Fuelled by jazz, socialism and an absurdist slant on the world around him, the retired Canterbury icon’s instincts served him well during a remarkable career ...

The tea is made, the carrot cake is ready to be sliced and Robert Wyatt has just slid his electric wheelchair under the edge of the dining table, when he realises he’s forgotten the cake knife.

Whether with prog-jazz pioneers Soft Machine or on his own dreamlike solo albums, Robert Wyatt always followed his instincts – right up to feeling it was time to retire in 2014. The following ...

Syd Barrett left Pink Floyd in 1968, but it would be another two whole years until his debut solo album, The Madcap Laughs, would be released in the U.K. Two years may not sound like all that much ...

Mike Barnes' new book A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s explores the expansive possibilities of the progressive rock scene As the polls close in the contest to become Labour's ...

Despite being a card-carrying prog hero for his work in The Soft Machine and Matching Mole, there’s barely an area of music in which Robert Wyatt hasn’t put his spin in some way. Of course, prog as a ...

On a series of highly individual and charismatic solo records, and prior to that as a member of jazz-rock experimentalists Soft Machine, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Robert Wyatt ...

Wyatt in Deià, 1964, where he had drum lessons from Ramón Farrán at the bottom of Robert Graves’s garden. Robert left the Langton school at the start of 1962 and enrolled at the local art college. It ...

The winningest coach in SBU history resigned a week after signing 56 players to become the head coach at Bolivar High School.

Cole Webley’s deeply compassionate gut-punch of a movie, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is one that should be experienced without ...