HW: Hawkwind news 20.8.99.

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andy Gilham wrote:

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> Subject: Hawkwind news 20.8.99.
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> The September Brixton Academy dates announced in Mojo earlier this month
> have been put on hold by the promoter after it was found to be impossible
> to find a period which would allow everyone ever involved with the
> 'mothership' to participate.

        Pfah... <grumble>

> When the band were interviewed for the Mojo article back in June, it was
> assumed that it would be possible to get the 20 past and present band
> members, along with all the original lighting and sound engineers, together
> in time.

        Hang on - twenty? Now, in that file I keep inquiring for bits of
stuff from people for, I make it, um, 34 just from album sleeves alone,
not counting about another fifteen who've played with them live for a bit
or _any_ of the extras from Sonic Assassins or Hawklords. If you include
people like Kris who've performed with them and got writing credits but
aren't normally considered band-members it goes up even more. So who
would this mythical twenty be? The current guys (let's count Rizz for
argument) number 5, then Lemmy, Nik, Alan, Harvey, Alan Powell, Simon
House, Simon King, Huw - who else? Dave Anderson? Danny Thompson? Martin
Griffin? Bridget would be interesting. Let's see, I need three more: Del
of course, Dik Mik's around though not playing any more - maybe he could
be persuaded? Please not Mike Moorcock. Let's have Paul Rudolph.

        So, how likely is *that*? But as an exercise for the class, who
would you choose?

> The email and internet response from fans enquiring about tickets has been
> so overwhelming that it is likely that not just one but three amazing
> nights are likely to be confirmed.

        I have to admit, I assumed it wouldn't happen...

> Hawkwind's "Epoch Eclipse, The Ultimate Best Of" 17 track album,
> celebrating the band's 30th anniversary and containing a manic Jimmy Cauty
> remix of "Silver Machine", plus the original top 5 hit version, and key
> original recordings taken from the UA, Charisma, Bronze, RCA, GWR, Castle,
> Flicknife and EBS years, is due out on EMI on August 30th.

        That is an inspiring piece of inter-label co-operation... if only
EMI could be got interested in handling Hawkwind's current output we might
see some of these legendary EBS coming-soon albums like _Live '76_ et
al...

        Some random thoughts anyway, sorry if I take up your bandwidth :-)
Yours,
        Jon