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SOFT MACHINE
Canterbury, GB
* 1966	+ 1979

Line-Up (1979):

John Etheridge - g
Steve Cook - bg
Ric Sanders - viol
Karl Jenkins - kb,oboe,sax
John Marshall - ds

Former Members:

Linda Hoyle (voc, cca 1973)

Larry Nolan (g, 1966); Daevid Allen (voc,g, 1966-7/67); Kevin Ayers (voc,g, 1966-68); Andy Summers (g, 1968); Gary Boyle (g, cca 1973); Allan Holdsworth (g, 1/74-4/75, 1981)

Hugh Hopper (bg, 1968-5/73); Roy Babbington (bg, 5/73-cca 8/76); Percy Jones (bg, 10/76 g.a.)

Mike Ratledge (kb, 1966-3/76)

Robert Wyatt (voc, ds, 1966-7/71); Phil Howard (ds, 10/71-2/72)

Brian Hopper (sax, 1969); Elton Dean (sax, 1969-72); Art Theman (sax, cca 1973); Alan Wakeman (sax,fl, 3/76-cca 8/76)

Mark Charig (tr, 1969-12/69); Nick Evans (tr, 1969-12/69); Lyn Dobson (sax,fl, 1969-3/70)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	The Soft Machine produced by: Tom Wilson	11/1968	Probe
2.	Volume 2	4/1969	Probe
3.	Third (2LP)	6/1970	CBS		18
4.	Fourth	3/1971	CBS		32
5.	Fifth	08.12.1972	CBS
6.	Six (2LP)	2/1973	CBS
7.	Seven	05.10.1973	Epic
8.	Bundles	21.03.1975	Harvest
9.	Softs	25.06.1976	Harvest
10.	Faces And Places	1976
11.	At The Beginning	1/1977	Charly
12.	Triple Echo (3LP)	3/1977	Harvest
13.	Alive & Well: Recorded In Paris produced by: Mike Thorne	10.03.1978	See For Miles
14.	Rock Generation 7	1979
15.	Rock Generation 8	1979
16.	In The Land Of Cockayne	3/1981	EMI
17.	Jet Propelled Photographs	9/1987	Charly
18.	Live At The Proms 1970	8/1988	Reckless
19.	The Peel Sessions	9/1990	Strange Fruit
20.	The Collection (75-78)	12/1990	Castle
21.	As If ...	5/1991	Elite
22.	BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert 1971	4/1993	Windsong
23.	BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert 1972	6/1994	Windsong
24.	Rubber Riff	11/1994	Voiceprint
25.	The Best Of Soft Machine: The Harvest Years	6/1995	C5
26.	Live In France 1972 (2CD)	11/1995	One Way
27.	Live At The Paradiso 1969	17.06.1996	Resurgence/EFA
28.	Spaced	1996	Cuneiform
29.	Virtually	1/1998	Cuneiform
30.	Live 1970	13.10.1998
31.	Noisette (unreleased tracks)	18.01.2000	Cuneiform
32.	Turns On, Vol. 1	01.08.2001	Floating World
33.	Man in a Deaf Corner: Anthology 1963-1970	08.01.2002	Sanctuary
34.	Backwards	07.05.2002	Cuneiform
35.	Turns On, Vol. 2	08.04.2003	United States Dist
36.	BBC Radio 1967-1971	12.08.2003	Hux
37.	All Night Wrong	09.09.2003	Favored Nations
38.	BBC Radio 1971-1974	09.03.2004	Hux
39.	Live in Paris	04.05.2004	Cuneiform
40.	Somewhere in Soho	13.07.2004	Smokeprint
41.	Story of Soft Machine	07.06.2005	Retro Music
42.	Breda Reactor	21.06.2005	United States Dist
43.	Out-Bloody-Rageous: An Anthology	09.08.2005	Sony International
44.	BBC in Concert 1971 & Heavy Friends	04.10.2005	Hux
45.	Floating World Live	21.03.2006	Moonjune
46.	Grides	23.05.2006	Cuneiform
47.	Middle Earth Masters	10.10.2006	Cuneiform
48.	Drop	13.01.2009	Moonjune
49.	Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971	10.11.2009	Reel
50.	NDR Jazz Workshop: Hamburg, Germany 1973	25.05.2010	Cuneiform
51.	Common Ground	06.07.2010	Megaforce
52.	Original Album Classics (5CD)	22.10.2010	Sony
53.	Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris	07.12.2010	Esoteric
54.	Soft Machine At Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club	23.07.2011	Vinyl Lovers
55.	Live At Het Turfschip Netherlands 31 January 1970 (2LP)	24.02.2012	Vinyl Lovers
56.	Live 1967-1969	25.09.2012	B13
57.	Recorded For John Peel's Top Gear 1967-1969	22.10.2012	B13
58.	Live At Royal Albert Hall In London On 13th August 1970	02.08.2014	B13
59.	Tanglewood Tails	07.10.2014	Secret
60.	Live in the 70s	17.03.2015	Floating World
61.	On & On / This Place Was Meant for Me	12.05.2015	Eskimo
62.	Switzerland 1974	23.05.2015	Cuneiform
63.	Live at My Father's Place	23.06.2015	Rockbeat
64.	Wonderland	14.08.2015	Secret

Hugh Hopper:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	1984	30.03.1973	CBS
2.	Hopper Tunity Box produced by: Mike Dunne/Hugh Hopper	4/1977	Compendium
3.	Cruel But Fair & Elton Dean & Keith Tippett & Joe Gallivan	5/1977	Compendium
4.	Rogue Element & Elton Dean & Alan Gowen & Dave Sheen	1978	Ogun
5.	Monster Band	1979	Atmosphere
6.	Two Rainbows Daily & Alan Gowen	1980	Red
7.	Mercy Dash & Elton Dean & Keith Tippett & Joe Gallivan	1985	Culture Press
8.	Alive credited to: Hugh Hopper Band	1989	Voiceprint
9.	Meccano Pelorus credited to: Hugh Hopper Band	1991	Cuneiform
10.	And Odd Friends (mini CD)	1993	Voiceprint
11.	Hooligan Romantics credited to: Hugh Hopper Band	1994	Fot
12.	Carousel credited to: Hugh Hopper Band	1995	Cuneiform
13.	A Remark Hugh Made & Mark Kramer	1995	Shimmy Disc
14.	Andreamor & Mark Hewins	1995	Impetus
15.	Bracknell-Bresse/Improvisations & Alan Gowen	1996	Voiceprint
16.	Somewhere In France & Richard Sinclair	1996	Voiceprint
17.	Huge & Mark Kramer	1997	Shimmy Disc
18.	Improvisations / Mind in the Trees	18.11.2003	Voiceprint
19.	Brainville Live in the UK & Daevid Allen & Pip Pyle	19.09.2006	United States Dist
20.	Numero d'Vol	21.08.2007	Moonjune
21.	Stolen Hour	22.02.2011	Burning Shed
22.	Hugh Hopper & Honey Ride Me A Goat & Honey Ride Me A Goat	17.09.2013	Floating World
23.	Volume 1: Memories	16.09.2014	Gonzo
24.	Vol. 2: Frangloband	30.09.2014	Gonzo Multimedia
25.	Heart to Heart, Vol. 5 & Phil Miller	02.12.2014	Gonzo
26.	Special Friends, Vol. 6	03.02.2015	Gonzo
27.	Volume 7: Soft Boundaries	19.05.2015	Gonzo
28.	Bass on Top, Vol. 8	10.07.2015	Gonzo
29.	Was a Friend 10	11.09.2015
30.	Volume 9: Anatomy of a Facelift	18.09.2015	Gonzo

Linda Hoyle:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Pieces Of Me	1971	Vertigo
2.	The Fetch	10.08.2015	Angel Air

John Marshall:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Is This Heaven?	1987

Karl Jenkins:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Adiemus 2 Cantata Mundi	24.02.1997	Sony
2.	Imagined Oceans	23.06.1998	Sony
3.	Vocalise	12/2003	EMI Classic
4.	Armed Man: A Mass for Peace	10.05.2005	EMI Classics
5.	Some Shufflin' & Mike Ratledge	15.06.2010	Voiceprint
6.	Movement & Mike Ratledge	29.06.2010	Voiceprint
7.	Karl Jenkins: Gloria Te Deum	10.08.2010	EMI
8.	The Very Best Of Karl Jenkins	3/2011	EMI Classics		54
9.	Cantata Memoria - For The Children & Bryn Terfel & Elin Manahan Thomas & Catrin Finch	07.10.2016	Decca		71

Allan Holdsworth:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Velvet Darkness	1976	Columbia
2.	Sunbird & Gordon Beck	1979	JMS
3.	The Things You See & Gordon Beck	1980	JMS
4.	I.O.U.	1982	Enigma
5.	Road Games	2/1984	WEA
6.	Metal Fatigue	1985	Enigma
7.	Atavachron	1986	Enigma
8.	Sand	1987	Relativity
9.	With A Heart In My Song & Gordon Beck	1988	Gramavision
10.	Secrets	1989	Intima
11.	Dreams & Gordon Beck	1989	JMS
12.	Truth In Shredding & Frank Gambale, prod. Frank Gambale	1990	Legato
13.	Wardenclyffe Tower	1992	Restless
14.	Hard Hat Area	1993	Restless
15.	None Too Soon	1996	Polydor
16.	I.O.U. Live	1997	Pyramid
17.	The Sixteen Men Of Tain	3/2000	Brunel Music
18.	Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie	01.12.2001
19.	All Night Wrong	2002	Favored Nations
20.	Then! Live	01.06.2004
21.	Sonic Undertow & Riptyde	07.09.2004	Alternity
22.	Against the Clock: The Best of Allan Holdsworth	24.05.2005	Alternity
23.	Blues for Tony & Alan Pasqua & Jimmy Haslip & Chad Wackerman	19.01.2010	Moonjune
24.	The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever! The Allan Holdsworth Album Collection	07.04.2017	Manifesto
25.	Eidolon	07.04.2017	Manifesto

John Etheridge:

1. Invisible Threads
2. Sweet Chorus
3. Places Between: Live in Dublin
4. When the World Stopped for Snow
5. Out of the Sky

Lyn Dobson:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Jam Sandwich	1974

Mike Ratledge:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Some Shufflin' & Karl Jenkins	15.06.2010	Voiceprint
2.	Movement & Karl Jenkins	29.06.2010	Voiceprint

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Love Makes Sweet Music / Reeling, Feeling & Squealing	2/1967	Polydor
2.	Soft Space / Soft Space (part 2)	4/1978	Harvest

Karl Jenkins:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Cantilena & London Philharmonic Orchestra	24.02.1997	Sony
2.	Song Of Tears	07.04.1997	Sony

Mike Ratledge:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Riddles Of The Sphinx EP (Sequence 1 / Sequence 2 / Sequence 3 / Sequence 4 / Sequence 5 / Sequence 6 / Sequence 7 / Sequence 8 / Sequence 9 / Sequence 10)	06.11.2013	Mordant Music

Various:

1964-66 The Wilde Flowers
1966 Mister Head
2004 Soft Machine Legacy

Compilation Appearances:

"Penny Hitch" on compilation "Athens" (23.11.09)

Mike Ratledge:

1/1977 stage performance David Bedford: The Odyssey (kb)

appeared on the LP:

Kevin Ayers: Bananamour (27.4.73, Harvest)
Kevin Ayers: Confessions Of Doctor Dream (24.5.74, Island)
Richard Hill: Planet Earth (4/78)

Allan Holdsworth:

appeared on the LP:

Nucleus: Belladonna (10/72, Vertigo)
Jean-Luc Ponty: Enigmatic Ocean (16.9.77, Atlantic)
Bill Bruford: Feels Good To Me (1/78, Polydor)
Jean-Luc Ponty: Individual Choice (8/83, Atlantic)
Alex Masi: Attack Of The Neon Shark (1989, SPV)
Jack Bruce: A Question Of Time (1/90, Epic)
Jeff Watson: Lone Ranger (6.4.92, Roadrunner)

Awards:

1990 Guitar Player

- Best Experimental Guitar
- Best Guitar Synthesizer

John Marshall:

appeared on the LP:

The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown: The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (6/68, Track)
Jack Bruce: Harmony Row (9.7.71, Polydor)
The Trio: Conflagration (6/71, Dawn)
Hugh Hopper: 1984 (30.3.73, CBS)
Elton Dean/Alan Skidmore: El Skid (11/77, Vinyl)

Hugh Hopper:

appeared on the LP:

Kevin Ayers: Joy Of A Toy (12/69, Harvest)
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom (26.7.74, Virgin)
Gilgamesh: Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into (1978, Charly)

Roy Babbington:

appeared on the LP:

Soft Machine: Fourth (3/71, CBD)
Barbara Thompson: Paraphernalia (15.9.78, MCA)

Karl Jenkins:

appeared on the LP:

Richard Hill: Planet Earth (4/78)

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1970	0	25.04.1970	16	Caught In The Act	gig review
1971	0	03.04.1971	25	Choice	album review
1971	0	10.04.1971	18	Caught In The Act	gig review
1971	0	04.12.1971	30	Caught In The Act	gig review
1972	0	12.02.1972	5
1972	0	09.12.1972	51	Melody Maker File	profile
1973	9	03.03.1973	45	Caught In The Act	gig review
1974	44	02.11.1974	34	Caught In The Act	gig review
1975	12	22.03.1975	59	Caught In The Act	gig review
1975	14	05.04.1975	16	Caught In The Act	gig review
1975	14	05.04.1975	18	MM Band Breakdown	profile, interview
1975	17	26.04.1975	5
1975	17	26.04.1975	49	Albums	album review
1976	12	20.03.1976	4
1976	26	26.06.1976	21	New Albums	album review
1976	27	03.07.1976	19	Caught In The Act	gig review
1977	21	21.05.1977	39	Any Questions?
1977	31	30.07.1977	35		profile
1978	17	29.04.1978	13	Albums	album review
1993	7	13.02.1993	46	Info Freako
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1973	0	17.02.1973	24	News Desk
1973	0	26.05.1973	3	News Desk
1973	0	09.06.1973	28
1973	0	20.10.1973	20	Albums	album review
1974	0	02.11.1974	55	On The Town	gig review
1975	0	25.01.1975	32	Lookin' Back
1975	0	01.03.1975	36	On The Town	gig review
1975	0	19.04.1975	17
1975	0	26.04.1975	3	News
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1991	20	11.10.1991	27	Profily	profile
1995	22	07.11.1995	6	Galerie
1997	7		56		profile, discography
2007	10		8	Rock & Top - News