Wilde Theatre by Richard Sinclair's Caravan of Dreams

Here is the third-ever live concert by Richard Sinclair's Caravan of Dreams, recorded during the CoD album sessions. Tracks 4 & 9 of this set in fact showed up as bonus tracks on the CoD album (re-mixed by Dave Woolgar). Now here's the rest of that evening's performance.
https://richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/caravan-of-dreams
The first song has the usual opening night live sound gremlins. They soon got it sorted.


"Going Going was the precursor to Caravan Of Dreams, which consisted of Richard Sinclair on vocals and bass, Mark Hewins on guitar and Andy Ward on drums. The new band was named after a venue in Fort Worth, Texas, where Sinclair and Hewins had gigged in 1989 under the banner of the London/Dallas Quartet/Quintet. Eventually, Hewins was replaced by bassist Rick Biddulph with Sinclair taking up the guitar parts, and the basic trio was augmented whenever possible by David Sinclair on keyboards and Jimmy Hastings on sax and flute. A self-titled album by this line-up was recorded from mid to late 1991 and released on HTD Records in April 1992. It was a great collection of songs written over a period of 15 years : "Going For A Song" was an unrecorded Hatfield tune, "Emily" was first recorded with Caravan in 1977, "Keep On Caring" was a live favourite since 1978 and was featured on the unreleased Hopper-Sinclair album from 1983 as well as "Cruising" and "Only The Brave" (the same recording was used for the COD album). More recent compositions included "Heather", "Plan It Earth", and "Felafel Shuffle", a jam piece dating back to the Sinclair & The South days, its main riff later also recycled by Phil Miller into In Cahoots' "Final Call".
- Aymeric Leroy, Calyx
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"The two tapes of Wilde theatre with that broken dirty one has the whole concert i think, the others are remix and/or specific songs. The recording starts off with the same awful feedback again and bad mixing. Songs are yet to be finalised so there’s some or no lyrics. Plan It Earth was originally “Andy” as I found going through the album production/demo tapes."
- Nic Sinclair

The leading voice of the Canterbury Scene. Beginning with the Wilde Flowers, on to Caravan, Hatfield & the North, Camel and all his recent group efforts, Richard Sinclair's singing and bass playing have been a constant source of delight for lovers of Canterbury music. A deep, low voice, a talent for memorable melodies, and an imaginative and fluid technique on the bass and guitar are his gifts.

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