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Soft Machine in concert Legendary psychedelic band Soft Machine will be performing in Worcester this weekend. They will take the stage at the Huntingdon Hall on Saturday, March 15, from 7.30pm.
However, until very recently, it had absolutely never occurred to me, not even once, that I might want to own a home soft-serve machine. In fact, I didn’t even have any interest in making ice ...
Although surrounded by classical music, Ratledge went on to carve his own path in the music industry when he helped form the rock band Soft Machine. Besides his time with Soft Machine, Ratledge ...
Mike Ratledge, the keyboardist and a co-founder of English rock band Soft Machine, has died, the band’s guitarist John Etheridge confirmed. He was 81 years old. “Incredibly sad news that my ...
Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of Soft Machine, has died. He was 81 years old. The news was confirmed by Ratledge's former bandmate and current Soft Machine guitarist John ...
Mike Ratledge, one of the founding members of Soft Machine, has died aged 81. The news of his passing was shared by bandmate John Etheridge – guitarist in the British psych-rock band – in a ...
Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge died on Wednesday, February 5, after a brief illness, according to his former bandmate and guitarist John Etheridge. “Mike was the ...
By 1966, he formed Soft Machine with Allen plus Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers. The lineup would change a lot over the years, but Ratledge remained the band’s longest-tenured member until his ...
Mike Ratledge, founding keyboardist for influential English group Soft Machine, died on Wednesday following a brief illness. He was 81. The news came via current Soft Machine guitarist John ...
Mike Ratledge — co-founding keyboardist for the influential, proggy psych-rock band from Canterbury, Soft Machine — has died. He was 81. As Louder reports, the news was confirmed by former ...
Soft Machine will be visiting Huntington Hall this March just off the back of their Canada and US tour. The band, who used to be a force within the psychedelic jazz/rock scene in the mid-60s ...