
- Official website of The Boys
- Friends of the House - John Plain and Matt Dangerfield. The Beatles of the Punk. Die Toten Hosen, December 2001, archived from the original on June 25, 2013 ; Retrieved January 5, 2016 .