HW: tour

[Jill Strobridge]

there are dozens of prehistoric sites between Liverpool and London!
But if it's Bronze Age stone circles you want then probably the
best bet would be the Rollright Stones just south of Birmingham at
Chipping Norton which would only be a slight detour on the way
south to Swindon if you are travellling by car.

For web pages of interest try here:
http://www.digital-brilliance.com/hyperg/history/rollrite.htm  or
here:  http://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/welcome.shtml

but do a Google search on the topic and you'll find loads of
others.

jill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henderson Keith" <keith.henderson at PSI.CH>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: HW: tour


> Subject: HW: H For Hawkwind
>
> OK...
>
> (Hmmm...this message was rejected due to the subject heading,
that
> the LISTSERV thought was some sort of admin. message...Odd.
Anyway
> the subject header is now here at the top, and I put something
more
> innocuous in the true subject line.)
>
> >Damn Straight. If I had to choose 3 stone circles to visit.
Callanish,
> >Avebury, and Castlerigg would be my choice.  Callanish is
fantastic I would
> >recommend anyone to take the time and go there.  And the missing
trees are
> >weird, the Orkneys are the same, it takes a while to figure out
what's
> wrong
> >with the picture.
>
> So, where are all these?  Sounds like islands in the north
(Scotland),
> unless I'm mistaken.
>
> Anyway, I'm looking at the early few dates for December touring,
and
> thinking about a flight over to the UK.  Because Basel now has
service
> on EasyJet to both Liverpool and Luton, I can think about a
'triangular'
> trip from Liverpool, catching the two shows at:
> Dec 9th - Telford, Oakengates Theatre
> Dec 10th - Swindon, Oasis
> which would lead me to the London area without much problem.  And
then
> the prog band iQ plays at the Mean Fiddler on Dec. 11th, so I
would
> plan to catch that show (OK, so I like sappy progrock, sue me)
before
> heading home.
>
> I just wanted to know if these two places (Oakengates and Oasis)
were
> good venues to see a show.  Anybody know?  Acoustics, stage
size/height
> (for visuals), beer quality/price, venue size (cramped or
spacious).
> That sort of thing.
>
> Dave Brock said at Herzberg that the "Christmas show" was
probably
> going to be at Exeter this year, and so that last date (the 18th)
fits
> with what he told us.  So maybe that would be a slightly more
special
> gig (?), but this plan seems to work better all things
considered.
> And if any one of these stone circles was in the region between
> Liverpool and London, that would be cool as well.  (Of course, I
had
> thought to stop at Stonehenge if I were to go to Exeter.)
>
> But I'd like to know about the venues ahead of time if I could.
>
> BTW, he mentioned that *perhaps* Arthur Brown would be back to do
> some of these late 2004 shows, but when we asked about Simon
House
> he said pretty much 'No chance.'  Can't remember, but I think Tim
> Blake was a 'maybe'.  But anyway, I think I'd like to see Cap'n
Black
> turn up again (hint), based on a recent discussion here that
seemed
> to suggest that he has some of Tim's old equipment.  And so that
> explains my experience (as I remember it) at Hawkfest '03 and how
> impressed I was by the return of the Blake synth sound to HW
(which
> I attributed then to Blake, who was there on stage).  Whereas it
now
> seems to be the case that the other guy over there crammed onto
the
> stage left area (who I wasn't paying much attention to, 'cause I
didn't
> know who he was then), was the *real* Blake sound, aka our own
Keith
> Kniveton.  Since then, I haven't seen him play with HW, and now I
> would like to see that rectified on this next trip to the UK.
Any
> word from the horse's mouth?  Are you going to play on this tour,
> Cap'n Black?
>
> And any Litmus (or similar-types) gigs planned for mid-December
around
> this time?  Will they be with Hawkwind on any of these?
>
> Grakkl* (FFA)
>
> *Quiscalus Quiscula (sadly, non-existent here in CH from what I
can tell)
>
> ObCD: Pothead - Tuf Luv (I picked this up at the Swamp Room
Happening
> in Muenchen this past weekend, where I saw ColourHaze, Hypnos69,
and
> Liquid Visions, and it's a damn good CD!  Kinda short, but the
riffs
> are everything I remembered from seeing them live at Herzberg
after HW.)
>
> P.S.  Did anyone else note that Marillion (to keep up the sappy
progrock
> theme) was on that same plane with the artist formerly known as
Cat Stevens
> that got diverted to Bangor, Maine?  As if it weren't already
hard for
> bands to get permission to enter the US...now they're even
thwarted as
> innocent bystanders!
>
> P.P.S.  Who's seen Nektar/Caravan in the US?  Any interesting set
changes
> since Nearfest?  Anything from Journey yet?  Any of the new
album?  Did
> anyone buy it at the shows?  (I think it's available, yeah?)
>
>
>