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The Voices of Robert Wyatt
Topic Started: Oct 2 2012, 12:50 PM (234 Views)
becky sharp
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Am enjoying listening to Robert reminiscing as I type....


Robert Wyatt has been recognised as a prog-rock drummer, jazz composer, avant-garde cornet player, artist and activist in a wheelchair. But, above all else, he has been known by one of the most instantly recognisable and distinctive voices of the last fifty years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n11cz

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rumbaba
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I like Robert for all sorts of reasons, I remember him drumming with Soft Machine at the Proms, he's a top bloke but he can't sing for toffee. I suppose his voice is distinctive and has a certain emotional resonance. Thanks for flagging it up, Becks <ok>
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May-Cee

I enjoyed this programme.

At the risk of name dropping, I knew Robert slightly in the 80s. We were always bumping into each other at Ronnie Scott's and the Jazz Cafe in Camden.
I saw him onstage at Ronnies with the Brit outfit, Working Week.

I suppose his voice is a bit of an acquired taste; but I've always loved it.
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caissier
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Yes .... he sounds slightly put-on-whiney but basically a good bloke.

"At the risk of name dropping, I knew Robert slightly in the 80s. We were always bumping into each other at Ronnie Scott's and the Jazz Cafe in Camden.
I saw him onstage at Ronnies with the Brit outfit, Working Week."

Probably he couldn't miss the pill-box hat ..... <whistles> ..... New Romantic, MC??
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May-Cee

You remembered that, caissier? But not quite!
It was Terry Callier who remarked on my pill-box hat.

I was never a New Romantic; but in my early London days, there was definitely an overlap. I was known to strut my stuff to Bowie, Roxy and Japan at Blitz and Le Beat Route.

In the first half of the 80s my main haunts were The Wag Club in Soho; The Camden Palace; The Fridge in Brixton; Heaven on Charing Cross Road.

Then (never too shy to jump on a bandwagon!) I got into the whole Dingwalls / Gilles Peterson "Acid Jazz" scene.
But, to be fair to myself, I've pretty much stayed true to that spirit ever since.
It's more in keeping with my true taste in music (though it took me a while to get there) and my general "beatnik" outlook.

"From David Bowie to Lester Bowie: My Night Life In The 80s" is R4's Book At Bedtime all next week!
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caissier
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I used to know those places, May-Cee ..... it felt like an odd, styley time - rather febrile ..... Tory days after all. I associate it with Ian Dury and Chas and Dave (and why not!?). I had a gravitational pull towards Westbourne Gove which seemed highly cool, which I can't say I was ..... so I was a bit like a satellite.
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