In 1987, Charles Hayward, member of the This Heat and Camberwell Now projects, released his long-awaited debut solo-album, Survive the Gesture. It established Hayward as the spiritual successor of Robert Wyatt in both the style and quality of his compositions.

Survive The Gesture contains strange dark lullabies, where omnipresent drums are backed by keyboards and Hayward's voice... sometimes a primal howl. Words are sarcastic, without pity, painfully truthful. This bitter poetry is the sound of an era (the late 80s), the echo of the changing times in Britain, nostalgia without romance.

Here, as with his later work on Switch On War, Hayward is witnessing and reacting, facing and expressing the decadence of a system. Somewhere in between Robert Wyatt, Silver Apples and This Heat...But 100% Hayward.