Vote to make Kevin Ayers’ The Unfairground the Album of the Year

First off, and most importantly, can you all help us get Kevin Ayers voted as the Best Album of the Year in The Guardian?

Simply email your answers for the following categories, and send them to music.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk before Monday 17th December:

Obviously Kevin is eligible for all of these, particularly the last one, and you will be eligible for a prize if The Guardian pick you out of their top hat. For details, go to: http://music.guardian.co.uk/readerspoll2007/0,,2222457,00.html.

Thank you all for your support

Unfairground made it into Mojo's list of top albums for 2008.

Mike Atkinson of Stylus (online magazine)conducted an expansive interview with Kevin which covers a wider range of eras than usual. A full transcript available here.

Lomax Records are advertising posters of the Unfairground artwork here. Printed on quality art paper, 60 x 42 cm, priced at £10. these are nice items for framing.

Mike King's Reel Recordings releases an archive set from Kevin and the Whole World's appearance at the free Hyde park festival on July 18 1970 with a line up of Kevin, Oldfield, Bedford, Coxhill and Robert Wyatt debuting on drums. Available to purchase online, the set captures Clarence in Wonderland, Red Green and You Blue, May I?, Hat Song, Did It Again and Why Are We Sleeping. Mike has done an excellent job with sound restoration on this previously unheard gig. WAWS will review later - in the meantime, it's an essential purchase for archivists and longstanding cognoscenti. capture the day with WAWS own Purple Jumper reminiscence of this particular day here and wonder forever what happened to Lady Rachel.

Alltime favourite band and Kevin stalwarts, the Wizards of Twiddly, also have an archive release 'Uppendium Vol 3' available together with a live set from the fabled Zanzibar Club and news of forthcoming new material to celebrate their 20th anniversary next year. All details to purchase CDs, hear samples or contact the band at Wizards of Twiddly MySpace. WAWS review to follow soon.

Unfairground lyrics have now been included on the Why Are We Sleeping site.

Full musician and production credits are downloadable as a handy CD-sized Acrobat pdf insert here. Careful with those scissors!

Please contact with any press/media mentions or reviews and we will endeavour to include them. Thanks

Kevin gave a lengthy interview and played 4 tracks from 'Unfairground' on the Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone Show on BBC Radio 6 on Sunday 16 September 17:00 - 20:00 hours. Listen again to the whole show at BBC Radio 6 Listen Again

For completists, September's THE WORD magazine includes 'Cold Shoulder' on the free cover CD.

October's issue of MOJO - which had a Syd Barrett theme - included 'O Wot A Dream' on their free cover CD

Kevin's 'Wide Awake' was played on BBC Radio 6 show 'Roundatable' - a forum where records are discussed and - if you're lucky - not slagged off too much. Presenter Eddie Piller (standing in for Steve Lamacq) and guests Ed Harcourt, Andrew from The Dykeenies and journalist Sophie Harris were impressed by the song which is to be released as a single on October 8th. Listen to the edited comments Mp3 here or listen again to the whole show at BBC Radio 6 Listen Again

Kevin will be present at a record signing event in London at 6 pm on Tuesday September 11 details here.

Lomax Records have announced a slight delay of a week and scheduled release date is now Sept 10, apparently for positive reasons. DO NOT PANIC - what's another week after 15 years? Watch this space ......

Lomax Records have provided 3 short Mp3 excerpts from Unfairground.

Album can be pre-ordered (release Sept 3) through Amazon at this link or the Amazon logo below.

If enough of us do this in the week of release, there is a possibility we can get Kevin in the charts, so please start clicking. Thank you!

Kevin was interviewed on 25 August 2007 on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme. The Radio edit can be heard at BBC Radio 'Listen Again'.

An extended version can be heard at BBC Radio 'Today' Reports

www.lomaxrecords.com

Syd Barrett - Madcap's Last Laugh With guests Kevin Ayers, The Bees, Vashti Bunyan, King Creosote with Gordon Anderson (The Aliens), Mike Heron, Robyn Hitchcock, Chrissie Hynde + more tbc 10 May 2007 / 19:30 Barbican Hall

FULL REPORT & PIX at Brain Damage Pink Floyd site

VIEW PROGRAMME (pdf) here