{"id":7126,"date":"2025-07-03T18:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:34:09","slug":"shindig-165-kevin-ayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7126","title":{"rendered":"Shindig! #165 \u2013 Kevin Ayers &#038; The Whole World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>KEVIN AYERS\u2019 repeated bursts of creative reinvention captured unique moments in time and attracted both beauty and talent, including a teenaged Mike Oldfield. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>MICHAEL BJ\u00d6RN<\/strong><strong> reconsiders Ayers\u2019 enduring cachet of early \u201970s albums and talks to Ron de Bruijn, eyewitness, concert taper and youth club acquaintance of Ayers\u2019 Dutch girlfriend Margaret Brand<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kevin Ayers And The Whole World  &#039;May I ?&#039;.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BeWafu3KKD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kevin had met saxophonist Lol Coxhill busking outside Baker Street station and invited him together with Soft Machine and David Bedford to a wonderfully cacophonous BBC <em>Top Gear<\/em> session in February \u201970. However, taking Soft Machine on the road was never an option, and Kevin instead found drummer Mick Fincher to join him, Coxhill and Bedford. The surprise discovery was 16-year-old child prodigy Mike Oldfield, who switched from guitar to bass to join. Mike had already recorded an album when he was 15 together with his five-year older sister Sally as Sallyangie \u2014 a catenation of Sally and \u2018Angie\u2019, Davy Graham\u2019s famous acoustic folk-blues instrumental.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In parallel to gigging as The Whole World, in April they also started recording <em>Shooting At The Moon. <\/em>Released in October, its title track was a worthwhile reworking of Soft Machine\u2019s \u2019Jet-Propelled Photograph\u2019. The continental feel of opener \u2018May I?\u2019 is followed by the ominous \u2018Rheinhardt &amp; Geraldine\u2019. Kevin sings: \u201cFrom the poison comes the flower, Butterfly for just an hour.\u201d The track then segues into the alluring progressive rock of \u2018Colores Para Dolores&#8217;. Unfortunately, \u2018Pisser Dans Un Violon\u2019 lives up to the waste of time its title alludes to, and \u2018Underwater\u2019 is equally pointless.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.qobuz.com\/album\/0724358277753?zone=GB-en\" width=\"378\" height=\"390\">Your browser does not support iframes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With Dave Dufort on drums, The Whole World toured Europe, and found themselves in the Netherlands in late December. Aged 16 and very music interested, Ron de Bruijn was surprised to read in a Dutch newspaper that a girl he knew in Dordrecht, Margaret Brand was in fact Kevin Ayers\u2019 girlfriend. \u201cI used to hang out in youth clubs, and she was there,\u201d says Ron. On 15th December, The Whole World played in the Verblifa, an abandoned factory in Dordrecht. Ron went there with his Grundig TK141 tape recorder. \u201cIt was terribly cold,\u201d he recalls, noting that the band were late arriving from Paris. \u201cIt was already 9:30 before they got on stage. Everything was in a rush, but I got it on tape. They did all the great songs: \u2018Clarence In Wonderland\u2019, \u2018Why Are We Sleeping?\u2019\u2026 everything that you\u2019d expect. Mike Oldfield had some long solos, and you could already hear traces of his own albums.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Take out a trial with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qobuz.com\">Qobuz<\/a> today to enjoy their vast catalogue, our monthly bespoke playlists, and this very album.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To read the full Kevin Ayers &amp; The Whole World article order <\/em>Shindig!\u00a0<em>#165 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverbackpublishing.rocks\/product\/shindig165\/\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F7126&#038;t=Shindig%21%20%23165%20%E2%80%93%20Kevin%20Ayers%20%26%20The%20Whole%20World&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F7126&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F07%2FKA.png&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Shindig%21%20%23165%20%E2%80%93%20Kevin%20Ayers%20%26%20The%20Whole%20World\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F7126&#038;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Shindig%21%20%23165%20%E2%80%93%20Kevin%20Ayers%20%26%20The%20Whole%20World&#038;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F7126\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEVIN AYERS\u2019 repeated bursts of creative reinvention captured unique moments in time and attracted both beauty and talent, including a teenaged Mike Oldfield. 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