Release 2008
Started with The Wilde Flowers in the early 60s and as a founder member of SOFT MACHINE, only
on first Polydor 45 and 1st album, which was only released on Probe in USA at the time.
He went Solo in 1969.
Style: Progressive; Canterbury
see:
Soft Machine ; Mike Oldfield ; Patto ; Timebox ; Boxer ; Gong ; Roxy Music ;
Zoot Money ; Dantalions Chariot ; Stud ; Police ; Robert Wyatt ; The Blues Band ;
Family ; Tempest ; Miller-Coxhill ; Carol Grimes & Delivery ; Lol Coxhill ; Andy Summers ;
Musicians: ..not complete
1969-1972 :
KEVIN AYERS - guitars, bass, vocals; MIKE RATLEDGE - organ;
ROBERT WYATT - drums, ROB TAIT - drums (only on Stop this train & Oleh..)
HUGH HOPPER - bass; DAVID BEDFORD - keyboards, arrangements;
LOL COXHILL - sax MIKE OLDFIELD - bass, guitar (before he went famous)
MICK FINCHER - drums, perc.
1975 - 1979:
KEVIN AYERS - bass, guitar, vocals OLLIE HALSALL - guitar, vibraphone ;
FREDDIE SMITH, ROB TOWNSEND - drums (ex-Family, Medecine Head; pre-Blues Band)
BILLY LIVSEY, ZOOT MONEY - keyboards; CHARLIE McCRACKEN - bass (ex-Taste, Stud);
B.J.COLE - - steel guitar; ROGER SAUNDERS - rhythm guitar; ANTHONY MOORE - guitar ;
Disc One all songs written by K.Ayers if not shown...
Town Feeling 4:51 - 1969
Song for Insane Times 4:01
Girl on a Swing 2:49
The Lady Rachel 5:17
Stop this Train (again doing it) 6:05
Eleanor's Cake (which ate her) 2:53
Religious Experience (Singing a song in the Morning) 4:44 - take 9 feat. SYD BARRETT
Soon Soon Soon 3:20 - rec. 1969
Rheinhardt & Geraldine - Colores Para Delores 5:38 - 1970
May I ? 3:59
Clarence in Wonderland 2:06
The Oyster and the flying Fish 2:37
Shooting at the Moon 5:47
Butterfly Dance 3:43 - Single HAR5027 (1970)
Gemini Child 3:14 - rec. 1970
Stars 3:30 - Single HAR5042 (1971)
There is Loving - Among Us - There is Loving (K.Ayers-David Bedford) 7:21 rec. Jan 1972
Disc Two
Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes 3:19 - earyl mix July 1971
Songs from the Bottom of a Well 4:35 - 1972
Oh My 2:57
Margaret 3:17
Whatevershebringswesing 8:10 - Jan. 1972
Decadence 8:04 - May 1973
Oh! Wot a Dream 2:48
Dont let it get you down 3:58
Interview 4:43
Caribbean Moon 3:01 - Single HAR5071 (4/1973)
The Up Song 3:15 - Single Island WIP 6194 (1974)
The Confessions of Doctor Dream : - LP Island 1974
Irreversible Neural Damage 6:43
It begins with a Blessing - Once I awakened - But it ends with a Curse 8:16
See you later 4:38
Ballbearing Blues 0:55
Disc Three
After the Show 2:35 - Single Island WIP 6201 (1974)
Thank you very much 3:00 - Single Island WIP 6201 (1974)
Observations 4:21 - LP Island Sweet Deceiver 1975
Toujours la Voyage 7:57
Diminished but not finished 1:55
Farwell again (another Dawn) 3:13
Yes I do 3:12 - LP Harvest SHSP 4057 Aug.1976
Loves gonna turn you round 4:51
Ballad of Mr. Snake 2:06
Blue 6:26
Ballad of a Salesman who sold himself 4:31 - LP Harvest SHSP 4085 Apr.1978
A View from the Mountain 6:16
Beware of the Dog II 5:58
Hat Song 1:14
Money Money Money 3:11 - LP Harvest SHSP 4106 (3/1980)
Super Salesman 5:03
Where do the Stars end ? 3:01
Disc Four
AFTER THE SHOW - Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall 1973 :
Banana Introduction 3:08
Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes 3:57
Interview 7:50
Whatevershebringswesing 7:23
Oh ! Wot a Dream 3:47
Shouting in a Bucket Blues 5:16
Caribbean Moon 3:34
Dont let it get you down 4:46
We did it again 11:23
Why are we Sleeping ? (K.Ayers-Mike Ratledge-Robert Wyatt) 16:05
After the Show 3:30
Musicians April 1973: Kevin Ayers + 747 Archie Leggett (King Size Taylor) - bass;
Cal Batchelor , Gerry Fitzgerald - guitars; Henry Smith - drums;
Henry Crallan - keyboards; Liza Strike, Doris Troy, Barry St.John - b.-voc.;