- Brainville (band)
Brainville is a
Canterbury scene supergroup based aroundHugh Hopper (bass) andDaevid Allen (guitar) – both formerly inSoft Machine .The band started as a quartet with
Pip Pyle (drums) andMark Kramer (keyboards, producer), touring the US and UK in 1998. They released a 1999 album called "The Children's Crusade". Reduced to a trio, "Brainville: Live in the UK", released as by "Daevid Allen with Hugh Hopper and Pip Pyle", came out in 2004.The band, now Allen, Hopper and
Chris Cutler (drums) operating as the Brainville 3, played shows in 2005-6.This line-up played at the
Canterbury Festival in October, 2006.Discography
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*"The Children's Crusade" (1999, CD,Shimmy Disc , U.S.);Brainville 3
*"Trial by Headline" (2008, CD,Recommended Records , U.K.)ources and external links
* [http://calyx.club.fr/mus/hopper_hugh.html Calyx Hugh Hopper biography]
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