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Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974

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SOFT MACHINE AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, 3/21/67.

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Henry Cow & Robert Wyatt in Rome

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my-balls79

my post was content labelled because his tits seemed too grabbable under that awesome slapp happy shirt i guess

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Flyer

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Robert Wyatt’s cornet solo on “Then I Close My Eyes”

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“I am a real minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating.” - Robert Wyatt

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rastronomicals

2:09 AM EST February 16, 2025:

The Wilde Flowers - “Impotence” From the album The Wilde Flowers (1994)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

So The Wilde Flowers were sort of the Canterbury ur-Group. Before making it big in Caravan or The Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, Pye Hastings, Kevin Ayers, Richard Sinclair and others all played with The Wilde Flowers.

But their music remaineed unreleased until 1994, when Brian Hopper curated this compilation, which has since been reissued.

So encyclopedists and completists rejoiced. But here’s the thing: the music’s not that good. Far from being anything Canterbury, or prog, or psychedelic or even somewhat jazzy, this is primitive, even tribal, garage rock. One song sort of has a Bolton Iron Maiden feel, so a little heavy and OK, and another tune is Robert Wyatt solo at the piano, but even Jet Propelled Photographs, the early Gomelsky stuff, is light years beyond this.

This stuff will work when slipped in among my shuffled music as a curiosity and a topic of conversation, like, wow, look how much better these people got in just four years, but I really can’t imagine listening to the album straight through again.

File under: Roots Canterbury

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Robert Wyatt in North London, Summer 1991. Disabled by an accident in 1973, the one-time Soft Machine drummer turned his attentions to singing, to solo records like Shipbuilding, and to politics.