Krel/Spacehead query

Jonathan Jarrett jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK
Tue Sep 14 18:11:33 EDT 1999


On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Dave Berry wrote:

> Mention of Mr. Dibs, and playing Krel's excellent "Ad Astra", reminds to
> ask the assembled experts for some background info.  Am I right to believe
> that Mr. Dibs used to be in Krel?  Presumably with the "Martin" who played
> everything on "Ad Astra"?  Were there other regular members?  Did any
> recordings make it to CD?  Why did they split?

        The Psychedelic Archive at <www.delerium.co.uk> (I'm afraid I
can't get at the full URL just now can probably answer this if no-one else
can...

> Spacehead have two albums out, yes?  The debut, the name of which I forget,
> and "In Space We Trust ... Live 95-98"?  And the BOC-L recommendation is
> for the latter?  Is it still available?

        I have the first, _Of Stars And Time_, which is on EBS, and
although the originality is dubious and the vocals make me cringe, it is
nevertheless quite good Hawkwind-clonery. The sound is however appalling,
it sounds like (as Carl once put it) it was recorded in a vacuum cleaner.
Also, the lyrics are really pants. I'm told the sound is improved on the
fsecond one, but the rest may not be. It is however still available, being
stocked by Delerium (URL above) and CDS at the least (I don't have their
address but someone else can provide I imagine). Hope this helps, yours,

Jon



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