Canterbury Binge: 2021

**alucard** · 1 Week Ago

I listened to two Kevin Ayers broadcasts I´ve never heard before:
Kevin Ayers and the Whole Wide World: Colours of the day (1970)
This is one of my Top Ten Canterboots, basically a Dutch Radio concert VPRO Broadcast from July 30th, 1970 (about 55 minutes) and a couple of extra BBC tracks.
This is the same band that had played at the Hyde Parc Concert the 18th of July with Wyatt on drums replacing Fincher (there is an official release from the late Mike King´s label, but it´s very bad sound quality)
Ayers, Wyatt, Oldfield, Coxhill, Bedford and Bridget St. John on one track. This is an excellent sound quality broadcast and the band is in topform. It´s a good mix of songs and improvisations with four tracks over 10 minutes among them ´We Did It Again´ and ´Why Are We Sleeping´. There is a great playfulness that the band didn´t get later IMO. In an alternate universe this would have been my dream alternate Soft Machine with Ayers, Wyatt and Coxhill and I would have personally replaced Oldfield and Bedford by Carla Bley and Annie Whitehead.
Kevin Ayers: Vin Du Ciel (Sky wine in French) – live in Paris 1970
This is a French Radio ORTF broadcast from 1970 (about 24 minutes) nice cover, tamer then the Dutch concert broadcast, probably a studio broadcast without audience, but interesting too

**JKL2000** · 5 Days Ago

^ These sound good! Gonna check YT.

Here's a cheeky NP:

NP: University of Errors - Live at The Fleece ; Bristol, England, 6 June 2003 (Songs originally by University of Errors, The Soft Machine, Matching Mole, Gong, and Daevid Allen. Probably a bit too punky to qualify as Canterbury, but still...)

**JKL2000** · 5 Days Ago

NP: Gong; Paris - Bataclan; 20th May, 1973; Love From The Planet Gong - Pt. 1

**alucard** · 4 Days Ago

Originally Posted by JKL2000

^ These sound good! Gonna check YT.

Here's a cheeky NP:

NP: University of Errors - Live at The Fleece ; Bristol, England, 6 June 2003 (Songs originally by University of Errors, The Soft Machine, Matching Mole, Gong, and Daevid Allen. Probably a bit too punky to qualify as Canterbury, but still...)

I like UOE, I have the one with the early Soft Machine material ´Jet Propelled Photographs´ which is quite fun, have to check out the Live At The Fleece.

**NogbadTheBad** · 4 Days Ago

Originally Posted by JKL2000

NP: Gong; Paris - Bataclan; 20th May, 1973; Love From The Planet Gong - Pt. 1

That whole box is terrific.

**GeneTull** · 4 Days Ago

The first song in ZT's latest video, by Kandahar, is very Canterbury-influenced.

**Trane** · 4 Days Ago

Kandahar's thord album is a lesser one than their first two, and less Canterbury-ish as well.

BTW, if their first two received their CD release some 10 to 12 years ago, Pictures From The Past never did.

**alucard** · 3 Days Ago

Hadn’t heard these for quite some time
Pyle – Pung- Greaves: The Pig Part (1999 Voiceprint)
When John Greaves settled down in Normandy, he gave an interview in a French Music Mag and expressed his wish to get in contact with local musicians. So, one Philippe Marcel Pung contacted him and Greaves invited Pip Pyle and they recorded this record. It´s free form rock with a couple of lyrics by John Greaves and Peter Blegvad. The first half is a bit boring, but the second half quite interesting, longer tracks build around a heavy ostinato bass by Greaves who recites more then sings his lyrics with the two others building around. My favourite is Dead God Dog Dingo (for sure a Pip Pyle title ) which is similar to Millers riff on Nan´s True Hole

And two great boots by HTN:

Theatre Present de La Villette September 25th 1973
Audience recording, quality is ok, but great concert still with a part of the Millers Matching Mole compositions (God Song, Part of The Dance, Nan´s True Hole)

Roundhouse London April 14th 1974
Audience recording
One of my favourite Canterboots, concert in two parts first half an hour as Quartet and then the second part with Robert Wyatt, The Northettes, Alan Gowen, Steve Miller, Lol Coxhill, Jimmy Hastings and Jeremy Baines, a Canterbury Dream Big Band
Quality is ok slightly better than the one above

**calyx** · 3 Days Ago

re: PYG... It's not "Pung", it's "Iung" !

re: Hatfield... Most of the Miller tunes were played till the end. Certainly "God Song" was, although for a while it was only a brief instrumental snippet.

**JKL2000** · 3 Days Ago

Originally Posted by GeneTull

The first song in ZT's latest video, by Kandahar, is very Canterbury-influenced.

Is Zaragon Maximalist the guy who used to be on PE?

Also, are these "Reaction" videos? Or Lack of Reaction videos? Not sure if I get it.

**JKL2000** · 3 Days Ago

Originally Posted by alucard

Hadn’t heard these for quite some time
Pyle – Pung- Greaves: The Pig Part (1999 Voiceprint)
When John Greaves settled down in Normandy, he gave an interview in a French Music Mag and expressed his wish to get in contact with local musicians. So, one Philippe Marcel Pung contacted him and Greaves invited Pip Pyle and they recorded this record. It´s free form rock with a couple of lyrics by John Greaves and Peter Blegvad. The first half is a bit boring, but the second half quite interesting, longer tracks build around a heavy ostinato bass by Greaves who recites more then sings his lyrics with the two others building around. My favourite is Dead God Dog Dingo (for sure a Pip Pyle title ) which is similar to Millers riff on Nan´s True Hole

And two great boots by HTN:

Theatre Present de La Villette September 25th 1973
Audience recording, quality is ok, but great concert still with a part of the Millers Matching Mole compositions (God Song, Part of The Dance, Nan´s True Hole)

Roundhouse London April 14th 1974
Audience recording
One of my favourite Canterboots, concert in two parts first half an hour as Quartet and then the second part with Robert Wyatt, The Northettes, Alan Gowen, Steve Miller, Lol Coxhill, Jimmy Hastings and Jeremy Baines, a Canterbury Dream Big Band
Quality is ok slightly better than the one above

HTN?? (I'm sure I'll smack my forehead.)