MILES ELLINGHAM meets the unique left-wing singer with his partner and muse Alfreda Benge at their Lincolnshire redoubt
My On This Day page reminded me that it’s Robert Wyatt’s birthday. Here’s a new interview with him in The Morning Star.
I suspect that for most people reading this blog, the words ‘Foley Bololey’ will be an instantly recognisable part of their own Canterbury lexicon in a similar way to ‘Punkweed’ or the Octave Doctors. Robert Wyatt’s Learesque lyrics from which this snippet was take...
In which a hero of the English counterculture embraces the hedonistic disco of Chic, and plays a blinder
An old article that I missed. One of my favourite cover versions.
Here he is singing a piece from one of my favourite albums of all time, Rock Bottom.
My copy of the new Robert Wyatt biography came with this beautiful, signed, bookplate attached.
