Short Wave Live is the only album by Short Wave, a UK

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 band

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 related to the Canterbury Scene

Canterbury Scene

The Canterbury scene is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s...

, consisting of Hugh Hopper

Hugh Hopper

Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...

 (bass), Didier Malherbe

Didier Malherbe

Didier Antonin Malherbe is a saxophonist and flautist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury sound band Gong....

 (sax), Phil Miller

Phil Miller

Phil Miller is an English progressive rock/jazz guitarist who was part of the Canterbury scene.He was a member of the bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Short Wave and has since worked in solo projects and in his band In Cahoots, which he founded in 1982...

 (guitar) and Pip Pyle

Pip Pyle

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 (drums).

The band was formed in 1991. Miller and Pyle had been playing together in In Cahoots

In Cahoots

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, which had previously also included Hopper.

In 1993, they released a live album that contains material from concerts in England

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, 1991 and France

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, 1992. Short Wave was short lived - all members were also busy in other projects and bands.

Track listing

1. "The Fox" (Miller)
2. "Saiseyes" (Pyle)
3. "Frankly Speaking" (Hopper)
4. "The Balladin" (Pyle)
5. "2 P.M." (Hopper)
6. "Partout" (Hopper)
7. "Midnight Judo" (Hopper)
8. "Shuffle Demons" (Hopper)
9. "Nan True's Hole" (Miller)
10. "VZG" (Malherbe)
11. "Et Alors..." (Malherbe)

Personnel

• Didier Malherbe
  Didier Malherbe
  Didier Antonin Malherbe is a saxophonist and flautist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury sound band Gong....
  
   - tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, flute (formerly of Gong
  Gong (band)
  Gong is a Franco-British progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Francis Moze, Mike Howlett...
  
  )
• Phil Miller
  Phil Miller
  Phil Miller is an English progressive rock/jazz guitarist who was part of the Canterbury scene.He was a member of the bands Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Short Wave and has since worked in solo projects and in his band In Cahoots, which he founded in 1982...
  
   - guitar, guitar synthesizer (also of In Cahoots
  In Cahoots
  In Cahoots is a Canterbury scene band led by guitarist Phil Miller, their main composer.The band was formed in November 1982 by Miller with Pip Pyle , Richard Sinclair and Elton Dean , as the Phil Miller Quartet. It was expanded to a quintet and given its definitive name when Peter Lemer joined...
  
  )
• Hugh Hopper
  Hugh Hopper
  Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...
  
   - bass (formerly of Soft Machine
  Soft Machine
  Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...
  
  )
• Pip Pyle
  Pip Pyle
  Phillip "Pip" Pyle was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France...
  
  - drums (also of Gong and In Cahoots)

External links

• Phil Miller biog notes at www.philmiller-incahoots.co.uk