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This first Soft Machine line-up became involved in the early UK underground, featuring prominently at the UFO Club, and subsequently other London clubs like the Speakeasy and Middle Earth, and recorded the group's first single ' Love Makes Sweet Music ', as well as some demo sessions that were released several years later.

They also played in the Netherlands, Germany and on the French Riviera.

During July and August 1967, the promoter and manager Giorgio Gomelsky booked shows all along the Côte d ' Azur with the band's most notorious early gig taking place in the village square of Saint-Tropez.

This led to an invitation to perform at producer Eddie Barclay's trendy "", performing a forty minute rendition of " We Did It Again ", singing the refrain over and over, achieving a Zen-like quality.

This made them instant darlings of the Parisian " in " crowd, resulting in invitations to appear on leading television shows and at the Paris Biennale in October 1967.

Upon their return from their sojourn in France, Allen ( an Australian ) was denied re-entry to the United Kingdom, so the group continued as a trio, while he returned to Paris to form Gong.