Canterbury Soundwaves

"Oh no......Steve Hillage!" (Neil, The Young Ones)

Oh yes! From the heavy psychedelia of his (and Dave Stewart's) first band Uriel to his more recent collaborative efforts with 90's spacerockers Ozric Tentacles and ambient explorers The Orb, from the classic '73 Gong lineup to his triumphant 2009 return, Subcomandante Spillage's influence on British psychedelia examined from several angles, oblique, acute and orthogonal. ALSO a '68 Caravan classic, the Annie Whitehead connection, Robert Wyatt's second favourite piece of music ever (supposedly) and an Ornette Coleman cover performed in Canterbury just the other day...

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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Caravan's In the Land of Grey and Pink. Also, Canterbury sounds from Belgium, something appropriately far-out from Gong's Mushroom Tapes, Kevin Ayers addressing the nation's schoolchildren in 1972, Matching Mole on French telly, two Beatles covers, two flavours of fruit jam, and a chunk of the Soft Machine's (almost) forgotten score to the 1969 London 'happening' Spaced.

For more info and archived earlier episodes, see http://canterburysoundwaves.blogspot.com.