Fact #121573
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Short story:
The Wilde Flowers play at The Bear And Key, Whitstable, UK. The group is regarded as an integral part of The Canterbury Scene, and its members will go on to play for Soft Machine and Caravan.
Full article:
Robert Wyatt (drummer, Wilde Flowers) : I couldn't do anything else. I was rubbish at grammar school, got very few O levels, and just became a sort of wandering derelict for a while. I did odd jobs like working in the forest and washing up just to have money to live off, but the only thing I found I could do that I could get paid for properly was music.
The Hopper brothers were forming a beat group in Canterbury and they didn't have a drummer, so I joined them and we started playing the local dances.
I'm not a Canterbury person. I went to school there but I have no sense of belonging or cultural connection to Canterbury. I don't remember there being a scene. Several of the musicians I played with happened to be from around that area. Kevin Ayers I knew from Herne Bay, he lived up on the coast. We were introduced and got on well, but I had no sense of a scene … I bummed about on the continent a bit and then, as soon as I could, I became a Londoner. If I had to put my ethnic group in my passport, I'd put Soho.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, January 2009)
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The Hopper brothers were forming a beat group in Canterbury and they didn't have a drummer, so I joined them and we started playing the local dances.
I'm not a Canterbury person. I went to school there but I have no sense of belonging or cultural connection to Canterbury. I don't remember there being a scene. Several of the musicians I played with happened to be from around that area. Kevin Ayers I knew from Herne Bay, he lived up on the coast. We were introduced and got on well, but I had no sense of a scene … I bummed about on the continent a bit and then, as soon as I could, I became a Londoner. If I had to put my ethnic group in my passport, I'd put Soho.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, January 2009)