Kevin Ayers Band Kevin Ayers:lead vocal,guitar,composer Ollie Halsall:lead guitar,vocals Claudia Puyó:keyboards,guitar,vocals Marcelo Fuentes:bass Quique Villafañe:drums I was very happy playing in that band during the 1992 Still Life With Guitar european tour.Unfortunatly,Ollie left us about one month after the tour and now Kevin is also gone.Thank you for uploading this video.

I was there. Met this girl Paula from Liverpool. After, we went backstage and knocked on a door. Kevin Ayers himself opened it and let us in. I, being mexican, got talking in Spanish to the three musicians in the band other than Kevin and Ollie, two boys and a girl, all argentinians. They shared a joint with me. I told them they talked funny and they fell about laughing as they mimicked my accent saying '"you talk funny" Ha-a-a-ha-ha! Good times, good times.

Together with them I spent the best years of my life in the most beautiful Majorca Village DEIA. unforgettable , what a pair of musicians !!!!!!!!!!!!

It's sad enough this video! Kevin sings his beautiful songs in a kind of sorrowful way,and Hollie plays as if there was no way out. It's a concert of a great ,great melancholy.

Love his voice..what a great muscian Ollie was. KA lived his own way I feel a sense of lost opportunities but he was his own man he did it his way I admire him for that..just like the animals!! No zoo for these two.

The Kevin Ayers catalog was a big part of my musical upbringing from Joy of the Toy onward. An eclectic mix of eccentric English songs almost like a musical trip through alice in wonderland with a ever so strange banana obsession!!!! I got to see him live in 1975 at the Astoria in London with Andy Summers & Zoot Money just before the punk thing kicked off & just about when Summers met Stingo & Copeland to do their pretend punk band. As a musician myself I recorded a cover version of May I for my brothers funeral as he was a big fan. Ayers songwriting was always very amusing and he even got quite poppy in his later material. He never quite broke out commercially partly, I think because he was so laid back himself. He was always surrounded by a group of very talented musicians from Oldfield, Summers, Coxhill, Bedford, Wyatt, Halsall etc. Whatevershebringswesing and Confessions of Dr Dream albums are stamped in my head from a young age. He was a one off with music full of vision and humour but possibly fuelled by the occasional substance, mainly red wine. A bit mad but a memorable talent. Too old to die young!

RIP Kevin, and THNX for the magic moments of you give us.

The friend everyone dreams of having !…under an endless sunny holidays!!…. Thanks for this beautiful post!

The world is a sadder place w/o you, Sir. But it is richer for you having been here!

Amazing coincidence that I discovered this video the day after finding a box of my old gig ticket-stubs. In the box was one for this very gig - unredeemed. It's so long ago I can't remember why I didn't attend. I finally get to see what I paid for! Thanks....

I'm not sure whose memoriam this is but Kevin Ayers' voice and songwriting are in my top 10 and Ollie Halsall is my greatest rock guitarist ever... His solos gives me the shivers more than any other 'giant''s'

Thanks Kevin, fine music, fine attitude too! Saw Soft Machine Atlanta 1968 with Hendrix at Municipal Auditorium. An all day affair, two sets of shows. Soft Machine was Ratledge, Wyatt and Kevin. I still think S Machine and Kevin Ayers have large group of Ga/Atlanta fans from that concert. I am sure one of them. Thank you and RIP, friend.

For Ollie!

I once told a girl " never felt lonely until a thoght of you" and she melted...well she's long gone now, but it's a memory and I got from his song. RIP & thanx a lot Mr. Ayers

I love Kevin Ayers!!! A big influence on me.... Marco UnderSong

I was blessed to be at this concert. Always was a big fan of Kevin and Ollie.

Heroin - just don't kids. I've had a LOT of fun in my life, and I sure as hell never had to stick a needle in me to do so. Don't start smoking the stuff either, that's how it often begins.

In 'Animals' the cameraman was focused on Kevin when it was Ollie's solo and then on Ollie during Quique's drum solo; very annoying but apart from that wonderful to see Ollie and Kevin playing great music once again; thank you! :)

1:00 Feeling This Way 6:50 Shooting In A Bucket Blues 12:10 Animals 16:30 May I 22:18 Thank You Very Much 26:12 There Goes Jonnny 31:35 Everybody's Sometime And Some People's All The Time Blues 35:43 Super Salesman 44:10 Ghost Train 49:30 I Don´t Depend On You 55:10 Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes (not complete)

thankyou !!!! very much....love it

Thankyou very much

Gracias por colgarlo!

thank you for this...never mind the quality...great to see and hear him play.

Very sad news, indeed. RIP Kevin. I will have a look through my archives. I know I have some more footage of Kevin Ayers that I will find and share soon.

Thanks for this gift

Halsall is KILLING IT

Fantastic document! Thanks a lot

Love Kevin & Ollie. Thanks so much for sharing!

thank you

magical and amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing this.. it's just bliss🌈🎵👍

When i was staying London,i saw this live. That was First&Last time to see Kevin. Thank you for upload!!

Now that we lost Kevin, the video becomes even more precious...

You will be all ways You will be allways with me compañero

I was at this show - I'm sure it was January 28th, not April. Met Ollie - bought him a drink. Went back to Norwich to continue a trial which finished on March 6th.

Ghost train is my favorite of that set...love it so incredibly penetrating

Only saw him the once... in the old Colston Hall in Bristol. Wonderful as where/are all the 'Canterbury' bands. Still driving me on....

Opdtapes, thanks for this video. Reading what you wrote about, I was touched for Kevin's death. I have circa 7/8 CD's of him and really appreciate his music & the Whole World. God bless him.

"They all say 'see you later', and I just answer how? How can you see me later - you can't see me now!" R.I.P. Kevin. Thanks for all the great songs.

Another chunk of me fell off the cliff at the news, RIP

didnt feel lonely till i found this gem....jk no gimbals or smartphones back in the 90s sadly....

Kevin and Ollie together for nearly the last time

so sad Kevin left us...

Rip Kevin Ayers -

Sorry to say I don't remember seeing Kevin Ayers live, sad to hear of this talented man's passing.

this is such a very sad recording. In 1992 the Spanish years of heroine addiction show all over Kevin. He sounds and looks like the strung out has been he had become.Look at what he did before and genuinely marvel at his once great brilliance.

R.I.P. :(

repose en paix...

oh shit !

Ollie died one month later on may '92

12:10 The Bergerac theme.

correct

I do like Kevin Ayers, i do like Ollie Alsall but have mercy...

I know very little about Kevin Ayers. What's the first song called? I love it!

Blue vein flute

First track is 'Feeling This Way' off Ayers 'Still Life with Guitars CD early 90's. Love it. Bit of a Lou Reed/Velvets feel. Wow..drummer is not very good..

20:26 :)

Can anyone time-stamp all the Ollie solos? I'll put the three I found: 14:12, 33:29, 38:36.

Maybe if you hate drugs, stop watching KA or OH... "Roll Em, Smoke Em, put another line out"... :)

Theres this right called EDITING!

hmmm...without dope we'd have very little good anything (musically). Then of course there's psychedelics. Some folks are allergic to penicillin, does this mean we shouldn't have antibiotics. If you cannot keep from killing yourself with dope, you are a real fuck up and likely would become addicted to sniffing glue or booze or cocaine or whatever. The nod scene is a place where musically, happy mistakes are made and new things created. The unconscious state of dope lets in something special.

you like any other lefty guitarists? whats your favorite Halsall song?

ollie played with gary glitter something alvi n lee never did

Perchè morì Ollie Halsall? Why Ollie Halsall died?

No, non era una domanda retorica, pensavo fosse morto per un attacco di cuore. No, it isn't a rhetorical question, I thought he died for an heart failure.

14:12 to 14:34 C'mon, cameraman! You're showing the wrong guitarist!

Men make a mess of their lives with drugs.Then they die.I don't mind as long as they don't influence others.Just as well I 'left' the band before we hit the UK.I could have been no.3.The Argentinian bass player was great though.

Yeah... I left the band too before they could fuck me up

It's a real bitch to dig those outside the mainstream and to only have video evidence of quite awful quality left of them when they go. As a fan of Frank Marino it's great to finally have something special of his to watch and Ollie was a comparable guitar player, but to be honest this should have gone to the recycling centre, not uploaded to youtube. I admire those of you who can sit through all of it, I can't, bye, bye.

I'm not sure I quite get KA. With the best will in the world the songs are languid cowboy-chord cycles and the voice never rises above the level of lugubrious. The band is OK but Kevin himself seems 'off the pace' as they say in football, under-rehearsed. Only the presence of Ollie Halsall - always inventive and lively in his playing even when playing very straight in a simple song context as here - lifts this video into the 'watchable curiosity' category. I get the impression Kevin Ayers appeals to a certain type - ultra laid back self-contained middle-class opters-out, possibly from Canterbury :-), who like a smoke. LIstening to this I find is like waiting for something to start happening, though I sense his fans don't want or need much to happen, just let the cool guy in the corner say his piece, when he gets round to it, that's enough. I'll give him that though, he has 'cool' coming out of his ears.

Your notoriety doesn't dispense you to play in tune.... The drummer of this gig is not the sharpest razor of the drawer....

Is your question rhetorical? If not, he took an overdose of heroin, apparently.

The female guitarist looks like she's turned up dressed for another band! 😏

That thinking is how many an idiot ended up dead. Heroin didn't give us any good music, it just took most of the best away from us.

ollie is just flash trying to upstage kevin andy summers was more of a band member i love kevins music ollies good in patto

Damn...I'm the biggest fan of Kevin and Ollie but this performance vis awful and flat,bad rhythm section and completely uninspired by Kevin and Ollie.Deia drug out times took their toll