The Show Of Their Lives
Pye Hastings has a twinkle in his eye as he contemplates who Caravan are.
“A bunch of old twats! No, it’s a collection of musicians who’ve enjoyed playing with each other for a long time.”
He then thinks of the salacious interpretation that could be put on this phrase, so adds: “By that I mean playing music together, ha!”
The question comes from the fact that Caravan have just released a 37-disc box set called Who Do You Think We Are? And Hastings admits that when the idea for this massive collection of recordings from the veteran Canterbury band was first mooted, he was sceptical.
“I just thought, ‘Not another bloody box set.’ There have been a few in the past and I felt there was no point to having a new one. But the label [Madfish] sent me a copy of the Steve Hillage one they’d put together [Searching For The Spark, released in 2016] and I was stunned at the quality. It convinced me this was worth doing.”
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