Hawkwind British Rock Band
Hawkwind are a British rock band, one of the earliest space rock or space metal groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator.
Dave Brock and Mick Slattery had been in the London based blues turned psychedelic band Famous Cure, and a meeting with jazz-dance band bassist John Harrison revealed a mutual interest in electronic music that kicked off this new venture. Seventeen year old drummer Terry Ollis replied to an advert in one of the music weeklies, while Nik Turner and Michael 'Dikmik' Davies, old acquaintances of Brock, offered help with transport and gear, but were soon pulled into the band when their respective talents for messing around on saxophones and electronics were revealed.
Gatecrashing a local talent night at the All Saints Hall, Notting Hill, they were so untogether......more on Hawkwind at Wikipedia
Dave Brock and Mick Slattery had been in the London based blues turned psychedelic band Famous Cure, and a meeting with jazz-dance band bassist John Harrison revealed a mutual interest in electronic music that kicked off this new venture. Seventeen year old drummer Terry Ollis replied to an advert in one of the music weeklies, while Nik Turner and Michael 'Dikmik' Davies, old acquaintances of Brock, offered help with transport and gear, but were soon pulled into the band when their respective talents for messing around on saxophones and electronics were revealed.
Gatecrashing a local talent night at the All Saints Hall, Notting Hill, they were so untogether......more on Hawkwind at Wikipedia
I Have Seen Hawkwind perform live twice
Both times by lucky mistake!
Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time
There we were, my now wife and myself.
Way back in 1980 something or other, 82 or 83, I think.
Having just finished work for the day we decided to repair to the local hostelry other wise known as The Radcliffe Arms Public House or the Raddy to the locals in Jericho Oxford.
We'd been there for a while...when the door burst open and half a dozen hairy guys descended upon the bar with outlandish orders of triple gin and tonics and the like.
Any ways...Once the rush had died down Bob Moore the then Landlord of the Raddy said to us whilst serving us our next pint (no such thing as binge drinking in those days)..."those chaps are Hawkwind and they say their doing a gig tonight on Port Meadow"
So all sensible thoughts of going home and eating suddenly vanished...off to Port Meadow we went at chucking out time...around 11pm
Sure enough a stage had been erected..
Hawkwind played...we saw...we danced...we drank...
The only down side came when I realised that dawn was breaking and we had to go to work...suffice to say it was a hard days work indeed!
Hawkwind Twice
maybe one day third time lucky!
Hawkwind The Solstice At Stonehenge 1984
So it's holiday time...we've got a couple of weeks off work...
The good lady and myself have decided to do the right thing and go and see my ageing Grandparents.
The snag being we are in Oxford and my Grandparents are in Paignton Torbay Devon, we don't have a car and are as usual somewhat skint.
We decided to hitch-hike from Oxford to Torbay....we'd done this on a few occasions before and had no problem covering the 200 odd miles...
Rucksacks on (thank god we took a tent) and off we set...
We stood at the round-about and stuck out our thumbs...
Success within 10 minutes .... a car stopped for us...
Where are you going says the bearded chap in the car..Torbay we say hopefully ...
Well says the bearded chap..."I'm going to the Stonhenge Festival..jump in Stonehenge is on the A361 road you're bound to get a lift from there...(yes I know thousands of people and we expected to get another lift).
Some time later we arrived at the festival site....
'It won't hurt to have a look' I say..
So in we went....
After a brief tussle with some rather nice farm cider, sold to us by an ageing hippy from the back of a pick up truck, we gave up all hope of getting another lift out of the place and started looking for a place to pitch the tent.
We pitched up right up the top of the field and gave into the cider and went to sleep....
2am... I awake with a start...Hell someone's playing Hawkwind....REAL LOUD.....
I unzip the tent....they've built a stage next our tent and yes that's Hawkwind giving it their all ...
So again.....we saw, we danced, we drank.
No downside to this one other than it took us five days to get out of Stonehenge..
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We did get to see my aging Grandparents so an all round win!
A selection of Hawkwind Tracks
Hawkwind Tracks and Albums
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Michael Moorcock and Hawkwind
Michael Moorcock has collaborated with Hawkwind on many occasions. The Hawkwind track "The Black Corridor," for example, included verbatim quotes from Moorcock's novel of the same name, and he worked with the band on their album Warrior on the Edge of Time. Moorcock also penned the lyrics to "Sonic Attack".
Hawkwind's album The Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels.
Hawkwind's album The Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels.
HAWKWIND UK Tour 2001 Custom Framed Original Advertisement
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Hall of the Mountain Grill
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OEBs Hawkfest Commerative Mug
Mug commemorates The One Eyed Bishops' appearance at The Hawkwind summer camp, July 2003. It's also a nice memento with regard to the whole event.
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- poddys poddys Nov 21, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
- Never my favourite band, I was more into Genesis, Jethro Tull, Wishbone Ash and Focus, but this is a nice lens. 5***** and lensrolled into my Music lenses.
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- aj2008 aj2008 Aug 31, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
- Yes, I have seen Hawkwind live in concert at Farnborough Tech in the early 70s and my claim to fame is that I fell asleep!
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