I treated myself to a day out in Canterbury earlier in the week and very nice it was too. A potter around the town, a stroll along the Stour. There was a cricket match on but I only made it as far as The Cricketers.
The cathedral was the highlight as always, it really is spectacular with a huge amount of history attached. The £20 entry fee might suggest that Jesus' line about the rich finding it harder than the poor to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven was a load of guff, but to be fair each ticket is valid for a year. When I left I gave mine to the first impoverished wretch I saw.
Many years ago, roughly midway between Chaucer and today, there used to be a scene in Canterbury. Here is a playlist featuring some selected scenesters. True to the spirit of the typical Scene output, it goes on way too long and some of the fiddlier bits could happily have been cut out completely.
"Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening" - Soft Machine
"While Growing My Hair" - Egg
"And I Wish I Were Stoned" - Caravan
"May I?" - Kevin Ayers & The Whole Wide World
"O Caroline" - Matching Mole
"Inner Temple" - Gong
"Didn't Matter Anyway" - Hatfield & The North
"Octave Doctors" - Steve Hillage
My old patch. The city, not the scene.
ReplyDeleteI searched in vain for a blue plaque
DeleteLooking forward to these, not a single track will be a load of bobbins. I hope.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to hear some sounds from the Canterbury scene - Mr SDS introduced me to a lot of it, being a bit older than me. I surprised him with a Kevin Ayers peg doll for his birthday in June!
ReplyDeleteI like the sound of the Kevin Ayers doll. Will you be extending the range to include e.g. a Steve Hillage doll with detachable woolly hat?
DeleteOnly found out about The Canterbury Scene since starting blogging. Love the sound of that peg doll C.
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