2003: June, 5 - A new forum was launched!

2002: oops...

2001:
April, 3 - Mailing list feature added.

2000:
August, 8 - Forum feature added.
January, 31 - Various video clips in Real Video format.

1999:
December, 4 - Real Audio tracks added to all solo works.
November, 22 - Real Audio tracks added to Wilde Flowers, Matching Mole and Soft Machine.
October, 19 - EP's added to solo album section.
March, 20 - Collaboration section opened.

1998:
October, 11 - Internal Search Engine.
June, 19 - 'Rock Bottom' & 'Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard' - Re-Issued.
March, 8 - 'Shleep' goes black
March, 6 - Robert Wyatt official video interview for Ryko/Thirsty Ear.
March, 4 - 'Rock Bottom' poster.
February, 28 - 1974's Melody Maker review on 'Rock Bottom'.
February, 6 - Robert Wyatt Web Site launches.

In the January issue of the Wire magazine, Wyatt's album 'Shleep' stands first in the list of the 50 Records of the Year. Some artists contributed some thoughts on the passing year in Music, and so did Robert, although music wasn't the only thing he wrote about:

Alfie (my better 'Alf) bought me a pocket trumpet, the closest a brass instrument can
get to a fluffy little bunny rabbit, so now I can recreate The Fast Show's jazz satire in
the luxury of my own living room. We are a grandfather to my first faintly Irish
relative Caitlin. And whilst we are on the subject of cultural cross-fertilization, how is
it that England is the only country I can think of where the gypsies daren't sing?
(the gorgeous David Essex being of course the shining exception that proves the rule).

What does that say about us?

Meanwhile, the old French saying "More that change, more it is the same thing" surely
applies to the government of Great Britain, n'est-ce-pa?
20 years of changing faces, but will we ever be allowed a 'government for the people,
by the people'?
Must we remain an island of subjects in a world blossoming with citizens?

At least there's no shortage of good music about, is there?
I've acquired great CD's from Planet Japan (Ground Zero,and the appealingly Frank
Chickens); Israel (Evyatar Banay & friends); Cuba (Jesus Aleman, Phil Manzanera
- yes!); the dealers of the Free World (Billy Higgins, Don Byron Quintet, Damon &
Naomi); Germany (Ja König Ja, Dune), France (the indigenous music celebrated in
the terrific magazine Improjazz, to the haunting songs of Murat); and where to even
start on about all the great stuff coming from Italy (Mira Spinoza, Escoriandoli,
Taccuini, Christina Dona and The Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti, etc) ?

There just isn't room for the deserved lists from abroad. And at home? Yes of course,
but one so discreetly elegant you may have missed: Kevin Jones's Ghost Baby...
so that's it for now.

Oh, one last thing. David Blunkett, go to hell.

Robert Wyatt, January 1998