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 Soft Machine man's switch - Melody Maker - July 18, 1970
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ROBERT WYATT, drummer with the Soft Machine, is joining Kevin Ayers' band. The Whole World - but he will not be leaving the Softs.
" The Soft Machine is a lovely group, and it will be carrying on," Robert told the MM on Monday. " But the fact is that the others don't like life on the road, and that's what I exist on.
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" They're perfectly happy sitting at home and writing music, and they don't like to play one piece of music night after night. Being on the road brings them down.
" That's what gets me going, the whole trip of playing the same music night after night, so I'm going to play regularly with some mates, and the most convenient mate happens to be Kevin."
Ayers was a member of the Soft Machine until last year.
" I don't want to do anything very ambitious: just little gigs that the Softs are too big to do now.
"I'm not killing off the Softs — I'm just letting the group breathe, and this is the next stage in the development."
Robert makes his debut with The Whole World in this Saturday's free concert in London's Hyde Park, and he will next be seen with the Soft Machine in their Proms concert next month.
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