Richard Sinclair

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Richard Sinclair

Background information
Born	(1948-06-06) 6 June 1948
Origin	Canterbury, England
Genres	Progressive rock
Instruments	Bass guitar, vocals
Years active	1960's–present
Associated acts	Caravan, Camel, Hatfield and the North, Caravan of Dreams, Wilde Flowers
Website	www.richardsinclair.net

Richard S. Sinclair (born 6 June 1948 in Canterbury, England) is an English progressive rock bassist, guitarist, and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.

Biography

Sinclair played guitar (and occasionally sang) in the root Canterbury band Wilde Flowers before going on to be a founding member of Caravan, switching to bass guitar and sharing lead vocals with Pye Hastings. His compositional output came to the fore on the band's third album, the classic In The Land Of Grey And Pink, on which he wrote and sang the title track, "Golf Girl" and the epic "Winter Wine". Sinclair left Caravan in 1972 to form Hatfield and the North with ex-Delivery members Phil Miller and Pip Pyle, lending his distinctive, quintessentially English voice and increasingly impressive bass playing skills to their two albums, and writing some of their best-loved songs, "Share It", "Let's Eat (Real Soon)" (both with lyrics by Pip Pyle) and "Halfway Between Heaven And Earth". After Hatfield broke up in 1975, Sinclair moved back to Canterbury, starting a carpentry/kitchen-fitting business while maintaining low-key musical activities, often under the humorous moniker Sinclair & The South. He came out of this semi-retirement in 1977 when he was asked by Camel to replace their departed bass player. This stint lasted for two studio albums and half of the live set A Live Record.

In the 1980s, his activities were sporadic. He recorded a collaborative album with Phil Miller and Alan Gowen, Before A Word Is Said, in 1981, reunited with Caravan for the 1982 reunion effort Back To Front, sang on one track of National Health's swansong D.S. Al Coda (also 1982), and joined Phil Miller's In Cahoots, for a residency at the London jazz club the Bull & Gate and, in 1984, a European tour. Sadly, he left before the band undertook its first recordings. His voice or bass were barely heard until the end of the decade, save for a low-key Dutch tour in 1986 and a guest spot of Phil Miller's album Split Seconds (1989). In 1990, there was a one-off reformation of Hatfield and the North and a long-term one of the original Caravan line-up in 1990-91.

At this point, Sinclair formed his own group Caravan Of Dreams, with ex-Camel drummer Andy Ward and former Hatfield roadie Rick Biddulph on bass (live gigs only), plus occasional participation from cousin Dave Sinclair and sax/flautist Jimmy Hastings. The project's eponymous album came out in 1992. Sinclair's next effort, R.S.V.P. (1994), was recorded with a fluctuating line-up including Pip Pyle, Tony Coe and former Happy The Man keyboardist Kit Watkins. Regular touring stopped in 1996 as Sinclair moved to the Netherlands for a few years. He reappeared in 2002 with occasional concerts and archival live releases, but the most exposure came with the reunion of Hatfield and the North in 2005-06, which sadly came to an abrupt end when Pip Pyle died in August 2006. Shortly after that, he left his longtime Canterbury home to move permanently to Italy.^{[citation needed]}

Bandology

1964-1965 The Wilde Flowers (with Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper et al.)
1968-1972, 1982 Caravan
1972-1975 Hatfield and the North
1976 Sinclair and the South
1977-1979 Camel
1982-1984 In Cahoots
1988 Skaboosh
1991-93 Caravan of Dreams
1994-1996 R.S.V.P. (with Pip Pyle, Didier Malherbe and Patrice Meyer)
1995- ? Richard Sinclair Band with Tony Coe and David Rees Williams
2005-2006 Hatfield and the North reformed

External links

v t e Caravan

Pye Hastings Geoffrey Richardson Jan Schelhaas Jim Leverton Mark Walker Richard Coughlan Richard Sinclair Dave Sinclair Steve Miller Derek Austin Stuart Evans John G. Perry Mike Wedgwood Dek Messecar Doug Boyle Simon Bentall Jimmy Hastings

Studio albums	Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You In the Land of Grey and Pink Waterloo Lily For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Cunning Stunts Blind Dog at St. Dunstans Better by Far The Album Back to Front Cool Water The Battle of Hastings The Unauthorized Breakfast Item Paradise Filter

Live albums	Caravan and the New Symphonia Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974 BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert Travelling Man Live: Canterbury Comes to London Songs for Oblivion Fishermen Ether Way Surprise Supplies Green Bottles for Marjorie: The Lost BBC Sessions

Compilation albums	Show of Our Lives The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales All Over You...Too The Show of Our Lives – Caravan at the BBC 1968–1975

Related bands	Delivery Matching Mole National Health In Cahoots Egg Soft Heap Gong The Wilde Flowers Bruford Uriel Hatfield and the North Khan Earthworks

v t e Hatfield and the North

Phil Miller Pip Pyle Richard Sinclair Dave Stewart Steve Miller Dave Sinclair

Studio albums	Hatfield and the North The Rotters' Club

Live & compilations	Afters Live 1990 Hatwise Choice: Archive Recordings 1973–1975, Volume 1

Related bands	Delivery Matching Mole National Health In Cahoots Caravan Soft Heap Gong The Wilde Flowers Bruford Uriel Egg Khan Earthworks

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Persondata
Name	Sinclair, Richard
Alternative names
Short description	British musician
Date of birth	6 June 1948
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