HW: Canterbury Sound Festival

[Jill Strobridge]

The Canterbury Sound Festival Web page
http://www.canterburyfestival.com/ is looking interesting and there
are brief biographies for each band - which is unusual (I've added
the Hawkwind one below!)     There is definitely no camping on site
but there are accommodation web page links.   So.   All that's
needed now is guaranteed warm weather and sunshine, though I would
settle for warm weather.   Surely by August........

jill
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Jill Strobridge <jill at theta-orionis.freeserve.co.uk>
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HAWKWIND
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Hawkwind are perhaps one of the best loved of the British bands to
emerge in the late sixties. Although subject to numerous line-up
changes, the band are still led by their visionary Dave Brock and
they have been enthralling audiences for more than a quarter of a
century with their psychedelic visions and can truly be hailed as
the inventors of "Space Rock". Beginning with their self-titled
debut album in 1970, Hawkwind released a series of classic albums
throughout the decade; "X In Search of Space", "Do Re Mi Fasol
Latido", "Space Ritual", "Hall of the Mountain Grill", "Warrior on
the Edge of Time", "Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music", "Quark
Strangeness and Charm" and "PXR 5". In 1972 the band scored with a
huge international hit single, "Silver Machine", before embarking on
the ambitious "Space Ritual" tour with a line-up featuring poet
Robert Calvert and Lemmy. The eighties saw further chart success
with albums such as "Live 79", "Levitation" (featuring Ginger Baker
on drums), "Sonic Attack", "Church of Hawkwind", "Chronicle of the
Black Sword", "Live Chronicles" and "Xenon Codex" and the band
reached a new audience with the emergence of ambient acts such as
The Orb acknowledging Hawkwind's influence. The band performed
through the nineties with album releases such as "Space Bandits",
"Palace Springs", "Electric Teepee", "It Is The Business of the
Future to be Dangerous", "The Business Trip", "Alien 4", "Love in
Space" and "Distant Horizons".

Last year saw the band stage the highly successful "Hawkestra" event
at Brixton Academy which saw many past members reunited on stage for
one of the most memorable concerts ever staged in the history of the
group. With a nucleus of Dave Brock, Ron Tree, Jerry Richards and
Richard Chadwick, it is with great pleasure that The Canterbury
Sound Festival welcomes Hawkwind.
Further information on Hawkwind can be found at:
www.hawkwind.com        www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hwind
www.conifersclose.freeserve.co.uk