Legends in Their Own Lunchtime - An Exploration of the Canterbury Scene is the first English-language version of Aymeric Leroy's all-embracing account of The Canterbury Scene.

 

The book provides an exhaustive 680-page account of the uniquely vital and playful music scene that emerged out of Canterbury, Kent in the late 1960s, spearheaded by Soft Machine and Caravan and their various offshoots, including Gong, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Robert Wyatt's Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North and National Health, and related bands like Egg and Gilgamesh.

 

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Aymeric Leroy founded Calyx, a website devoted to the Canterbury Scene, in 1996, and has written liner notes for many archival releases, many of them for Cuneiform Records. In his native France, he has published five books - on progressive rock, Pink Floyd, King Crimson and Yes, and this, his fourth, was the product of many years of research and interviews with many of the scene's protagonists.