The Wilde Flowers

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The Wilde Flowers
Origin	Canterbury, England
Years active	1964 - 1967
Label(s)	Voiceprint Records
Associated acts	Soft Machine Kevin Ayers 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)

The Wilde Flowers was a popular music group based in the vicinity of Canterbury, England, during Late 1964- June 1967. 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 (rhythm guitar, vocals), Pye Hastings (guitar, vocals), David Sinclair (keyboards) and Richard Coughlan (drums) and Brian Hopper (lead guitar, alto saxophone, vocals).

[edit] Recordings

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

[edit] See also

Canterbury scene

v • d • e Soft Machine

Kevin Ayers • Elton Dean • Hugh Hopper • Mike Ratledge • Robert Wyatt Daevid Allen • 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

Studio Albums	The Soft Machine (1968) • Volume Two (1969) • Third (1970) • Fourth (1971) • Five (1972) • Six (1973) • Seven (1973) • Bundles (1975) • Softs (1976) • Land of Cockayne (1981)

Singles	"Love Makes Sweet Music" (1967) • "Joy of a Toy" (1968)

Live Albums	Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978) • Live at the Proms 1970 (1988) • BBC Radio 1967-1971 (2003) • BBC Radio 1971-1974 (2003) • Soft Machine and Heavy Friends (2005) • Softstage (2005)

Cuneiform albums	Spaced (1996) • Virtually (1998) • Noisette (2000) • Backwards (2002) • Live in Paris (2004) • Grides (2006) • Middle Earth Masters (2006)

Related articles	Canterbury sound • Jazz fusion • The Wilde Flowers