Kevin Ayers

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Kevin Ayers was one a group of Avant Garde musicians who came together in Canterbury in the 1960s and developed a whole new approach to the psychedelic progressive rock genre. His early work included artists like Daevid Allen, David Bedford and Mike Ratledge. Since then Kevin Ayers has written and recorded some of the wittiest and most poignant songs imaginable and has produced more banana related lyrics than anyone ever dreamed possible.

The first serious band was The Wilde Flowers with Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt and Richard Sinclair. This early hippie group transformed into Soft Machine. While the Softs went on and others split to form Caravan and Gong, Ayers put together his own band THE WHOLE WORLD featuring Lol Coxhill, David Bedfordand a very young Mike Oldfield.

Ayers career is littered with great music and fine collaborations with more fine artists like Danny Thompson, John Cale, Nico, Brian Eno, Ollie Halsall and wizards of twiddly. With 18 albums to his credit Kevin Ayers is the Guru Banana Guru Banana

Kevin Ayers’ own website announced July 2007 that Ayers was recording in a Glasgow studio with Teenage Fanclub. The resulting album ‘The Unfairground’ was released in September 2007.

In the studio, as well as long-time admirers Teenage Fanclub, contributions came from Euros Childs from Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Francis Reader from the Trash Can Sinatras, Robert Wyatt, Phil Manzanera, Hugh Hopper from Soft Machine and Bridget St.

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Top Tracks

1	Song for Insane Times	90
2	The Clarietta Rag	66
3	Girl on a Swing	62
4	All This Crazy Gift of Time	51
4	Town Feeling	51
6	Lady Rachel	46
7	Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes full track	44
8	Lullaby full track	43
9	Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong	42
10	Stop This Train (Again Doing It)	41
11	Margaret full track	38
12	Whatevershebringswesing full track	35
13	Clarence in Wonderland	33
14	Soon Soon Soon	30
15	Joy of a Toy Continued	28

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TheDazman wrote:
August 2008

Mmmm, thank-you very much indeed.

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wilsonthenext wrote:
August 2008

i´ll think.... every rule is made to break....

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Camascaranga wrote:
July 2008

Time for a little rediscovery, folks.

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Sun_D wrote:
June 2008

UAHHauhUAHuahUAHuahUAHuahUAHuahuAHauhAUHUh Manana... Banana... Great!!!

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sketchgrrl wrote:
June 2008

I just created a group called We love Kevin Ayers and I hope you'll join if if that's you!

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madmac17 wrote:
May 2008

Lovers come and lovers go, but friends are hard to find. Yes, I can count all mine on one finger.

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madmac17 wrote:
May 2008

You ask me how I do my act. This is my reply - I climb up on a ladder, and announce that I will fly!

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ryanlescure wrote:
May 2008

ba-nah-na!

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Ensenata wrote:
May 2008

Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute, that you can perform major eye surgery with it. - John Peel. And he's so right about that!

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rimjimthemonkey wrote:
May 2008

May I... sit and stare at you... for a while?

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ThomasAdam wrote:
May 2008

Currant cake, currant cake...

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Nobbledy wrote:
February 2008

Caribbean Moon, yellow yellow!

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elscorcho5000 wrote:
December 2007

kevin ayers is awesome. some good stuff on youtube too: http://youtube.com/watch?v=n_A8wtTHSGE

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nancykitten wrote:
November 2007

Not enough love for Decadence.

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PoisonFrog wrote:
November 2007

One of a kind. Great songwriter, great voice, great instincts. The 1st three albums remain his best work but everything he does is deserving of interest.

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Lunatic10QT wrote:
October 2007

Unfairground est fabuleux !

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Weirdomusic wrote:
September 2007

Oh boy, the new album is LOVELY!

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kristenbrutus wrote:
September 2007

i just discovered him, and he is awesome.

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midnightcowboy wrote:
September 2007

Yes, the new record The Unfairground sounds a bit like the old ones. :-)

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