Canterbury

Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion owing to the importance of St Augustine, who served as the apostle to the pagan Kingdom of Kent around the turn of the 7th century. The city's cathedral became a major focus of pilgrimage following the 1170 martyrdom of Thomas Becket, although it had already been a well-trodden pilgrim destination since the murder of St Alphege by the men of King Canute in 1012. A journey of pilgrims to Becket's shrine served as the frame for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century classic The Canterbury Tales.

Canterbury is a popular tourist destination: consistently one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom,the city's economy is heavily reliant upon tourism..... There is also a substantial student population, brought about by the presence of the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University, the University for the Creative Arts, and the Girne American University Canterbury campus. Canterbury remains, however, a small city in terms of geographical size and population, when compared with other British cities. (Read more at Wikipedia)

Links to Peel
Peel's main link to Canterbury was through the bands associated with what became known as the Canterbury Sound or Canterbury Scene, usually taken to refer to a group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians hailing from Canterbury or living in the city during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Among the Canterbury bands featured on Peel's shows were were Soft Machine, Caravan, Matching Mole, Egg, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Gilgamesh and Camel.

Wikipedia claims that "the term has been used to describe a musical style or subgenre, rather than a regional group of musicians", and, judging by the number of Peel sessions by Canterbury Sound bands, it was one which appealed to the DJ. Certainly the Canterbury style had none of the showmanship and crowd-pleasing displays of virtuosity which made JP critical of other 1970s progressive rock artists. Despite this, most of the names above were rarely found in Peel's post-1980 playlists. The one Canterbury artist who became a lifelong Peel favourite was Robert Wyatt, who did sessions as a member of Soft Machine snd Matching Mole before establishing himself as a solo artist

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