Exeter 25th October

[Jill Strobridge]

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From: "Michael Blackman" <michael_1968 at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: Exeter 25th October

> There ought to be a page at Mission Control just for the roadies and
all
> those fine individuals who work so hard behind the scenes to make the
gigs
> happen.
>

Yeah - there definitely should.    I must confess to a twinge of guilt
sometimes when I leave a venue and look back at the stage - empty of
people but piled high with equipment - knowing that some poor folks have
still got to dismantle all that lot and pack it away before the evening
is really over.

Anyhow I finally introduced my sister and her family to a Hawkwind gig -
Hawkwind People here are my relatives - Relatives this is Hawkwind.
Thankfully it seemed to go ok - no Damascenian conversions sadly - the
neices have been too brought up on mainstream I'm afraid but the eldest
has learned how to get work at Glastonbury (thank you Merrick!) so her
horizons might broaden a bit and everyone seemed to enjoy the
experience.

A strange mixture of a gig though - there was a DJ in the main hall
right up until Hawkwind played, with a very trippy visual show but not
much else by way of inspiration.   The support band (who
were.........?dbChaos) set up in a tiny cramped corner of a smallish bar
space and the lead guy played (to my ear) some fairly decent guitar.
But it was very very packed and everyone was standing on everyone else
so there wasn't much room to hang around and socialise never mind relax
and listen.    Everyone managed to squeeze into the main hall -
just -but there was no way I was ever going to see much of the stage so
it was a question of watching the lights (which were flashy and dramatic
but clearly not the Chaos Lightshow - it was a real shame about their
computer failure) and listening to the sound - which was good and
powerful without being excessively loud - very well balanced.    I found
it difficult to separate out the different guitars (but then I don't
have the ear of experience)  but thought that overall it had a nice
depth and surroundsound feel to it and certainly everyone around me was
having a wonderful time!

I'm (selfishly) glad there wasn't much new material but I confess I was
expecting more - in fact I was expecting a lot more!    Where has it
gone then??

Anyhow - hi to everyone I met - everyone I recognised and didn't know
the name of, everyone I would have known the name of but didn't
recognise and everyone for whom I managed to get both right.

Ah dear - signs of senility.........
jill
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