Kevin Ayers/Soft Machine: Edinburgh Playhouse
Miles, NME, 18 September 1976
AN INTERESTING booking, Kevin Ayers – one of the founding members of Soft Machine – playing on the same bill as their present, 14th, line-up which now contains none of the original members.
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