Soft Machine
British rock band
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| May 9 2025 | Started a 10-date European Spring tour in London at Signature Brew, with dates in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Germany. |
| March 4 2025 | Began an 8-date UK Spring tour at Band On The Wall in Manchester, celebrating John Etheridge's 50 Years with the band. |
| February 5 2025 | Co-founding member Mike Ratledge died. |
| 2024 | Releases the single 'The Dew at Dawn' with a new lineup featuring John Etheridge, Theo Travis, Fred Baker, and Asaf Sirkis. |
| September 16 2023 | John Marshall died. |
| June 2023 | Released new studio album 'Other Doors', recorded with John Marshall before his retirement from music. |
| February 3 2023 | Began a seven-date UK tour starting at New Cross Inn in London. |
| 2022 | Nic France again filled in for John Marshall at a few shows. |
| August 2022 | Asaf Sirkis replaces the newly retired John Marshall in the Soft Machine band. |
| December 7 2021 | Announced Roy Babbington's retirement from the band, with Fred Thelonious Baker as his replacement. |
| December 2020 | Fred Baker replaces Roy Babbington in the Soft Machine lineup. |
| March 20 2020 | Released 'Live at The Baked Potato', their first original live album since 1978, documenting their 2018-2019 world tour. |
| 2019 | Soft Machine released 'Live in London in the early Sixties' LP, featuring live recordings from 1963 with original band members Brian Hopper, Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge, and Daevid Allen. |
| 2019 | Soft Machine released 'Top Gear Live in London 1967–1969' LP, which includes live recordings from two different line-ups of the band - the 1967 Ratledge/Wyatt/Ayers lineup and the 1969 Ratledge/Wyatt/H. Hopper/B. Hopper lineup featuring tracks like 'Facelift' and 'Moon in June'. |
| February 1 2019 | Recorded live at The Baked Potato in Los Angeles, which would later become their live album. |
| 2018 | Gary Husband substituted for Marshall on drums for a few gigs. |
| September 7 2018 | Soft Machine released 'Hidden Details' on Dyad Records in the UK and Tonefloat Records in the US, their first new studio album since 1981. |
| 2017 | Nic France filled in for John Marshall at a few shows after the regular drummer injured his back. |
| 2017 | Nick Utteridge contributed wind chimes to the Hidden Details album (released in 2018). |
| April 15 2017 | Former Soft Machine member Allan Holdsworth died from heart failure at age 70 at his home in Vista, California. |
| 2015 | John Etheridge rejoined Soft Machine, and Theo Travis also joined the band as saxophonist and keyboardist. |
| December 2015 | Band performed two shows in the Netherlands and Belgium. |
| December 2015 | The band officially dropped 'Legacy' from their name, becoming Soft Machine for the first time since 1984. |
| September 2015 | Soft Machine Legacy announced they would perform under the Soft Machine name in late 2015 and early 2016, including shows in the Netherlands and Belgium in December 2015. |
| 2013 | Released 'Burden of Proof' studio album under the Soft Machine Legacy name. |
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