Wild flowers
The Wild Flowers (1963-67) were an English rock band from the Canterbury area , their name is a reference to the writer Oscar Wilde .
The band has not released any recordings during its existence, but it did produce two well-known and influential progressive rock bands on the Canterbury scene , Soft Machine and Caravan .
Members were in the course of the existence of the Wilde Flowers
- the later soft machine musicians
- Brian Hopper (guitar, saxophone)
- Hugh Hopper (bass)
- Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals)
- Kevin Ayers (vocals, bass on Soft Machine)
- the later caravan musicians
- Richard Sinclair (guitar, vocals, with Caravan bass)
- Pye Hastings (guitar, vocals)
- Dave Sinclair (keyboards)
- Richard Coughlan (drums, vocals)
and Graham Flight (vocals), who played bass with Dave Sinclair in the live band Polite Force in the late 1970s .
A CD with previously unreleased recordings of Wilde Flowers was released in 1994.
Filmography
- 2015: Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales (DVD)
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Web links
- Guide Canterbury on babyblaue-seiten.de
- Collapso - Canterbury Music Family Tree (English)
- Hugh Hopper discography on www.hulloder.nl (English)
- Polite Force on the baby blue pages