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    Posted: June 18 2010 at 03:04
Been searching a little, but found nothing worthwhile - are there any good books about Canterbury scene? How it started, tales, messages in their songs, Canterbury humour etc. Thanks.
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I know that Aymeric Leroy (who already wrote a book about Pink Floyd and another one about the whole progressive genre) is writing one about the Canterbury scene, but it's very far from being published.
Otherwise... I don't know.
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There's one gorgeous book about the Soft Machine called OUT BLOODY RAGEOUS, which has been discusssed in another thread on Progarchives. Brilliantly written and highly informative!

Also, Dave Stewart has written a splendid booklet about Egg, Uriel and related bands. More information can be found here:

http://www.egg-archive.com/
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Since I got involved with Out-Bloody Rageous in varous minor ways, I totally endorse Fuxi praise - and an updated paperback verison is heading our way in the "near" future.
 
One interesting book, if in an unusual format, is Wrong Movements (do I call it a  biog, or a 3rd person diary, or what???) about Robert WyattWrong Movements: Robert Wyatt History (Music)
 
Little snippets of info, e.g. Robert Wayatt joined Chicago for a one-off show to play drums - Wyatt doing 25 or 6 to 4.... there's a thought. Miles Davis standing in the wings for a Soft Machine gig when they toured with Hendrix. Please note I ordered this book and it took 7 months to come into stock - and I see Amazon.uk only are offering 2nd hand copies at the moment. Also see the following book bubble up at Amazon (but it is published only in French):
 
Robert Wyatt
 
 
 
I suggest for some related background to the London music scene in the late 60's, in which Soft Machine and perhaps Caravan moved, check out Joe Boyd's White Bicycles - the Syd Barrett's biog Lost In The Woods also  provides some glimses of that scene, as does Mick Farren's Give The Anarchist a Cigarette
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
 
Lost in the Woods: Syd Barrett and the Pink Floyd
 
 
Give the Anarchist a Cigarette (Pimlico)


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Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I know that Aymeric Leroy (who already wrote a book about Pink Floyd and another one about the whole progressive genre) is writing one about the Canterbury scene, but it's very far from being published.
Otherwise... I don't know.
 
Aymeric Leroy is be far the leading light and fount of information on the Canterbury scene and has been editing/contributing to a serous fanzine Calyx for over 2 decades and run the website: Facelift. He is perhaps the most prolific wrt writing the liner-notes especially for the rediscovered live recordings by Soft Machine  issued over the last decade. Hugh Hopper's brother Brian Hopper (saxophonist on Volume 2 and contributing song writer for their first album) is Machine's unofficial historian, so you'll also see his name at the end of liner notes.
 
 
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I know that Aymeric Leroy (who already wrote a book about Pink Floyd and another one about the whole progressive genre) is writing one about the Canterbury scene, but it's very far from being published.
Otherwise... I don't know.
 
Aymeric Leroy is be far the leading light and fount of information on the Canterbury scene and has been editing/contributing to a serous fanzine Calyx for over 2 decades and run the website: Facelift. He is perhaps the most prolific wrt writing the liner-notes especially for the rediscovered live recordings by Soft Machine  issued over the last decade. Hugh Hopper's brother Brian Hopper (saxophonist on Volume 2 and contributing song writer for their first album) is Machine's unofficial historian, so you'll also see his name at the end of liner notes.
 
 
 
Yes.
 
I'm still waiting on the book: on the Calyx site http://calyx.perso.neuf.fr/ there's a tab with "Book" where he explains that a year ago he had written 3/4 of the book. I'm really looking forward to that one.
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Points: 1 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 06 2014 at 20:45
Four ears has passed since last post ... something new about canterbury scene books? will be great to know .



Edited by jorsan - July 06 2014 at 20:45
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Hi,
 
I'm a bit of a book hound, and sadly, this is one area that is grossly mis-represented, and I don't think that many of the people in it are interested  in letting us know much.
 
Kevin Ayers should have had a lot to say, but "fame" was not his game, and he wasn't interested in talking about it.
 
Daevid Allen has spoken about it some, and it is in CD form, and it is lovely, but there are glaring holes and questions missing.
 
I just saw Robert Wyatt's book listed for some 30 or 40 bux. I passed!
 
There are/were members of Soft Machine, and even the Caravan folks that should be able to illuminate a lot of stuff here, but they don't.
 
I'm actually OK with it, since it was obvious that there were a lot of drugs, sex and rock'n'roll going around, not to mention actors, actresses, and other writers, all of whom helped a scene come alive. To protect their vanity, I'm quite allright with any of them not saying anything! Not that there is anything that anyone could learn from it all.
 
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2014 at 15:12
Originally posted by jorsan jorsan wrote:

Four ears has passed since last post ... something new about canterbury scene books? will be great to know .


No news from the Canterburian frontier, I'm afraid Unhappy
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