The Wilde Flowers
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| The Wilde Flowers | |
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| Origin | Canterbury, England |
| Years active | mid-1960s |
| Label(s) | Voiceprint Records |
| Associated acts |
Soft Machine Caravan |
| Members | |
| Kevin Ayers (vocals) Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals) Hugh Hopper (bass) Brian Hopper (guitar, saxophone) Graham Flight (vocals) Richard Sinclair (guitar, vocals) Pye Hastings (guitar, vocals) David Sinclair (keyboards) Richard Coughlan (drums) |
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The Wilde Flowers was a popular music group based in the vicinity of Canterbury, England, during 1964-67. The group never released any records during its existence, but it spun off two other groups that became well-known and influential, Soft Machine and Caravan.
Band members included, at various times Hugh Hopper (bass), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (vocals), Graham Flight (vocals), Richard Sinclair (guitar, vocals), Pye Hastings (guitar, vocals), David Sinclair (keyboards) and Richard Coughlan (drums) and Brian Hopper (guitar, saxophone).
A compact disc of previously unreleased recordings by the Wilde Flowers was issued in 1994. It is now available from Voiceprint Records (Blueprint BP123CD).
- Impotence
- Those Words They Say
- Memories
- Don't Try to Change Me
- Parchman Farm
- Almost Grown
- She's Gone
- Slow Walkin' Talk
- He's Bad For You
- It's What I Feel
- Memories (Instrumental)
- Never Leave Me
- Time After Time
- Just Where I Want
- No Game When You Lose
- Impotence
- Why Do You Care (With Zobe)
- The Pieman Cometh (With Zobe)
- Summer Spirit (With Zobe)
- She Loves To Hurt
- The Big Show
- Memories
| Soft Machine |
|---|
| Daevid Allen | Kevin Ayers | Elton Dean | Hugh Hopper | Mike Ratledge | Robert Wyatt |
| Roy Babbington | John Etheridge | Karl Jenkins | John Marshall |
| Steve Cook | Marc Charig | Lyn Dobson | Nick Evans | Jimmy Hastings | Allan Holdsworth Brian Hopper | Ric Sanders | Alan Skidmore | Rab Spall | Andy Summers | Alan Wakeman |
| Discography |
| Regular albums: |
| ABC Probe: The Soft Machine (1968) | Volume Two (1969) |
| Columbia: Third (1970) | Fourth (1971) | Five (1972) | Six (1973) | Seven (1973) |
| Harvest: Bundles (1975) | Softs (1976) | Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978) | EMI: Land of Cockayne (1981) |
| Related articles |
| Canterbury sound - Jazz fusion - The Wilde Flowers |