Episode 21

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1. Steve Hillage — "Dervish Riff" → "Castle in the Clouds" (from Live Herald, 1979)

2. Hugh Hopper and David Cross — "Miniluv" (live in Athens, 2008-01-19)

3. Steve Miller — "Chocolate Field" (live in Nijmegen, 1972-10-21 from The Story So Far...Oh Really?)

4. Soft Machine — "Lullaby Letter" (live at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 1967-12-10)

5. Andy Summers and Robert Fripp — "Girl on a Swing" (from I Advance Masked, 1982)

6. Kevin Ayers — "Girl on a Swing" (from Joy of a Toy, 1969)

7. Lol Coxhill — "Bath '72" (from The Story So Far...Oh Really?, 1973)

8. Liam Magill and Raven Bush — "Honest Land" (live in Littlehall Woods, near Canterbury, 2012-10-06)

9. Henry Cow — "Nirvana For Mice" (from Legend, 1973)

10. Lindsay Cooper — "Assassination Waltz" (from Music for Other Occasions, 1986)

11. Robert Wyatt — "Masters of the Field" (from Winged Migration soundtrack, 2001)

12. Caravan — "For Richard" (from BBC Live In Concert, recorded Paris Theatre, 1975-03-21, released 1991)

13. George Duke — "Floop De Loop" (from The Aura Will Prevail, 1975)

14. Matching Mole — "Flora Fidgit" (from Matching Mole's Little Red Record, 1972)

15. King Crimson (feat. Keith Tippett) — "Cat Food" (from In the Wake of Poseidon, 1970)

16. Centipede — "Part Two" [excerpt] (from Septober Energy, 1971)

17. The Keith Tippett Group — "Stately Dance for Miss Primm" (from You Are Here...I Am There, 1970)

18. Soft Machine — "Esther's Nose Job" (recorded in session for BBC Radio One, 1969-11-10)

19. King Crimson (feat. Nick Evans and Mark Charig) — "Bolero" → "The Peacock's Tale" (from Lizard, 1970)

20. Kevin Ayers (feat. Andy Summers) — "Didn't Feel Lonely" (from French TV, 1981)

21. Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill/Richard Sinclair/Laurie Allan — "Coo-Coo-Ka-Chew" (improvisation recorded live at Royal College of Printing, London, 1974-12-09)

22. Gong (feat. Bill Bruford) — "I Never Glid Before" (live in Oslo, 1974-12-15)

23. Bruford — "Hell's Bells" (from One of a Kind, 1979)

24. Hatfield and the North — "Farce Majeure" (from Hatitude (1973—74))

[voiceover ambience: Steve Hillage — "Castle in the Clouds" (from Live Herald, 1979)]

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Errata/clarifications: I claimed that Robert Wyatt drummed on a couple of Keith Tippett Group albums, but in fact he was only on one. I claimed Hugh Hopper replaced Jeff Clyne in Isotope, Nucleus and Gilgamesh, whereas Hopper was never in Nucleus. I also failed to mention that Bill Bruford drummed in National Health on and off in '75-'76 (nothing of this was recorded apart from a BBC radio session and some concert bootlegs, though). He was also part of Richard Sinclair's (unrecorded) project "Sinclair and the South" Other Crimson-Canterbury connections I overlooked were the fact that Mel Collins was in Camel at the same time as the Sinclairs, and that Jimmy Hastings, Geoff Richardson and Dave McRae all played on Michael Giles solo recordings.

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And then there's this, from the Caravan Times website [thanks to Tim M for pointing this one out!]:

David Sinclair revealed he felt 'like a tennis ball in a tumble dryer' when the storm hit his caravan, picking it up and flipping it through the air numerous times...

'I was just sitting in my caravan when I heard a sudden downpour of rain...Then all of a sudden the wind started whipping around the caravan and all off a sudden the caravan lifted into the air.'

Despite the caravan's violent acrobatics, Mr Sinclair escaped with just bruising and a cut to the head, though his injuries could have been much worse.

He was taken to [a nearby hospital]...for a precaution because a fridge landed on him during the ordeal, but his unlucky caravan appears to have borne the brunt of the damage and is now a complete write-off.