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On 8 April, the band announced news of their new album via their Twitter and Facebook accounts via the Pledge Music project. At the same time Hassle Records announced their signing of Canterbury. Canterbury parted ways with their drummer Scott Peters in May 2013. He was replaced by ex All Forgotten member Chris Velissarides.
Richard Stephen Sinclair (born 6 June 1948) is an English progressive rock bassist, guitarist, and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene. Biography [ edit ]
Soft Machine performing live in 2018. Soft Machine are an English jazz-rock band from Canterbury. Formed in mid-1966, the group originally consisted of drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt, guitarists Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin, bassist and vocalist Kevin Ayers, and keyboardist Mike Ratledge. The current lineup of the band features guitarist John Etheridge (1975–1978, 1984 and since 2015 ...
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The band were originally based in Whitstable, Kent, near Canterbury, but moved to London when briefly signed to Verve Records. After being dropped by Verve, the band signed to Decca Records, where they released their most critically acclaimed album, In the Land of Grey and Pink, in 1971. Dave Sinclair left after the album's release and the ...
The four members soon joined with Ratledge to form The Soft Machine. [9] Ayers suggested the band's name, which comes from William S. Burroughs's novel The Soft Machine (1961). [10] The band became a quartet when Nowlin departed in September 1966. [11] During late 1966 and early 1967, Soft Machine became involved in the early UK underground scene.
Dave Sinclair (first from right) as part of the band Caravan in 1974 David Sinclair (born 24 November 1947) is a British keyboardist (organ, piano, harpsichord , electric piano, Mellotron , Davolisint, etc.) associated with the psychedelic / progressive rock Canterbury Scene since the late 1960s.
Also in 2002–04, Hopper, Dean and two other former Soft Machine members (drummer John Marshall, and guitarist Allan Holdsworth) toured and recorded under the name SoftWorks. With another former Soft Machine member, guitarist John Etheridge , replacing Holdsworth, they toured and recorded as Soft Machine Legacy, playing some pieces from the ...