current_members associated_acts years_active label past_members background genre article_title name
chris cutler daevid allen soft machine 1998 -- 2006 shimmy disc pip pyle kramer hugh hopper group_or_band canterbury sound brainville -lrb- band -rrb-
 brainville
brainville -lrb- band -rrb-

brainville is an english avant-garde supergroup fronted by hugh hopper -lrb- bass -rrb- and daevid allen -lrb- guitar -rrb- -- both formerly in soft machine .
the band started as a quartet with pip pyle -lrb- drums -rrb- and kramer -lrb- bass , producer -rrb- .
they performed two concerts in one evening at nyc 's knitting factory in 1998 , and days later went into kramer 's noise new jersey studio and recorded `` the children 's crusade '' , released the following year on kramer 's shimmy-disc label .
reduced to a trio , `` brainville : live in the uk '' , released as by `` daevid allen with hugh hopper and pip pyle '' , came out in 2004 .
the band , allen , hopper and chris cutler -lrb- drums -rrb- operating as the brainville 3 , played shows in 2005-2008 .
they released a live album , `` trial by headline '' in 2008 .
this line-up played at the canterbury festival in october , 2006 .
