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Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping?

Soft Machine

Essential Progressive Jazz-Rock Double Bill.

Colosseum came to fame in 1969 when the band led by legendary drummer Jon Hiseman released its debut album Those Who Are About To Die Salute You. Best selling studio albums followed, notably Valentyne Suite (1969) and The Daughter of Time is Truth (1970). Changes in personnel saw the arrival of the soulful Chris Farlowe, famed for his Sixties chart hit Out Of Time and Clem Clempson, the young blues guitar virtuoso and vocalist and bass player Mark Clarke. However the group broke up in 1971 and the musicians went their separate ways.

Named after the William S. Burroughs novel The Soft Machine, the Canterbury-scene legends Soft Machine were formed by Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge & Robert Wyatt in 1966. Soft Machine shared the stage with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa and more. A series of incredible albums were released before the band split in 1978. An AGMP Concerts presentation.

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Venue 1 - entrance through the double glass doors.

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Colosseum + Soft Machine

COLOSSEUM

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Pioneers of British psychedelic fusion sounds, UK avant / jazz-rock band Soft Machine bring another stellar performance to Band on the Wall. Having shared stages with the likes of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, all the way to being one of Europe's best known 'fusion' bands, Soft Machine have been heavily influential and continue to be name-checked by today's experimentalists.

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