DON'T SHOOT ME...Dave Sinclair
On leaving school, Dave joined the Canterbury-based, semi-pro outfit, the Wilde Flowers. Almost every future member of the early line-ups of Soft Machine and Caravan passed through the ranks of this now legendary band during the two or three years of its existence (1964-67).
When changing musical fashions led to the disbandment of the Wilde Flowers, three members of its final line-up - Scottish-born (but Kent-educated) singer and guitarist Pye Hastings, Canterbury born-and-bred drummer Richard Coughlan and Dave himself - teamed up with another ex-member, Dave's cousin Richard Sinclair, a guitarist and vocalist from a musical Canterbury family who soon showed an extraordinary aptitude for bass guitar. They jettisoned most of the Wilde Flowers cover versions in favour of self-composed originals and called themselves Caravan.
Dave left Caravan in the late summer of 1971, and worked with Matching Mole - he contributed the beautiful ballad, "O Caroline", to its first album - and an early line-up of Hatfield and the North, before making a welcome return to Caravan in 1973. He stayed with them long enough to record three more successful albums, to which he contributed the bulk of the material.
Dave later worked with the fairly low-key outfits, Sinclair and the South and The Polite Force, and the rather more high-profile Camel (as well as its later offshoot, Mirage). He returned to Caravan in the 80s and 90s to record The Album, Back to Front and The Battle of Hastings but left the band in 2002 during sessions for The Unauthorised Breakfast Item. He has since released a series of solo albums, beginning with Full Circle and Into the Sun and continuing - after his permanent relocation to Japan in 2005 - with Treasure Chest, Stream, PianoWorks I: Frozen in Time and his most recent release, The Little Things.
CARAVAN
Back To Front
Kingdom,1982
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