Hawklords Footage and Top 10 Prog Rock

[Melvyn Vincent]

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>From: Mark Von Bargen <mark.von-bargen at GENIE.CO.UK>
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>Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 7:33 AM
>Subject: Hawklords Footage and Top 10 Prog Rock
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>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I vaguely remember a rumour that the Hawklords were to be featured
>on the
>> Old Grey Whistle Test in UK about the time of the album and tour.
>If they
>> did appear I didn't catch the programme even though I watched it
>for a few
>
>Y'know - it's a wierd thing - but way back whenever, I remember
>watching The Old Grey Whistle Test (very, very quietly 'cos my folks
>were asleep immediately above and there was some very strange music
>I didn't want them to hear me listening to!) and right at the
>beginning of the programme it was announced that they were going to
>have Hawkwind on the show.     This was wonderful to me because I
>had never had a chance to see the band play and I was fascinated to
>see what they were like.   So I watched the entire programme and
>there was absolutely no sign nor mention of anything Hawkwind at all
>of any kind whatsoever.   So by the end of the show I was utterly
>fed up and just anxious to go to bed and had pretty much stopped
>paying attention and then I think - just as the final credits rolled
>up - they played a video clip.     Sadly my memory is fairly hazy on
>this point but I'm fairly sure it was just the Silver Machine clip
>because I can remember feeling exceedingly cheated that that's all
>it was!      Exactly *why* they were playing Silver Machine I'm not
>sure - later rational tells me that it was possibly one of the
>re-issues of that single which would make it probably 1978.     But
>if anyone can add to this I'd be glad to hear about it.
>
>Yrs reminiscently
>jill
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>Jill Strobridge <jill at theta-orionis.freeserve.co.uk>
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Talking of feeling cheated!
I remember about 12 years ago reading in the sunday papers TV listings
under the BSB Channel
(British Satellite Broadcasting - before it became BSkyB!). You may
remember that you needed a square shaped satellite dish or "squarial" as it
was called at the time, in order to receive the broadcast.
Well.....there at around 11pm the following evening ( I think ).........'In
Concert' - Hawkwind live on stage from a concert in 1973! Bloody hell.....I
thought........Find me someone....anyone.....linked up to BSB!

Well....if my memory serves me correct...the following day....BSB was
gobbled up by Rupert Murdochs Sky TV and overnight became BSkyB.
Consequently I think the coming weeks BSB listings were turned on their
head....literally.
I never did find anyone linked to a BSB Squarial or if HW in Concert 1973
was ever screened.......!

mel